Spanish brutal death metal band Wormed have thrown their new demo/promo CD out on the internet for you to hear. If you are unfamiliar with the band, their style of brutal death is very distinct. The guitar work on the first album Planisphaerium was muddied in the mix, while Phlegeton’s crazy angry frog vocals slurred away against a solid rhythm section. The brutality achieved by the band was purposeful and didn’t feel forced. The debut full length had a few unexpected sections, such as a very post-rock section in the song “Geodesic Dome”. All the riffs were masterfully constructed with a odd timing and sound. This bizarre sound is continued on the demo Quasineutrality with a early Immolation sounding structure. Peep the new songs “Uncolored Plasma Orifices Transported” and “Undeciphering the Inquantificability” on their myspazzzzz.
New Dillinger Escape Plan song “Chinese Whispers” premiered on Full Metal Jackie last night. And just like every other internet radio premier or stream, someone rips it and uploads it to YouTube. Fuck yeah, Faith No More influenced Dillinger is always awesome!
Catch “Chinese Whispers” in higher quality on Tuesday when Metalsucks hosts the stream. We’re about two weeks away from this bombshell dropping on us all; March 23, via Party Smasher Inc and Season of Mist.
The Crinn’s self titled EP came to light in the spring of 2007, and after touring the south east to support the EP, The Crinn signed a digital distribution deal with the now defunct record label Corrosive Recordings. This signing allowed the band to greatly expand the reach of their music.
Shortly after the signing with Corrosive, The Crinn and drummer Corey parted ways, which led to the introduction of Chris Zugschwert. He learned the EP in only a few months, then The Crinn embarked on a west coast tour that took them throughout the south, up the west coast and back home to Minnesota.
Upon returning to St. Paul, The Crinn began work on the writing of their next release, “Dreaming Saturn”. In November of 2008, they were offered a record deal by Nuclear Blast to record their next album.
The album, Dreaming Saturn, was promoted as being released on October 19th, 2009 on Nuclear Blast. The year went on and the world of The Crinn went practically silent. The calendar rolled over to 2010 and I’ve yet to hear any new music or word of Dreaming Saturn.
That was until recently when they posted a new song “Man Eating Machine” on their MySpace page. The page also claims that Dreaming Saturn will be out Spring 2010. As far as I can tell, there isn’t an official date set, but they’re having an album release show on April 24th.
Finally, the album is within sight. The idea of Dreaming Saturn is fairly interesting. It’s a concept album, written as one singular piece of music broken up into tracks for the album (as you can tell on Man Eating Machine where it seems to randomly cut off). They used what they call “circular songwriting” with a lot of “ebbs and bows and ups and downs”. The Crinn have stepped up the songwriting by including more varying passages to break up the chaos and the new material sometimes has a more subtle melodic side, while maintaining the twisted technicality.
I think that Dreaming Saturn will surprise the people that hear it, and even has the ability to be a contender as being one of the best albums of the year. That is, if it ever comes out.
Sadly, the quality is slightly lacking, but it made me that much more excited for Periphery’s debut album, which is out on 4/20. You know, I can’t think of another band with this much hype and such a huge fan base before even releasing anything official. That speaks volumes on the band. They’ve got lasting power, for sure. SO EXCITE.
I posted about these dudes a while back. Continuing the DIY ethic of their debut album Contrasts, they’ve built their own official site, on their own. In fact, I believe it was only one of them, and he knows squat all about web design. Props?
The main reason for posting this is the plethora of audible goodies you get as a result. Their Myspace page offers two of the best tracks from Contrasts, as well as some tasty new demos, but for those of you hooked by ‘When the Tiger Lost His Voice‘, ‘The Unspeakable‘ and ‘Happy Ever Afternoon‘, the player on StellaDawes.com also features the third recent demo, as well as album tracks ‘Dichotomy‘, ‘Everything Happens to Eeyore‘ and ‘Investment Intercourse: A Deposit‘.
These guys are one of my favourite unsigned British bands; blending chaotic screamo with atmospheric post-whatever, but always feeling fresh. Think how refreshing City of Caterpillar were, and you’re someway close to these awesome dudes.
I hope this spurs you on to supporting them, even if it’s the measly £3* offering, because they’re genuinely a talented bunch.
Bongripper, a Chigago, IL based doom band knoWn for being lOng, sludgy, harsh, and even stRaight up noise muSic are getting ready to put out tHeir new full length album tItled Satan Worshipping Doom. The album will contain 4 songs and will clock in at over an hour of SATAN. The track listing is as follows. I’m Pretty excited.
1. Hail
2. Satan
3. Worship
4. Doom
No joke either. TheSe guys Are seriously good and I wanT to see how they pull off slightly more trAditioNal and cheesy early doom. If you haven’t heard their material before, I suggest the releases Hippie Killer, The Great Barrier Reefer. The band are still looking for a label or some distribution for the new album, so if you can provide that for them, provide that.
And oh my God, it is amazing. It’s much more epic than the original, thanks to added layers, reworked riffs, and the addition of new singer Spencer Sotelo. There’s so much going on in this final version. “Light” is a clusterfuck of melody and mathy djent riffs, in the best possible way. Anyone who says having three guitarists is pointless is completely full of shit. This just made me so much more excited for the debut album.
I’ve been listening to “Light” on repeat, and I’m still getting chills. This will be an amazing album, that’s for sure.
Periphery’s self-titled debut will rock your face on 4/20 via Sumerian Records.
Metalsucks posted the following video of Devin Townsend playing a new song, called “Radial Highway”, from one of the upcoming Devin Townsend Project albums during his acoustic set in Redmond. Judging by the sound, I’m assuming it’s from Ghosts, as Deconstruction is supposed to be heavy as shit and, you know, this sounds like something that would come off of an album called Ghosts.
Devin’s right. It sounds like “Trainfire” from Ki. It even sounded like he lifted that drumline from the song for demoing purposes. It doesn’t matter though, cause the song is still awesome as shit.
The new album from highly recognized black metal band Darkthrone is all up on the tubes. If you’re not familiar with Darkthrone, their early material is 2nd wave bm which was at the forefront of the movement. Their more recent work, however, is a throw back to 1st wave with the huge punk and thrash influences. Peep this awesome stuff.
Re-Traced, the upcoming Cynic EP, includes 4 reinterpretations of songs from Traced In Air as well as one new song that, according to frontman Paul Masvidal, “[references] other styles and influences we have in a different context, which is a lot of ambient, shoegaze, and different types of maybe more subtle forms of jazz, drum and bass, and electronic music.”
It’s sounding really awesome so far. I think I see and hear them playing wine glasses in “Integral”. That’s a bit different, and awesome. I can’t wait to hear the rest of the music.
You can download the new Deftones song “Rocket Skates” for free at gunsrazorsknives.com. “Rocket Skates” is off of their upcoming album Diamond Eyes, due out May 18th.
For those who want to sample before you download, there’s an official promo video featuring the lyrics above. What a great idea. More bands should do things like that for promotional use. There was some measurable amount of work put into the design of the promotion and design. The song ain’t half bad either.
The PRP posted fan-filmed footage of “Unbreakable”, a new song off of their highly anticipated (at least to me) upcoming album [id]. Quality, as you could imagine, is pretty crappy. Vocals are practically indecipherable and the audio is mushy, but it’s enough to get a vague idea of what’s expected. I can hear the melody in the work and I like the main riff a lot. I love those dissonant-yet-strangely melodic high EHN-EHN-EHN-EHN chords (if anyone out there knows if there’s a technical term for that sound/chord, let me know so I can stop sounding like an idiot).
[id] comes out April 6th on Sumerian Records. Here’s another song from the same show off of [id], “Namaste”.
As far as I could remember, East Of The Wall were an progressive instrumental metal band. Now all of a sudden they release two new songs and there’s a guy singer. To be sure that I wasn’t crazy, I listened to their older music and there’s no vocals. There’s no vocalist listed on their MySpace either. I’m just going to assume it’s one of the members doing the vocal work until I’m told otherwise.
Enough about that. Like I said, East of the Wall have uploaded two new songs, “Salieri” and “Fleshmaker” on their MySpace page, and they are fucking amazing. Both songs come straight from their upcoming album Ressentiment(oh lawd, a portmanteau), which is due out sometime in July on Translation Loss records.
Here’s the tracklist for the album, which I am suddenly now excited for:
01. “The Ladder”
02. “Salieri”
03. “Fool’s Errand”
04. “Wisp Of Tow”
05 .“Ocean Of Water”
06. “It’s Always Worth While Speaking To A Clever Man”
07. “Fleshmaker”
08. “Maybe I’m Malaised”
09. “A Long Defeat”
10. “Gordian Corridor”
11. “Handshake In Your Mouth”
12. “Don’t Stop Bereaving”
13. “Beasteater”
Exivious have gotten attention in “underground circles” from their first demo, but with the release of their self titled full length “Exivious“, they’ve stirred up quite a controversy (or they did, since I’m a bit late on this). The band features Tymon Kruidenier of Cynic fame on guitars along with Michel Nienhuis, Stef Broks of Textures fame on drums, and Robin Zielhorst of Cynic/Blue Man Group fame on bass. Jazz fusion/metal is nothing new. Atheist, and Cynic really launched the style back in the 90’s Florida death metal scene. But since then the genre has changed. Bands like Planet X, Continuo Renacer, etc. have taken a different approach by making the metal/jazz fusion combination a lot more jazzy. Exivious continue along this line with their newest release. There are some heavy riffs here and there but don’t expect anything death metal worthy. The riffs are still very memorable though. The guitars also have a lot of defined jazz fusion soloing with lots of legato technique, and a smooth horn like tone. The fretless bass Robin lays down is absolutely exceptional. He does more than keep rhythm, he makes the music sway, makes it pulses, makes it smooth. I’m not a drummer so I can’t say much here, but he certainly is good and has some nice fills and sounds great. This album should go down in history imo. Shit is fantastic.
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