Devin Townsend ain’t stupid. He knows we wanted new music, and we wanted it soon.
Here’s Devin’s word on the clip:
So this is record 4 of the dtp, but I’m recording it third, because Deconstruction (3) is a nightmare technically and I wanted to make something lovely before diving into that.
There are a number of guests on the album, but the core is me, Dave Young (Keyboards) Mike St-Jean (Drums) and the fabulous Kat Epple of flute.
I’m about 2 weeks into this one, and I’ve got about a month and a half more work to do if I keep my schnoz to the grindstone.
I’ll keep you posted…
Oh yeah, please remember (and tell your friends…):
THIS IS NOT THE HEAVY ALBUM, that one is next…but they both get released simultaneously so all us misanthropes will have something to vent with before reading a National Geo to Ghost.
This is so damn good. Musically, it reminds my of NIN‘s Ghosts. There’s a pattern here, no? Not saying Devin’s ripping anyone off (he isn’t), but brilliant minds think alike, and both works are aptly named and fit the atmosphere of the music. I cannot wait for this or Deconstruction, to out early 2011.
Instrumental progressive metal solo project Cloudkicker has set the release date of his upcoming album Beacons for September 17th. If you aren’t jizzing your pants already, you need to. Because Ben Sharp, the genius behind Cloudkicker, is, well, a genius. Check out this small snippet right hurr:
Beacons is Cloudkicker’s 5th overall release and 2nd full-length. If you’d like to download his music (it’s all free!) you can do so from here by clicking on the album covers to the right.
Friend of the site Drewsif Stalin, who released an awesome tech death EP earlier this year, covered “This Fire Burns” by Killswitch Engage. Of course, he did all the instruments and vocals himself (with the exception of the talking during the breakdown) and it sounds pretty damn good. Listen and download it above.
Chronographs are a new hardcore/metalcore band out of Worcestershire, UK. The band just wrapped up recording two songs and are offering “Dutch Courage” for free download, which can be streamed and downloaded via the player below. Give it a listen if you’re into the British hardcore scene.
Last night, Architects debuted their new song “Day In Day Out” on BBC’s Radio 1 Rock from their upcoming album The Here and Now. A low quality rip has been made available on YouTube for those who couldn’t hear it.
My initial thoughts went something like, “The fuck is this? This must be Norma Jean or something and they’re pulling a fast one on us.” This new song sounds like it came from an entirely different band, sounding as if they’re trying to appeal to an American audience, proving that Europeans think we have terrible taste.
Well, okay, we do… but cut it the fuck out.
The song itself is a bit of a grower once the shock wore off. After all, just about every similar band sounds more mainstream as they further their careers. It was only about time for Architects to reach that point. Hollow Crown was pretty unique and stood out to me, but if the rest of the new album sounds like this, it seems that they’ve traded in their crowns for ironic trucker hats. So much for being technical and proggy, right?
But what’s done is done. What do you guys think of the new song?
On Saturday, Rise Records signed post-hardcore “dream team”, Decoder. I say dream team because the band features ex-members of Oceana, Of Machines, and Versa Emerge, but I use the term “dream team” loosely because none of those bands are essentially amazing to me. Decoder itself however, sounds pretty awesome (save for the high pitch singing vocals that I don’t care for) and has more potential than 2 out of 3 bands that Decoder spawned out of (I’ll let you guess which ones I’m talking about). You can check the band’s demo for “Dreamwalker“ on Myspace and expect a full length sometime early to mid 2011.
Friend of the site Mark Hawkins (Eating Infinity, Soul Cycle) has uploaded a collaborative acoustic track featuring Luke Jaeger ( ex-Hunab Ku &Sleep Terror) and Vishal J. Singh (Amogh Symphony). The song was produced by Vishal, who plays in the left channel with Mark at the right and Luke at the center.
I know this site’s called “Heavy Blog Is Heavy” and all, but if you can’t appreciate these smooth and sexy tones, then you can rightly go fuck yourself. This is a seriously amazing song, and you should give it a few listens via the SoundCloud player below.
In other Mark Hawkins related news, Soul Cycle, his melodic metal project with Chris Catharsis (who wrote for us that one time), is complete and is about to be released to rock faces the world over. Be sure to check the band’s Facebook for more info as it comes in! After the jump, a sampler from the album!
Instrumental progressive metal band The 25th Hour just announced on Facebook that they’re working on new music and that we should be “anxious and surprised.” Whether it’ll be an EP, full-length or just a new song or two, I don’t know, but I am anxious. Though I wonder if it’s a little too early to be working on new music considering Monsters, their debut, came out in June. Nevertheless, I’m stoked.
You can listen to their music on Myspace. And check out Alkahest’s Monsters reviewhere. Then if you’re awesome enough to support this awesome band, you can spend your awesome money and buy it from awesome Amazon like I did. Awesome.
It feels like I’ve been waiting on this album forever, but I’ve only really been anticipating it for a few months now. While it seems that they are reworking some of the songs from their album (EP?) Apparition (this new song “Advent” is a reworking of “Realms”), I feel that the songs so far have been of great benefit from the new vocalist.
For those that are not aware of The Contortionist, they take a progressive approach to deathcore, adding ambient layers, spacey melodic sections, and proggy riffs. I think the approach is a breath of fresh air, allowing low chugs to actually flourish in the context of a song.
You can check out “Advent”over at Metalsucks. It actually debuted yesterday, but I was at school and had shit to do. Such is life. Exoplanet comes out next week, August 31st, on Good Fight Music.
Before we get started, DO NOT judge them by on appearance, as “cliche Myspace band”. Well okay, you can a LITTLE, but you get my point. Anyways, Detroit Michigan’s own We Came As Romans release a new single yesterday that goes by the name “To Move Is To Grow” exclusively on Facebook. As far as how it sounds, it’s pretty much still We Came As Romans and if you’ve listened to the debut full length from the guys, you’ve practically heard it before. This isn’t entirely a bad thing however. I’ve always (and will continue to) endorsed this band as one of the few $c3n3 metalcore bands I actually enjoy listening to. This being due to their particular approach to their genre; focus on syncopation and somewhat interesting note/chord progressions that don’t usually follow the old 8-5-0 (or some other combination there of). The song itself has its pros and cons (synth breakdowns, FUUUUUUUU).
Granted, I fully admit to these guys sounding pretty generic and to the average listener, they would blend in with most of their awful, cliche peers. If you have a burning hatred for these sorts of bands, you won’t enjoy the new song at all. However, if you’re either a 12 year old girl or just have an open mind, “To Move Is To Grow” and We Came As Romans are worth a shot, and to anyone disputing my manliness: I wrote this post while listening to Iron Age. Flame me – you won’t!
