Seriously, The Real Thing runs the gamut from thrash, rapping, a bluesy piano-oriented song about a pedophile, and a totally badass ‘War Pigs‘ cover—that album is insane. Look into it if you haven’t heard it yet. In fact, go out and listen to their whole discography. You won’t regret it.
- JR
2011 has been a great year. A lot of excellent music came out and no doubt is probably my favorite release year in recent memory. Check it out:
You know it’s been a good year for music when:
Revocation are inheritors of thrash. With little to no hope left for the genre, Revocation have risen and opened new doors, instilling hope that there is still a lot you can do with thrash. We enjoyed their latest release Chaos Of Forms, and after watching the new video for the track “No Funeral”, we can enjoy the new guitarist as well!
Dan Gargiulo looks as if he were part of Revocation from the beginning. The video is as equally appealing as last years “Dismantle the Dictator“which was fast and dynamic. Scion A/V presents the band in an equally dynamic fashion. It’s nothing fancy but I was having to much fun to care. Enjoy!
- CD
Revocation01. Cretin
02. Cradle Robber
03. Harlot
04. Dissolution Ritual
05. Conjuring The Cataclysm
06. No Funeral
07. Fractal Entity
08. Chaos Of Forms
09. The Watchers
10. Beloved Horrifier
11. Dethroned
12. Reprogrammed
The neo-thrash/nu-thrash movement fell down for me in one big way. It wasn’t a movement that was trying to break any new ground but instead was one that insisted on recreating a sound. Very few bands seemed interested in anything more than taking a few Exodus and Testament riffs and stretching them out over a whole album, and that’s fine for some and I certainly enjoyed quite a few bands who did just that – but bands with real substance were few and far between.
Revocation were and indeed still are a breath of fresh air to the exhumed corpse of retro-thrash. Maybe it’s the unbelievable guitar wizardry of David Davidson, the complex song structures or even the drum acrobatics of Phil Dubois-Coyne, but whatever it is, it makes Revocation stand out like no other band. However, part of the appeal for their second record Existence Is Futile was that it came completely out of nowhere after their distinctly average debut, so this time Revocation can be judged only on their merits as musicians.
Chimaira are going to be busy boys this fall. Not only are they on tour with Impending Doom, Rise To Remain, and Revocation as of October 12th, but they will also be linking up with Skeletonwitch (fresh from their headline tour with Kvelertak), Unearth and Molotov Solution about a week after that ends to give you a whole wealth of chances to see them live, if said chance might be your thing.
Jeff took a look at their new album the other week, and we’re pretty excited about all things Kvelertak, Skeletonwitch and Revocation, so you can’t really lose. Respective tour dates after the jump, courtesy of Lambgoat. In the meantime, here’s “Born In Blood” featuring Phil Bozeman of Whitechapel.
- CG
Revocation are a band I’ve always had a hard time getting into for some reason. For the most part, I guess they just don’t speak to me much, but I can appreciate their greatness at what they do. They’re building up a big fanbase, and with good reason. Their upcoming album Chaos of Forms is highly anticipated by many folks, and you can get a new taste of the album over at Metalsucks, where they’re streaming the track “Dissolution Ritual.” It’s pretty damn cool.
Chaos of Forms is due out August 16th on Relapse Records. Anyone here stoked on it?!
- JR
So you can now add Awaken To The Suffering to the ever growing list of great artwork produced by Par Olofsson, a list which now includes work for The Faceless, Revocation, Brain Drill, Abysmal Dawn and other upcoming monolithic projects (*cough*).
Best of all, I think this proves that the ever-unpredictable Victory Records’ signing of Pathology wasn’t just a one-off occurrence and instead was a real foray into the world of slamming death metal, which is hardly a cashcow in any sense of the word. In fact, I would be very interested in seeing the overall sales figures for Legacy Of The Ancients just so I can complain when Design The Shiteline outsell it.
Either way, the business talk means nothing when you can slam like this and we can all look forward to some more mid-tempo madness on 13th September.
- DL
I swear, I must be the only one that hasn’t been riding on Revocation‘s nuts! I mean, I do a lot of nut riding on Heavy Blog and I’m not saying Revocation don’t deserve the praise (because they certainly do!), but I found their debut album Existence is Futile to be hit and miss. Not sure why, really; it’s just one of those cruel things. Why can’t I enjoy things?!
But I do enjoy the band’s new song “No Funeral” quite a bit, which is being streamed via Guitar World. The song is quite striking and filled with more of the insane guitar work that the band are known for. Give it a listen above.
Revocation’s new album Chaos of Forms is due out August 16th on Relapse Records. Needless to say, I’m going to have to try harder on my part!
- JR
Well of of course you did, you bunch of elitist hipster douchebags.
I keed, I keed! Still, based on our own poll, a lot of you thought #25 – #2 were fairly off the mark, in terms of order if not inclusion. I’m not sure what you thought of the #1 – David ‘David Davidson’ Davidson of Revocation (not Kirk Hammet, for those of you who got trolled) – but I’m sure many of you will have disagreed.
Ever the diplomatic advocates, V-Man and Rosie are giving YOU bunch of dirty dicksneezes the chance to put the internets to rights by voting on the reader’s poll version, the rules of which are as follows:
Step 1) Decide who your favorite modern metal guitarist is. Remember that only candidates who have recorded and released new material within the past five years are eligible.
Step 2) Search the comments of this post for your choice (Apple-F on a Mac, Control-F on a PC).
Step 3) If your favorite modern metal guitarist is already listed, hit the “reply” button underneath and simply post “+1″ as your comment. If your favorite modern metal guitaristis not listed yet, add him, making sure you that you’ve spelled his name correctly.
You only get one vote, so use yours wisely. I’ve cast mine (see if you can find it – remember, that’s ‘Disinformasiya’ with a capital ‘D’ and a ‘y’ in Asia), and now it’s your turn. Don’t forget to troll those who didn’t read the rules by leaving them a disparaging comment – it is the proper etiquette after all.
- CG
