Die Knappen is the new project from Tom AngelRipper from Sodom and a lot of friends, the style of the group is Heavy Metal but in the songs you must explore good thrash metal passages and headbanging riffs, is a good release, share your reviews.
More unholy Black Metal, this time comes from Canada an one-man project, good stuff, listen and comment.
Unholy black metal from France, Black and Blasphemic riffs, Listen and share your opinnion
Marijuana is known as a "gateway" drug by those who think it leads to the use of heroin and other hard drugs, ie. unknowledgeable and prejudiced people who probably never smoked a spliff in their life. On the other hand, Gateway by Bongzilla is a collection smoke-shrouded weed anthems that linger somewhere in between sludge and stoner doom. Try it, c'mon. It's all good, and it won't ruin your life and force you to give homeless people handjobs for food.
"I realize that while it's not as heavy hitting as most of the stuff on loadown, I'm more than happy to hear your thoughts. We've always had difficulty finding a "home" or a "label" for this music. That's part of the beauty, and curse, of not branding something any particular way. Adam's Castle is not for everybody, and you either love it or hate it. It's quite polarizing. But, if it evokes a response we're happy. We are artists but we have to let our audiences decided what to think. All we can hope for is that they think for themselves.
That said, I'd love to hear a review.
Three guys playing 'experimental' instrumental music for the sake of wanting to play music. The above quote is from the email from a band member when I explained that you guys are jerks and may not 'take well' to this. Their sound is reminiscent of many bands - which makes their appeal that much greater. Best guess I can compare to right now are: Jaga Jazzist, Zu an a twinge of Mars Volta. While there are no vocals or brass instruments the band makes such a vibrant wall of sound it can easily stand on it's own. Layering effect & loop atop pyschadelic-esque rock-jam-hockeypuck-goodtimesrolling-free style fun they keep the beat up and a moving.
Titles like "Tortured by Solitude", "Hymn to Eternal Frost" and "My Dead Bride" suggest that this album, the first for German act ColdWorld, should be a pretty dreary and sombre affair with hints of deeply buried anger and frustration, like many other recordings blessed (or maybe cursed) with the "depressive black metal" label. First track "Dream of a Dead Sun' adheres quite closely to the broad template of depressive BM: at once solemn and melancholy yet brimming with hostility and potential malice thanks to a strong noisy barrage of BM guitars, efficient no-nonsense percussion and grim croaking BM vocals from ColdWorld man GB who handles just about everything here. There are hints though in the background voices and light synthesiser touches to demonstrate that ColdWorld is not merely any old depressive BM act and that GB has more, much more, to offer to this music.
Now this is heavy... When you first listen to it, you'll probably feel like your forehead was smashed with a pneumatic drill. But that's just kewl. Of course there are melodies here and there, but the most important thing is, that it's brutal. Vocals are similar to other deathcore bands', deep guttural growling, and sometimes pig-squealing-like breeeeee. But here, the growling vocals are even deeper, like a bullfrog was doing it, and they're damn fast, and the breeee is faster too, and here and there there are vocals between the two kinds, and those are sometimes more dechiperable. I think there isn't even one weak song on this album. Nemesis is a mighty song, and it's so heavy and fast... like a train running over you repeatedly. Identisick is also great, mighty solos, everything is in the right place. Mourning Affliction is more melodic, and also very good, Ransack The Soul is a very fast song, it just crushes your skull, Iscarioth is also a more melodic one, whick slows down and gets even better and in every song, every little part is in the right place... In some songs, there are effects that you wouldn't even expect, like the latin american drums appearing in Sex-Addicted for a few seconds... Everything's just great. You must get this.
Electric Wizard are a stoner doom metal band from Dorset, England.Whoever wrote this on their last.fm page described it a lot better then I ever could.
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The oblivion and ecstasy of crushing doom and high grade marijuana, a sonic aural trip far, far away from this world, where only cyclopean walls of crackling vintage valve amplifiers set to the full overdrive and primal ritualistic beats can wash away all the filth and drudgery of everyday life. Their music can be described as Doom Metal. Their sound is a crushing behemoth of funeral march psychedelia. Violent, bleak and ritualistic.
The guitarist from Dysphoria sent me a letter with a download-link to this album attached, adding that he's responsible for the guitars and vocals in this band. Since he was really brotastic about music sharing and stuff, I gave it a listen and it is pretty good! Beneath The Massacre style tech death with machine-like stop & go chugs, fast sweeps plus occasional inhaled vocals. Don't skip this if you're a fan of modern tech death.
Sludge with balls the size of Jupiter. Some call Iron Monkey Britain's answer to Eyehategod. It has all the southern groove and grit you can get, plus a beast on vocals. Johnny Morrow, said vocalist, died in 2002 and the band's split up since then, but Our Problem remains a respected masterpiece of sludge.
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