As you can see, Dan has stepped up his attendance average big time and I am practicing drums every day. Old Boar, coming soon to a tape deck near you. Photos by Paulo
"2 out of 5 Rehearsals a month."
"We light a candle, run laps around the English channel."
Xyphos from Canada, boys, Xyphos from Canada.... I can't help but describe this as sounding alot like Godless Truth's demo and first two albums but with much better vocals. Not to spite Martin of Godless Truth, but Xyphos display an excellent croak-like, dry, guttural voice which is frequently accented by a consistent mid-range black metal snarl. To call it "Tech-death" seems kind of a misnomer. Don't get me wrong - the music displays above average competency and experience, but has a straight-forward, choppy feel that reminds me of the late nineties, when Death Metal bands were having fun with breakdowns and hadn't gone completely overboard yet. They always keep things interesting with touches of clean guitar, dark melodies and the occasional technical flair, but nothing sounds forced or out of place and they seem pretty comfortable confining their depth and attention to detail to the realm of Death Metal alone, which is cake for you and me. Here's a link to Death Metal Invasion, where I downloaded their EP, "What Comes Before", for free. Be careful, you might get lost in Death Metal Invasion for awhile, so much free Metal... XYPHOS
Coffin Dust is playing The Acheron in Brooklyn on Thursday 3/29. For those of you not in the loop, I already wrote about this amazing up and coming Thrashy Swedish Death Metal style band and how they remind me of Intestine Baalism when I first started this blog. Here, once more, is the link to said review and FREE download: Coffin Dust
I guess The Acheron doesn't update their show listings often, but the show is listed HERE, so I'm inclined to give it a try.
Thanks to T. Ander for the tip.
Toad Birth. Don't get the wrong idea, they are completely pro - Toads to the point of being anti-human. Amazingly enough, someone out there has gone to the trouble of painstakingly replicating trademark elements of the Anal Birth sound and design, but mixed it with amphibians as the theme instead of extreme gore. The same party is apparently responsible for a number of other projects that all seem to rely on an obsessive, technical biological information about frogs, toads, salamanders, etc. replacing where bands such as Lymphatic Phlegm would have paragraphs of pathological text about diseases and gory accidents. Toad Birth and Phyllomedusa seem to be the two most sustained and "human friendly" of all these recordings to me as a noisecore fan so far, but you can be the judge at this blog full of free downloads by an extremely strange and prolific noise artist/amphibian rights activist.
Xyphos from Canada, boys, Xyphos from Canada.... I can't help but describe this as sounding alot like Godless Truth's demo and first two albums but with much better vocals. Not to spite Martin of Godless Truth, but Xyphos display an excellent croak-like, dry, guttural voice which is frequently accented by a consistent mid-range black metal snarl. To call it "Tech-death" seems kind of a misnomer. Don't get me wrong - the music displays above average competency and experience, but has a straight-forward, choppy feel that reminds me of the late nineties, when Death Metal bands were having fun with breakdowns and hadn't gone completely overboard yet. They always keep things interesting with touches of clean guitar, dark melodies and the occasional technical flair, but nothing sounds forced or out of place and they seem pretty comfortable confining their depth and attention to detail to the realm of Death Metal alone, which is cake for you and me. Here's a link to Death Metal Invasion, where I downloaded their EP, "What Comes Before", for free. Be careful, you might get lost in Death Metal Invasion for awhile, so much free Metal...
