yeah,too far to travel for me mate....but i'd love to see godflesh "in the flesh" so to speak!!

New Daylight Dies album out tomorrow

http://vimeo.com/50949530

They're decent but it's a bit Metalcore for me. Not really "proper" Metal, at the risk of sounding like a snob.

There's nothing wrong with them in the sense they're very well executed, but that itself is the problem for me (with a whole slew of current bands) - it's not his voice expressing itself, it's just him adopting a certain technique because, well, that's what's expected of a metal band now. I'd like to hear more of his own voice in there, even if it meant he wasn't quite so perfect on the growls and so on. All well and good being a "perfect screamer", but if everyone else is doing the same thing, what exactly does it add? Just drains that final something from the music for me. I always find myself comparing that approach to someone like Russ Anderson on Forbidden's recent Omega Wave, who just feels more alive. There's screaming and shouting galore, but it's HIS voice doing it. That Kreator vid is another good example. The vocals aren't as technically difficult as Sylosis, but they just have that much more emotion for me. Maybe I'm living in the past, but the metalcore style stuff bores the st out of me. No passion to it!

Terra Tenebrosa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4aw_mUJDI0

For fans of old Beherit (just me then?) - Void Meditation Cult

With regards to USBM, I agree to some extent. There was bandwagon jumping and they never quite established a proper movement, in part because they were late on the scene and perhaps almost too much interest/competition once things got going. I guess a little like Death Metal with a Florida crew and then the NY scene etc. There's still collectives coming about, 'Red Anarchist' BM being one, which does include some decent acts that seems to have been formed in the last few years. I mention them too much on this thread anyway but Absu and Inquisition are still my favourite US-exports with regards to BM. An acquired taste perhaps, and again two bands that stand on their own.

Thank for the recommendations on the Sludge, finally got around to listening to them both.

Both tracks listenable although they're missing something for my particular taste, sounds almost too stripped down for me. At the moment the Black/Sludge I am listening to often has quite a lot of Hardcore/Post-Hardcore in there too.

I guess that can kind of follow onto this, a new album I've enjoyed in the past few days. This track is basically Post-Hardcore but other styles are present on the album:

Planks - An Exorcism of Sorts

Here's another that's not a million miles away, another good album with a PH tinged band name:

General Lee - Medusa Howls with Wolves

Time to stoner it up with some Fu Manchu b-side covers :-

Chevy Van
Jailbreak
Godzilla

Liquid riffage

I've not really listened to the new EP yet, but I saw Down at the HMV Institute in Birmingham on Saturday night. They were really good, great to see them in such a small venue.

Serpentine Path - ex-Unearthly Trance + Tim Bagshaw of Electric Wizard / Ramesses fame. Never going to be cheerful was it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DJY1KXgz7I&fea...