for fans of heavy music

[RowntreesCabana]

Exodus - The Atrocity Exhibition - Exhibit A

Only discovered this a couple of weeks ago. Production is first class, terrific album all round.

[tuscaneer]

powerflo......apart from sounding like some sort of sanitation hardware.....is a mash up of ex members of downset,biohazard,fear factory and cypress hill....

and it's fking blinding!!....just ordered the cd from the facebook page...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYm3WXIdOJs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PclEB3logG8

[Dan_1981]

tuscaneer said:

powerflo......apart from sounding like some sort of sanitation hardware.....is a mash up of ex members of downset,biohazard,fear factory and cypress hill....

and it's fking blinding!!....just ordered the cd from the facebook page...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYm3WXIdOJs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PclEB3logG8

Used to love Biohazard & FF. Demanufacture is still one of my favourite albums.

Was at the Slamdunk festival over the weekend in Leeds.

Caught sets from Beartooth & Bury Tomorrow.

Enjoyed both quite a lot. Bury Tomorrow are quite proud to be "metalcore" however inbetween screaming songs the lead singer is a middle class youth from Hampshire with the accent to match.

[didelydoo]

Death, Havok and Bolt Thrower make up my current listening.

I'm yet to find a band that can match Death in the way there songs are constructed- just fantastic metal. Havok are great to, nice old school sound to them. Bolt Thrower can be a bit hit or miss, but have a few crackers.

[tuscaneer]

Dan_1981 said:

tuscaneer said:

powerflo......apart from sounding like some sort of sanitation hardware.....is a mash up of ex members of downset,biohazard,fear factory and cypress hill....

and it's fking blinding!!....just ordered the cd from the facebook page...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYm3WXIdOJs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PclEB3logG8

Used to love Biohazard & FF. Demanufacture is still one of my favourite albums.

Was at the Slamdunk festival over the weekend in Leeds.

Caught sets from Beartooth & Bury Tomorrow.

Enjoyed both quite a lot. Bury Tomorrow are quite proud to be "metalcore" however inbetween screaming songs the lead singer is a middle class youth from Hampshire with the accent to match.

biohazard and downset were very infuential on my guitar playing back then...particularly ares from downset...that whole choked /palm muted thing was right up my street.....that style coupled with page hamilton's weird chord shifts and rhythms were what caused me to spend most of the 90's completely immersed in all things guitar...

[tuscaneer]

didelydoo said:

Death, Havok and Bolt Thrower make up my current listening.

I'm yet to find a band that can match Death in the way there songs are constructed- just fantastic metal. Havok are great to, nice old school sound to them. Bolt Thrower can be a bit hit or miss, but have a few crackers.

bolt thrower!...now there's a blast from the past!......they did a song with a london rap crew called gunshot...back in the 90s...a song called mind of a razor and it was fking brilliant

[tuscaneer]

WitnessProtection said:

Can't see Bolt Thrower mentioned without playing this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL19beIJSE0

Hearing that as a 14 year old just blew my mind

i had that album!....was a bit too rich for me though!!

[tuscaneer]

ocean grove.

fking great.saw them namechecked by DVSR and had a sniff. prompty purchased.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXOpnXBgrVY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjbcb2tSiPg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2LO5FyASDU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2LO5FyASDU

[Swervin_Mervin]

SikTh - The Future In Whose Eyes?

As with every SikTh release it took me 3-4 listens before it all fully clicked. It doesn't have the sheer genius and relative lightness of touch of DOAD, or the pure fresh innovation of Opacities. But, nonetheless...

What. An. Album.

It's like it's crafted from something else again, and is altogether a hell of a lot darker than what's gone before (something that started with Opactiies tbf).

Golden Cufflinks is probably my fave off the album, down to its driving bassline

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gSYDI2XRDI

But Riddles of Humanity is another fave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y76Jq5pYYMo

Edited by Swervin_Mervin on Tuesday 4th July 17:20

Edited by Swervin_Mervin on Tuesday 4th July 17:47

[Blayney]

Yup it's an album that requires multiple listens to really get. Once you do... wow. I love it. Cracks of Light, Ride The Illusion, Vivid and Golden cufflinks are my favourites.

[Swervin_Mervin]

The Aura's another favourite of mine, but no YT links.

I'm not much of a fan of Cracks of Light tbh - I think Sotelo's voice jars with the SikTh sound - too clean and boybandy imo.

[Blayney]

The Aura was the one I couldn't think of the title. That's a great song.

[Swervin_Mervin]

Managed to get my name down in the 1st 250 as well for previously unreleased Middle Class Rut material. I know it's not metal, but it qualifies under heavy rock imo. Looks like they're starting to work on new material as well.

COG have also been back together for a bit now and touring, so fingers crossed for some new material from them soon.

[tuscaneer]

haven't gelled with the new sikth album totally yet....but it's been under a lot of rotational pressure in the car...

it's had to compete with the new northlane album "mesmer"...superb stuff,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anQ836BXbYw

along with new uneven structure, ocean grove, powerflo, and a little bit of guilty pleasure in the new bodycount album

i don't care if i get shot down...i fkin love this, even though i'll probably tire of it in 5 minutes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlk7o5T56iw

[mackie1]

Listened to some Abominable Putridity off the back of that and now I'm feeling extremely brootal. As you say, oddly listenable. I'm more of a Mushaggah, LoG or SYL type of chap if I want to get my heavy on.

[Oliver James]

So they aren't Death Metal or Nu Metal or anything to stand up to Machine Head or Ramstein, not even Metal really more somewhere between new rock and pop punk maybe, but what do you guys think of Royal Blood?

They're relative new kids on the block, played at Glastonbury though, and I really like their guitar. Don't know if they're brits or US but it strikes me that they sound like american rock, maybe post punk early heavy rock. Lots of bass, lots of strong guitar riffs. I think its similar to Rise Against's Endgame album or maybe even Nickelback's Burn it to the ground, kind of thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ere2Mstl8ww - Little Monster

What do you think, any good?

[Gompo]

Currently listening to some old school Heavy/Speed/Thrash (borderling Black at times), could have been made 30+ years ago. Pretty good, it's fairly rare that something in this style which entertain me for more than a couple of songs:

https://butcherspeedmetal.bandcamp.com/album/besti...

Oliver James said:

So they aren't Death Metal or Nu Metal or anything to stand up to Machine Head or Ramstein, not even Metal really more somewhere between new rock and pop punk maybe, but what do you guys think of Royal Blood?

They're relative new kids on the block, played at Glastonbury though, and I really like their guitar. Don't know if they're brits or US but it strikes me that they sound like american rock, maybe post punk early heavy rock. Lots of bass, lots of strong guitar riffs. I think its similar to Rise Against's Endgame album or maybe even Nickelback's Burn it to the ground, kind of thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ere2Mstl8ww - Little Monster

What do you think, any good?

For a band so popular, there's definitely some heavy riffs in there but the softer/quiet moments tend to annoy me. They're very much a singalong type effort, rather than one you'd sit and concentrate listening to the actual music.

Edited by Gompo on Saturday 15th July 18:39

[Blayney]

First album was good with some chunky riffs (as you'd expect from their setup). Second album feels like a bunch of tracks that didn't make the first album.

[tuscaneer]

been liking volumes since the start....new material very accomplished and quite up my street!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ag2RyDdBWU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-Vb08vyvpE

[Let off some steam Bennett]

Worth a listen if you like baroness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqMfWwnLtKg