I went to look up some new stuff. Google is walhalla these days. So is blogspot.
It was the weirdest collection of bands I’ve ever seen. Stuff like Genitorturers. I would have expected it be worse with that kind of name, but it’s actually quite tame: the music and the lyrics. I did know Gothminister though, since it’s a german band. Bionic Angel sounds pretty cool when the main vocal shuts up. It remains so hard to find good industrial metal bands. It always come up with industrial gothic, something I do like occasionally, like Death Stars, but it’s not my main peeve. As you can see they usually tag it as ‘industrial metal’ also, which makes it hard to look new bands up without any black makeup. Noo! I mean stuff like SYBREED, Mnemic, Fear Factory, (…).
Besides that, I always come across a few bands that sound like 20 big fat pigs are having feeding time. OINK OINK GRUNT GRUNT. There are only very few metal bands that can succesfully pull that off. It’s not cool, it’s just funny. The last one I came across which I liked was Thy Final Pain. Cryogen perhaps, Himsa, Psycroptic but the list pretty much ends quickly.