Before your heart stands still…

^o^ I have no idea if they’re still active, but they should be. Start from Prime Specimen, go around Favorite Hateobject, War Incognito. There’s serious potential. It’s a band that’s in a stage that they would either make their top album next or fall back into invisible.

In any case, today I also cruised around some electro-pop/dance … I was turned off. If you have a pacemaker that’s why you choose that music I don’t know. If you can get over the metal vocals it just blasts everything.

BTW, entirely different genre, but I would like these guys to get off their ass and release something new too. I never listened to Mercenary’s new one, because I’m afraid to. Mikkel has found a new band though. *Waits for music*.

I’ve added these albums recently:

Can’t tell you which one is the best, I’m still listening. Mechina’s new one sounds promising though. Just enough usage of techy sounds + orchestra.

Next to that, the album I always thought was ‘too loud’ for me by Sybreed – namely their first – I’m now constantly listening to. Antares and The pulse of awakening are more accessible than Slave design. ReEvolution, Decoy, Synthetic Breed, Machine Gun Messiah, Take the red pill, Rusted. All of those A+ tracks and I never noticed until now.

I actually hate it when I’m stuck on a song like that, it’s going to take me days to get out of it. And here I was thinking I was getting out of my Mnemic craze. Apparently not.

It’s just about the only American band I really am crazy about. For two reasons: the pits and the topics covered in their music. That DVD I love to watch because of the crazy mosh pits. xd.

Just so you know, my 64 year old mom even likes this song.

“Contemplate your last breath as you see the face of death”

The song has a rather depressing undertone so I thought at first, but then, I realized it’s also a celebration of life at the same time. It’s full of pride and stoicism. I really like that. I don’t care how old Burton must be by now, he’s still got one fine voice. It left me thinking, that’s how I want to go out. When I have to go, I want to go out like that!

my souuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuul~

I do hope they’ll do a world tour before their “Final Exit”, because I’ll be there as one of the few chicks in the room, making sure I’m not in the dangerous pit area to enjoy the ear violence. It’s sentiment to me, this band. I luffs!

Mnemic
I went on a Mnemic spree not so long ago so I was really happy to discover they already have a new one out (recent). It’s called “Sons of the system“. Absolutely brilliant band, the new album is a quite nice addition to the other 3 of the awesome. Just listen to the title track “Sons of the system“. Don’t let the loudness in the beginning scare you but listen to it until the end (that is, if you usually don’t listen to this type of music).

Music is supposed to be “big” imho, can’t get any “bigger” than this. 03:23 and upwards, it just doesn’t get any better than that. C’est of the awesome!

Therion
Quite a different genre in this list: ‘symphonic metal’. The new one by Therion is called  ‘The Miskolc Experience‘. Therion always manages to capture the link between baroque/ heavy classical music and metal. This time there’s even interpretations of Wagner, Verdi, Mozart. Haven’t been listening to it much yet, since I have to be in the mood.

There are two other bands I’m looking out for in the coming weeks: Unheilig [Grosse Freiheit] and Crematory [Infinity]. Both of these bands can be brilliant, though I wasn’t too happy with Pray by Crematory. I recently got to know Unheilig and I have to say I stick to Puppenspiel a lot. So if it’s a bit like that, I’m happy.

[Industrial Discipline lyrics]
There is no dissension when lives have been broken
Enslaved and beaten
Lies have been spoken
Pure manipulation
Whatever soul was left has been erased
Only a machine remains
Beaten into submission
That’s what it is to be slaved
I will not be defined, no longer stand in line
Your opposition
Stand in reflection
Pure abomination
Whatever soul was left has been erased
Only a machine remains
Beaten into submission
That’s what it is to be slaved
Undisputed truth in repression
A paradigm of your aggression
Beaten down to believe
Beaten down to concede
Control is key to suppress me
Whatever soul was left has been erased
Only a machine remains
Beaten into submission
That’s what it is to be slaved
Slave

A metal band called “Contradiction”: “Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done” by a voice I recognize to be Bush with two gunshots fired. Shame it’s not my kind of music. It’s almost “the only good h00min“… I’m seriously in love with that intro haha.

A metal band called “Divinity“: Beg to Consume. Very anti-capitalism. I’m not sure how else to call it. I always think, it’s not necessarily capitalism that’s prominent in the ‘anti’ of it, just the emptiness of existence it tends to hammer on. I’m also not very sure about people that are turned off by metal simply because it contains ‘anarchistic’ messages. I always say it’s just how you wish to interpret it. Not completely my kind of metal,  but an incidental listen it’s ok.

A metal band called “Ashkira“: I liked the title for some reason. “The honor of defeat”. You’re a poor winner if you never experienced defeat. Other than that… not really my style. Usually metal bands get the Feles-kun ™ approval if they don’t start every song the same, the tempo is different and the vocals are interesting. That’s a hard standard to reach for any metal band.

Nailbomb, Cadavera spin off. Is he even alive now? I’m not even sure. Never much liked Sepultura except for that “collab” with the late Pavarotti. Am in love with the Nailbomb song “World of Shit”, opening “Hate is reality”. Funny enough that song really sounds like Sepultura.

Finally! A name I love: Disarmonia Mundi (The Isolation Game). A band that basically collabs with Bjorn Strid (Soilwork). I haven’t heard from Soilwork anymore, but Disarmonia Mundi just released something this year. So indeed it was a new album they were talking about on their site. Perhaps dates on the news archives are a good idea. Though probably better than most albums in this entry, not my favorite Mundi album either.

Sometimes I can’t resist checking out a band because of “insane song titles”. I checked out  “Human” with their new album “Cadaver Academy”. The name already sent me in a giggle. Among the song titles: “Centrifugal skin removal, endangered faeces, roid rage, anal devastation”…. UH…

:smile:

That was a good laugh I tell you XDDD> “Oh dear it’s a bit of roid rage I’m afraid”… “Oh well, no harm done” -> Start brutal metal. Rite. Ies funny though.

“WE COME IN PIECES” HAHAHAHA.

I need to have my sense of humour checked out with a doc, I think. Too many years of the binary.

The new Townsend album, Addicted. I never really was a big fan, though I could appreciate some songs. I always come up with the analogy “wall of sound” when it comes to Devin, pretty much the correct saying. My very very first metal concert was Strapping Young Lad (Townsend) & Fear Factory. It is _still_ the most memorable concert imho. I’ve never seen mosh pits as active as that, unless if you count festivals.

SYBREED – The Pulse of Awakening
I must say this album is a little tamer compared to the previous two albums. Less “vocal abuse” lol. I usually need time to get used to a new album, so I won’t make any judgements yet. Antares could really get my blood flowing, I think the feeling is going to be different with this album but time will tell what kind of response it will get out of me.

Scar Symmetry – Dark Matter Dimensions
Scar Symmetry has some of the best guitar solo’s in the universe; so that’s what attracts me to this band most of all. Not to mention: louder than hell while still being melodic and a lot of vocal changes. Dark matter dimensions has the same formula ~ so I can’t be anything but really happy with this release.

Listening by Grooveshark!~

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.

I still love KoRn’s older works though. Anything Issues and older though my favorite are the first two albums: self titled and ‘Life is Peachy’. And yes, the ‘Significant Other’ album by Limp Bizkit still rules.

Enjoy the nostalgia.

This song, the nothingness black, has one of the coolest drum parts I’ve ever heard. Usually when I think of metal I think of little grunting piggies, but not this time, no… Can you scream “NOOOOOW”?

Just listen to it, you may think you’re hearing MIAUUUUUUUUUW.

Uh… I think Johnny’s have a bad influence on me. lol.

Mnemic is possibly the ‘screamiest/loudest’ industrial I’ve ever listened to, but in addition it is the most chaotic. Sometimes they completely miss what I described above and sometimes they get it right with a vengeance.

Check out how fast that song changes and tries to confuse your brain! The trick is to find the new ‘recognizable’ part a.s.a.p. I’m a hardened metal listener so I know what to listen to very fast (drums, guitar, vocal). You kind of mentally block out the rest (or give it second place). Then about 2 minutes in you notice the melody again and your brain leaves a big sigh of relief. XD. Really cool rif btw. I’m deaf now. Had this on in the car this morning.