Melodic death metal, not your everyday topic starter, but damn its amazing. Apparently Dreamshade are actually the first band from Switzerland to take a chance with this genre and actually get it right.
This is some of the most melodic and emotive music to ever grace my ears and yes I realize how crazy that sounds. With expert vocals changing from growling to screaming at a moments notice, extremely complicated drum patterns and guitar solo's, What Silence Hides is an album to be feared and respected and an amazing start from this relatively young band.
You may remember last Monday I briefly mentioned Beheading Machine, a mechanical deathmetal band from Poland. Having only started playing in 2008 the band has come a long way. This is definitely the other end of the deathmetal spectrum with insanely heavy riffs and blastbeats over growling vocal line, this is no pussy metal. Alas the only sad part is that this band is unsigned, so help out in anyway you can.
Well thats all I have to say for today, its my day off so I think I'll just waste a few hours playing Dead Island and writing some rough drafts of a couple reviews I have planned for my other page. If you are part of a band or are looking for a band and are from Ontario, Canada check out my buddies Facebook page here and stay update with our page here.
So about a week ago I was cruising Glitchdrop and happened across a track by Phutureprimitive. At first I was not only attracted by the clever manipulation of P's and H's but the amazing cover art, but when I was told that I would have to pay for the album I was pretty bummed. My epic quest to locate a free version of Kinetic took me across the boiling deserts of the interwebz to a site called Transmission Seed, and that's where I found it.
One would have problems attempting to classify Rain's style with this album, maybe psydub, or melodic dubstep, but for now we'll just stick with electronic.
This is a ten track masterpiece of emotion and electronica with sounds stretching the limits of your perception and melodies floating across bass so deep you might lose a fender or two off your Sunfire. This album is for fans of electronic, or dubstep, or anyone curious as to what real music should sound like. Grab it up or w'll find you.
For the second part of todays post I thought we'd try a little change in format, after the amazing album above we have three random electronic tracks that have been buzzing around the internet and my skull this week. By Stephen Walking, Monarchy and Supervision respectively, no descriptions just downloads and preview vids, enjoy.
Hope you enjoyed todays post, let me know if you like the new Tuesday format at our facebook page here. Also I'm getting a new design tomorrow so t-shirts will be available soon!
Alright, I forgot to post again last week since that was the day that classes started for me (sorry again...), so I believe I now owe two more "special" posts. Today will be just one of them, since I know C will not be posting until later this evening.
A couple nights ago, my friend was super stressed out about problems with her computer so she brought her guitar down into the dining room and was playing and singing some songs. Then she started singing this song by Frightened Rabbit that I love quite dearly, but I had forgotten about. I figure that this is as good a reason as any to post this band for you. I spent this morning downloading one of their albums, and I figured since I have the download, it was a perfect choice.
Frightened Rabbit is a Scottish band that I think has quite a unique sound, and it works very well for them.
For my second "Special Post," I have decided to bring to you an artist that I went to school with not so long ago. I wouldn't say that we were close, or even really "friends" but we were nice enough to each other, and I respect him greatly as a musician. He composes all his own music, writes all his own lyrics, and while his YouTube channel doesn't have all that much on it, I still find it a joy when I rediscover it. I recently came back to it when Mike posted his new song on his wall on Facebook, and I got quite excited and decided that it would be a good thing to share with the world at large.
This post is going to be a little different...I think. I am going to start by warning you now that there are no downloads, so if you like it, just head on over to ListenToYouTube and download the songs for yourself (If he had them on Itunes or something I would direct you there, but that is not an option at this point). Also, I am just going to post everything on his channel, direct you there, and leave you with that. I'm not going to write a whole lot about any of them, maybe a little blurb, maybe not.
Mike's latest song.
Instrumental, and amazing.
I'll write a little something about this one. Two of the 3 members (so
excluding Mike) are a year younger than I am and we went to the same
elementary school together. When I first heard this song at school this
year I was actually quite blown away. The main vocals are done by
Kellam, and I am honoured to have known these young men in any respect.
Hearing this in person kind of tops the recorded version just based on
the energy shown, but I still like it and I hope you do too!
The first video uploaded to his channel.
So that's all for this morning, folks! I'm sorry for the weird format, but I figured it was time to switch it up a little for you, since my whole life has just been tossed in a box and jumbled around a bit. Why not share the experience? I believe that you'll be seeing a post from MrFlawedLogic sometime later this evening I think (Hardcore Humpday, anyone?) and it should be great! Thank you so much for your support and views, and I hope we haven't disappointed you and that I am at least beginning to make up for my absence from posting... Take care!
Welcome to the twentieth edition of Toxic Tuesday, I've got something a little different for you today. Magnus Birgersson, a.k.a. Solar Fields, is a swedish electronic musician. Since he was a teenager he has been playing piano, drums, percussion, and keyboard in several bands, but in 2001 he launched Solar Fields. Solar Fields to me is a musical hallucinogenic, you might as well make this stuff illegal. I mean theres trance music, then theres ambient, but when you combine the two you get something truly unique.
Last night when I was roaming around the web looking for an album by Phutureprimitive (we'll save that for later) I stumbled onto Transmission Seed, wordpress site with a tonne of unique electronic music. I pillaged as much as my computer would let me and spent most of today completely zoned. I was at the eye doctor today and they hit me with three sets of eye drops, which made my eyes burn and diluted my pupils so much everyone I tried buying sunglasses off of thought I was tripping acid. So while my eyes felt like they would fall out of my skull I found my self concentrating on music (before my headphones shitted out), lets just say I had some amazing day dreams. I encourage everyone to download this album, maybe it will help you sleep, maybe it will power you down the highway, whatever the use you won't be the same ever again.
You may remember way back when, I mean nineteen editions ago, our first Toxic Tuesday, we had an amazing track from french electronic artist Pyramid. Well this last week, celebrating 1000 likes on his Facebook page he released a ten track masterpiece for free.
Big thanks to Musigh for catching it, and many others. I thought at one point I had Pyramid figured out, his last album was to me "stereotypically french" don't ask me to explain that, it just sounded like a lot of french electronic. With the release of Lost In Space my classification has been shattered along with any concerns I had for my hard drive space, this is a must download. The entire album is a masterful mixture of synth-pop, bass, DnB beats, and a little french for colour. Grab it up and please consider giving this talented artist some money over at his Bandcamp.
Hope you enjoyed the twentieth edition, its a big occasion for me and I know todays artists did it justice. Please consider supporting the musicians and blogs I pilfer, as well as following the blog with Google, or liking our Facebook page.
Here I am, after a VERY long absence from this blog. I am really quite sorry for not posting in so long. My life just got so busy between work and trying to get caught up with everybody before I let for school, and getting ready to leave for school...I just simply did not have time. That being said, I've missed at least three weeks, or even more, so I owe this blog and all you viewers quite a few "special" posts. This is the first, and there will be more to come, plus my usual post on Thursday sometime.
For this special post today, I have an indie band from New York City to present to you.
Vampire Weekend has been around for a few years now, and can sometimes be heard floating around on the radio...that is, on a good day. A very good day indeed.
You may be wondering about the name of the band. Even if you weren't, I'll give you a little bit of background. All the members of the band met while attending Columbia University. One of the members created a short film titled 'Vampire Weekend' and this is where their name came from. The creator of the title believed that the imagery of the vampires would draw in a crowd that would otherwise not choose to listen to this music, and I have little doubt that he was right about that (thanks to Vampire Diaries, Twilight and the like...). From there they self-produced their first album while working full-time -- an impressive feat.
There is just something about this band that gets to me, but maybe that's just my simple romanticism kicking in. I find that their feel is very East Coast, and I really appreciate that now that I'm living in New Brunswick. The song that really got me interested in Vampire Weekend was Walcott. I was sitting in a car with a good friend of mine on our way to work and this song came on from one of her CDs. We declared that it was a song we could both master on the piano (though I highly doubt that now...). Not only is it catchy, but it also talk about Cape Cod, which is about 7 hours from where I'm residing now. I've done my research. This places just a little bit of sentimental attachment on this song for me, but I really do like it for more reasons than just because it talks about the East...
Now, I am not coming into this with a lot of links for you. My school's network has a lot of file sharing sites blocked, but I've done what I can. The other link I can give to you with a clean conscience, is Horchata. I've only listened to it once, but it is off of one of the albums, and Vampire Weekend has put it up on their website for free downloading purposes (smart move Vampire Weekend!). I'll post the song, and the link, and it's all yours!
So that's all I have for my post today, but as always, feel free to search around on the web for yourself, or just run to ListenToYouTube and download as much of their music as you would like. I hope today's post has been satisfactory, and at least starts to make up for my slacking of the last few weeks.
Take care all, and I'll be back!
I love Mondays, well holiday Mondays, they give me time to locate amazing music and not rush about posting, and what a post we have today.
Introducing Substep Infrabass, lets break it down for you. You start at electronic, then mix in some bass and drop the tempo to get dubstep, the you throw in some eerie noises and the possibility of a metal band and voila! Deathstep.
I've been sitting on this experimental future-bass artist for some time. On dubfuckingstep they classify it as deathstep, but its a whole other variety of said mind blowing genre. Its not really as apparent as the last few artists we've had, there aren't any screaming guitars or wailing demon lyricists, no mind bending blast beats, but a hell of a lot of bass, and thats all that matters. This is next level basstronics and even though it doesn't fit in your standard template of metal you just might find yourself swingin that hair around and punching people you don't know. It gets even better when you mix that sound with Beheading Machine, a Polish mechanical death metal band, yeah wrap that around your little skull. Hit Substep's Soundcloud for a free four track album with Beheading Machine and more dark ambient deathstep than you could fit in a stocking.
Now that we've scraped the sludge of my frontal lobe we can crank the volume, amp the tempo and introduce our next band. Dead By April, a four piece... get this, trancecore band from Gothenburg, Sweden.
I was cruising pop-to-core this morning around five and was instantly drawn in by those words, metalcore/trancecore. I couldn't help but be curious about what trancecore could possibly sound like. In reality this band is along the lines of Abandon All Ships and Attack! Attack!, combining upbeat pop sensibilities with metal riffs and a healthy dose of screaming. But its when the synths kick in and the vocalist calms his gift that the trance section really kicks in. Just writing this I can feel my mind floating a bit, my sleepless night headache is fading and there's a smile on my face. Any music that can do that should be patented and sold to the masses. So grab those albums above, the password is pop-to-core.blogspot.com, yes I stole it but damn who wouldn't share this amazing band. Support the artist and support the blogs I pilfer and have a great holiday Monday!
Hope you enjoyed the post today, Metalstep Mondays are a real treat to research and write cause they don't happen every week, its an occassion and I think it should stay that way. So please support the artists, even if you like thier facebook pages, or download their tracks. Speaking of facebook, like the blogs page here so you can make me happy, come on, you know you want to.
