“Are there bands that sound like Slipknot? Has for long been an unanswered question. However, with the following description, Dropbunny certainly made me think I found the answer: “Ferocious Melbourne seven-piece dropbunny have returned with their highly anticipated second album, “IO”. (…) Continually pushing their musicality to new heights, dropbunny supplement their crushing guitars, mind-bending rhythms and roaring vocals with violins, sitars, xylophones and electronics, including ad-hoc instruments made from rat traps, fish tank motors, and a power saw. This combines to make a furious yet eerie psychotropic landscape that explores the darker side of the human psyche.”
Australia has once again proved to be a fertile ground for growing top-notch Metal. Brisbane’s own Vyrion have been harvested by The Baboon to be served up fresh today. These Blackened Progressive Metallers have been at it for a few years and released their first full-length in the late summer of 2011. An intro and nine tracks that I assure you are incredible.
With the sixth issue of this series, we continue to stay true to the series’ title, aswe’re still dealing purely with One Man Shows. Still female perpetrators as of yet. If you’ve got a good suggestion, drop us a line!
Yes! Part 2 of the most important list in the whole wide world of Metal. The list of best albums I have reviewed all year. You can’t possibly get a more complete overview of what happened in the Metallic world, anywhere.
Seriously though, this is just a list. My own little list of fifteen albums that struck a special chord with me this year. But then again, I do hear a fuckload of Metal over the course of a year and the fact that these fifteen stood out as the top albums does make them a little special, don’t you think? Hence they are albums that I highly recommend you to listen to, and buy when you can get your grubby hands on them and have no more fuckin’ debts to pay off.
Sometimes you come across material that just immediately blows you away. Like a category 5 tornado while all you have to hind behind is an umbrella. In my case this is not infrequently following a suggestion by motig, by far our most active link dumper. His recommendation this time is to listen to Ne Obliviscaris from Melbourne, Australia. Encyclopaedia Metallum classifies them as Progressive Black Metal, where the Progressive part is more accurate than the Black bit. In any case it’s Extreme Metal, but with a lot of unorthodoxy.
Ok, now it’s time for the real obscuro Black Metal. This is Nahktism from yeah, where are they from. Their facebook displays the initials WA. So I guess that’s either Washington in the United States, which is in America, or Western Australia, in Australia. Anyway, these guys are very profane, but they sound good, so I didn’t want to hold you back from it.
First of all, I’d like you to clear your mind from bands you’ve labelled kvlt in the past because this band fucks with anything that dares to call themselves Black Metal. Their facebook page is filled with pentagrams cut in skins, tattoos of Saint Peter’s crosses and burning candles. I know they are not the first to do it, but this makes them at least more Black Metal than the likes of Dimmu Borgir.
Whenever I think of Tasmania, the little island near the ass of Australia, I primarily think of the Tasmanian Devil, a very ‘Metal’ animal which only lives on that island. That beast should be enough to make Tasmania a force to be reckoned with in the metal world. However, the only metal band from that area I’ve ever seen is today’s Astral Winter. Although the cover of their debut Winter Enthroned made me think they were from some arctic region, they seem to be chilling out in the sun all the time down south.
Josh Young is the sole member behind this band and he dropped us a line exactly two months ago. Since then, the link to his Facebook page has moved around quite a while on my desktop, being clicked once in a while, without really being properly looked at. Today however, I found enough courage to click through to the Astral Winter youtube channel to hear some. And I was in for a very pleasant surprise.
Another piece of news tonight! Terry Vainoras was kind enough to inform us of his latest project, which is called Subterranean Disposition. The Most Subtle of Storms is the first glimpse of the self-entitled debut and was recently released on the web. Recently being two weeks ago.
Terry describes his music as ranging “From the grindcore of Damaged, to the Swedish melodic death stylings of Earth and on through the metallic hardcore of Order of Chaos, the black metal of Hellspawn and also the doom styles of Cryptal Darkness, The Eternal and Insomnius dei, Terry has covered much musical ground and Subterranean Disposition is the melting pot of creativity where the former and recent influences can meet and interplay.” Something interesting must be coming out of that.
It’s like Red Descending knew in advance what my favorite track off their Kingdoms album would be. Bassist annex vocalist Bernard Shaw turned my attention to a new video of theirs this morning. A video of precisely that track I adore. If it hadn’t been for a busy day at work today, this would’ve been on here already.
When I reviewed just over a week ago I mentioned Kings of Torture to be the album’s best song in my holy opinion. I even uploaded it so you could share in my delight about it. And now there’s an official video for the song online. Not a real music video, but rather the studio track supported by live footage shot at the Amplifier Bar in Perth at the band’s album launch party on August 19th. Nothing you haven’t heard before if you’ve read last week’s review, but definitely a joy to watch while hearing!
The about page on this website features a very clear message on what the purpose of this website is: finding new heavy music. Since 2009 The Baboon has been pumping a healthy dose of new bands everyday and there seems to be no end to it. There is however a stream of bands which is just about as numerous as the stream we’re tapping from now.
