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.
There, I could very well leave it at that. It doesn’t get more accurate. Kingdoms is epic, and I don’t mean that in the way of the word when it’s used so lightly as it often is these days. I mean epic in the way it was meant to describe legendary and heroic events, battles between good and evil, that sort of thing. Something so awe-inspiring it’s just baffling and makes you want to cry like a baby that just shat its pants.
Red Descending’s second album is a piece of carefully devised brilliance, even more so than its predecessor, Where Dreams Come to Die. We didn’t officially review that, as it came out well before I started The Baboon, but I haven’t listened to it so incredibly often I pretty much know it by heart. And I’m still enjoying it regularly. Kingdoms was released last Friday and if you haven’t ordered it already, let me tell you why you should.
It isn’t very often that I’m genuinely stoked about a release. But today I am very stoked after vocalist and bassist Bernard Shaw – we interviewed him back in 2010 – of Red Descending contacted me saying they’ve got their second full-length lined up for publication on the 19th of this month. It’ll be titled Kingdoms and I can only hope it’ll be as rich and complete, dark yet groovy and cool yet hot fuckin’ shit as their debut Where Dreams Come to Die.
With Bernard saying they’ve taken a bit longer and that they’ve included “a lot more tricky guitar parts this time and a few more guitar solos”, while retaining the symphonicness and including “some VERY dark moments”, I’m very confident it will! Seriously, Red Descending have produced some seriously hot Blackened Death Metal and it can only get better.
This also speaks from the official album trailer they’ve released and the one track they’ve uploaded on their Facebook. We’ll hook you up with both after the jump!
And here’s us, thinking Red Descending must surely be the only Symphonic Black Metal outfit on the Western shore of Australia. It’s much too goddamn hot there to play such dark and ice cold music. They should be surfin’, drinking Foster’s and walking around in nothing but flashy swimming trunks.
Such prejudice! Because fuck me, Advent Sorrow, is band two out of two to show us that there’s Sympho Black talent on the Australian continent! Proper job mate!
Sometimes you hear around three notes and a half of a release and you know you want it. For me that was the case with The Compass, the recently aired six-track EP of Australia’s Circles – we wrote about them recently. Not quite of the bone-grinding stature of the bands we usually treat or listen to, but the band’s funk-filled groove-given bouncy chunk-Djent was like the musical equivalent of a five-course fine French cuisine experience when all you regularly eat is brown beans fried in lard and served with medium-rare chicken gut.
Ergo, The Compass arrived all the way from Australia last week and its six-songedness has been wrecking both my speakers and ears for a couple of days now. Much to my liking. Let me tell you why.
Djent these days sooner reminds me of the countless bedroom artists swarming the internet than of the full-grown bands that created the genre following Meshuggah’s complex, polyrhythmic and often palm-muted sound it is famous for. You know, bands like Periphery, TesseracT, Animals as Leaders and Born of Osiris. Today I’ve added another Djent band – check ma rhimez dawg! – to the list: Circles, from Australia.
A fitting name, the eluding mathematical shape that is a circle. Follow its course as long as you like, it’s not going to take you anywhere. Need to get an exact measure of its circumference? You’re fucked. Or of its area? You’re fucked. Such a mythical mathematical shape is of course the perfect name for a band making extensive use of mathematical riffs and structures. ‘Cause that’s what Circles does, much in the style of… erm… Djent.
My “career” in Extreme Metal came to be through the likes of Metalcore. Although I don’t listen to Metalcore a lot anymore these days, there are a number of bands from the genre that have managed to stick like shit thrown against a wall. One such band is Parkway Drive, from Down Under. Byron Bay, New South Wales to be exact.
Why do these five chaps keep fuckin’ cutting it for me? No fuckin’ clue, but most likely it has to do with their boundless aggression and ass-kickery when performing their stuff. The intensity of it is that of being hit by a bull-barred road train. Fuckin’ boom!
The following three bands have been waiting on their deployment on my list for quite some time. Today though, the time has come to release them into the world. Warnings go out in particular to people living in Germany, Canada and Australia, where these monsters hold their habitat and where they can be seen live and in the wild regularly.
