Who We Are

Right, The Baboon was started in November 2009 by Niek. The idea was simply to be a good place for metalheads of all different flavors to have a source of new metal all the time. Now, more than half a year into it, you, the visitor, have proven there’s a market for it (thanks for that by the way!). The Baboon has grown rapidly and now consists of six metal-loving people contributing regularly. Let us introduce ourselves.

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Niek
26 years
November 2009 (Founder)
Dutch
The Netherlands
Melodeath, Progressive, Thrash
Soilwork, Omnium Gatherum, Insomnium, Nightrage
Business Consultant

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Byrd36 (Jeremy)
36 years
March 2010
American
Tennessee, US
All Metal, some Rock
Lamb of God, Mastodon, Skeletonwitch, Marilyn Manson
Electrical Contractor

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CroOZza (Jakob)
21 years
August 2010
German
Germany
Melodeath, Industrial Metal, Djent, Rock
Sybreed, Arch Enemy, System of a Down
Student

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Angel (Mark)
20 years
June 2011
British / American
England
Anything in metal, most other genres too
Changes frequently, now: The Black Dahlia Murder, Agalloch, Kamelot, Anaal Nathrakh
Student

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Toreignimmortal (Robert)
17 years
August 2011
Dutch
The Netherlands
Speed Metal, Raw/Symphonic Black Metal, Thrash Metal, Glam Metal, (Melodic) Death Metal
Suspiria Profundis, Blood Covenant, Temple of Blood, Deuteronomium, Winger, The Moshketeers, Megadeth
Bass Player

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Kebabhasse (Kubilay)
19 years
March 2010
Swedish
Sweden
Folk Metal
Slayeraaarrgggh!, Kataklysm, Dissection, Ensiferum
Student, Part-time Shop Assistant

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Tarkan
29 years
June 2010
English, Turkish
England
Death Metal, Tech Death, Brutal Death, Progressive Death
Spawn of Possession, Terrordrome, Desecration, Repulsive Dissection
Desk Jockey, Musician, Writer

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Motig (Moti)
33 years
July 2010
Israeli
Israel
Good music
Metallica, In Flames, Pantera, Coldplay
Logistics Coordinator

5 Responses to “Who We Are” »

  1. 6 Metal Blogs You Should Be Reading Says:

    [...] Metal Baboon automatically wins the prize for most metal URL ever. A team of six fucking brutal contributors (who don’t look anything like baboons) source music from all over the world, from all over [...]

  2. Frank Says:

    I like Sylosis and similar sounds like that, but don’t care much for vocals. I just don’t see how growling goes well with metal. But at any rate, to avoid human vocal cords, any good recommendations for instrumental metal that is like Sylosis, Fear Factory and a strong melody and syncopated/blast beats on the double bass drums?

    Secondly, do you know of any bands out there that is death metal musically but primarily uses clean vocals? That would be refreshing and a welcome concept to me.

    Thanks.

    Frank
    St. Kitt’s and Nevis

  3. Niek Says:

    Hey Frank! Thanks for your comment. I’m positive I’ve heard some examples of what you seek recently, but at this point I can’t recall their names too well.

    But, for the instrumentals, try searching through these: http://deathmetalbaboon.com/tag/instrumental I’m sure there’ll be a bunch there that’ll be to your liking.

    For clean vocaled Death Metal, try Loch Vostok, Destrage (do unclean too) and Vanisher. All I can come up with now. Let me know if these are any good! If I think of any others I’ll let you know.

  4. Toreignimmortal Says:

    You could try amorphis as well.

  5. Niek Says:

    That one too indeed :)

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