Come-lately “metal goes dirty rock” bands can stuff it, Allhelluja have been at it for years. Hatesphere’s singer. Solid enough to be The Quill in a bad mood.
Does justice to its name and fluidly mixes gore and porn-obsessed snippets before defecating relentless, generic goregrind. Makes Mortician sound like Rush.
Dissection proves itself worthy of such an excellent presentation, attacking every song with intensity and precision. Gimmick-free, brutally solid black metal.
Jonesin’ for prog metal? The new concert DVD from Anathema should do the trick. Like Dream Theater fronted by Gavin Rossdale, with all of the pros and cons.
Vintersorg’s Andreas Hedlund offers vocal duties to Borknagar. His warm, passionate, folky vocals add depth to any band he’s in, and Vintersorg is his band.
Dense in production, complex in arrangement, thick and churning. “Death-Grind Powerhouse” is an apt description, as much as I dislike lifting from bios.
15 years deep, and Age of Tyranny is quite possibly their most interesting release in years. I heard harmonies, I heard elongated solos, I was impressed.
They get the elements just right, and often bring something new to the fleet-fingered fun They pull off their pull-offs and ridiculous lyrics with sincerity.
Now on Scarlet, an Italian label, after stints on Metal Blade and Century Media. More mid-tempo warble than the fleet-fingered melodic speedmetal of yore.
Less interesting that Otep, which is to say, they’re awful. Check out Drain S.T.H. (for glorious, layered female harmonies) and Crisis (for banshee wail).