Animals As Leaders - Animals As Leaders (2009)

A band from the US I didn't really notice till now but they are really good! the axeman play on 7 and 8 strings guitar and believe me he knows how to use that many strings...no NU UBER metal shit here! excellent pshyche ambiances, catchy leads and fusion like progression...in short, a flawless performance! get it and play it loud!! let's kick sum @$$! ^^

Animals As Leaders - Animals As Leaders (2009)
Genre: Progressive Metal/Experimental
Tracklist
1. Tempting Time
2. Soraya
3. Thoroughly at Home
4. On Impulse
5. Tessitura
6. Behaving Badly
7. The Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing
8. CAFO
9. Inamorata
10. Point to Point
11. Modern Meat
12. Song of Solomon

Tosin Abasi: 7 and 8 String Guitar Wizardry
Javier Reyes: Live Guitars
Chebon Littlefield
Macbook: Live Bass, Synths and Layers

http://rapidshare.com/files/217916588/ANMLSSLDRS.rar

Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious [2009]

here is another band that we came across a while ago...well they didn't recover much of their sanity since their last release and are still pretty f**ked up in the head! ah ah =D but here as you know it already, it's for the best, as their music gather about everything together in an explosive bundle of contrastive influences...at the moment Diablo swing Orchestra still remains a one of the kind band ..a bit like Nuclear Rabbit a few years ago...who has since then spawned a few followers,... only a few cause the diversity of style encompassed requires a certain proficiency that is not so common down here..DSO might bring about the same outcome! wait and see...meanwhile enjoy their unbridled performance! \m/

Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious [2009]
Genre:Metal, Experimental, Avant-Garde
Tracklist:
1. A Tapdancer's Dilemma
2. A Rancid Romance
3. Lucy Fears The Morning Star
4. Bedlam Sticks
5. New World Widows
6. Siberian Love Affairs
7. Vodka Inferno
8. Memoirs Of A Roadkill
9. Ricerca Dell’anima
10. Stratosphere Serenade

Diablo Swing Orchestra

Exxasens - Beyond The Universe (2009)

As winter is finally on it's way to China, let's move to Spain to bag some extra rays and riffs! ^^ This band walks a fine line between metal and more atmospheric stuff like post rock...the melodies they use might remind you a bit of Septic Flesh at times or even A Perfect Circle or even Te...just to give you an idea...a pretty interesting band with cool songs (most of which are instrumental)! hope you enjoy! \m/

[ps= i've tried to post this since this morning without being able to!! the great wall drives me crazy!!]

Exxasens - Beyond The Universe (2009)
Genre: Metal, Experimental
Tracklist:
Tracklist:
01. Sky In Red
02. Signals From The Outer Space
03. Lost In Space
04. ¿Por Que Me Llamas A Estas Horas?
05. Polaris
06. Stars In The Desert
07. Gray
08. Absolute Infinite
09. A Singular Deploy
10. Copernicus
11. Spiders On The Moon
12. Boolean
13. Stellar

Exxasens - Beyond The Universe

Punish Yourself - Feuer Tanz System (1998)

Here we go into the world of digital aggression! Punish Yourself comes from the south of France, Toulouse, also known as the Pink City because of it's red walls! I met those guys in pubs as their guitar player was producing the album of my friends, ...a pretty cool and funny bunch of guys indeed, almost as crazy as their music! to make it short Punish Yourself is all about depravity, SM & Bondage, Pornography,Drugs and Cyberpunk culture...well at least now you have an inkling of the kind of hobbies they might be indulging in! ah ah On stage their have fluorescent zombie outfit and are on the rampage... a looney crossbreed between Ministry and KMFDM... enjoy and of course ....wallow in filth! ^^

Punish Yourself - Feuer Tanz System (1998)
Genre: Industrial Metal
Tracklist:
1. Dispossessed
2. Flower
3. Air Tribe
4. I Like It
5. Eye Sex Dance
6. Nothingness Station
7. Death By Water
8. Slow Motion Demonstration

Punish Yourself - Feuer Tanz System

Biomechanical - Eight Moons (2002)

here we are in the green pastures of England, with Biomechanical who formed in 2001, 8 years already! they play metal but it is somewhat a progressive form of it...not so easy to define, a bit like Pantera but more complex, intricate and symphonic...I let you decided what to call it! ^^ what i like best is the rapid changes of ambiances,.. pretty catchy ...and though this album is rather short overall you'll need a while to really dig it! so turn it loud and... take it easy! \m/

Band: Biomechanical
Album Eight Moons
Genre: Metal
Tracklist:
1. The Awakening
2. Do You Know Me
3. In The Core Of Darkness
4. Distorted
5. Hunted
6. No Shadows
7. Eight Moons
8. Save Me
9. Point Of No Return

Biomechanical

Probot - Probot 2004

If you like metal...well that one is definitely needed in your collection. No need to introduce Dave Grohl i guess..who doens't know Nirvana or Foo Fighters?... well, on that one he managed the incredible feat to gather most of the major Metal figures from the late 80's/ early 90's together! obviously by doing so, you get a rather ecclectic outcome and in the end it sounds a bit like a compilation, which it actually is IMHO! However, i really like the result and the personality of each of the songs which really squares with what one would expect the guest to play/sing. Hope you enjoy! \m/

Probot - Probot 2004
Genre: Metal
Tracklist:
01 Centuries of Sin - (with Cronos)
02 Red War - (with Max Cavalera)
03 Shake Your Blood - (with Lemmy)
04 Access Babylon - (with Mike Dean)
05 Silent Spring - (with Kurt Brecht)
06 Ice Cold Man - (with Lee Dorrian)
07 Emerald Law, The - (with Wino)
08 Big Sky - (with Tom G. Warrior)
09 Dictatosaurus - (with Denis 'Snake' Belanger)
10 My Tortured Soul - (with Eric Wagner)
11 Sweet Dreams - (with King Diamond)

Metal Symphony!

Light Pupil Dilate - Snake Wine 2007

LPD is really an interesting band and they should appeal to almost any metalheads IMHO cause their music includes so many different elements from almost all you can find in metal...they have chunky passages in the biohazard or pro-pain fashion, BM like things at times... a bit in the style of emperor's grandiose ambiances, powerful bass driven riff like in stoner...also quite like what the Melvins do, and cool instrumental passages ... well this album is really great to me as is the musicianship, so i hope it will be the same for you as well! \m/

Light Pupil Dilate - Snake Wine 2007
Genre: Thrash, Metal, Hardcore, Psychedelic
Tracklist:
1 Prana
2 Twinkly
3 Poly Viral
4 Big Open
5 Selfless
6 Phlebitis
7 Shower Me With You Love
8 Boundary Dissolution
9 Dive

Dissolving into acid!

Blind Passengers - Bastard (1999)

i'm back online, don't really know how long this is gonna last ( a long time i hope...) but at least i can make a new play =) so here is a band that play some music in the style of marylin manson or some shit like that...basically metal and industrial =) don't know anything about those guys but i quite enjoy their style so i hope you will as well...anyway one thing is for sure is that i won't have the time to make as many plays as i used to = / ... and my music collection is rather stagnating at the moment as i have shitloads of problems grabbing anything that is on foreign land... but does this matter??! not at all! ^^ as long as i can play some stuff once and a while...you see...metal nevers dies... the ancient phoenix rises again from its smouldering ashes .... but first the mighty dragon must come by and kick his butt...and hopefully it did it once more!! ah ah! enjoys!

Blind Passengers - Bastard (1999)
Genre: Industrial
Tracklist:
01 Gunman
02 Get On
03 Bring Me Down
04 You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)
05 Splattershow
06 Idolator
07 Never
08 Clock Out
09 Stay Or Go
10 Criminal
11 Freeze My Brain
12 The Glory Of Success

who's that mongrel??!

Yargos - To Be Or Not To Be (2005)

Perhaps you already know Yargos but if you don't i highly advise you to lend an ear to that one! being no fan of prog metal i can tell you that they are definitely worth a shot ... everything in this album is great, the vox, the melodies, the production ... here you have it all...quality and quantity, cause the album reaches above 1 hour of running time, which is quite a lot (...well i mean quite a lot compared to the grindcore stuff i listen to! ah ah!)... and everything is pefectly balanced, no instrument encroach on any other, all fits perfectly in its place ... it's not that much violent but it definitely rocks! well...not much to add, this is just brilliant! enjoy!

Yargos - To Be Or Not To Be (2005)
Genre: Progressive Metal
Tracklist:
01 The Guilded Age
02 Why?
03 Peace Of Mind
04 Point Of No Return
05 A Time To Decide
06 Pink Confusion
07 Human Nature
08 Time Drops
09 The Summer Tree # 1
10 Full Circle
11 Sometimes It Is Easier
12 Turn Away
13 The Summer Tree Alive (Beat The Big Break) [bonus]

Shakespeare's metal fantasy!

Carnarium - Constelaciones De Requiems 2002

How about turning Barrocco for a short while...don't worry, just the time to travel back to the Renaissance period and meet that Spanish band called Carnarium! =) a pretty good band actually, they have female vox in the style of Elend's Les Tenebres du Dehors [The outter darkness] ...and perhaps even better performed! but what i like most is the brutal vox they use, in the best DM fashion! yummie! very guttural and cavernous growls with sad and creepy ambiances a la craddle of filth, typical of the BM line! Most of the songs are pretty cool, hovering between a fine blend of sweetness and agression! in that regard, i think this band has something of Septic Flesh, that is they use several simple melodic lines weaved together into a more intricate pattern. Well, a really interesting band picking a lot of different elements from various metal style and combining them in a unique way ...well worth checkin' out IMHO!^^ \m/

Carnarium - Constelaciones De Requiems 2002
Genre: Gothic Metal
Tracklist:
01 Intro
02 El Cristal
03 Desafio
04 El Lamento Del Vampiro
05 El Ocaso De Los Sueños
06 La Huida De Angora
07 Resplandor Ancestral
08 Fenix
09 El Joven Y El Diablo
10 Magdalena, Marcha Nupcial
11 Orix Tiem Mortum Dae

Vampiric Conquistadors!

Yakuza - Samsara 2006

I don't think i ever played this band in here, what a shame! as it is definitely a fav band of mine =D they are quite unique in their kind and i love how they blend the different influences they put into their music...it's psychedelic, extremely heavy and absolutely brilliant! there is hardly any word i can use to describe what they do but Yakusa are utterly the masters of their trade! proficient musicians with a mighty spirit and an unquenchable thirst for the exploration of uncharted territories ...as one of my friend often says "you don't like that one? then why don't you just fuck off and die bonehead fucker!...umh..uhm.. no offense intended of course!" ah ah! i wouldn't go that far though ^^ lol so enjoy!

Yakuza - Samsara 2006
Genre:Metal, Jazz, Progressive
Tracklist:
01 Cancer Of Industry
02 Plecostomus
03 Monkeytail
04 Transmission Ends...Signal Lost
05 Dishonor
06 20 Bucks
07 Exterminator
08 Just Say Know
09 Glory Hole
10 Back To The Mountain

不三不四的人！^^

Monstrum - VIII Dzieñ Tygodnia (2007)

Before i leave for good i still have some time to play a few more stuff after i guess it will be more difficult and perhaps too much time demanding ... anyway ... Monstrum ... did you know they existed??! ah ah! ... well at least after you listened to their music they should remain in your mind for some time! the band is not downright original ... well, they play heavy metal... but they are really great whatsoever ... i could go as far as ascribing some Maiden-like spirit and enthusiasm to them ... really! they have a knack for that genre, they sing in their own language (Polish i think) which is great but i also reckon that it will likewise be their greatest impediment to achiving a worldwide fame =) the music is rather technical and can sometimes be a bit in the line of prog stuff ... minus the keyboard! this is not my fav style nevertheless i found that band really catchy and i guess you are very likely to find it to your taste as well ... so have a go! ... and enjoy! ;)

Monstrum - VIII Dzieñ Tygodnia (2007)
Genre: Heavy Metal
Tracklist:
01 Monstrum
02 Slowa
03 Krzyż
04 Otchlań Zycia
05 List
06 21:37
07 Przemijanie
08 VIII Dzieñ Tygodnia
09 Po Drugiej Stronie Lustra
10 Lukrecja (Instrumentalny)

Proficiency exhibition!

Earthtone9 - Arc Tan Gent [2000]

A bro advised not too much pop at once for some obscure health reasons ^^, so in case you have strayed off a bit too much on the wrong side because of the previous play, try this medication! =) It is likewise a band i love cause they have flawless songs IMHO, and an awsome prod! they come from mother England and despites i labelled them metal it is not that brutal ...though the music can turn out quite ballsy at times!lol i have never seen them on stage but from what i heard they are just brilliant in that context as well ... no wonder i'd say, given the albums they have released! the music is a bit in the line of Tool to give you a clue about what these blokes sound like..or perhaps even A perfect circle to a certain extent! well hope you have fun with it! \m/

Earthtone9 - Arc Tan Gent [2000]
Genre: Metal
Tracklist:
01 Tat Twan Asi
02 Evil Crawling I
03 P.R.D. Chaos
04 Approx. Purified
05 Walking Day
06 Star Damage For Beginners
07 Ni9e: This Is The Sound
08 Yellow Fever
09 Alpha Hi
10 Binary 101

When heavy meets percussive!

Jorn Lande & Russel Allen - The Battle 2005

After A bro made the 666th post on the 1st of junuary 2008 ...weird it was done by the Antigöd indeed...i sure some dark scientists would glady study the phenomenon!^^... i now play "the neighbour of the beast" album, number 667th (which also happens to be the title of a DM album incidentally!...and as all these wars cause me to have a very bad memory i hope you don't know about it already! however i am sure you all know about these guys better than i do!lol so to cut a long story short i must say that this album impressed me at all levels ... despites i am not a fan of that genre ... but vocals, guitars, bass, drums, pianos...everything fits in perfectly and it all has been very well produced ... not a single weak track in my view! well ... that's what we call a killer album from beginning to end!! the battle in 2008 is gonna unfold just fine my broz! enjoy \m/

Jorn Lande & Russel Allen - The Battle 2005
Genre: Hard Rock, Progressive Metal
Tracklist:
01 Another Battle
02 Hunters Night
03 Wish For A Miracle
04 Reach A Little Longer
05 Come Alive
06 Truth Of Our Time
07 My Own Way
08 Ask You Anyway
09 Silent Rage
10 Where Have The Angels Gone
11 Universe Of Light
12 The Forgotten Ones

Riding forgotten winds!

Raging Speedhorn - We Will Be Dead Tomorrow

listen to that racket away in the woods! the benighted guys from Raging Speedhorn sure need some room to play their music!^^ angry riffers hovering between the power ozzing from true rock'n'roll spirit ... almost punk like... and the heavyness of metal .... add on top of that very cool and agressive vox in the line of hardcore singers ...that even turn into guttural death-like vox at times! ... it's like spitting hot blood in the face of your worst enemy ... and better twice than once ... cause there are two vocalists actually! ah ah! To cut it short, they have the attitude and energy of the Hellacopters, and the sound of that good old Godsend ... that is a 70's inspired, grainy, fat and chunky, low pitched guitar sound that seems to linger forever unless it is stopped or deflected into another massive and devastating powerchord! Ride with the devil?? oh yeah.. sure we will! on your bikes warriors! \m/

Raging Speedhorn - We Will Be Dead Tomorrow
Genre: Stoner Rock/Metal
01 The Hate Song
02 Scrapin' The Resin
03 Me And You Man
04 Scaramanga
05 Chronic Youth
06 Iron Cobra
07 Heartbreaker
08 Fuck The Voodooman
09 Spitting Blood
10 Welcome To Shitsville
11 Ride With The Devil

Piss off ...or you'll get bitten!

Killwhitneydead - Never Good Enough for You 2004

Most of the time i like it the old-school way, but Kill Whitney Dead is definitely one of those new bands that caught my attention...i hope they caught yours as well! otherwise it's time to catch up with what you've been missing! As often you get into a store and you begin to browse the new stuffs they have and there right in the middle of that shit-load of unproductive followers stand a band with either an eye-catching cover or like it's the case for this band, funny titletracks... they really retained the grindcore spirit for that! the music is also a bit special as they use plenty of sound clips from horror movies or other stuffs, and overall they are really aggressive to woman! but i think it's just for the fun of it, just like those death bands who tend to be sorta clinical in their lyrics! well the album is pretty short but it's a cool one! enjoy!

Killwhitneydead - Never Good Enough for You 2004
Genre: Death, Thrash, Metal
Tracklist:
01 Where There's Smoke
02 I Didn't Know "I Love You" Came With A Knife In The Back
03 Duct Tape & Death Threats
04 Fine & Subtle Art Of Deception, The
05 I Already Have Enough Friends
06 Like You Didn't Hear Me The First Time
07 Love Is Like A Mouth Full Of Broken Glass
08 You Like Knife Play? I Love Knife Play
09 You Will Get Exactly What You Deserve (And Not One Bullet Less)
10 Forgiveness Isn't As Much Fun As Holding A Grudge
11 Broken Hearts Don't Hurt As Much As Broken Bones
12 Bitterness Is A Beautiful Thing
13 She Didn't Look Like She Had A Disease
14 Who Said Alcohol And Handguns Don't Go Great Together?
15 It Ain't Gonna Suck Itself
16 Revenge (My Part Time Lover)
17 Nothing Says "Party" Like Her Head On A Stick

Butchers at work!

Mattias 'IA' Eklundh - The Road Less Traveled

I guess no presentation is requiered about Mattias 'IA' Eklundh, but just in case, ah ah! he's a lunatic playing the axe in Freak kitchen! However as you've certainly noticed this is a one of his solo work. You'll find plenty of style, ideas either interesting, ludicrous, blowing, massive or just really wierd lol...but nothing to discard in that one IMHO! Along with Ron Thal (bumblefoot) and Buckethead, this guy is definitely one of the most original and innovative player for these last few years i guess! have fun with his music!

Mattias 'IA' Eklundh - The Road Less Traveled
Genre: Exprimental, Fusion, bla bla bla.... virtuoso!! =)
Tracklist:
01 The Road Less Traveled
02 There's No Money In Jazz
03 Print This!
04 Father
05 No Strings Attached
06 Caffeine
07 Fletch Theme
08 The Battle of Bob
09 Chopstick Boogie
10 Toxic Donald
11 Happy Hour
12 Smoke on the Water
13 Insert Coin
14 The Woman in Seat 27A
15 Ketchup is a Vegetable
16 Samba Caramba
17 White Trash Hyper Blues
18 Toxic Mickey
19 Minor Swing
20 One-String Improvisation
21 Asteroid 3834
22 Little Bastard
23 Difficult Person Music

A stray wanderer!

Keelhaul - Keelhaul II (2000)

This band comes from the US and i guess they are not very famous yet...well over here they are almost unknown but to a handful of freaks that's for sure... though some of you certainly know them already!...you, freaks!lol they have several songs which are instrumental only, but there are vocals as well on the album, so don't turn your stereo too loud! ah ah... music wise it's rather complex and melodic... my favourite stuff on this album is no doubt the drum which plays really cool parts =D their style is not very easy to describe but to me it's a bit like HxC and Nu-metal with more elaborate structures and sometimes a sort of stoner fell as well...i sometimes find they have some seplutura-esque feel (Roots period) to their music, but this is more because of to their percussive use of drums than anything else ......too much talking here!! ....enjoy!

Keelhaul - Keelhaul II (2000)
Genre: Experimental, Metal
Tracklist:
01 360
02 Some Day Some Other Place
03 New Void
04 Unwound
05 Practicing
06 39f
07 Lackadaisical Chinese Tubesocks
08 LWM

the acid test!

On A Dead Machine - On A Dead Machine 2005

On a Dead Machine comes from the U.S, and they play some music that i won't even try to describe!lol to give you an idea nevertheless let's just say it reminds me of bands like A Perfect Circle (a lot!), Tool...well you see the kind of stuff i'm talking about! it's both heavy and melodical with more furious passages really remembering screamo bands like Chevelle for instance (if that's a screamo band! ah ah!)! the album is pretty good but the production could have been better, especially for an album released in 2005 and considering the type of music they play, that is in which the sound quality is of the utmost importance...but anyway it's definitely worth a shot IMHO! enjoy

On A Dead Machine - On A Dead Machine 2005
Genre: Metal, Screamo, Alternative, Rock
Tracklist:
01 Silent Weapons For Quiet Wars
02 One Day
03 A Million Helicopters and One Dollar
04 Sailing Past Japan
05 Windows and Silhouettes
06 The Morning After...
07 Cancer
08 So This Is Life
09 You First
10 A Slow Crawl From The Bottom
11 Anywhere But Here
12 For You

Glossy Riffing!

Slander - Fings To Fix 2004

Slander is a band from Brazil (Curitiba, south of Brazil)and i guess they are kindda unknown to the world!! too bad they disbanded in 2005 cause their music is pretty cool and fun! they have a very eclectic style that goes from metal, to funky and rock stuff from the 70's! coming from Brazil, the rhythm are especially interesting on that record ...and no wonder, at times you might feels it sounds a bit Sepultura-esque (as it is one of the first band that promoted that kind of rhythm)... music wise this band also recall Faith No More owing to the creative aspect of its music! =) cool album IMO! enjoy!

Slander - Fings To Fix 2004
Genre: Metal, Rock, Funk, Experimental
Tracklist:
01 Summary
02 Cartola
03 Lying
04 HeratBreaker
05 Jesus-Frito
06 Afegun
07 Haulysong
08 Ruberwall
09 Horoscope
10 Number One
11 Tyeta
12 Picadeiro of Life
13 Archive
14 Mane Galinha

if it ain't broken, break it!