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It's a strange one. Some of my friends/ work colleagues are into what I would call "tantrum metal", and they'll send me a link for an absolute dud from Lorna Shore or something and I just don't hear anything of what I would consider heavy. There's no danger, or malice or magic to it. Just the sonic equivalent of Tom and Jerry violence.

This is an example of what I would consider to be proper heavy. But in some circles it's old fashioned and twee.

https://youtu.be/bZwvEEYrM78?si=Rd4uFo5PjZcVuB35

I would have thought Nervosa were were bigger than Xentrix at this point. *Insert joke about not losing the keys for the bus again.

I guess you could say that up until now, he's had a Silent Scream.

I might be in the minority with this but I'm not a fan of Marc Osegueda's vocals and Kerry King's actually sound better here.

And thanks for the kind words lads.

The new song is on Bandcamp now.


https://stereonasty.bandcamp.com/track/summoning

First track to be released from our new album.

I'll have more details on the album soon, but in the meantime, give this a spin.



https://open.spotify.com/album/5GkKMmfi20SrXw1JTkh8OW?si=_HZq4yV4QIGSgj9RmfTRvQ

Death Angel - The Art of Dying
Great comeback and everything since has been consistently as good

Fear Factory - Mechanize
I think from the non-Dino albums, Archetype is criminally underrated, and Transgression has a good album buried in there if they weren't rushed to release it, but Mechanize is definitely a throwback to earlier stuff. Shame it all imploded again soon after

A lot of filler on the COW albums I would argue, but I dare say Mechanize and the three albums that followed are all great. I think if any of them had been released right after Obsolete, Fear Factory would be a much bigger band now.

I suppose Tiamat would be one for me. Wildhoney is up there with the best of the best but after that I lost all interest.
I had an Entombed catch up recently and realised that I didn't miss anything essential.

On my third spin of Eternal Champion's Cowards Keep. A song that often gets stuck in my brain. Glorious riffage.

https://open.spotify.com/track/44eqXcsBbyPXBF0gRGBT2J?si=UitQkV2TSnusMOKP6XVgqQ

NeurIsis!

On my first spin and very much liking it. Nice to hear Turner doing his Sumac growls.

I was thinking about this today and the interesting thing I found with so many bands is that it's hard to pick the best album from a long standing band, as their golden era will likely have yielded a few contenders, but likewise, it's hard to pick the worst offender once things go to shit. In most cases it seems, when the magic is gone, it's really fucking gone.

I remember a live B side from one of the Black Album singles had Hetfield shouting "Captain Kirk!" right before the solo. It may have been Creeping Death.

Anyway, the prophecy has now been realised!