Still, these guys are at least weird in a fun way.
The -core scene spent a lot of the 2010s rehabilitating the image of nu metal. The elements had been slowly working their way back - a jumpdafuckup riff here, a rap verse there - with varying degrees of success until sometime around 2017 when everyone simultaneously decided to go full JNCO-core. As someone who has some nostalgia for that era, I don’t mind it; the nu metal revival bands tend to have more of the unhinged aggression the original bands lacked, and while the “fuck the world and also fuck my parents” attitude is still present to an extent, the lyrics are generally more articulate and slightly less embarrassing than the late 90s/early 2000s bands.
Some bands (like the one quoted) are making fun throwback material that’s better than the music it references, some are using nu metal trappings to push in interesting new directions (see: Vein), and a thousand nondescript self-important -core bands are now “what if Deftones but boring?”
Modern times are weird.
Blakout on
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KakodaimonosCode fondlerHelping the 1% get richerRegistered Userregular
Another new track from the upcoming Necrophobic. Hail Satan!
The new Martin Grech album is pretty dope, it's largely ambient/synth based stuff, but he includes a lot of heavy guitars in there too as he has on earlier works. I think fans of Porcupine Tree and Radiohead would dig him.
Still, these guys are at least weird in a fun way.
The -core scene spent a lot of the 2010s rehabilitating the image of nu metal. The elements had been slowly working their way back - a jumpdafuckup riff here, a rap verse there - with varying degrees of success until sometime around 2017 when everyone simultaneously decided to go full JNCO-core. As someone who has some nostalgia for that era, I don’t mind it; the nu metal revival bands tend to have more of the unhinged aggression the original bands lacked, and while the “fuck the world and also fuck my parents” attitude is still present to an extent, the lyrics are generally more articulate and slightly less embarrassing than the late 90s/early 2000s bands.
Some bands (like the one quoted) are making fun throwback material that’s better than the music it references, some are using nu metal trappings to push in interesting new directions (see: Vein), and a thousand nondescript self-important -core bands are now “what if Deftones but boring?”
Modern times are weird.
Nu Metal's biggest sin was the entire genre had the attention of the world and it felt like all the bands decided to be Limp Bizkit, Incubus, or some kind of half assed industrial.
Korn's first album was a legitimate landmark kind of thing, most notably because that kind of raw emotional release at the expense of slick production and repeatable sing-songy-choruses was verboten as fuck. Even Nirvana didn't break into mainstream success until their album got a gallon of modern production varnish dumped over their sound.
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Still, these guys are at least weird in a fun way.
I got a weird underlying 'knowingly ironic' vibe from this, and that snare sound, oof. Everytime I loop around to nu nu-metal, I come away disappointed, and I should just stay with Deftones when I want something in that vein.
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KakodaimonosCode fondlerHelping the 1% get richerRegistered Userregular
Nu metal never dies. Nu metal is eternal. Nu metal is the stained blanket that always welcomes you home.
Also, I don't like double posting, but has anyone else been following David Davidson's (Revocation) grunge side project Gargoyl (speaking of throwback style music)?
His clean vocals have a real Layne Staley thing going on, and it's actually not bad:
My transcribed lyrics for The Codex Necro: "raaah ba raaah baaaah raaaaaah fucka raaaba raaa".
All these folks trying to be the Hiroo Onoda of the Loudness War...
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SteevLWhat can I do for you?Registered Userregular
Gotta admit that I'm not feeling the new Ayreon based on the songs they've released so far. Here's the third. featuring Simone Simons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKwaBJmSUps
SteevLWhat can I do for you?Registered Userregular
Since I'm not on Facebook for the time being, I'm slightly less in touch with releases by bands that I followed on there, so I was surprised to get a few emails from bandcamp this morning with new releases from a few bands. It's another one of those Bandcamp Fridays where all proceeds go directly to the artists.
First up is the ever-prolific Haunt with their third release of the year called Triumph! I gave it a listen off the site and thought "OK, this sounds like a song they've done before..." and then I realized it's just their two EPs combined into one album, so it's not technically a new release. Since I already have one of these EPs, I think I'll not be buying it.
Zeal & Ardor has a preorder for a new EP up called Wake of a Nation. It appears that there is an obvious theme around certain current events with this one.
Also I was listening to that new s/t Oceans of Slumber album and I'm just so undecided on the band. On the one hand they do have a fairly unique style that doesn't quite mimic the Euro beauty & the beast Gothic/symphonic metal types, which is welcome. On the other, a lot of the tunes just sound like wannabe Disney theme songs or Celine Dion with power chords...they often try to mold everything around her voice so much that the rest of the band loses any distinction and suffers. That said, I don't hate it, the production is pretty good, but I'm just still not aboard the hype train...or hype boat, in this case.
This is an excellent EP from an unsigned act, thrashy, exciting German death metal with a bit of a melodic edge to it, always catchy on every damn song, lead, everything.
This record slays too, one of several projects put out by this Italian musician on I, Voidhanger records. But this is my fave from him so far...just killer, dynamic atmospheric death metal circa Morbid Angel, Incantation, Autopsy, etc. If we posted this one already please forgive me.
Popped up on my YouTube feed: Vintersea. Name sounds like a parody, music is some pretty great blackened progressive death/whatever. Lush clean vocal harmonies alternating with some nicely dynamic growls and shrieks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzZ1L81SmeI
My zombie survival life simulator They Don't Sleep is out now on Steam if you want to check it out.
New Skeletal Remains is very solid, but not quite as good as the last. The latest Ihsahn EP, meanwhile, is more of a progressive pop/rock thing, hardly any metal on there, but still pretty catchy. Matches up alright with the new Ulver.
surrealitychecklonely, but not unloveddreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered Userregular
slightly strange question, but i had not realised the song "sleeping satellite" was very much a uk phenomenon - for those from outside the uk do you remember that song from the early 90s?
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Also, what's going on, we're back to Nu Metal now, Earache? Should I get my tracksuit and wallet chain out and unpack all my facial piercings?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-IG09dfVvY
Still, these guys are at least weird in a fun way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAuxDcr22tI
The -core scene spent a lot of the 2010s rehabilitating the image of nu metal. The elements had been slowly working their way back - a jumpdafuckup riff here, a rap verse there - with varying degrees of success until sometime around 2017 when everyone simultaneously decided to go full JNCO-core. As someone who has some nostalgia for that era, I don’t mind it; the nu metal revival bands tend to have more of the unhinged aggression the original bands lacked, and while the “fuck the world and also fuck my parents” attitude is still present to an extent, the lyrics are generally more articulate and slightly less embarrassing than the late 90s/early 2000s bands.
Some bands (like the one quoted) are making fun throwback material that’s better than the music it references, some are using nu metal trappings to push in interesting new directions (see: Vein), and a thousand nondescript self-important -core bands are now “what if Deftones but boring?”
Modern times are weird.
https://youtu.be/CGOJO986roE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0LbxQsNU30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRenyedU8ro
Still working my way through them but this one is fun
https://youtu.be/Ye9VWaTLvCU
Nintendo ID: Incindium
PSN: IncindiumX
https://youtu.be/wtnakgdZq4o
Nu Metal's biggest sin was the entire genre had the attention of the world and it felt like all the bands decided to be Limp Bizkit, Incubus, or some kind of half assed industrial.
Korn's first album was a legitimate landmark kind of thing, most notably because that kind of raw emotional release at the expense of slick production and repeatable sing-songy-choruses was verboten as fuck. Even Nirvana didn't break into mainstream success until their album got a gallon of modern production varnish dumped over their sound.
I got a weird underlying 'knowingly ironic' vibe from this, and that snare sound, oof. Everytime I loop around to nu nu-metal, I come away disappointed, and I should just stay with Deftones when I want something in that vein.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtPLpD3A53k&list=PLbHHE6cZMWer_An4B7Mj_JsyrUhxSQ8aA
(I do genuinely enjoy Korn's first album, although it's been years since I listened to it)
Speaking of the nu-revival, apparently Sevendust is still around:
https://youtu.be/7f-ljyfb4yg
His clean vocals have a real Layne Staley thing going on, and it's actually not bad:
https://youtu.be/ePMBWiuldy4
Apparently Sevendust is continuing their tradition of only writing one chorus and still not being able to find a song it fits in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4TYUXIy_DE
I'll stick with the original.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5rg_63Shqg
It's p fucking impressive
She's an absolute beast. But I absolutely cannot get on board with the Skindred vibes...
http://steamcommunity.com/id/pablocampy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHvE_Axtxac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivZTIGFtRhI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeZmnXrLs9w&feature=emb_title
It's a fun track, big melodeath vibes throughout. New album sounds like one of the more inspired ones since Black Widow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAmUcGZHCa8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIjm7pmQ6uo&ab_channel=GregBiehl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKwaBJmSUps
First up is the ever-prolific Haunt with their third release of the year called Triumph! I gave it a listen off the site and thought "OK, this sounds like a song they've done before..." and then I realized it's just their two EPs combined into one album, so it's not technically a new release. Since I already have one of these EPs, I think I'll not be buying it.
Zeal & Ardor has a preorder for a new EP up called Wake of a Nation. It appears that there is an obvious theme around certain current events with this one.
Two Minutes to Late Night's got another release of covers available for sale for today only. I bought it for their cover of "Running Down a Dream".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVcgN-ZRz40&ab_channel=Unurnment-Topic
Also I was listening to that new s/t Oceans of Slumber album and I'm just so undecided on the band. On the one hand they do have a fairly unique style that doesn't quite mimic the Euro beauty & the beast Gothic/symphonic metal types, which is welcome. On the other, a lot of the tunes just sound like wannabe Disney theme songs or Celine Dion with power chords...they often try to mold everything around her voice so much that the rest of the band loses any distinction and suffers. That said, I don't hate it, the production is pretty good, but I'm just still not aboard the hype train...or hype boat, in this case.
Not too shabby, little weird.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ag2N8D7Mug
Fan of the aesthetic and the crazy squealing/screeching the singer does, nice fat grooves.
https://youtu.be/TP7qXZy7cLw
~ Buckaroo Banzai
He also did two livestream performances yesterday to promote it:
https://youtu.be/_yhCcUzWjvk?t=3751
edit: ah, he plays a song from the new Ayreon in the second set at 5:57:09 too, cool.
https://apallicdecay.bandcamp.com/releases
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHnlW16kyds&ab_channel=OdiumNostrum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBW7gh8bxO8&ab_channel=TerraturPossessions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKduOZk_qwY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzZ1L81SmeI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B5xjproZtg&ab_channel=VariousArtists-Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f03lxahJi3Q&ab_channel=TranscendingObscurity
And here's the polar opposite, some tech death out on The Artisan Era with just enough weirdness!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3NBrzRK1cg&ab_channel=TheArtisanEra