The Human Abstract - Digital Veil

Genre: Progressive Metalcore

Year: 2011

Track Listing:

1 Elegiac 2:12

2 Complex Terms 5:11

3 Digital Veil 3:30

4 Faust 5:56

5 Antebellum 7:29

6 Holographic Sight 4:28

7 Horizon to Zenith 4:20

8 Patterns 3:43

Rating: 7/10

This is one of those weird albums that I've listened to quite a bit, knowing that I don't really, REALLY dig it, and yet I keep coming back to it. I feel like there are a number of bands who do this style better, but it's still a solid album. Pretty talented guitarists though, although they could stand to be a bit more creative imo.

Rotten Sound - Cursed

Genre: Grindcore

Year: 2011

Track Listing:

1 Alone 0:59

2 Superior 1:29

3 Self 1:23

4 Choose 1:50

5 Hollow 2:48

6 Ritual 1:45

7 Green 0:50

8 Machinery 1:11

9 Power 1:09

10 Plan 1:25

11 Declare 2:48

12 Addict 2:20

13 Exploit 1:35

14 Terrified 2:23

15 Scared 1:21

16 Doomed 2:29

Rating: 9/10

Definitely one of the best extreme albums released this year. Very focused sounding for a grindcore record, and there's some kickass riffing too.

Pixies Show!!

No posts today, went and saw the Pixies play. It was (obviously) amazing! Played all of Doolittle, B sides from Doolittle, plus many other songs. The ones I remember off the top of my head were U-Mass, Nimrod's Son, Where Is My Mind, and Gigantic. Definitely the best show I've been to since The Mountain Goats.

Low - C'mon

Genre: Slowcore

Year: 2011

Track Listing:

1 Try to Sleep 4:18

2 You See Everything 4:06

3 Witches 4:01

4 Done 2:53

5 Especially Me 5:27

6 $20 4:09

7 Majesty / Magic 4:12

8 Nightingale 4:56

9 Nothing but Heart 8:10

10 Something's Turning Over 3:20

Rating: 8/10

Very relaxing album, and everything's very repetitive in a shoegaze-y kind of way. Great listen.

Death Metal!

For the past week or two I've been listening to a ton of death metal, mostly of the old school variety. So here's some bands you might have heard of, or maybe not. They all kick ass.

Monstrosity

I have LegendofRock3021 from HoR to thank for showing me this band, they rip. I guess the vocalist is Corpsegrinder from Cannibal Corpse? He sounds a hell of a lot better in this band than in CC though, imo. And the musicians he plays with are nuts, great riffs EVERYWHERE.

Bolt Thrower

I think these guys are a bit more popular in the death metal world. I really dig the stoner-y riffs, it makes it like a more metal sludge band. If that makes sense! Anyways they're fucking sweet.

Pestilence

Fucking classic death metal band. Martin van Drunen's vocals are otherworldly, they just add an eeriness to the whole package. Top that off with, you guessed it, RIFFS. They'll go from killer thrashy riffs to super complex prog metal passages, then into solos that are at times reminiscent of Slayer. Can you ask for more?

I'll leave it at that for now, but I can't see this death metal kick stopping anytime soon so you might see more in the near future.

Jesus Christ I'm Lazy

I'm back. Hopefully consistently again! I think I'm going to change the format a bit though, since my writing leaves quite a bit to be desired (or so I'm told :P). Here's the newish Foo Fighters video, "White Limo", it's great.

2011 is Going To Kick All Of Our Asses

Man.. This year's gonna kick ass. I'm kinda gonna keep track of new releases that interest me on here, in case you guys see anything that interests you! Also, I apologize for the lack of posts lately, I'll try to keep up!

February

TBA - Pestilence - Doctrine

15 - Deicide - To Hell With God

22 - Toro y Moi - Underneath the Pine

Seems lame so far? Check out..

EDIT: New Toro y Moi should be sweet :)

March

TBA - New FUCKING TOXIC HOLOCAUST FUCK YEAH.

TBA - Between the Buried and Me - Untitled EP

TBA - Sonata Arctica - untitled

TBA - The Faceless - untitled

TBA - Symphony X - Iconoclast (how many goddamn albums have to be called this, or something similar)

01 - TRAP THEM - DARKER HANDCRAFT (FUCK YES)

01 - Scale the Summit - The Collective

01 - Grayceon - All We Destroy

07 - Burzum - Fallen

15 - J Mascis - Several Shades of Why

21 - Protest the Hero - Scurrilous

22 - Tesseract - One

25 - Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising

29 - Obscura - Omnivium

29 - Dredg - untitled

29 - The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck (already my pick for album of the year YAY TMG :D)

29 - The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Belong

Holy shit right?

April

TBA - Rhapsody of Fire - From Chaos To Eternity

5 - Cold Cave - Cherish the Light Years

Yawn! Although the new Cold Cave single sounds great.

May

New Gorguts!

2 New Devin Townsend Project albums :)

TBA - Wolf - Legions of Bastards

Not bad.

June

Tool - Untitled

Communic - untitled

Anaal Nathrakh - untitled

New Tool could suck, new Anaal Nathrakh will be INTENSE.

July

New MOTHERFUCKING GOJIRA EP :)

Decapitated - untitled

Revocation - untitled

This early on and already 3 kickass releases for my birthday? Yes please :)

August

nothing that I'm interested in.. New Nightwish for those of you who care :P

September

20 - Amebix - Sonic Mass

October

NEW OPETH OH MY GOD YES.

New Meshuggah!

Well, this month is awesome so far :D

November

Be'lakor - untitled

Textures - untitled (meh, but.. meh :P)

Other bands releasing albums this year without a particular date or month decided upon..

Morbid Angel

CONVERGE (YAAAAAAAYYYYY)

X Japan

Les Discrets

Killswitch Engage

Anata

MASTODON

Rumpelstiltskin Grinder

Amorphis

Eyehategod

Insomnium

Fates Warning

Machine Head

Cynic

Riverside (EP)

Battles (!!!)

Wow.. :) I'm really, really looking forward to music this year :D You guys see anything you like?? I'm going to try to update this as I find out about new releases :)