Technical Tuesday – In which Italy stole the show…

Posted by Witness to the Void on Apr 1, 2012 in Now Playing | 0 comments

This week’s Technical Tuesday begins with a bit of an editorial on my part. Both Gorod’s A Perfect Absolution  and Gory Blister’s Earth Sick are not available through my preferred retailers, Amazon and iTunes, which is a problem for me. Furthermore, Gorod’s new album, which  I have been looking forward to for months, was released in Europe on MARCH 12th! A Stateside release is not going to happen until APRIL 18th! C’mon guys, what are you doing here? I could pay the extra money to have the album imported (Amazon quotes the import at nearly four times the digital download price), I suppose, but then I just feel silly because I could use that extra money to buy other albums, like Earth Sick.

Beneath The Massacre’s Latest Single ‘Left Hand’: Jog on.

Posted by Goshuggist on Jan 16, 2012 in Now Playing | 0 comments

Well, well, well; twice in one week I’ve mentioned Beneath The Massacre. Beginning to be a tic.

In any case, while browsing Facebook the latest single from Beneath The Massacre’s soon to be released third LP popped up on ‘Rings Of Saturn’s page. My expectations remained at their trademark level of snark and cynicism before opening a new tab to Youtube. The song started, the music blasted aaaaaand…

It was thoroughly mediocre.

Review: Beneath The Massacre – Dystopia

Posted by Goshuggist on Nov 24, 2011 in CD Reviews | 0 comments

BENEATH THE MASSACRE
Dystopia (2008)

Canada, Prosthetic Records, Technical Death Metal w/ a hint of deathcore.

As someone who prides himself on being a music lover as well as a metalhead, I can safely say that the overwhelming majority of deathcore bands are complete and utter garbage. It makes being a death metal fan more difficult than it needs to be when some know nothing scene kid tries to pass off Bring Me The Hairstraightener or Shredded Wheat (Waking The Cadaver) as the music I’ll defend to my dying breath. It also makes it extremely difficult to convince other metalheads that despite the bree bree garbage there are bands that fall under the umbrella of deathcore worth checking out; After The Burial, Born Of Osiris, Veil Of Maya and Circle Of Contempt are all bands that while nowhere near as classic or timeless as the best death metal have my respect for making music, and good music at that.