The brand-new new music thread

[majutsu]

One of the best threads was the latest music thread started by from zero. A lot of people (myself included) got good ideas from there. Now that is like 7 pages though, it takes forever to load and gets no views. So I wanted to start the new, new music thread.

To get the ball rolling (although this repeats the end of the last thread) I am going to post my five latest purchases:

Shadows Fall The War Within
Underminded Hail unamerican!
It dies today The Caitiff Choir
Converge You Fail Me
Taken Between two unseens

All the music fans and metalheads post up with new music on the horizon. Thanks.

 

[Flah]

I have a section on my MySpace page where I run through most of the interesting releases coming up for the month with some audio when available.

One thing I forgot to put up there was Bars - Introducing...

It drops next week and features members from Give Up the Ghost, The Hope Conspiracy, and The Suicide File. It's already getting a lot of press in the hardcore community and for good reason.

Audio: http://www.thebarsrock.com/bars_uptomyneck.mp3

 

[from zero]

How's that It Dies Today? I almost picked that up last week.

 

[majutsu]

I think it's great. The breakdowns are fierce, but they have these new rock-n-roll choruses, like kiss. It's quite weird at first, but grew on me very quickly. It's one of my favorite albums now. I hope you like. If you get it, just make sure to listen to the whole thing in good quality and give it a chance.

 

[from zero]

Sounds good. Maybe I'll pick it up this week.

 

[powerslave]

Chimaira - The Impossibility of Reason
Dead to Fall - Villainy & Virtue

 

[from zero]

Fear Factory - Archetype
It Dies Today - The Caitiff Choir

majutsu ... not sure if I'm diggin this It Died Today. Vocals are too punkish for me, I think. Hopefully I can get into it after a couple more listens though ...

 

[majutsu]

yikes, man, I shoulda pointed out that it's all been punk for me lately, except shadows fall. See, my love of slayer and death metal actually grew out of damned/fugazi/stooges/blackflag and bauhaus/joydivision etc. I am older than this stuff (40ish) and loved slayer when they came out (i first heard show no mercy) because of their synthesis of priest/punk/protogoth. The metal movement grew out of punk and blues rock essentially, and I stay with the roots. My first love is all punk. Everything I mention is likely to be punk, and my favorite metal acts are ones that keep this love in some influence, like punk. If nothing else, weird alternative music can always let you do your Adam Sandler-thing and blare it from your car to chicks in a failed attempt to show how underground you are. Plus, when the chick rejects you, you now have 2 psychological defenses, the traditional one ("she's gay") and a new one ("she must not be cool enough to understand me").

 

[majutsu]

Breather Resist Charmer
Nora Dreamers and Deadmen

 

[Flah]

Charmer is a great freaking record.