Pryapisme Will Be Album Of The Year

This may be the album of the year for me ALREADY for our blog’s style of music taste.

The best way to introduce anyone to this band is by stating it’s BTBAM on Acid. Now I know it’s a horrible horrible analogy but it helps you understand the structure of the song flow at least.

Next up I want to state that this album is simply brilliant. It is so wacky and spontaneous but yet is so easily able to follow. Now some people may not like the album as a whole since it goes in so many directions in … Read more

The Algorithm – Polymorphic Code

United Kingdom seems to bombard us all with heavy as balls djent. And everytime it has something special, out of the ordinary.

Last time, it was Hacktivist with their rappers throwing 100 words per second at us.

Now, The Algorithm connects us to the Matrix, uploads us to Mainframe, and makes us travel in the electron flow of a circuit board with their progressive technical metal figuratively bathed in electronic music.

Polymorphic Code makes me sad, however. Sad that I was not the one to write that outstanding record. Sad and angry, in fact.

On the other hand, I … Read more

Mad Essence – Transmission

So yeah, merging electronic music with djent-y or metalcore-y stuff isn’t that new, but bands that do this well are just too few. I couldn’t even name you one off the top of my head (while I think of it : Instant Suppression)

From Ukraine comes this unique and outstanding group of fellows. Elements of dance, trance, and electro are emphasized on the more metal elements, but metalheads are not left to starve: 8 string guitar riffing and shredding (courtesy of Mark Hawkins from Devolved), metal drumming, and harsh singing are all in the box.

This album was made for … Read more