Listening to noise-sludge and microtonal Middle-Eastern folk-rave-metal songs, although infinitely entertaining and awesome, definitely can fatigue your ears and brains. So, let’s talk about a more standard metal album for once. But it’s a good one… And an independent slash underground band, so… that fits us pretty well still!Vetha is a French trio playing as a quatuor (the guitarist and drummer recorded the bass on the album) groove metal band. Musically, it draws inspiration certainly from Pantera and the likes, and perhaps some more recent groove metal like some of the harder-hitting Periphery songs, or from bands like … Read more
It’s hard for me to believe that ISIS hasn’t reunited under the name ‘Sarin’. If you told me that Aaron Turner was fronting this project, I would believe you – Sarin’s vocals, vocal phrasing, guitar tones and riff style sound terrifyingly identical to Turner’s, the drummer’s style bears quite a lot in common with Aaron Harris, and the production is quite similar. Despite all of that, I would have some questions. Why did ISIS feel that they had reached a dead end and break up the band, only to start a new project that felt like they took two steps… 
Australia seems to be a great spawning point for good dissonant heavy metal, Ulcerate and Ne Obliviscaris being the two most obvious examples. Ur Draugr falls between these two bands in sound. Being on one hand relying on dissonance a lot and on the other hand progressive and black metal.
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