Ignitor, Sanctity, Portal, Chiodos, Audiopain
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Occasionally, a record comes along and grabs my "too many releases these days," "illegal downloading is cheapening music," "tired of wading through Blabbermouth's endless Aerosmith and KISS news, not to mention every single Megadeth micro-update," "will vomit upon hearing another deathcore album," "will vomit upon hearing another retro thrash album," "Metallica should pack it in" jaded metalhead ass so much that I can only sit back and go: "Damn, this is good." Ignitor's Road of Bones is that record. I've reviewed it here.
Ignitor - March to the GuillotineSanctity - Beloved KillerChiodos - LexingtonPortal - Omnipotent Crawling ChaosAudiopain - Holy Toxic
Also on the traditional tip, but with a modern edge, is the excellent debut by Sanctity. I never thought I'd big up Roadrunner releases so much, but this one has been doing it for me. A new metal band that writes actual songs - imagine that! At Metal Injection, I've also reviewed bizarro death metallers Portal and everything-core outfit Chiodos. At Decibel, I've reviewed Norwegian thrashers Audiopain.
Labels: australia, clee, death metal, heavy metal, norway, prog metal, thrash metal, usa, writing
4 Comments:
Damn. I gave Ignitor to Joe Florez when it arrived in my mailbox, immediately dismissing it as cheese. Perhaps I was mistaken. Cosmo, I hear you when you talk about being jaded.
Yeah, man, give it a go. It puts the power in power metal without the cheese.
Probably one way out of jaded-ness is going to live shows (which you've been doing, bravo) - experiencing metal upfront and unalloyed, with a minimum of industry bullshit. Enslaved and Arsis this Friday! Can't wait.
The Sanctity album is really good, but it's not as good as their live show. I saw them with Arch Enemy and Machine Head at the Nokia a couple of weeks back; they were the first band of four, but they totally kicked ass. I like the fact that the band plays power/thrash, but the vocalist has a voice best suited to stoner metal. I also like that they do unison hair spinning and back-to-back guitar soloing. They know how to put on a show, in other words. If they come through your town, check 'em out.
And thanks for the tip on Ignitor. That CD's here in my office, and I guess now I'll pull it out of whichever pile it's midway down.
Ignitor fucking slay. I hear their last one before this is better, somehow! Investigate!
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