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He Is Legend

August 18th 2008 06:32
So I haven't posted here or at Cinema XYZ for ages. But with a helpful reminder from Charles I figured I should throw some stuff down to at least keep the place going.

Anyway I've come across a couple of new bands recently that I can talk about, and I'm going to start with He Is Legend.

Suck Out the Poison



A quick look at their wikipedia entry tells me that their second album Suck Out the Poison was controversial among fans due to change in singing styles. Who cares? It fucking rocks. What I've heard of their debut (I Am Hollywood), whilst quite cool, didn't ring my bell like Poison did.

For a description of their style I'd probably say half Thrice, half Parkway Drive with a bit of alt. rock influencing. May sound like a strange combo, but it works really well. Some quality riffage, cool singing and screaming everywhere.

Probably more on the screamo end of the scale than anything, it still hits all the right buttons . Definately a quality band, and worth checking out.

imeem is doing that lame thing where they only put up 30 seconds of song. Weak, luckily purevolume has a heap of songs.

He Is Legend Pure Volume Page

I'd recomend Attack of the Dungeon Witch and Mushroom River.
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Australian Hard Rock

July 24th 2008 02:01
Australia has a long and venerable history of quality hard rock bands. AC/DC is, of course, the king of pretty much all Aussie bands, and is one of the greatest hard rock bands of all time.

More recently bands like Wolfmother, Jet and the Vines have spread some Aussie loving across the world, but to tell the truth I just don't dig them that much. I mean they're good. But they aren't the best bands we've produced. So I started thinking, who would be the best hard rock bands Australia has right now.

I think I went a bit heavy in my desicions as the three bands that came straight to mind for me are definately on the metal side of things. But they kick arse so you can get stuffed.


Cog, Karnivool and The Butterfly Effect. That's my triumverate of Aussie Hard Rock.

Cog is definately more in the prog metal end, with The Butterfly Effect more in the standard heavy rock scale, and Karnivool is some kind of happy medium. I really can't think of any bands that are as quality as these ones in this, reletively large, genre. I'm not one to sing the praises of 'indy' music (which is highly ironically named for the most commercial of all genres) so it's possible I've missed some gems somewhere.

Silence Is Violence - Cog

Unfortunately, Karnivool and The Butterfly Effect only have 30 second previous for me to embed. Which is a bit shit, but it's the best I can do.

Themata - Karnivool

Gone - The Butterfly Effect

An honourable mention to Shihad too. But they're technically from New Zealand. Oh and also to The Vasco Era, but their EP was bluegrass, then their Album was nigh on metal, so who knows what to so with them.

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Against

July 20th 2008 01:42
Against are a Brisbane based hardcore band. And I'm ashamed to say one I'd ignored until a couple of days ago. They've been around for years (since '01) and have two albums out, 'Left for Dead' and 'Loyalty and Betrayal'.

These guys are great, similar style and sound to say The Dead Walk!, but, you know, not about the zombie apocolypse. Their second album (Loyalty and Betrayal) has cameos from guys from some biggish Yankee bands like Terror and Agnostic Front with is fairly cool.

Against


Even though they've been around for 7 years the fact that big American bands have pretty much flogged their name (I'm looking at you Against Me! and Rise Against) which I think may make it hard for them to break into any big time. But for my money they are better than both of those bands. Different sure, for more straight up hardcore, but Against Me! are kinda average and Rise Against had one good album (The Sufferer and the Witness) and a lot of annoying pop-punky shit.

Against are just balls to the wall hardcore, crazy guitars, screaming vocals and general awesome-ness. I'm still annoyed I've never seen them live seeing as I live in the city they're from. One day....one day

Their myspace page has heaps of songs on it. Check it out: Against
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So I was catching the bus to work today and I noticed a poster for an upcoming concert. I always try to read these as sometimes there are good bands that I hadn't heard about touring. For example Gyroscope and Shihad are coming to Brisbane soon, I'll probably check that out.

But this poster nearly blew my mind. And not in the good way. Def Leppard with support from Cheap Trick. That's right, two of the worst bands of the 70s and 80s together again in 2008


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The Dead Walk!

June 26th 2008 02:53
This is a bit of a post morten peice, as The Dead Walk! have just recently broken up. Which epically sucks. They were one of the best straight up hardcore bands Australia has produced. Pure balls to the wall craziness from start to finish. Awesome guitar, lyrics almost 100% concerning zombies and general arse kicking going on left, right and centre.

The Dead Walk - We Prowl the Streets

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Top 10 Most Listened to Bands

June 23rd 2008 01:23
At least for me my most listened to bands are NOT my favourite bands. It seems strange to say but it's true. While my favourite bands have names like Led Zeppelin, Radiohead and the Red Hot Chili Peppers in it, my most listened to bands are more like Cog, Guns 'n' Roses and Mastodon.

It's a bit bizarre that I don't listen to the bands that I consider to be the best more often than these ones, but I figure it's a bit of a telling statistic about someones musical taste


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I saw Parkway Drive on friday night at the Tivoli, in the Valley in Brisbane. They put on a great show. Too short if you ask me, but really intense and much longer probably would have killed everyone from exhaustion. They played awesomely and there were some of the craziest circle pits I've ever seen. Also some of the lamest dancing of all time. Hardcore dancing really makes me shake my head. It looks dumb, you're not cool, in fact you look like a bunch of 7 year olds trying to fight.

Parkway Drive

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Dethklok

June 10th 2008 01:16
I don't like Death Metal. It's too heavy and the singing sucks. But my god I love Dethklok.

For those that don't know, Dethklok is a virtual band from the TV show 'Metalocalypse'. In the show they are the biggest band in the world, and the 12 biggest economy on the planet. Anyway the show is a comedy, and all of their songs are hilarious. That is if you can decipher the death growl


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Austrian Death Machine

June 9th 2008 01:21
It's official, every other band can give up. 'Austria Death Machine' is the best idea and name for a band of all time. In case you don't get it, the band is named after everybody's favourite time travelling robot turned Californian governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The side project of the lead singer from As I Lay Dying, it's pretty chunky guitar, crazy guitar, with Arnie quotes strewn throughout the songs. Lines like 'If it bleeds, we can kill it' has been dying to be turned into metal


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Walls of Jericho

June 8th 2008 00:19
'Walls of Jericho' are a hardcore/metalcore band that has one defining feature: a female singer. Now this may not be a big thing in most genres but when epic screaming comes to the fore, the fairer sex hasn't had to much historical experience. But who cares, she freaking rocks. I didn't realise that she screamed as well as sang 'clean' until a mate told me.

They are pretty nuts, similar to Aussie band 'The Dead Walk' if anyone knows them. They've just released an 'accoustic' (read: softer) EP Redemption, which is more just hard rock, but it's still very good listening. It features Corey Taylor of 'Slipknot' and 'Stone Sour' fame on a couple of tracks, and despite Slipknot being rubbish, he can really sing


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