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Here’s some pissed off raging metal emo-core from Are Those Your Friends. These boys are from Germany, but it sounds like they’ve been living on the Warped Tour bus for tens years. “Unleash The Fury” they suggest.
Are Those Your Friends
“Unleash The Fury” (download mp3)
from “Lambs Turn Into Lions (Bonus Track Version)”
“Unleash The Fury” (play)
(Acuity Music)
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Is it just me or does the lead singer of Freedom Hawk sound like Ozzy, post Black Sabbath? You know I like my metal heavy, big and gnarly, with lots of gnarls. Wussified cookie monster child’s play this is not. On the very totally baddass Small Stone Records label. Go forth and bang thy head.
Freedom Hawk
“Thunderfoot” (download mp3)
from “Holding On”
“Thunderfoot” (play)
(Small Stone Records)
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From the seething cauldron of culture and politics that is Berlin, comes one blistering hardcore metal band called Final Prayer. The single “Final Hour” flies completely off the chain. Ferocious grinding total metal mayhem. According to their blurby on IODA Promonet, Final Prayer’s music is “inspired by life in Berlin — a city that has inspired all forms of political opposition ranging from the early workers movement to anti-fascist resistance to student uprisings in the 1970s and todays attempts to reclaim the city from becoming another boring, fully commercialized hipster town.” Well now. That’s something to rage about. These guys tour all over Europe and rock very hard with cookie monster.
Final Prayer
“Final Hour” (download mp3)
from “Berlin”
“Final Hour” (play)
(Acuity Music)
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Things To Do When You Should Be Dead Anyway is the debut full length from Virginia’s FORENSICS, play a a monolithic, mountainous brand of heavy guitar-driven rock. “Boat Day At The Marina” is designed to make you scowl and bang your head while beating on your steering wheel. Part hardcore, part math rock, part prog-metal, this group crafts songs with zero genre discrimination.
“Boat Day At The Marina“ (play/download mp3)
Fukn rawk. Ironweed sounds like their name. Metal in a room full of bong smoke. It delights me to no end that people still get together to make music like this. Complete with the gnarly double guitar leads and true, old school metal vocals. GR8 fun.
Ironweed
“The Lucky Ones” (download mp3)
from “Your World of Tomorrow”
“The Lucky Ones” (play)
(Small Stone Records)
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