Tattooed Millionaire was awful yeah. Ill probably check this one though now I've heard something from it.

The cult Death Metal band Gorefest took a hiatus in the late 90's and returned with La Meurte in 2005 which didn't blow me away as much as their earlier 90's work but 2007's Rise To Ruin is possibly the Dutch band's best release. keeping to the principal of grindy groovy riffs and the odd blast of speed, this is unashamedly classic Death Metal with no frills. It's good to have a blast of the very sort of music that set the ball rolling for me and I'm glad that I can still enjoy some great Metal after diverging my tastes year in, year out. The Americans aren't the only ones doing this thing:

I'm still trying to grasp a sense of my own general taste of music while you are getting into deep ****. I'm not worthy. :bowdown:

I listened to a couple tracks and was pretty suprised by how decent it was.

I must say Mr. Jack Hammer that you are fast becomming my favorite reviewer here at MB.

I think what you do best is truly entice a potential listener to make that "brave choice" of actually listening...

Grindcore is an acquired taste and not everyones cup of tea; but you still must put it into its deserved context and recognition as an art form in and of itself. One can see the incredible amount of produciton in this not to mention highly evolved visual stimuli and envelope pushing themes. Not exactly dinner music, but then again what is... Great review!

Depends who you're havin round for dinner.

There are times when you want to taken on a different journey. Sure, the vehicle you are in, is no different to any others but it's the paths that it takes that can intrigue, frighten and mesmerise you. This is Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. The instruments they use are your standard distorted guitars and bursts of tempos but just like the vehicle I used as analogy- the journey they take you on is never a straight road.

Riffs begin then descend into decay. Vocals are garbled and filled with macarbe desire. Electronic effects alter straight lines and perception. Sometimes I love safe. Sometimes I am utterly bored by it and like to drive with the lights off. SGM are masters at this. Distorted guitar music all sounds the same? Pfft. You don't know what you are missing:

Wow...I was expecting something completely different when I hit play on that youtube vid. But I have to say it caught my attention and had me turning my volume up. If the rest of the album is that interesting, it's gotta be worth checking out.

Oh yeah. It takes a few listens to get into but it's just so good to hear something and not quite know what's going to happen next. Their videos are amazing too. Check this out:

I have been listening to a couple of bands from this fair isle recently that are maybe worthy of attention on a wider scale. They are recent bands making waves on the underground and i have even seen a couple of names pop up on here.

maybeshewill

A predominantly instrumental post/math rock band that crank it up a bit riff wise now and again. From the 2008 album 'Not For The Want Of Trying':


This Town Needs Guns

A mathy/indie band from Oxford. their album 'Animals' has gotten a few spins from me recently. who would have thought that two albums called 'animals' would be so good?:


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I'm so glad to see you're digging that album! One thing I want to throw out there about it is that, while you're right about much of the instruments being typical, there's also a fair amount of unusual instrumentation for heavy music like violin, the found object percussion their second drummer uses, the weird PVC piping instrument their bass player sometimes employs, etc.