Rules
We allow all types of "heavy music" such as punk, core, rock, hard rock, all aspects of metal, and such. Do not shit post rap or hip hop please. Ya know just don't be tits. Don't hate on core kiddies and core kiddies don't make fun of elitists. Everyone has their own music taste, so ya know. Discuss music, drop some bands some might not have heard of, and git gud.
We aren't Dead
WE ARE NOT DEAD! So in response to this, post some death metal bands.
Corefag Thread
THIS IS THE OFFICIAL COREFAG THREAD, BRING ALL METALCORE AND DEATHCORE HERE.
> tfw Carnifex is writing a new album
Anyone excited?
Review of Rings Of Saturn - Dingir
This was 40 minutes of my life I'm never going to get back that I spent listening to this mishmash of garbage. If you're unfamiliar with who Rings Of Saturn are, they're a California Technical Deathcore band, and have also been accused of being not only sellouts but recording at half-time. (Totally making you guys look better to me.) I love hearing Technicality in the Core genre, I really do, but how Rings Of Saturn did it, it felt like Babby's First Brain Drill album. Dingir is the second full length by Rings Of Saturn, following their masterpiece (more like masterfeces) debut album Embryonic Anomaly. I'll do a review of that atrocity later, when I'm done slitting my wrists in the bathtub and drinking Clorox. Credited with being one of the "most original Deathcore bands" (to which I personally call bullshit), they really fuck up this title by making every song sound so similar you will forget every riff because of the sheer amount of breakdowns and sweeps that plague 7/8s of every song. Enough of introducing this, it's time I begin with the albums pros.
Pros: Well, I really only have 2 slightly minor pros. First off, with the 4th track "Dingir", I slightly enjoyed 5 seconds of the ending, and then it went back into sounding like Brain Drill-style wannabe wankery. The instrumental track "Utopia" was a bit more diverse on such a bland album, but much like all 9 other tracks, it was really generic. At least they tried, and by they tried, they took their heads out their own asses for 5 minutes to write something that was slightly comprehensible.
Cons: This is going to be the biggest part of this review, and I can guarantee it already. To begin, as I said earlier, 7/8s of this entire album is breakdowns and sweeps, 1/8 being riffs that make you feel like you have the mind of a goldfish as you'll forget them almost instantly. (I forgot them for sure.) Rings Of Saturn play with every stereotypical gimmick of the Technical Death Metal and Deathcore genres, tech wankery and breakdowns that don't transition very well. (Lucas Mann, your skill does not make your writing any better.) In fact, the songs in themselves don't transition well to the next song either. The vocals of Ian Bearer feel too much like a Mitch Lucker ripoff, and not a very good ripoff at that, not more I need to say on this part. Halfway through listening to Dingir, I completely forgot that there was a Bass player. Yeah, his name is Sean Martinez, remember his memorable playing on this album? Neither do I, cause I couldn't hear his parts from the shite mixdown. It's almost as if the audio engineer for Dingir took tips from Metalocalypse; mix out the bass, everything else you make it sound like it's super processed. Many parts of the songs on Dingir feel as if they're trying to attempt angular scaling much like Meshuggah do, but it feels absolutely sloppy and messy, and it just doesn't work well at all. (Please Lucas Mann, study your accidentals a little more before you use the shit out of them again.) The drumming by Ian Baker on this album feels so processed to the fact that it really does help sell the lies that Rings Of Saturn "record at half time and speed it up". At this point, I really doubt that Rings Of Saturn really use Ian Baker on Dingir to drum but, rather to just fill in names and act as if they're really just this awesome at playing and they totally don't have a drum programmer. (It's okay to tell the truth guys, Agoraphobic Nosebleed have one too.) To sum this all up in a nutshell, the musicianship on this album is basically not one bit present, and none of the riffs on this album are memorable in the slightest to the point where right when the songs start I basically stop giving a shit.
Overall verdict: I would not buy this album in 10,000 years, and I wouldn't waste a single megabyte on my computer for this album. There is nothing special about Rings Of Saturn, it is just Babby's First Brain Drill and nothing more than Babby's First Brain Drill.
Rating: 0/10 (1/10 would be too generous)
Favourite song: I hope you're kidding me.
Powermetal
Alright, so what are some good power metal bands that over all kick ass? Also the new powerwolf single rocked my nuts.