As Blood Runs Black - 2011 Instinct

Band : As Blood Runs Black

Album : Instinct

Release Year : 2011

Genre : Deathcore / Metalcore / Progressive

Tracklist :

1.Triumph
2.Legacy
3.Resist
4.Angel City Gamble
5.Reborn
6.Tribulations
7.Divided
8.King of Thieves
9.In Honor
10.Echoes of an Era
11.Instinct

As Blood Runs Black have delivered their new album after a lengthy absence and a few line-up changes. Instinct is a through and through metalcore band, and while they work off the same blueprint as their debut Allegience, it does sound like a different band.

Machine gun riffs and thunderous drumming are offered in spades, and the guys do it well. Riffs are definitely the highlight here- bringing originality and melody and running it through a grinder. “King of Thieves” is easily the standout track, with “Divided” and “Triumph” sending up some scorching solos. “Tribulations” is an interesting, and melodic, string-focused instrumental interlude.

The album does well for what it is, but while the guitars are well done, this could easily be an album from the masses of metalcore bands on the scene. 

And while we love our breakdowns, there is truth to the “too much of a good thing” philosophy. And the key to breakdowns is for them to fit the song structure. They’re meant to further the music along, not screech things to a halt like a skidding arm on a turntable. Unfortunately, that’s the effect quite a few of the breakdowns have on Instinct: great riffs, heavy bass, vocals going strong and then suddenly the Kool Aid Man of mediocre breakdowns comes crashing through the wall. If you take them out, it’s still a solid metalcore album, along the lines of The Black Dahlia Murder. Guitar fans will dig it for some seriously aggressive riffs that stack up against Job For a Cowboy and Born of Osiris.

Available on CD. Album artwork is like some bad one night stand between Iron Maiden’s Powerslave and Tron: Legacy. And by that, I mean it’s awesome. 

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Old Fashion Knife Fight - 2005 As If They Had Some Sort Of Primitive Machine For Turning Humans Into Corpses [EP]

Band : Old Fashion Knife Fight

Album : As If They Had Some Sort Of Primitive Machine For Turning Humans Into Corpses [EP]
Release Year : 2005
Genre : Deathcore / Grindcore / Experimental

Tracklist : 

1. Victim: Jane Doe
2. Dopers And Dreamers
3. A Song For The Weak
4. Words With Meanings
5. A Tragic Mellody

A deathcore band from Kern County, California. 

That's all i got when i try to find the Info about this band, i've been listening to it for almost 5 years without knowing who they are, it's weird!! BTW, i really like a kind of band like this, they got a short songs but full of skills. I don't know this band is still exist or not, all i've got is only this EP. Well, enjoy it!!

 

 

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Dr. Acula - 2011 Slander

Band : Dr. Acula

Album : Silver-Lipped Operator Of Bullshit

Release Year : 2011

Genre : Deathcore / Gringcore / Experimental

Tracklist : 

1. Clinger ( Stage 5)
2. Fire Crotch ( The Venereal Van Ride)
3. Welcome To Camp Nightmare
4. Currently Sexting..
5. Cocaine Avalanche
6. Song Before The Song
7. Pure And Immature (Goon)
8. Who You Gonna Call?!
9. All Work No Play
10. Slander
11. Slampig ( ..And Then The Bitch)
12. Party 2.0
13. The Big Sleep

It's kinda disappointed to me when this band change their sound, i remember the first time when i heard S.L.O.B, i suddenly like them. S.L.O.B is full of experimental sound i guess, and i really love it, but on their new release here you can't hear the sound like they did on S.L.O.B, though the sound in S.L.O.B is poor it's like un-mixing or something like that, but i guess S.L.O.B is their best album ever. So, here's their new album, enjoy it or if you like it buy it now!

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The Binary Code - 2010 Priest EP

Band : The Binary Code

Album : Priest EP
Release Year : 2010
Genre : Deathcore / Progressive / Mathcore

Tracklist:

01. Priest
02. Encircled
03. Ocean of Light

The Binary Code is a technical death metal band from New Jersey. In 2009 this quartet released a critically acclaimed debut EP, "Suspension of Disbelief," and this is their follow-up. Taking elements of deathcore, progressive metal, and tech metal and bastardizing them together are where most of this band's authenticity lies.
This is a pretty short release, 3 songs equaling up to just over 10 minutes. Within those 10 minutes though, the band manage to fit in enough variation and tempo-shifting to keep any fan of the genre listening. There are also plenty of riffs that are ear candy in and of themselves, managing to create a decent song while still remaining very much within the deathcore sound.
The three songs manage to vary themselves from each other luckily enough, the opener and title-track, Priest, is probably the most core-ish of the songs on here, with decent performances, but an overly annoying vocal delivery throughout. Encircled features a more technical and progressive approach with a lot more stop-start riffs and a lower growl dominating most of the track, the solo in this track also creates a much more proggy vibe to the end of the track. Ocean of Light is the most progressive track on here, remaining instrumental, but containing moments that bring to mind bands like Isis at some points, while still retaining their own sound.
Overall, this is a fairly decent review that has some really promising moments. This is definitely a band that has potential to go where a band like The Faceless are going, more progressive and technical, while creating hooks. If you're a fan of technical death metal with a foot in both sides of prog and -core, check this out.

 

 

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Veil Of Maya - 2010 [id]

Band : Veil Of Maya

Album : [id]
Release Year : 2010
Genre : Deathcore / Progressive

Tracklist:

 1. [id]
2. Unbreakable
3. Dark Passenger
4. The Higler
5. Martyrs
6. Resistance
7. Circle
8. Mowgli
9. Namaste
10. Conquer
11. Codex

The album was produced by Michael Keene, who also produced The Common Man's Collapse, and the sound is distinct VoM. Crushing tone and plenty of chugga-chug make for the classic VoM tone we all know and (perhaps) love. The production quality however is a bit better then their previous album - everything is mixed together much more nicely, and the vocals blend better with the music. Too many heavy bands today (and bands in general) put the vocals way out in the mix, and it becomes annoying and sometimes distracting to the sound of the band as a whole. The relationship and mix between the guitar and drums is very very tight, which is perfect for all of the off-time and odd-time breakdowns occurring throughout the record.
Vocalist Brandon Butler impressed me the most on this album. Although the guitar is usually the focus, and the guitar-drums combo make up the meat of the songs, Butler's rhythm and placement works great with the complicated prog breakdowns that are happening behind him, and his lyrics are awesome. They are mature, and really include material relative to the subject - this really is an ALBUM. All of the songs work well together, they all seem to portray the same idea, this discussion of the human psyche and the state it is in today.
Overall, I love the record. I for one am a huge fan of albums that sound like ALBUMS, not just a collection of songs, and [id] is pretty much that. However, I only have two complaints - the first being the shortness of the CD. It clocks in at only 29:09 with a total of 11 tracks. Related to that, I am left feeling a bit awkward by the musical interludes within the CD. The music within them individually is really cool, but I wish they blended better with the songs around them. I wish the band expanded more on the ideas, and didn't limit them to only one minute or so of interlude. If the band had only included the "song" parts of the album, we might be looking at a CD only 25 minutes long. Perhaps there's a bit too much filler in there.

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Dr. Acula - 2007 Silver-Lipped Operator Of Bullshit

Band : Dr. Acula

Album : Silver-Lipped Operator Of Bullshit

Release Year : 2007

Genre : Deathcore / Gringcore / Experimental

 

Tracklist : 

1. Party
2. The Cuckoo Clock Of Doom
3. Night Of The Living Dummy
4. Lets Get Invisible
5. Monster Blood
6. How I Got My Shrunken Head
7. Piano Lessons Can Be Murder
8. Shocker On Shock Street
9. Say Cheese And Die
10. Legend Of The Lost Legend

This is a very odd little album. With titles mainly stolen from Goosebumps novels (kiddy horror books which I was a big fan of as a child), Dr. Acula have crafted a truly insane blast, spliced by hilarious movie quotes, ear shredding screams and inhuman gurgles.
Monster Blood opens with a charming little ditty before exploding into some truly insane grind, and the maniacal vocal performances continue on How I Got My Shrunken Head and Cuckoo Clock of Doom.
This vocalist is clearly a bit out of whack, but instead of being annoying, it adds an element to the music that hurtles between full force grind, slower death metal and occasional clean sections. The addition of the deathcore trademark 'pig squeal' vocal appears to be more ironic than as a serious employment but to be honest, its a bit difficult to tell (Imagine Strapping Young Lad, fighting with Pig Destroyer).
A bit mad for the uninitiated but ultimately insanely worth it.

 

 

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