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Full Album Streams: All We Love We Leave Behind by Converge
Converge is a band I don’t talk about nearly enough here. Since having my ears torn to shreds by their album Jane Doe a good handful of years ago they have reined as one of the best post-hardcore/grindcore/tech-metal bands around in my eyes. While many bands are able to capture the same level of technicality and brutality none deliver the passion and emotional side quite like Converge does. Listening to any of their albums along their long career prove that no other band can personify rage and aggression quite like they can. On their new album, All We Love We Leave Behind, it’s business as usual as ~40 minutes of blistering metal look to crush the listeners aural senses with unbridled chaos reigned in with bouts of stellar musicianship and many nods to many genres to keep a playthrough engaging and worthy of repeat listens.
In the official Youtube album stream vocalist Jacob Bannon designed and ‘animated’ all of the artwork for each track as he also did on the physical release of the record. Definitely some cool stuff to look at while you listen. Give a listen and check out the official video for the single “Aimless Arrow”. Let us know what you thought. Enjoy!! Peace Love and Metal!!!
Stream of All We Love We Leave Behind
Video for “Aimless Arrow”
Full Album Streams: Book Burner by Pig Destroyer
Bless NPR and their constant quality of selections of music they cover and provide full album streams for. If you were to tell me 10 years ago that NPR would be covering underground extreme metal acts with high quality and researched articles and album streams I would have laughed my ass off. But lo and behold they have been quite consistent with providing some top-notch metal (as well as other genres of music). This week they are streaming the new Pig Destroyer album, Book Burner. To say that this album reaches the extreme ends of extreme is an understatement. In 32 minutes and 27 seconds Pig Destroyer perfectly personifies chaos delivering some of the most intense grindcore songs written since 2001′s Prowler in the Yard.
If you are in need of some music to accompany bouts of smashing your surroundings with a sledge-hammer, look no further than Book Burner. Click Here or on the album cover above to go to the album stream and let us know what you thought down in the comments. Enjoy! Peace Love and Metal!!!
EP Review: Mylai Massacre – Nuclear Gorilla
Mylai Massacre is a one-man band with something to say. Based on their song titles; Government Warmachine, United States of Terror, and War Pushers, it is evident they are dissatisfied with the current world situation and want to sing about it. That’s okay; times like these make for good angry metal; it gives people ammunition for song fodder. Throw in some brutal riffing, speed, and guttural vocals and you have a nice recipe for music that will surely get a crowd moving.
Theme Thursday – Polish Metal
Some countries are better known for their metal than others. If I told you a hot new metal band from Finland was out, you could expect a certain style and quality of metal coming from that part of the world. A few of the more popular “metal” countries that come to mind immediately are Finland, United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Norway, United States, Italy, Canada, and Australia to name a few; it’s a good start anyway. Now you can add Poland to that list. Recently, we have discovered some seriously brutal metal bands coming out of the nation. Therefore, now is a good time to group these bands and talk about them for the Theme of the Week – Polish Metal!
Album Review: Creative Waste – Slaves to Conformity
If there’s one spot in the world that I think truly has the right to be pissed off beyond all belief it would be the Middle East region. Between corrupt governments, war, oppression, and so on, I can totally see how the regular common folk could be building up a rage beyond anything imaginable. I’m surprised that there aren’t many metal bands from that area, as metal is a great form of music to just let loose on all the pent-up aggression that one has inside of them. Of the few bands from the conflicted region comes a newcomer to the metal realm by the name of Creative Waste from Saudi Arabia. With music, they pour their souls out and unleash their anger with an intensely viscous mix of grind, hardcore, and death metal. Their debut album, Slaves to Conformity, is a non-stop storm on not only the aural senses, but through their anger and anxiety they also manage to touch your heart in the most brutal way possible (not an easy task for a style of music such as this).
Album Review: Napalm Death – Utilitarian
Deep guttural vocal – check! Deafening screams – check! Blast beat – Check! Everything you expect on a Napalm Death album – check! Utilitarian is the Napalm Death’s 15th studio album. Seventeen songs make up 48+ minutes of Napalm brutality. That’s a lot of time to be hammered between the ears with one of the most prolific (grindcore, death) metal acts of all time. Utilitarian is no exception this late into Napalm Death’s career. Greenway is still growling with the best of them.
