Bands you should check out

[jimbobhickville]

I was looking through mp3.com this week and discovered a few bands that should be of interest to y'all:

Cea Serin (progressive/power/death metal. Singer isn't so great, but not bad. Great music)
Dysrhythmia (instrumental technical metal/progressive art rock. great stuff)
Echosilence (instrumental technical metal in the vein of Aghora/Cynic)
Futurism (instrumental technical metal band from Australia. Mostly programmed on a computer, but sounds really good)

I bet even metalized hasn't heard of all of them They're definitely worth checking out, especially the first 2. You can find samples for all of them on mp3.com.

Enjoy.

 

[jimbobhickville]

forgot...

Actual Time (instrumental technical metal, though not as chaotic as most)
Alchemist (not the Aussie one, some crappy American one - actually great instrumental technical thrash)
Vainglory (power/thrash metal)

 

[ricochet]

I have been listening to the Dysrhythmia and Echosilence songs from mp3.com and really like them. I might get the two Dysrhythmia albums from lasercd.com. I also saw some other stuff there that I'd like to get including Andromeda "Extension of the Wish", Soul Cages "Craft" (only $6), and Martyr "Warp Zone". Cheers!

 

[jimbobhickville]

Soul Cages? Never heard of them. I shall check them out (since they are mentioned in such good company ). If you find the Echosilence demo, let me know. The email address on their homepage doesn't work.

 

[ricochet]

I really like Soul Cages. It's some of the best prog metal I've heard in a long time. You can download some of their songs on Audiogalaxy.

Here are reviews of all of their albums from SSMT.
www.soulcages.de

 

[Poison Godmachine]

I'm thinking of picking up the 2 DYSRHYTHMIA CDs as well!

 

[scott from _actual time_]

Originally posted by jimbobhickville
forgot...

Actual Time (instrumental technical metal, though not as chaotic as most)

thanks for the plug for our stuff. we try to apply our chaos within the groove, pouring it on in places but backing it off in others.

we've got our second CD "time frame" coming out this month, Feb. 2002, only available through the band. our page on mp3.com, www.mp3.com/actualtime/ , has two full songs fron the new CD and three from the old one. check it out! plenty of chaos in there...

scott

 

[jimbobhickville]

Yeah, I was the guy who emailed you about the price on the new CD 'cause it wasn't on your page and about if you'd take Paypal(or maybe a lot did?). I'm still waiting for it to come out to buy both. I always am looking into new bands and telling people about them.

 

[jimbobhickville]

oh, and welcome to the board. I'm always forgetting to welcome people

 

[scott from _actual time_]

Originally posted by jimbobhickville
Yeah, I was the guy who emailed you about the price on the new CD 'cause it wasn't on your page and about if you'd take Paypal(or maybe a lot did?). I'm still waiting for it to come out to buy both. I always am looking into new bands and telling people about them.

yeah, i remember that. we've had a few delays with the new CD, i had the flu for two weeks and now we've got some printing "issues" that we're working on, but we hope to have it out real soon. all the html for pricing and Paypal and stuff is written, we just need the CDs to be finished first!

 

[jimbobhickville]

Cool. I hope it works out soon Post on here when the new pages are up (and put a link ), so I won't forget about it.

Later.

 

[Tarkus]

Here's another cool band I found out aboot today they are called Degree Absolute, they just got signed to the Sensory label. They kind of similar to Zero Hour, there are a few songs on MP3.com. I think these guys are going to be pretty big as far as prog metal goes.

 

[jimbobhickville]

Pi is a great song. They finally got signed? I forgot to recommend them? I wanted to get their demo, but they said it isn't available to buy I second your recommendation.

 

[Dustin]

Degree Absolute is amazing! Just another reason why were bustin' our ass to work with their managment.
Claus seems to have it all together in getting his bands promoted, signed , gig's ect. ect.
hopefully he'll like us enough to work with us.

I think Sensory made a good move in getting Degree Absolute!

 

[Tarkus]

Alright, add Mind's Eye to the list. Damn these guys are cool...metal and jazz mix perfectly, I don't know why there aren't more prog bands exploring that a little more.

 

[jimbobhickville]

Haven't heard of them. I shall check them out. I'll add another band:

Antithesis

Not as insanely technical as Ink or Tower, but I like it They have 2 CDs out: S/T and Dying For Life

 

[Tarkus]

Ah, Antithesis. Their full of thrashy goodness and enough angular riffing to keep this tech-metal head happy. I don't have their album, yet, it's on the list though!

 

[RETIREDTrapped]

Jimbo! You're into echosilence!! They are crazy! I've been into these guys for AGES... it wasn't me that plugged 'em was it?

They are great.

 

[jimbobhickville]

Nope, I just happened upon them. I searched for Aghora on mp3.com and they came up as a similar artist. You wouldn't happen to know how to contact them, would you? The email address on their site http://www.echosilence.net does not work. I want that demo, damnit!!

 

[Pure Absurd]

Yeah guys: Dysrhythmia's two cd's were the most played by me cd's in Jan.!

And today they were gigging in Austin! But DAMN!!! I can't drive myself and my friends were pretty busy today (I'm at College Station)...

Now I'm sitting here, listening to different weird music, and posting to usnets/boards :s


My additions to the "check out" list:

XthoughtstreamsX
they've done with Dysrhythmia split cd (which I haven't grabbed yet). Check mp3s at www.XthoughtstreamsX.com and mp3.com
Really rocking techmetal!

Power Of Omens (mp3.com/Power_of_Omens and www.powerofomens.com)
progmetallers from (guess from where? ) San Antonio! Smokingly complex and intense stuff!

Don Caballero (www.southern.com/southern/band/DONCA/)
they are math-rockers (what partly could be said about Dysrhythmia too ). And pretty good ones.

Kopecki (www.kopecky.f2s.com)
melodic and not over the top technical but very fine and masterfull instrumental prog/metal.

Virulence (mp3.com/Virulence)
I've already advised them in Dillinger's thread.

Doctor Nerve (cuneiformrecords.com/bandshtml/drnerve.html)
their "Skin" is just impossible to describe in usual words! Brain definitely is on the border of explosion during listening!

Happy Family (www.cuneiformrecords.com/bandshtml/happyfamily.html)
have two very good albums of superb instrumental progrock with progmetal energy.

Tipographica (www.imasy.or.jp/~mizutani/files_e/tipo.html)
lasercd had "God says I can't dance" for rather cheap. Headbreaking rhythms and jazzy grooves. Very inspirational!

One guy has a very nice sig:
"Originally posted by metalmancpa
I HATE genres - I like music"
- completely support!

Vadim