NEW HACRIDE IS THE CURE FOR WHAT AILS YOU
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 at 10:50am by Vince Neilstein
Round about the time this site was jocking the wares of avant-garde prog metallers Sikth and Textures, several of you emailed us about the French band Hacride. And as usual, you were right on the money. While Hacride don’t have the frenetic nature of Sikth nor the epic sense of melody of Textures, they do have the technicality and the brutal grooves of both, which naturally just means they all have a common influence in Meshuggah. But theirs is a slower, more raw version of any of the above; in fact, the band I’d most liken Hacride to is Norway’s Benea Reach — punishing, grooving, articulate, deliberate and beautiful all the same. This is Meshuggah strung out on heroin, lounging back in a dirty old armchair with a cigarette burnt to the filter in one hand and the TV remote control in the other.
The band’s got a new album Lazarus coming out on April 20th, and they’ve posted the song “My Enemy” (all 10 minutes of it!) on their MySpace page. Go listen to that shit! It’s some of the best material Hacride have written to date. And if you like it, pre-order the record with a limited edition Hacride t-shirt on Listenable Records’ MySpace.
-VN
Hacride have a new album coming out?!? Fucking awesome.
lol… Hacride reminds nothing of Meshuggah.. a moron must have posted that article.. There are NO polyrythmics WHATSOEVER in Hacrides songs :S lol……..
I just got this record, Fucking AWesome! They combine the cool offtime riffs of Meshuggah with a more Devin Townsend vocal approach, Faith No More Synths, and alot of cool middle-eastern influence that combine into a very epic and original style of metal music. and there ARE some polyrhythmics here and there in their music.
Hacride are playing in the UK in October on 2nd and 3rd in Alton and London. Have a look on Seetickets for more details and come and show them some support!