MINSK, THE SERPENT & THE SIREN, CLOUDKICKER
Friday, April 10th, 2009 at 1:03pm by Vince Neilstein
These three bands have very little in common other than the facts that a) they are metal bands, b) they rule, c) I’d like to write about all of them today. Enjoy some completely new music today instead of arguing for the 16,989th time about Disturbed, Jesse Leach vs. Howard Jones, how shitty screamo-crunk is, or whatever the fuck the topic of the hour is, you fuckwads. Awesome new music after le jump.
MINSK – Most of you have probably heard of Minsk before (… or not). Minsk play heavy, stonery, psych-prog ala Mastodon, but they’re considerably scarier; this is the kind of music that might be the modern day metal equivalent of the tunes that play when Scooby Doo and company wander into a mysterious mansion. Their new song “Three Moons” is currently up on their MySpace page, and it comes from their forthcoming album With Echoes In The Movement of Stones (zoiks!) which comes out May 26th in North America and June 1st in the rest of the world. A great soundtrack to listen to as you dream of boning Daphne.
THE SERPENT & THE SIREN – MS Maniac “Clint Homuth” describes The Serpent & The Siren as “a great unsigned metal band from Canada.” This might be more true if not for the inexplicable “bree-brees” scattered throughout their otherwise punishing death metal attack, but the band has ridiculously sick chops, a sense of songwriting, and will satisfy those who are in it only for the brutality. This is the real-life Dethklok.
CLOUDKICKER – Meshuggahcore. There’s little that the bands in this micro-genre do to separate themselves from one another, but I’m not sick of the sound yet and Cloudkicker do a damn fine job. I suppose there’s a bit of an atmsopheric/ambient tint here. Thanks to original MS Maniac AlexTheKiltedLobster for sending this in!
-VN
You’re never gonna have your shot at Daphne if you keep misspelling “zoinks!” Get a clue.
Thanks for the post though. I fall under the “or not” category when it comes to Minsk and am a huge “stoner rock” (hate that genre label) fan, and I think Mastodon is pretty alright. I shall have to partake.
“the ritual fires of abandonment” was my favorite album the year it came out… can’t wait for their new one.
Really liked Cloudkicker…
Not to mention the fact that they have their two albums up for free download… not too shabby…
Cloudkicker actually sounds half-decent. Minsk isn’t bad but not my thing.
man i love talking shit about screamo-crunk bands.
When did prog stoner rock bands get so popular? They all are just poor imitations of Black Sabbath and Candlemass and with new albums from both this year, who needs the rest?
Minsk is pretty good. If I could afford it right now, i’d buy one of their albums off of iTunes. I’m totally digging Cloudkicker. They’re like Meshuggah with really catchy melodies. Plus it doesn’t hurt that they have two albums (well, and album and an ep) available for free download from their website. The Serpent & The Siren is way too cliche for my taste. They’re like what every other death metal band with Dillenger Escape Plan influences sounds like these days.
I’m not really feeling any of the bands except The Serpent & The Siren. Having the experience of playing with them before definitely solidifys my decision, as there live show is tight and professional. Stay brutal!
not really feeling minsk. Cloudkicker is cool but not quite heavy enough, still has cool patterns and great sounding recording. the serpent and the siren is fucking heavy with some cool patterns and techy sorta riffs.
Serpent & The Siren are fucking terrible
As for Serpent and the Siren, call me strange but I liked the “bree brees”, reminded me of piggies!!! I like em.
realbassplayer cant actually play bass!
can you explain this please