Here at the MS Mansion we get packages from unsigned bands from all over the world; Hungary, Australia, and Poland are just a few places from which we’ve received CDs in the past few weeks. These demos range in quality from extremely sucky to extremely good (see? we do listen to everything), and they’re all over the map (haha, see what I did there?) in terms of subgenres of metal. But one thing I’ve found about “international” bands (in quotes because really, we’re all international in the true sense of the word) as opposed to their American counterparts is that metal bands in the rest of the world are not nearly as concerned with what’s cool or what appears credible in the slightest, nor do they feel compelled to stay within one genre of metal. And they’re not nearly as concerned with image; most of them are old dorks. International bands, moreso than their American brethren, just play whatever the fuck they want to play. They just don’t give a fuck.

Take Brazil’s Dynahead, who sent us their new album Antigen last month. This shit is all over the place from power metal to groove, to prog, to death, to thrash, and yes, even nu… but it’s all executed well and it all sounds like the same band playing it. That is the definition of a good band right there, not the next _____-core band from Orange County. Dynahead certainly aren’t about to change the face of metal for years to come — or even for a day — but they’re a damn good band and that seems to be all that matters to them.

So hopefully Dynahead won’t mind that I’m giving away a track of theirs; this here is some damn fine press, so they better not bitch. Check out “Join and Surrender” from Antigen below, then check out more on the band’s MySpace page.

Dynahead – “Join and Surrender”

-VN