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BRAIN DRILL BEGIN DRILLING BRAINS ONCE AGAIN

 Monday, August 10th, 2009 at 3:30pm by

brain drillI’ve never been into Brain Drill before. Not because I actively disliked them or wasn’t interested, but because no one ever sat me down and said, “DUDE, you HAVE to listen to Brain Drill!” But this morning I clicked the linky-dink in a press release announcing the new Brain Drill track “Monumental Failure” currently streaming on the band’s MySpace page, and I’m wondering why the 1′s and 0′s of their 2008 debut Apocalyptic Feasting weren’t nestled neatly betwixt my Obscura and Origin mp3s in the tech death section of my iTunes library. I guess it’s because there are a helluvalotta tech death bands on the radar these days, but Brain Drill fucking kill and are highly worthy of a listen, as I just learned today.

The band limped through some well-documented lineup drama last year (I’m not even sure who’s in the above photo), but they’re currently working on their sophomore effort with a new lineup surrounding bassist Ivan Munguia and drummer Ron Casey. Let’s hope the new record hits by year’s end.

-VN

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  • Baldish

    Hell yeah dude. Last year at Mayhem I picked up the Metal Blade sampler and heard Apocalyptic Feasting and it blew my mind.

  • John

    “They stripped me naked had me lift my ballsack up so they could check underneath it, and then had me bend over and spread my asscheeks apart so they could look inside my asshole.”

    • Ziltoid

      FULL BODY CAVITY SEARCH!

  • Ziltoid

    Brain Drill are almost the DEFINITION of crappy **weedly weedly** tech death. JUST LISTEN TO IT–DON’T YOU HEAR THE WEEDLY WEEDLES (not the awesomely pathetic Pokemon, mind you)?!?!?!?

    Boring tech death as usual.

    • metalvinny

      Yeah, and that MASSIVE catchy hook in “The Parasites” is really boring too. It gets stuck in my head. Real boring.

    • groverXIII

      One might get the impression that you don’t actually like tech-death, Zilty, seeing as you think pretty much every tech-death band ever mentioned on here is boring and ‘weedly-weedly’.

      • John

        Weedles are called Hammer ons and pull offs, or legato if you’re hip..

      • Ziltoid

        Well, the ones mentioned on here are all boring crap. I like good stuff like Gorguts and Atheist and the like.

        • groverXIII

          I really don’t see what’s so great about Gorguts. I listened to a few of their albums, and I really couldn’t stand it. The vocals sucked, the music was boring, and production was crap. I’ll take weedly weedly any day.

          • Ziltoid

            I don’t like FWTH, but the other three are all classic death metal albums (TEOS and Obscura are tech death). Their albums NEED lots of multiple listenings to really appreciate, because at first listen, it’s basically annoying noise (especially Obscura). The vocals seem dry, raspy, and awful, and the guitar tone seems ugly. But after it sets in, you’ll realize that Gorguts basically wrote genius music. The production isn’t that bad at all tbqh.

            I like their first three albums, but Obscura is admittedly the only one I absolutely love. I’ve listened to it over 100 times, and I still find new intricacies. Every instrument does its own thing, yet it somehow flows. The vocals add an incredible layer to the dissonance created by the guitars. As odd as they are, they couldn’t be better any other way. Obscura literally defies every cliche of conventional music. Give it at least 10 spins before casting judgment on it. Maybe just listening to each song lots of times consecutively could help–I’ve heard that it worked for others.

    • Elitist Fuck

      Fuck you! Beedrill was worth the wait.

      • Ziltoid

        Beedrill was great until level 30 or so, when it had no more good moves to learn and got pwned by anything for the most part.

  • metalvinny

    Ziltoid doesn’t like anything and doesn’t contribute a damn thing. He just likes to shit in everyone’s backyard. X band sucks, Y singer is boring, W band tries too hard, etc.

    You ever have an opinion that contributes something positively to metal?

    • Baldish

      shouldn’t it be Z band tries too hard?

    • Fong Chung

      Hahahahahaha, yeah just like how Obscura and Man Must Die sound exactly the same.

      • Santa Claus

        Ziltiod probably has sex with dogs. I hear that impairs your hearing and would explain alot.

        • Ziltoid

          How would having sex with dogs impair your hearing? Are you speaking from experience?

      • Ziltoid

        For a second there, I thought you were talking about the great Gorguts album, which is basically the definition of technical music. Then I remembered that that crappy band exists as well. They do sound very similar. Some tech death bands have more weedles than others, but they’re all weedly weedly in the end.

        • Fong Chung

          Yet when Obscura(The album) came out, you were how old again?

          • Ziltoid

            What does my age back then have to do with anything?

        • Fong Chung

          20 year olds say the darndest things!!!! Gorguts wern’t exactly the definition of technical bands. I’m sure if you throw in; Symbolic era Death, Athiest, Cynic, Watchtower, and okay even King Crimson whom aren’t a “Tech” band but more prog. You could say that is the basis of technical bands. But since you shit on most bands here which you do(First off Man Must Die does suck, but Obscura is very talented). You are entitled to your opinion. We all can’t be like you now can we?

          • Santa Claus

            We cant all have sex with dogs either.

          • Ziltoid

            I never said basis, I said definition. Basis implies older bands that set the foundation for it. Obscura came out way after Atheist, Death, Cynic, and the like (all bands which I enjoy), but it is just on a level of its own in terms of technicality. Their other albums aren’t as technical, but I don’t think anything, at least in metal, matches to pure technicality and dissonance displayed on Obscura.

  • Santa Claus

    Weedly weedle RUFF RUFF!

    • Fong Chung

      WEEDLE WEEDLE!!!!!

      • Ziltoid

        KAKUNA!

        • Fong Chung

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  • Tyler

    This comment was left on the myspace blog, by “Chris”, annoucing the line-up and the new song,

    “If it was any sicker it would be dead because that’s what happens when you’re that sick, you die. And dying like this is fucking brutal as shit! Keep kicking my ears into my skull, drill!”

    Hilarious.