TWO GOOD BANDS
Thursday, August 27th, 2009 at 2:30pm by Vince NeilsteinWe do our best to bring you new music from new bands you may actually like, but sometimes it’s difficult to fit it in given all the crap that comes across our plates daily, such as Emmure selling branded boxing gloves and Atreyu performing a shitty new song. So, here we go. Two links, no descriptions; let us know what you think.
Prediction: not nearly as many of you will care/comment as you did about either of the two above-mentioned articles. Prove me wrong.
-VN
I’m digging the Struck By Lightning quite a bit….they have definitely been paying attention to how High On Fire and Mastodon do things.. The second band I am just not digging on the vocals at all. I will definitely check furtehr into the first band though. would like to hear their whole album.
Struck By Lightning are tremendous, thanks for the link !!! \m/
Struck By Lightning sound painfully generic, I’m not too fond of the songs Into The Presence has to offer either
They’re really, really good live.
Which one?
Forgot to change my name back
Struck by lightning
They should give me some live tracks to listen to then, or come to Chicago
Struck By Lightning is pretty kick ass.
Struck By Lightning – Very good. Recommended.
Into The Presence – really?
I’m off for dinner.
how dare someone try to get you to listen to something that isn’t metal?
I like Struck By Lightning, not into the other band at all.
Struck By Lightning – Boring. Rather listen to High On Fire.
Into The Presence – Fuck you.
Struck by Lightning is fucking great
Into The Presence… I don’t know… Doesn’t feel very metal to me…
Can you guys recommend some good DEATH METAL bands?
For fuck’s sake, there’s plenty of this crap out there to sift through.
Have you heard about Morbid Angel and Deicide? I hear they are going to be pretty good.i heard Chris Barnes has a new band called Six Feet Under to, you might wanna check into that stuff when it comes out.
Theres an english band called Carcass…some of the guys in the band have dreadlocks!
carcass….english…really? Carcass was michael ammot’s (arch enemy) original band. they are from sweden and they basically started grindcore.
Carcass is not from sweden, pal. do your metal homework.
Check out death, if you’re into death metal. They’re a pretty good upstart from florida
Have you heard of Obituary? They just changed their name from “Xecutioner” and don’t even have lyrics, just insane screams from a vocalist who I’m pretty sure isn’t human. I’m pretty sure they like Celtic Frost a lot.
There’s this band from Sweden called Opeth… they play progressive death metal. (Progressive is apparently a fancy word for “has a lot of normal singing and acoustic shit”.)
Wow. I see what you guys did there.
deathmetal dot org
Struck By Lightning sound like a generic Mastodon clone although not terrible. As far as Into the Presence is concerned…well Im sure you guys posted it as a joke to throw all of us metalheads off.
So the lead singer of Sworn Enemy and Lacuna Coil have side projects?
I like the name of the first band’s myspace, but they seem to take more from Mastodon and High on Fire than they need to, as mentioned above. Not bad, but not very noteworthy.
Second band? Not my cup o’ tea. No opinion.
I listened to two songs by each band and I can truthfully say that they both sucks ass.
http://www.myspace.com/nuclearrabbitofficial
Check that band out instead.
yeah, i checked them out.They were better when they were caled Mr.Bungle………………..
I dig struck by lightning, Into The Presence has no place here, and nuclear rabbit isn’t my thing.
That into the presence band is pretty good, not metal, but definitely good musicians and they kind of have that mew feel, which im into
second that although i’m not very fond of mew
Struck by Lightning is solid. That tune needs some polish but those guys are going to be good.
Into the Presence. . .=P
struck by lightning might not be anything special, but they’re pretty solid. like other people have said, they remind me of HOF with a little bit of amrep noise rock, which is pretty cool. not too big on into the presence, but i’ve heard worse shit getting promoted by alternative press, but that’s not saying much.
Yeah, they’re solid. But it’s only their first record. By their third, who knows what, maybe they become better, evolve their sound more . . . or they could become worse. It’s a fifty-fifty shot considering there’s only two choices :)
honestly, i don’t really see them getting worse or better. they seem like the kind of band who’ll stagnate and put out the same shit again and again leaving reviewers to describe them as “reliable” or “consistent”. but still, it’s decent enough to hold my attention until something better comes out.
Struck By Lightning is fucking badass. If I had a myspace page, they’d go on my friends list fasho.
I can’t check these guys out at work because they block MySpace for some reason, but I will be checking them out later.
Struck by Lightning was okay, but Into the Presence sounded like that crappy band that Christopher was trying to get signed on the Sopranos.
struck by lightning = early mastodon + high on fire = yummy
into the presence = dredge w/out the originality or depth = waste of time
I haven’t met any Crossover bands that I really like yet, so Struck by Lightning is out.
Into the Presence has shitty vocals and doesn’t sound very metal either.
struck by (fucking) lightning sound good for another mastodon-style band. not super-original, but listenable.
into the presence might be ok if my insomnia was really bad and I had a huge bowl to smoke.
YAWN. Gay and gay. Try again.
As quite a few people have already said, the vocals for the first band weren’t particularly inspiring. They went well with the music, I suppose, but I didn’t feel the need to listen to any more of their songs.
As for the second band…I could swear that was Panic at the Disco or the Used. Just listen to that whiney singing.