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THE BEST UNSIGNED BAND I’VE HEARD THIS YEAR IS STILL CARNAL RAPTURE

 Friday, November 13th, 2009 at 10:08am by

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Technically disqualified from my year-end list because their record came out in 2008… but damn, this Italian band is just plain awesome. I’ve been spinning Carnal Rapture’s 5-song demo pretty consistently on my iPod. Jazzy, techy, proggy, heavy, and most of all DIFFERENT metal… jam their song “Precious Time” below then listen to more on their MySpace page.

Carnal Rapture – “Precious Time”

-VN

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Hulsey/653830783 David Hulsey

    I would not say this is the best unsigned band I’ve ever heard. Not even close. I do, however, think it is damn good.

    • Russell

      I agree with you David -they are not the best unsigned band. They are pretty technical though but sounds too much like a Primus Metal band for my liking -nothing against Primus they are awesome.

  • http://pfolse@aol.com Islander

    Anyone know where the promo songs can be downloaded?

  • dan wolfson

    TesseracT is unsigned.

    • Rick

      Band rules.

  • dot

    don’t know if they’re the best unsigned band that i’ve heard, but this is great stuff. different and fresh. i like how it says “Carnal Rapture (no blast beats death metal)” on their myspace page.

    plus, the drummer is a beast, sounding like a combination of vinnie paul and mike portnoy.

    make this my saturday band to get stoned to.

  • Chris Berseth

    Yeah, this is good and the drummer is definitely pretty kick ass.

  • cookie

    stonecutters, a much better, unsigned italian band

    http://invisibleoranges.com/2009/08/sign-them-already-stonecutters.html

    • cookie

      sorry, not italian, kentuckian, how the fuck i mixed them up

      STILL, awesomer unsigned band

  • Sammy

    How does a band from Italy have a guitarist named Tom Hopewell? Oh well, anyway, the drums juxtaposed with the riffs are pretty fucking cool.

  • Noel

    very cool band. reminds me of like dysrhythmia but with vocals. or somthin.

    FOR A GREAT UNSIGNED BAND, check my band, at http://www.myspace.com\spectorsofsin

    were prog\thrash [the music isnt on the myspace player, its on the reverbnation box below the myspace player]

  • Lybrium

    Surprisingly, this band is really similar to Intronaut.

  • Cody Barrick

    After you wrote the first piece about them and their upside down CDs, I went and bought a copy from them. They put the CDs in the sleeves themselves and was even nice enough to include their 04′ promo with the 08′ one. Great listens

  • aznmetalchick

    INTRONAUT!!