NO USE FOR A NAME
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 at 3:30pm by Vince Neilstein
Ohmylordee, have you heard of Bay Area noise-prog-metallers Name? Most likely you have, as they’ve been around for a few years and are signed to Lifeforce Records. Whether you have or haven’t isn’t the issue… it’s that they’ve got a new album coming out in about a month and you ought to pay attention.
The cover art and track listing for Name’s new album Internet Killed The Audio Star have surfaced, along with a tracklisting and two brand new songs on Name’s MySpace. Name are cut from the same sonic cloth as Converge and The Dillinger Escape Plan but I’d say they verge a bit closer to traditional metal and more wholly endorse Prog with a capital “P.” There’s plenty of raw motherfucking aggression but no tough-guy hardcore posing and no spazz-outs that are basically un-followable. I’d wager that a whole lot more folks would know about this excellent band if not for their awkward and un-Google-able band name moniker.
Internet Killed the Audio Star will be released on February 16th in the US and April 19th in Europe. Listen to two tracks from that album pronto, then come back here and let us know what you think.
-VN
When did they get signed to translation loss? These guys played a show I booked last year, pretty tight.
Got an advanced copy of the album and I really dig it. It’s like a more epic DEP, though the clean voxs take a little getting used to.
Into it. I like the natural sounding production.
I like it a lot! It makes me think of what would happen if DEP went balls out on the jazz circuit. Good stuff.
FUCK YEAH FRENCH HORN
Fuck, it’s tough to gather any other info on this band. They’re good.
This is much better than Converge. I dig the clean vocals on some of the parts. Not my cup of tea though
Wow, that name is frustrating. Just tried to find some of their stuff on iTunes, and I’m not sure now whether or not their music is hidden somewhere in there.
This band sucks ass.
it sounds like 2005 all over again.
when crappy local bands in my town wanted to sound like
ion dissonance, psyOpus, and into the moat, but just failed miserably.
Protip : Its actually N.a.m.e.
New Approach to Martyrs Expressions.
Doesn’t help a whole lot with searches, but it provides a few more results.
Pretty much any news and shows will go up on their Myspace (http://www.myspace.com/name) in which they are pretty good at keeping updated. If myspace isn’t your thing, they are pretty much on any social networking site: facebook, twitter purevolume, etc. Just type “/name” after the site url and you’ll find them. (they have a list of them on their myspace page) They also have a blog over at “www.namefuck.blogspot.com”.
As far as itunes, I’m almost certain they don’t have anything up there, but once the new album comes out I’m almost certain that there will be an itunes release as well.
Amazing band and amazing dudes. Can’t wait to get the whole album.