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ARMS OF THE SUN: STILL REALLY GOOD

 Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 at 4:30pm by

While Arms of the Sun are probably best known in metal circles because their low end is provided by Down / ex-Pantera bassist Rex Brown, Rex’s participation is actually somewhat peripheral — the band is the brainchild of guitarist/singer Lance Harvill. But no matter; Arms of the Sun just write great rock songs, and folks really shouldn’t fixate on the fact that Rex is in the band as Arms of the Sun stand up on their own just fine. (And no, the irony that I just spent a paragraph fixating on Rex Brown’s membership in this band is not lost on me.)

Arms of the Sun have a new video for the track “March of The Dolls”; it’s a clip of stitched together live footage and as such it’s not an especially interesting video, but it does provide me with an excuse to plug this excellent band and hopefully turn a few more folks onto their music. So in that regard, mission accomplished. Enjoy the song below.

-VN

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  • FongChung

    Panterrible meets Stone Temple Pilots. Lame.

    • Binkles

      Pantera/stp? sign me up

  • Marc

    wow Vince. this is pretty fucking terrible.

    • NoNameNoSlogan

      agree

  • mongorian

    pretty good

  • Mike

    This is really boring. And this coming from someone that generally enjoys rock music including the new STP album

  • djabthrash

    Badass.

  • MSalonen

    I really like it, but it just sounds a whole lot like STP and QotSA

  • cyrollan

    Pretty GD good. Sound like ASG. (Amplification of Self Gratification.)

  • NickV

    this is not good at all, i’ve had more interesting things in my shit

  • Tetro81

    horrible and terribad

  • Gaia

    Vince, this really way off the mark. Generic and dull – though do have a cool name.

  • Cryzthormagnusian

    Say, isn’t that Rex guy in that band?

  • Brett

    Wow, whoever said Qotsa mixed w/ STP was dead on…not the most breathtakingly exciting song, but they’ve got a decent sound. I like the backup vox…so little of that going on these days.

  • http://infinitybasement.tumblr.com Jon

    Sounds pretty good to me

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joel-Bailey/1624089874 Joel Bailey

    looking forward to seeing them here at Trees (Dallas) in a few weeks… gonna be a killer show.

  • ben

    Reminds me quite a bit of King’s X or maybe some of Galactic Cowboys’ later stuff.

  • Gibnausia

    Sounds a lot like that Jason Newsted side project… EchoBrain (I think). The vocalist almost sounds identical.

  • portaltotheotherside

    these guys are totally construction rock

    if they bring down the house at one of their shows,its ok cuz the audience
    is all construction workers and they can just rebuild it

    i could totally hear this being played at the job site,along with
    disturbed and puddle of mud and tesla

  • brent

    Oh goody. The “if it’s not brutal, it sucks” clan is back on the message boards here. This track is definitely representative of a band striving to piece together disparate elements. I think they do it well. This is a good find. Most certainly some STP/Army of Anyone, Quotsa. I might here some Eleven in there. Eleven? Anyone?…….didn’t think so.

    • PIERCE

      Eleven? Allan, Natasha, Jack/Greg Upchurch. Simply put.. Fanfntastic.