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SO, THIS BAND THE FAMINE… DAMN GOOD DEATH METAL!

 Thursday, January 20th, 2011 at 2:00pm by

We’ve gotten quite a few emails about a newish band called The Famine over the past couple of weeks. I ignored the first couple of emails because I saw the words “Solid State” and “Records” in close proximity to the band’s name, so it took an unprompted but impassioned plea from Josh Childers of The Showdown — one of the only other Solid State bands that doesn’t blow donkey balls — to get me to give a serious listen. Here’s what he sent me:

Yo… legit… right? Underoath / August Burns Red / Gwen Stacy / normal Solid State fare this is not. No bullshit, no breakdowns, no -core suffix; just pure death metal. The Famine might not be shattering any molds, but what they do they do quite well; these guys could hang with Dying Fetus any day. I’m not sure whether The Famine’s lyrical content is Christian, but I honestly don’t care; good music is good music, and I never listen to metal lyrics anyway.

The Architects of Guilt, The Famine’s sophomore Solid State release, will hit stores on February 15th; pre-order it here.

One more tune to stream after the jump:

-VN

Thanks: TinyTim

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Pinson/1402489026 Chris Pinson

    this… this is not very good :(

  • Sambo

    I love The Famine. Their previous album “The Raven and the Reaping” is awesome and I recommend it for those who love Living Sacrifice and Lamb of God. Also they have another new track called “The New Hell” on their Myspace.

  • http://thatdevilmusic.blogspot.com Rob Liz

    Cool. Someone gave them press so I don’t have to. The constant e-mails about these dudes is getting really annoying. Especially since I don’t fucking like them.

    • http://www.hookinmouth.net Scott W

      You and me both, Rob.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/William-Lindsay/567063759 William Lindsay

    Meh. Just like most other “good” Christian bands, its mediocre at best. The only bands that I remember that ever really transcended the Christian genre and stood out as just generally killer bands were Extol, Overcome, and maybe a couple of others(Blindside, Norma Jean, etc.?). Living Sacrifice were hit and miss with me. When they weren’t trying to sound like Slayer or Slipknot, they were fantastic. Their second album was good even though the vocals sucked. Inhabit was, by far, their best album. Reborn was also the shit. Extol’s Burial, Mesmerized, and Undeceived we’re easily the best and most original Christian metal albums ever produced. Those albums are still among my favorites today. The Famine is just ok even by Christian standards. My humble opinion.

    • http://www.myspace.com/thestarsthrewdowntheirspears Tim

      Becoming The Archetype is another good one.

      • Jeff

        every time someone hears about a christian metal band or any other christian genre for that matter, they go into it with some kind of prejudice or an unatainable expectation. what if you listened to every band out there and didnt pay attention to what beliefs they had i think you would like alot more christian music. besides its not the music that makes it christian its the lyrics.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Alejandro-Aldana/683878171 Alejandro Aldana

    didn’t really wow me.

  • The Big One

    I smell cash…the under-the-table kind. Be sure to get a reach around.

    Shit band.

  • Andy Synn

    I’m a fan. Should be a good album.

    Are these similar to The Agony Scene (RIP) in that they’re on Solid State but not particularly Christian? Although coming from a Western perspective clearly have some thematic links which probably make them acceptable to SS.

    • http://www.myspace.com/thestarsthrewdowntheirspears Tim

      No, their lyrics are Christian.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ian-Wilmot/1177765489 Ian Wilmot

    meh

  • PatrickSTL

    I think are more modern death metal/-core than something like Dying Fetus but I really like them. They posted another song on their myspace too that is really groovy and catchy.

  • el fucko

    Jason Suecof may be a cool dude, great parody song maker and in Crotchduster, but he makes drums sound too polished and fake.

  • jim jones

    Christian bands, thumbs down. Will not hit play, WNDBWA. Really, you don’t pay any attention to any metal lyrics?

    • Vinsanity

      for real. he said he does not read metal lyrics, which leaves open the possibility he reads other lyrics. come on! if this is your fav genre, why would one not read into it? vince will find that metal bands have some of the most intellectually inspiring material out there. i wouldnt waste my time on lyrics that are not metal, typically. maybe its just me, but i wouldnt really get into something unless i knew what it was about. ive def disliked bands because they have silly viewpoints

      • http://www.metalsucks.net Vince Neilstein

        Lyrics just aren’t that important to me most of the time. It’s about the music to me — the composition, the arrangement, the tones, the melody, the execution. The reason I specified metal lyrics is because they’re so difficult to understand anyway; with other genres, sometimes I find myself inadvertently learning lyrics because they’re much easier to understand and much more central to the musical composition.

        -VN

  • reznik

    bring back embodyment!!!

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dan-Burton/784250631 Dan Burton

      I think there is an ex-Embodyment member in the Famine.

      • thatchick

        Andrew Godwin

  • Steve O

    This is not death metal…

  • evilfatguy

    Swede beats + forgettable riffs = good? This sounds like Slaughter of the Soul with deathcore vocals…

  • Dr schwine-hoot

    Band is nothing special, was skeptical when i seen braxton henry(ex-Devourment, yes that devourment) produced it. But nothing special. I literally fell over, at the comment of “these guys could hang with Dying Fetus any day” HAHA, Vince obviously has not really listened to a entire album of fetus. Nice try tho

  • Meldville

    This is fucking horrible. How does this even qualify as legit? Christ.

  • leathalmeower

    hehe your silly to call that Death metal

  • Chance

    This isn’t death metal or “good”…. Idiot, sounds like metalcore bullshit

  • Fucktard

    No bullshit, no breakdowns no deathcore? Yeah right! This isnt death metal. And it fucking sucks.

  • axel

    wtf it’s like deathcore/melodeath

  • snarly

    its shit.
    this is not death metal (well the first 4 seconds of it that I heard)….

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rob-Shameless/100000729491439 Rob Shameless

    I guess you have not listened to Advent or Living Sacrifice both of those bands are in the top 3 best bands on the label.

  • fightingmike

    This is really good, catchy death meal! It’s not deathcore or metalcore and it doesnt follow any trends. It’s not super original, but it is quality. Kind of reminds me of Black Dahlia Murder and Soilent Green.

  • The I

    Hey, I like August Burns Red.

  • Perpetual Black Screen Name

    I don’t know how this band has any damn thing to do with Dying Fetus but, it’s not very good. They literally sound like 1,000 other bands. Nothing real thought provoking.

  • Hellcharger

    I think that most people that post their comments here could be metal connoisseurs. Many have drank over the years from the different chalices of metal genres and decided that the band they have decided to latch on to is the epitome of that genre. Now this could be true but it could also be the fact that they have decided that everything sucks but the band they listen to and all things not their band are uncool, posers, wanna be’s, etc . . . and have put metal in a box. How weak.

    If you compared Ozzy to Lamb of God to Dying Fetus to (insert metal band here) _______. Which one is more Metal than the other or whatever. I think you must appreciate it for it is. I have been listening to The Famine for a while now. Caught the last 3 shows of the A Very Metal Christmas tour and my company filmed it. These guys are solid and intense. I consider myself a fan of their music. If you can’t appreciate music for music’s sake then I think you will be missing the point of music entirely.

    You don’t like them and you are the foremost metal musical genius. Thank the metal gods we have your words. We bow to your skill and anxiously await the release of your metal onslaught into the world. Don’t be surprised if the same result happens to you. You and all of your hardwork, dedication, heart, and little metal soul will be summed up in the same manner. You may sound like 1000 other bands, you may be the knock off of so and so, and you will in no way live up the expectation of the next tool who writes a scathing review of your newest release from Metal Blade or who ever you get to rape your soul and appear to give you your dream.

    • John Sommerfeld

      So true. so true. I love this band. The Raven and The Reaping is still the bomb but the new stuff is great too!!!

  • MetÂ

    Pure Death Metal hu? I’ll teach you with apples..

    Death Metal- Decapitated, Deicide, Nile, Suffocation, Nile, Necrophagist. Got it!?

    That shit will never be heard by the classic Death Metaller ;)

  • MetÂ

    Vince you’re a big poser dude. Even my 10 yeard old brother would NEVER call that crap Death Metal, second, how can you not read Metal lyrics????

  • DreadMatt

    Living Sacrifice, Soul Embraced, and Becoming the Archetype are all great solid state bands as well as The Famine.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Matthew-McHone/100000227957888 Matthew McHone

    They play a ton of shows near where I live (Dallas/Ft. Worth) and so I’ve scene them on a variety of occasions. While they’re not horrible, they’re just not that too terribly special and once I learned they had connections to a Christianity, I pretty much stopped paying attention to them all together.
    In fact the only Christian band that I’ll listen to (although not consider myself a fan of) is the Crimson Armada.

  • Merciless

    No Core My ASS… SUCKS!!

  • MooseMan

    I give horns to Hellchargers comment above. Everyone thinks they know what death metal is.

    The funny thing is, Death Metal came about as a way to brutally defy “The Powers That Be” and now, we have all the Death Metal fans who have become “The Powers That Be”.

    If you ask me, the very fact The Famine defies the militant death metal “formula” of “The Powers That Be” makes them all the more ‘Death Metal’ in their essence.

    Now, as far as actual genre styling, does it really even make sense to classify metal as anything but METAL anymore? C’mon. One man’s death is another man’s core is another man’s thrash, is another man’s doom, is another man’s technical melodic blackened chaotic gothenburg deathrash symphonic, doomcore-powergrind, deathcrawl, atmospheric noise sludge, heavy viking southern stoner extreme post-pre progressive…METAL. METAL. METAL.

    I’m sure 2000 years ago, some guy chopping up a bunch of people in battle, then going and strumming a harp, with long hair and a bad attitude was considered Death Metal & bands like Fetus would be considered a bunch of sissies.

    But, since no one asked me, who cares?

    HORNS!

  • MooseMan

    For the record – I probably wouldn’t have made the Fetus comparison either, but that’s the great thing about Metal…

    Everyone can hear & enjoy completely different aspects of it while still not diminishing the music as a whole. Metal is not a social club with strict rules, and a musical “dress code”…Metal is Metal.

    HORNS.

  • GraveDigger

    My personal opinion is don’t smack-talk a band unless you can outplay them. I don’t hear a lot of bands bad-mouthing other bands. Hm must be something about respect. Since when did one person become the bearer of the definition of metal genres and what bands fit into those genres. If you wanna know what I think, I think you guys don’t like this band because they stand for something you hate and yet they’re still ripping your faces off.

  • MooseMan

    ^ Oh snap.

    I agree – don’t critique, unless you can either outplay, or you’re an actual music critic. Or, on occasions where a band actually does just plain old suck…I still remember a CD that I had many years back…the drums literally sounded like off-beat, tupperware & dinner plates for the cymbals…not gonna say who the band was, but that CD actually did suck. The Famine is far from suck.

    But I digress…

  • http://twitter.com/miklagaard Burak Yurteri

    hmm.. this is not death metal :/

    http://www.allmetallyrics.com

  • http://twitter.com/miklagaard Burak Yurteri

    hmm.. this is not death metal :/

    http://www.allmetallyrics.com