Getting back into the flow of things this week we have a good number of new releases to listen to as we head out of the summer release season. New stuff from Yob, Chimaira, Revocation and Today Is The Day are probably the biggest releases this week, with some lesser-known gems in the herd as well.

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We’ve been excited about Aliases — the new project featuring guitarist Pin, formerly the much beloved, now departed MetalSucks proverbial wet dream band SikTh — pretty much since we first heard about them back in April of last year. Now the band’s debut album, Safer than Reality, is finally on the verge of release, and our bro-bros at Metal Injection have premiered the band’s first video, for the song “What’s Left For Us” (below). And while it’s not a ground-breaking video, it is a very good video — it’s amazing what some decent editing and a little bit of glow-in-the-dark liquid can do for a clip like this, ain’t it? — bolstered by the fact that the song is excellent, and, as Vince would put it, “appropriately SikTh-y.”

Safer than Reality comes out August 15 on Basick. We’re really stoked to hear the rest of this album.

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• Aliases, the new band featuring SikTh’s sickly talented guitarist Pin, have a new album called Safer Than Reality coming August 15th via Basick Records. Check the new song “What’s Left For Us?” above, courtesy MS reader Luke Friebel (of Picture It In Ruins).
• Obscura guitarist Christian Muenzer — who many of you thought should’ve been included in our Top 25 Modern Metal Guitarists list — has a new solo shred record called Timewarp. Stream it in full at Christian Muenzer’s Bandcamp, then come back here and tell us how much we suck for not including him on our list. (Thanks: Tim Meyer)
• A Pale Horse Named Death are streaming their entire new album And Hell Will Follow Me at Metal Insider. We premiered a track from the album a couple of weeks back, and I gotta say, this record is really, really good. It’s a grower, for sure. It’s the best of Type O Negative’s moodiness and Alice In Chains’ alt-doom all rolled into one extremely depressing package.

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The Internet is a treasure trove of data just waiting to be spliced and re-assembled in new and interesting ways.

A recent feature added to Got-Djent.com gave users the ability to indicate their favorite bands on their own personal profiles, so the keepers of that site have taken that information and produced a map “where the proximity of two bands on the map indicates how much their respective fanbases overlap.” Fascinating. Check it out: (click to enlarge)

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The results are fascinating.

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It’s been a while since the MS staff was collectively jizzing over U.K. spazz-progsters SikTh, but that doesn’t mean the now defunct band is any less dear to our hearts. Quite the opposite; any time we hear about the involvement of any ex-SikTh member in a new project we get pretty darn excited, like when we first heard about guitarist Pin’s new band Aliases.

And this week we’ve got news about not one, not two, but THREE ex-members of the now-legendary U.K. sextet.

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Back in April we told you that Pin, guitarist of the much beloved, now departed MetalSucks proverbial wet dream band SikTh, is back with a new SikTh-y new project called Aliases. Since SikTh fans are generally the kind of music dorks who troll message boards and update Wikipedia instantly with anything so much as the growth of a new testicle hair on any one member’s scrotum, I doubt that this was news to any existing fans but I do hope I turned a few new folks on to the magic of SikTh and/or Aliases.

Aliases have finally posted their first full song, “We Never Should Have Met,” the first with their new vocalist whose name doesn’t seem to be posted anywhere. The song is appropriately SikTh-y, although the lack of SikTh’s patented two-vocalist approach makes it different enough so as not to be too close for comfort. But isn’t too close for comfort kinda what we all want from any post-SikTh projects anyway? Regardless, the song rules. Check it out.

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Thanks: Jesse Z., Alex Davis

Then go listen to Aliases [NEED SINGER], the new band featuring SikTh guitarist Pin. If, like us, you were incredibly distraught when SikTh announced they’d be breaking up a couple of years back, be distraught no more — Aliases [NEED SINGER] sound more or less exactly like SikTh, musically speaking, but without a singer as their band name indicates. The appropriately titled “Riff Sampler” track posted on their MySpace page should be more than enough to get you all erect/wet.

Oh and apparently they want a singer so badly they named their band after this pressing need. Whatupwitdat, dudes?

-VN

Thanks: Long long long time Suckalo Alex Davis