• Exist: Forward-thinking, forward-pushing progressive experimental metal with plenty of guts and grit, ala Intronaut or an intensified Cynic. These Marylanders actually remind me a lot of Carnal Rapture, an amazing Italian experimental metal band who sent me their demo last year; they’re jazzy in just the right measures, brutally heavy in others, and sometimes both at once. They know when to turn the brutality on and when to turn it off, and nothing sounds forced or cliche. I’m reasonably sure some of this guitar and bass work is off the cuff, too. This band makes me horny! Listen to their In Mirrors EP at Bandcamp, and download it entirely for free at their official website.

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I’ve been reviewing pretty much any and every band that’s sent me entries for Unsigned and Unholy over the past week or so, and the conclusion I’ve come to is this: very few bands are terrible, and very few bands are good. Most of them are mediocre bands that have decent chops and decent production value but not much in the way of originality. I’m kinda tired of saying the same thing over and over again with regards to mediocrity, so I think from now on — after this post — I’m gonna go back to the way it originally was, writing about bands that are either really good or really bad. If you send us an email about your band and you aren’t featured here, just assume you’re mediocre! Easy.

Today’s batch of bands:

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