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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Speaking of groovy-djenty stuff… the U.K.’s Fellsilent have broken up, according to a post on the band’s MySpace page [sent in by Kyle Heath with the above cartoon]. I’m not exactly stricken with grief; Fellsilent were a decent band but I found them to be a tad generic when it came to this kind of metal.

Though their presence will be missed in the U.K. scene, the band’s members will continue on under various other monikers. There’s guitarist Acle Kahney’s TesseracT, a long-running (and vastly superior) project that’s seemingly always on the verge of releasing an album that never seems to actually come out. Guitarist John Browne and Neema Askari are continuing on with their super-groovy and even more proggy (think: SikTh) band Monuments. In a much less interesting vein, Joe Garrett is rapping in a project called Sonick with Christopher ‘Noddy’ James, and the latter is working as a studio musician, teacher and drum tech.

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The UK’s Fellsilent — a Sumeriancore band who are on, duh, Sumerian Records (and Basick in the UK) — have a new video for their track “Immerse” [sent in by Spencer B.]. The video itself is pretty cool with some neat-o lighting effects and a giant mosh pit, and makes me wish I was 19 again and tearing shit up in the pit. The song, on the otherhand… this band’s just got nothing original to offer. Fellsilent like their heroes so much that they cop Meshuggah riffs like they’re on sale at the 99¢ store (not to mention the patented Meshuggah forward-and-back headbang) and they even have two lead vocalists like Sikth, the band from which they steal their rhythm and lead guitar diddly-dos. They’re competent, sure, but being a competent rip-off artist of good bands does not a good band make by association. I call BS on Fellsilent. You be the judge.

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FELLSILENT – Immerse (official video) from Basick Records on Vimeo.

There are a LOT of Meshuggah rip-off bands these days. Tons of ‘em. But accusing a band of sounding like Meshuggah is a pretty damn fine compliment, and if you asked the lads in Fellsilent what they thought of this comparison they’d likely have an answer similar to Airbourne’s Joel O’Keefe when we asked him about being constantly compared to AC/DC:

It doesn’t matter who you are, you are going to get compared to somebody. To be compared to the best rock and roll band in the business, who are still going today and are about to release another album, there is no higher compliment. I could list a thousand bands that I would not want to be compared to. There are a handful that any band does [want to be compared to]. If you get compared to a band like AC/DC or Motorhead or Rose Tattoo or Iron Maiden or Metallica, you can’t be doing anything wrong because that’s real rock and roll.

Meshuggah certainly don’t have the legacy of AC/DC but in certain circles they’re just as revered. So, that brings us to Fellsilent, the latest in a large stable of excellent new bands signed to Sumerian Records (one band excepted).

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