Bathory now on Napster

Napster finally obtained the Bathory catalog. It’s all available for rental if you are a member. I am not familiar with their work, but soon I will!

Grotesque Formation

I discovered Grotesque Formation last night on Bloody Roots‘ freakin awesome show about slam death metal. That was an incredibly good show, by the way. Thanks Ian! In case you missed it, click here for the playlist.

Starting today, if I write about an artist and their stuff is on Napster, I will add a Napsterlink so you can quickly access their music.

Going back to Grotesque Formation, this is pure death metal. If you are a Napster subscriber (5$/month for all you can stream music), you can stream their entire album Basement Decompositions for free.Well crafted but not overly technical, fast but not pointlessly so, with slow, fat vocals. They clearly are worthy heirs to Suffocation circa Effigy of the Forgotten. Also click here for their best of, in streaming.

 

Update: the Napsterlinks force you to register for Napster. Napster is well worth the 5$/month, but I don’t want to send people to a signup page. So, no more Napsterlink.

Trivium new album

Hey, I fell behind on this one. So, I only managed to listen to Shogun tonight. Since I am a subscriber to Napster, I got to download the full album at 192kbps–not great, but on the other hand I got the entire album at good quality, without any hisses or cuts. It’s a rental, but if I don’t like the album next week, it will be ok with me because it won’t make a difference to my monthly subscription.

Anyway, to go back to Trivium I discovered them with The Crusade, which I really liked. I know that many Metalcore fans rejected them for their move away from that genre. My advice to them: follow the lemmings.

For the survivors, it’s obvious that the clean singing is better than the pointless screaming. Screaming is unoriginal, a travesty for talent, a travesty for a rejection of a travesty for talent. (Previous screamers were anti-talent and it’s ok, but new screamers are anti-old metal “cause they’ve seen Zeezus… It’s just bad stuff. Talentless stuff. At least the guys in Trivium had the guts to really sing.

More power to them.

Still, are they a Christian band?