Metal playlists from the underground
Loaded Guns offer “Bring Us Down,” a featured track from the Miami metal band’s upcoming Unstoppable – EP from Century Media Records. Very catchy, deeply melodic, and devilishly refreshing. The flow, phrasing, and pick-hand speed of the guitar solo is excellent. A highly talented and positive metal band. The “we are screaming” line is sure to […]
German experimental hardcore troupe flu.ID have made an album proper by repackaging two previous 10-inch releases with a few bonus tracks and a strange assortment of electronic interludes to create a 15-track collection of schizophrenic heaviness and offbeat weirdness titled IOTS. Imagine Refused jamming out with Dillinger Escape Plan while a techno party looms in […]
Lodi, CA sextet A Skylit Drive champion the screamo dynamic on their 13-track release WIRES AND THE CONCEPT OF BREATHING. While at times the disc treads the dreaded paint by numbers waters, there’s some decent riffing and strong song structures beyond the surface of the uber-nascent Coheed-esque vocals and played to death breakdowns (“Eris and […]