I’m a bit
of a Tim Lambesis fan, primarily because Austrian Death Machine is one of my
favourite side projects of all time, but also because As I Lay Dying are a fine
example of modern metal. It was therefore with great happiness that I received
AILD’s forthcoming Decas album a couple of days back, and into my ears at a
savage volume it went.
Decas is
being released to celebrate AILD’s tenth year in the metal world and features
three new tracks, a few covers and some remixes. The cover of Judas Priest’s
Electric Eye is good shit but my personal highlight is their thrash cover of Descendants
Coffee Mug. I love the original and this is a worthy reworking. Not sure about
the weird dancey remix stuff though; when the Benjamin Weinman (of Dillinger
Escape Plan fame) remix of Wrath Upon Ourselves came on it’s such a horrible
bastard noise that I thought my MP3 player had packed up.
The new Whitechapel
EP is in too and it’s a curious beast. It’s eight tracks that again, has a
Weinman remix which I am not looking forward too, a cover of Pantera’s Strength
Beyond Strength and an acoustic version of End of Flesh. Yes, and acoustic
Whitechapel track. To be honest, it sounds pretty terrible, doesn’t it? I can’t
really see how the kings of deathcore (a title I have assigned, before everyone
gets pissy and cries about how Job for a Cowboy are better) would work at all
without brutal downtuned 8-strings and savage drums. Watch this space for a
full run down…
In other
news, everyone’s favourite nice-assed midget John Bon Jovi has opened a restaurant
called Soul Kitchen in New Jersey
Fare the well
M
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