1) that special feeling you get when you discover a band, perhaps critically acclaimed, but that you never checked out, or just a new band emerging from the void. Who is the band, what album did you pick up, and what particularly impressed you?
2) I personally go through phases of songs I really like for a week or three, so what song can't you get enough of at the moment and why?
Feel free to talk about your past few discoveries and songs of the moment.
Well, my answers are as follows:
1) I recently (only 2 days ago or so) discovered Brujeria, and oh my fucking God, it was like finding a Mexican version of Fear Factory. This is hardly surprising, since they have Dino Cazarez, ex member of fear factory as their guitarist, and it's really quite similar in the guitar work. Fucking heavy-ass downtuned repetitious addictive riffs. The subject matter is mainly around Peter Wilson and the border authorities, from what I can gather from my meagre knowledge of spanish. Oh and some stuff about marijuana. It's death metal, but it's clear and calculated mexican death metal, that aren't just talking about your average death metal faire, gore and christianity. The deviation from the norm, and elements of fear factory and godflesh and pretty much absence of grindcore esque superspeed and song entropy may it easily relistenable and accessible. Moreso than another cannibal corpse/carcass/deicide clone anyway.
Since Fear Factory are my favourite band, hearing an offshoot band that sound like a load of pissed off mexicans with machetes feels great. I got all 5 of their albums, and so far, I like Brujerizmo the best. It has the longest songs, and meatiest production. It's like a cleaner industrial-inspired mixture of sludge and death. Great stuff.
2) Currently my favourite song is Nemesis by Cradle of Filth. It's off their latest album, "Nymphetamine," and to be honest, it took me a while to get into this album. I thought it was too soft and weenie-like, especially after watching the video for the title track, and Dani Filth looking eerily reminiscent of Jonathan Davis from KoRn. Thanks to songs like Nemesis, and the fucking cool songs on the bonus disc, I gave it more chance than I otherwise would've done. Yes, the album is softer, but there's some cool riffs in there, even if they're more light hearted than creepy or heavy.
Anyway, Nemesis starts out fairly fairly melodic, and not unlikeable. Then it generally continues on in a tragic sound, with eventually the drums kicking in for the rhythm before it goes heavier. The guitars go lower, then the chorus starts up, and thankfully, Dani's vocals stay at the low (good) end of his scale. The song returns to the tragic sound, and essentially, you just wait for the chorus again.
Prior to this my songs of the moment were "Spiritual Holocaust" by Hate Eternal and "Kali Yuga part 1" by Therion. Very addictive use of an incredibly sinister riff interspersed by traditional hate eternal blast beats, and a decent "normal" riff between the sinister parts. Vocals are pretty much what you'd expect. The Therion song I would describe as orchestral sludge metal. Very slow, doomy, technically proficient and meaty, interspersed with melodic parts.
So....yourself?
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