This is the third of today’s three single-song posts. I realize that when I started today’s series I said all three songs would be new ones from bands I already knew about, but that’s not the case. I didn’t intend to lie, but I found another song I need to share, and it’s from a band I only discovered today.
The band is Gruesome Glory and they’re from Iceland. Just a few days ago, they added a new song to their SoundCloud page called “Consuming the Anti-Life Equation”, and it’s one hell of a song. The band is relatively young as are its members, but don’t let that fool you. “Consuming the Anti-Life Equation” is technical death metal, but (to quote a recent snarky comment we received about a different band), the music is NOT “mindless wankery”.
True to the band’s name, it’s gruesome, largely thanks to the cadaverous vocals, and yes, it’s full of jabbing riffs, rapidly slithering arpeggios, and other forms of flashy fretwork. But it also has some funk, some groove, and plenty of low-end heft, plus some sweet bass-work. This is making me think of Pestilence.
The band are promising a debut album in 2012, which I think will be worth waiting for. Give this a shot:
“Consuming the Anti-Life Equation”
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The band’s Facebook page is here. They also have three other songs streaming at ReverbNation, so I’m including them in the player below.
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Mindless wankery 🙂
That phrase has often left one perplexed… Is there even such a thing as mindful/thoughtful wankery (in the context of metal guitar playing)?
Depends on the listener…for me, no. I find most music where the guitar player is trying to show off their knowledge of musical theory to be rather lifeless and grating. For people who like tech-death, Im sure over-complicated guitar noodling is perfectly acceptable, and even enjoyable
Also, my comment was done more as a joke. This is not even close to the worst kind of tech-death Ive ever heard, and I usually try to avoid ripping on others peoples taste in any serious capacity on this website. Islander runs a decent website and I try to respect that
One did catch on to the joke. But, the argument can still be made that “mindless wankery is mindless”.
One does enjoy a fair amount of tech-death. But, there isn’t much tech-death that one would be willing to listen to repeatedly, if you know what one means.
Anyway, would you care to name 5 tech-death bands whose music you don’t consider mindless wankery?
Thats a harder question than you may think. Im not a fan of this genre at all, so stuff that others may like Id probably disregard completely. If I was forced to pick Id probably go with Anata, Cryptopsy, Atheist, Immolation(who kind of ride the line of tech), and early Atrocity. I wouldnt consider any of them overly wanky, at least not to the detriment of the music
Very nice list. But does this mean you consider bands like Decapitated, Krisiun, and Gorod to be too wank?
Decapitated and Gorod are very wanky in my opinion, perfect examples of bands showing off their knowledge of musical theory. Krisiun kind of rides that line for me, much like Immolation does. I dont think they get so far up their own asses that they lose the rawness the way a lot of tech-death bands seem to do
What Brute said, more or less…
One never considered Immolation as tech-death… Any particular album of theirs you have in mind?
I dont think theyre full on tech death, but they play a very precise and calculated style of death metal. It has far more in common with tech-death than it does with traditional death metal like Incantation or Deicide
True. One of the reasons one likes so few Death Metal bands – those who “ride that line”.
…or some of those who mix it up.
Whilst the members of Immolation don’t set fire to their fret-boards, the music is complex and reasonably difficult to play and that’s where I’d say the technical part comes in.
“Consuming the Anti-Life Equation”? Well, one hopes they aren’t really talking about the same Anti-Life Equation that one is thinking of. If they are, it would mean that they are either major comic book nerds, or they spend an excessive amount of time on Wiki’s researching the history of a comic book series.
I guess this makes me a major comic book nerd because I knew immediately what the Anti-Life Equation was.
Youre both nerds
Nerds we may be, but at least I know how to counteract the equation. When the boomtube opens and Darkseid speaks it into your mind, however, you will become his mindless slave.
Please..the answer is heavy metal…the answer is always heavy metal
besides everyone knows that Darkseid is destined to die by his sons hand 🙂
Comic nerd!!!
I will not deny that heavy metal is the answer to everything, undoubtedly including the Anti-Life Equation. However, heavy metal may also be a concealed component of the Anti-Life Equation. 🙂
One does not see your reasoning very well for viewing Heavy Metal as a component of the Anti-Life Equation… Should it not be the other way around?
Alternatively, it might be a component of the Life Equation.
Yes, I can see that the Anti-Life Equation may well be a part of metal, and metal may be a part of the defense to the Anti-Life Equation. Gets complicated, doesn’t it?
The song is probably about Darkseid and his eternal quest for the Anti-Life equation
Another comic book nerd! Welcome!
Thankee sai
Very good song.
I love mindless wankery of the tech-death style. So, fisticuffs at dawn!!!
I didn’t get the song title reference, but I also don’t care much for DC….except Batman and Vertigo. Batman because it’s fucking Batman, and Vertigo for publishing some of the best stories ever. And Warren Ellis.
I want to be Warren Ellis’s slave.
I actually don’t read comics much any more, though I’ll always be a comic book nerd. When I did read, Warren Ellis was a fav — particularly the “Transmetropolitan” series. And yes, Vertigo was so damned full of win that it couldn’t lose. Hellblazer!
I assume youre talking to me…Ive got to warn you, Im a biter
Same here – one doesn’t much besides Warren Ellis, a few Vertigo series and Batman. Most of what one knows of DC or Marvel mythos is from the wikias. 😛
Although… one must admit that one forgot about FreakAngels midway even though one continued to read other works by Warren Ellis. 😐