This band has never really done it for me. I never hated them, I just couldn’t make myself care. Then Hostage Animal came out last year.
Good god.
This thing destroys. They do thrash/crossover, sludge, hardcore, metal and nail it all. It makes me want to go back and take a look at those other albums I didn’t really care about.
I am that goddamn son of a bitch.
I forgot how much I love this band.
Cliff Meyer of Isis, Red Sparrows, and Windmills in the Ocean, before he was in any of those bands.
A bandcamp supporter comments sum this up perfectly: “Been a fan since 06/07 which is scary to think about. Phenomenal band. A total mystery as to how they aren’t bigger.”
How does a band like this fly under the radar for 10 years (at least as far as I can tell)?
An incredibly hard to search band name already doesn’t help. Neither does a great though sort of generic sound. Aminals are good, they are totally nailing that early 00s metal/hardcore Converge thing, but so have lots of bands.
Despite what it might sound like, I do like the album and its free on their bandcamp page.
Photo by Trevor Roper (stolen from Facebook).
This is what going all out sounds like.
Go buy it.
Originally by Led Zeppelin
All posts in the month of August will be covers.
I remember seeing the band after Jupiter came out, and they played this live. They played a 15 to 20-minute version. It sounded so huge and epic.
This covers fits perfectly in the time frame they recorded it. So spacey and prog.
I pretty much checked out on Isis after Panopticon, but the early releases still crush.
I’m super stoked for the new album “NO.” Order it here.
In the meantime here is a track from their Seminar II: The Holy Rites of Primitivism Regression album.
Mandried is a pretty good “cliff notes” version of OMG in eight minutes and ten seconds. It starts heavy and riffy (that is now a word) with shouted vocals, then the vocals go out and the song marches on, getting nosier and nosier. The drums drop out, and the guitar slowly fades, and the noise gets more prominent. Eventually, it becomes a noise collage with only the faintest traces of what the song started as. 8:10 that completely covers everything that Old Man Gloom does.
