Crossfaith

Last post for now! You guys must've heard of Crossfaith! If you have you already know how brilliant they are, but just in case you haven't... To sum them up- they're a Japanese Metalcore band that have an electrifying twist. Literally.
Before I get into specifics, I will tell you about my experience with Crossfaith. Leeds Festival 2013 I was stood right in the middle of the rock-stage tent. Ready, for whatever Crossfaith threw at me. I was not expecting what did happen... Crossfaith arrived onto the staged as hyper as a child after drinking two litres of fizzy pop, except these guys weren't drinking fizzy pop; they have a fascination with Jagermeister. In fact, it was the drummer's (Tatsu) birthday, he practically downed a full bottle of Jack Daniels on stage!
The programmer hit the stage first, jumping around the stage- dropped a beat, the crowd erupted. Before I knew it I was trapped in a vortex of people, elbows flying everywhere, heads banging. I was loving it. A few songs in they dropped their version of "Omen- The Prodigy" ... I could say, the intensity stepped up a few gears...
Now, the bad. If you combine the electronic style and the metalcore aspect I suppose you could call them electronicore.. Despite them being Japanese, the lead singer (Ken) sings in English and, he's pretty good at it too. Scratch that, he's awesome. The entire band really know how to put on a show; they are literally one of my highlights of Leeds Festival last year. I get the pleasure of seeing them in February (on the Kerrang Tour) and in June (Download Festival) and I already know they're going to blow me away again.
The band have a few albums, and a couple of EPs. Their latest album is called 'APOCOLYZE' and features a lot off good tracks, for example: We are the future and Eclipse. However, my favourite piece of their work is an EP they released in 2011 called 'Zion EP' My favourite track features on this EP, and here it is...


Let me know what you think!

Slayer!

Ok! You all might have heard of these guys, but with the legendary axe man Jeff Hanneman passing away today/tonight thought I'd do a post in his memory.
Not only do these guys have the coolest band name of all time, they also are one of the pioneers of thrash metal and have been rocking out since 1981! The lead singer (Tom Araya) has the best voice in thrash metal, this is fact. (Well technically it is opinion...). Former ( :(  ) guitarist Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King (still in Slayer) are in my top 5 most skilled guitarists of all time. And I have not even mentioned Dave Lombadrdo, the drummer. He got crowned " the godfather of double bass" which is possibly the coolest title ever, which kind of tells you how awesome he is. The combination of these guys is killer and their name really fits with the whole sound they muster up in every single song. A little fact about these guys which also sums up their music is, they once apparently covered themselves in fake blood on one of the shows! Also they sing about serial killers and being anti-Christ, which I enjoy in a weird way.
Slayer have 11albums! Which is a great effort. I cannot fault any of these albums, seriously.  If you listen to them all intently like I did, you may find "Diabolus in musica" to be slightly weaker, but I still love the album. NOW, less of the bad side! Slayers best album is undoubtably "Reign in Blood" features so many immense tracks! Like... "Angel of Death" and my favourite "Raining Blood". The riff on "Raining blood" is absolutely amazing, even if you don't like heavy metal surely you must appreciate that riff, sounds so good!  They are meant to be bringing an album out later this year too, but I'm not sure how that is now because of today's events.
Slayer are a part of the "big four" thrash metal acts, other bands in this are "Anthrax" "megadeth" and "METALLICA!" If you got to see them all play together you are so lucky as I have never seen any of these bands :( which really saddens me. Tonight at the Golden Gods awards, Anthrax did a cover of Raining Blood as a tribute to Jeff, which shows the impact his death has had.
Anyway, here is my favourite (enjoy the riff)

 Let me know what you think ;)

Skindred!

I am back! (I'm sure you all missed me -_-)
Well I am back for a very very short while (1 post, maybe 2) You see my laptop is broken :/ and I can't access an Ipad at uni seen as hough it's my dads, so I can't post D: Anyway, I will be back as quick as my laptop gets repaired!
The band I am recommending Is playing Leeds Festival they were in the latest announcement!
The way I would describe this band is, they are one of the most unique, one of the most interesting metal bands out there. They are a Reggae- Metal band, yes that is right! If Bob Marley and Corey Taylor (Lead singer of Slipknot and Stone Sour) had a baby, they would make Benji Webbe (Lead singer of Skindred). Benji has one of the best voices I have ever heard! and his physical presence during Skidred's live sets is astonishing (they love to get the crowd involved as you will see in the video in this post). He always wears wacky suites and never fails to get the crowd going! (I am speaking from experience here, they are one of the best bands I have ever seen). The singer doesn't make the band however, notorious for heavy awe-inspiring riffs and kick-ass drums they generate some of the greatest tracks ever. They are the second best band to come out of Wales, Sorry but I prefer Bullet For My Valentine!
Skindred have 4 awesome albums out now and they are releasing their fifth later this year. Their first album "Babylon" is a masterpiece and I think my favourite by them featuring such tracks as "Nobody" (Listen to this, this is my second favourite song by these) NOBODY, NOBODY GETS OUT ALIVE. Their latest album "Union Black" is also an incredible album, which features my favourite track. I'm not saying their other albums aren't worth a mention because they sure are both "Roots Rock Riot" and "Shark Bites and Dog Fights" are also amazing. They are all easily accessible on Spotify an their albu due out this year is called "Kill The Power" it's release date is not yet known.
Anyway this is my favourite song...



Let me know what you think?

Ghost (Ghost B.C)

Where do I start with these guys? Having read in Metal Hammer in this months edition that they have just sign to a major record label, and one day plan to sell out arena's and be as big as Slipknot/ Marilyn Manson...  Must be a little bit of potential here... There is, definitely.
Well what if I told you they were Swedish and their lead singer is called "Papa Emeritus II' and the rest of the band named "Nameless Ghouls" you might start to perceive what these guys are actually like. Best thing is though, these guys actually use voice changers during Interviews so the ghouls actually sound like Darth Vader! So nobody can recognise there voice. Obviously people have opinions on who "Papa" is but I could say I do, I haven't ever seen Chuck Norris and Papa Emeritus in the same room.. (Idiot logic people apply to the situation)
NOW! About the band... they have been compared to bands like Black Sabbath/ Mercyful Fate- Satanic rock bands if you like. They have just released a new album which means they have two now altogether, I have no listened to their new album which is called "Infestissumam" (Just realised, comes out worldwide 16th April, came out in Scandinavia 9th April) They have released a song off of this album called "Secular Haze" which I love! but my favourite has to be off of their first album which is called "Opus Eponymous" (It's on Spotify, give it a listen)
My favourite track is called "Ritual" I'm not going to post that, I'm going to go for something different to give you the full feeling of ghost hear it is...
Well That's Ghost! (Ghost B.C in America) Let me know what you think.