I don’t have any scientific way of knowing the musical tastes of the people who visit this site, just rough guesses. My rough guess is that most of the music in this post will be on the outer edge of the comfort zone of most visitors, or maybe outside it altogether. But since I’m starting with Krisiun, maybe that will buy me some leeway from all our necrovorous readers on the final four entries in this round-up. And if it doesn’t, well, I’ve got teflon skin, so you can piss on me in the comments and it will roll right off, no harm done.
I admit that Krisiun is more down the middle of my own comfort zone, too, but for me, the outer edges of the zone are way out there, as the spectrum of this music proves. So, in addition to the new song from Krisiun, I found something to like about all the other new songs included in this post — from Censura (Ireland), The Browning (U.S.), Whitechapel (U.S.), and Subrosa (U.S.). Two of these new songs, by the way, are captured in well-made music videos, and so maybe you’ll be distracted by the moving pictures, though I hope you’ll get something out of the music, too.
KRISIUN
The three, mean-ass, Brazilian death-metal overlords in Krisiun have a new album on the way. Called The Great Executioner, it will be released by Century Media in Europe on October 31 and in the U.S. on November 1. About 10 days ago, Krisiun released a song from the album called “The Will To Potency”. Somehow, I missed it until this past weekend. It’s stupendous, titanic, mind-bending. It lashes together strikingly proficient technical musicianship, bursts of head-spinning melody, guitar solos so white-hot as to melt lead, and the voraciously unclean vocal roars we all know and love so well. And wait ’til you hear the song’s intro. Limber up your neck muscles and hear this (right after the jump):
CENSURA
Censura is an unsigned Irish band who wrote NCS recently about their new music video for a song called “The Voice”, which appears on a forthcoming four-song EP entitled The Island. Censura’s sound incorporates the musical sensibilities of metalcore, with hammering industrial rhythms and near-pop melodic choruses, plus traces of start-stop, dubstep-style electronica. Vocalist Jimmy Triger shifts from harsh vocals to near-clean voicing in the chorus, riding the groove of the djent-plus-keys instrumentation.
The video reflects production quality that we rarely see in a debut video for a debut EP by a new unsigned band. If you wonder what the strange, painted creature in the video represents, she’s apparently intended to embody the band’s goal of standing out from the surrounding landscape. In the video, she certainly does. Does the music? Well, I don’t think it’s breaking any new ground, but it’s still fun. Judge for yourself:
The Island is available for pre-order in CD format at http://censuraireland.bigcartel.com. The CD includes the video plus a fifth song, and those who pre-order will receive an immediate mp3 download of “The Vice”. You can follow Censura on Facebook via this link.
THE BROWNING
We first discovered this Dallas-based outfit almost exactly one year ago through one of our MISCELLANY experiments. At the time, they’d only been a band for about five months, but had already been signed by Earache Records. The song we sampled for the MISCELLANY post was “Standing On the Edge”, and holy hells was it a catchy number, so much so that I came very damned close to including it in our list of 2010’s most infectious extreme metal songs.
The Browning have a new album slated for release via Earache tomorrow (Oct 4) called Burn This World. Last week, they released an official video for a song from the album called “Bloodlust”. It’s another very catchy song reflecting The Browning’s distinctive take on the deathcore genre — heavy on the keyboards, with near-symphonic synths in places, but with plenty of head-butting aggression in the forefront. There’s something about that combination of hook-laden melody, bombastic keyboards, and raging vocals and riffing that I find appealing.
As in the case of Censura’s video, the new one from The Browning is also well-made, combining footage of the band performing with a short story, the moral of which, I suppose, is that when the attentions of a hot blonde seem too good to be true, you should check out her canines.
Burn This World can be pre-ordered here, and the band’s Facebook page is at this location.
WHITECHAPEL
I suppose everyone knows that Whitechapel is a deathcore band, certainly one of the most popular deathcore bands going. But they’ve thrown a curveball with a new song released in the last few days called “Section 8”. Undoubtedly, it has engendered confusion and even dismay among the Whitechapel faithful. For me, it rekindled interest.
The song is still deathcore, laden with concrete, atonal guitar and bass chords, and cement-busting breakdowns, but . . . it’s jazzed up with unexpected polyrhythms, djent-style riffing, and ghostly phantoms of melody that appear long enough to make you think, “what the fuck was that?”, and then evaporate.
My, my, the band appears to be in search of . . . musical growth? Stylistic evolution? Something that passes for a challenge to the sensibilities and expectations of its diehard fans? Yes, I believe so. That’s worth at least polite applause, don’t you think?
This track will reportedly appear on  a digital-only EP called Recorrupted, which is expected on November 8 through Metal Blade Records.
SUBROSA
I was introduced to this Salt Lake City band about a month ago by one of the original co-founders of this site, IntoTheDarkness. I was shocked to hear the music, given what I know of ITD’s tastes, which lean heavily toward the deathcore end of the metal spectrum. Subrosa combine massive, doom-y, black-hole guitar chords with ethereal, clean vocals — thick sludge and the flight of doves.
Profound Lore released the band’s latest album, No Help For the Mighty Ones, this past spring, featuring the wonderful cover art of Glyn Smyth. A vinyl release is coming up, with different art from the same artist. So, I’m using that impending release to claim the music as new for purposes of this post. Mainly, I just wanted to share a song that has grown on me quite a bit the more I’ve listened to it. This is “Borrowed Time, Borrowed Eyes”:
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Okay, that’s a wrap on this hodgepodge of music. Let the peeing begin!
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Im hoping whitechapel stays in this direction. Their music was getting a little stale. I hope they play Section 8 live next month.
Stale is the right word. They’ve gotten increasingly proficient at their standard style over time, and I’m sure their fanbase would have been completely happy with more of the same, but I’ve been losing interest. Section 8 makes me curious for what’s next. The rest of the forthcoming EP may offer more clues.
“The Browning” makes me lol. That is not a good metal name. That is what I do to a chicken in the oven.
I’m pretty sure “browning” is pooping yourself on an international flight after drinking too much coffee and whiskey.
Speaking of international flights….I just came up with a new plan to kill time next week! W00t!
You’re going to have such a great homecoming in Colorado, drunk off your ass, coffee and food stains down your shirt, and a big load in your pants.
Who said anything about food???
The trick to a good international flight is a lots of booze and coffee and no food so when your stomach acid REALLY starts going insane, there’s nothing to absorb it. Ulcers 4 lyfe!
I clearly made an inappropriate assumption — but you’re right. Lots of coffee so you get no sleep for the 10 or 12 hour flight to Colorado from Japan and can spend the whole time soaking yourself in whiskey, following by pissing and shitting yourself, and maybe a little throwing up bile in your mouth. We need video of you when you walk in the door of the homestead!
You’re like my soulmate right now, you know me so well….
Watch me do me. And don’t look away.
Technically he didn’t say anything about food, just food stains. Personally, when I’m drunk at an airport, I like to stumble around in the restaurants and lie on peoples’ food, so I get what you mean.
Lying on other people’s food is one of life’s great pleasures.
Lying on…fucking…same thing I guess.
You fuck other people’s food?!? What kind of pervert are you?
Of course, haven’t you heard that old saying “don’t fuck where you eat”?
Wait, I thought it was don’t shi . . . oh, never mind.
It’s one of those name choices that’s either courageous, meaningless, or foolhardy, At least it’s not a Verb-the-Noun name. Here’s an interview where they discuss the name — at least initially it seems to have been totally random:
http://totaldeathcore.blogspot.com/2011/06/browning-interview.html
I’ve got a Verb-the-Noun name for you right here, buddy.
It’s called Fist the Anus.
Or perhaps Shit the Fuck. Or Fuck the Shit?
I know! Skeet the Smackitycore! (I had to scroll up to make sure that I spelled “smackitycore” correctly.)
Well, if you don’t know how to spell it, we’re in trouble, since it’s your word. 🙂
And I’m shocked, shocked I tell you, that no band has picked up the name Fist the Anus. It’s just ripe with merchandising possibilities.
Personalized, signed-by-the-band dildos!!!
Octo-dildos, if only my dreams would come true.
Fuck the Shit, by the legendary Sons of Butcher:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyxNgnQ9m30
Also, Phro, because I love you, tentacle dildo.
http://whipspiderrubberworks.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=32
Well, both of those things made me happy.
I’d like to sex your earhole now.
I’ve said this before, but my advice has clearly fallen on deaf ears. To repeat: you two need to get a room. And a video camera.
I can’t hear because I have Phro-sex in my earholes.
When did you ever say that before! You’re just jealous.
But don’t worry, you can come too.
Hehehehehe. Come.
No. Just no.
Someone has to hold the camera.
I will hold the camera as long as I get to wear a haz-mat suit along with full SCBA gear.
We’re fresh out of hazmat suits and SCBA gear, but feel free to use a handkerchief and some 3D glasses.
Someone please make him stop.
Definitely. They are amazing at the “Whitechapel” sound no one can do it better but it does get a little old. Im excited to see them and TDWP next month. My buddy has 4 hours of lessons with Ben that day too.
Well, okay then, of course the Krisiun is good, the Subrosa is interesting, I liked the Censura more than I expected from the description. The Browning and Whitechapel just didn’t do much for me.
It goes without saying that Krisiun isn’t a band so much as a collection of rogue demon’s who just don’t give a fuck are a simply killing time until they have charged their dick-stones-of-power enough to go back in time and just kill everything before it gets born.
Also, why does metalcore/deathcore make me think of the Used? Is that just lingering brain damage from high school????
Shitting myself with laffter over the Krisiun description — but it’s so true. And to answer your question: Yes.
I just reread what I wrote, and I’m pretty sure that sentence doesn’t make sense grammatically.
I assume that means that Krisiun has begun their war on everything by starting with my brain.
Or your answer to my question also explains my lack of grammatical abilities.
Either way………………………………………………..
The typos are part of what made it choice, because if anyone can listen to Krisiun and still type and spell correctly, then they haven’t REALLY been listening.
It must be no coincidence that I have been butchering the English language in IM’s and emails at work today, since I have been listening to Krisiun, Vomitory and Blood Red Throne for the majority of the day.
That’s a trifecta of brain damage right there. I hope your work doesn’t involve open heart surgery.
I hope it does…
Nope. Just admitting hopeful engineers, vets and architects to college
The future of our nation is in good hands.
I weep for our future. The number of idiotic morons that are being churned out of high school and junior colleges is mind numbing.
People say that, and I don’t doubt that it’s true, but I also assume that it’s not actually WORSE than any other generation…
I really, really hope.
I don’t know man. It seems to be getting worse each semester. It’s also possible that I am starting to turn into the old man that yells at kids to stay off his lawn.
If I were being fair, I’d say it’s kinda both…
But I do know what you mean.
From the time I was freshman until I graduated, it did seem like
they were getting dumber…
But I just hoped I was crazy…
How does one charge a dick stone? I assume sex is involved.
No! Actually, the exact opposite.
Kinda like how porn starts have to go a few days without sexing or “releasing” before a shot involving a facial, they just kind of stare at people and absorb their sexability and save it all up before the final Godzilla bukkake to end all Godzilla bukkakes.
So, that implies that Krisiun will go back in time and kill everything by ejaculating on it. It’ll be the Spermpocalypse.
I’m now imagining high winds and tidal waves of semen flooding through and destroying everything. God help me.
Pretty much.
Though don’t forget the random cock demons.
Is that what makes those 4 hour erections that the tv tells you to go to the hospital for?
I think those are the after effects of shame and your dick screaming.
Lots of buffing.
I don’t know what +1 means, but I think it’s supposed to be a compliment, so I give this a +1.
Fun fact: there’s actually a really good death metal band called Necrovorous from Greece: http://www.myspace.com/necrovorous
I know about them; in fact, I have their new album, and I had them in mind when I wrote the first part of the post. I think it’s such a cool name. There are carnivores, and there are herbivores, and there are omnivores, and then there are the people who visit NCS — necrovores.
Those of us that aren’t necroplushophiles.
We are a much maligned and overlooked minority, but we are strong and we WILL NOT BE SHUT UP!
Watching you and Trollfiend riff off of each other reminds me of the banjo scene in Deliverance. But better.
Again, though I don’t know what it means, +1. But which one is the idiot savant and which one is the whitebread guitarist about to die gruesomely on the river?
Idiot savant! Called it!
That’s how I was leaning. Phro looks like he is about to die a horrible death. All the time. 😀
Clearly, I should watch Deliverance….
You haven’t seen Deliverance? Honestly, I’m kind of scared about what it migfht make you think, or do, to yourself, or to others. By the way, gazing at your ikon, I’ve been meaning to tell you that you got a real purdy mouth on you.
So is Islander Private Cowboy?
Krisiun.
That is all.
I’ll give that a big AMEN.
Indeed.
I couldn’t really add any more than what Phro and Trollfiend had done, so i thought simplicity was the best.
Fist the Anus.
dick-stones-of-power
random cock demons
necroplushophiles
Godzilla bukkake
HOLY FUCK, NCS is a goddamned diamond mine of potential band names. I hope to see these on next years bill for The Good Fucking Pancake Tour 2: The Spermapocalypse.
HA! As it happens, I’ve been keeping a list for the next tour, and it just doubled in size. 🙂
I’ve listened to to much of the first Whitechapel album that whenver you guys say anything that has to do with semen, I automatically think of hookers and Jack the Ripper…….also, I like where this new Whitechapel material is going.
More details on that new EP came out earlier today:
https://www.nocleansinging.com/2011/10/03/whitechapel-recorrupted/
I’m probably going to catch hell for saying it, but my thought straight away when that Whitechapel track began was “quick lads, the bandwagon’s leaving without us!”…
“A New Era Of Corruption” was a great album. they were on track to being the Vader of deathcore (good deathcore… which is essentially just death metal with more staccato breakdowns, right? Ha.) – one dimensional, one directional, endlessly aggressive and all the better for it! Straight forward and aggressive.
Now I know there was always that slightly artificial tone to their guitars, but the COMBINATION of their tone, plus the polyrhythms, plus the djenty guitar playing… it just sounds like it’s been done to death already.
There are enough bands round my way who ran screaming to steal Meshuggah’s guitar tone to make their generic breakdowns seem more “prog”, thank you very much. Whitechapel shouldn’t be one of them.
Seriously… for once I was totally happy with them not progressing their sound, just honing it to a killing edge, which is what they’d slowly been doing with each successive album. I know I’m not usually the person to say it, but more straight forward heaviness and brutality please!
You’re just generally a contrary sort, aren’t you?
I’ll admit that’s a very difficult question to answer…
censura track is pretty amazing! Didn’t care for the rest tbh