Death & The Ninth Day - Man Falls Down Well

Been waiting on this to come out a while since I checked out their first three tracks back at the start of the year, and have been pretty excited about it (to the extent I've also posted it over at plenty of swords). These guys haven't disappointed either. Sick instrumentals meshing together indie end tech metal, math rock prog to name a few things. Really good. Man Falls Down Well

Ironhide - Create/Collapse/Repeat

Right so another cool band from Brisbane. This came out back in April of 2011 and these guys are basically progressive tech-metal that mixes up elements of hardcore, mathcore, metalcore and some post-rock elements and do it well it all works nicely. Was reading up a bit on these guys and it sounds like they were ripped of buy some douche bag from their old record label who basically took the money from the pre-orders for their album and vanished so not cool, big respect to them though they still have this up for name your price on bandcamp cool guys. I would definitely go support them if you can after that tho nasty stuff! plus this is good. Bandcamp. 

Antares - l'esprit de l'escalier

If you caught the post on the Chronicles of Adam West you might have read that the guitarist that was in that band is in another, this is that band. So some more UK tech shiz think COAW bit different think more electronics maybe less chaotic sounding bit more spacey (haha I'm struggling a bit with this description) but yeah still ridiculously technical and sweet goodness. So this madness came out back in 2009 yeah and I've lost my physical and you can't buy it any more doh! So these guys also did a split with Rolo Tomassi which I will probably put up sometime. I just saw this quote about them had to put it up.

  "make ever other tech metal band look like that first band you were in, y’know the one that played at the school battle of the bands and covered oasis, blur etc"

Not my words but ha ha yeah maybe they are pretty insanecore.. Anyway if you liked the COAW stuff then definitely check this out here.

Ron Jarzombek - PHHHP!

Right was listening to this yesterday and thought yeah need to put some Ron up in here. This has been said before (not by me) but I will reiterate, Ron should be a legend to lots of people by now, he is to some and I'm pretty sure he exercises a lot of influence over progressive types that know him but, still considering the stuff he has put out there and super wickedness of his guitar skills and song writing, I just think he deserves more acclaim. He's played in bands such as Watchtower, Spastic Ink and more recently Blotted science, all of which are pretty rocking. I thought I'd start out with some of his solo stuff as its good maybe a bit odd but I love it.. Basically some metal progressive oddness with some ultimately sweet guitar work really good. So Basically this came out long long time ago way way back in 1996! haha I was like 12, nowadays you get PHHHP! plus which comes with eclectic electric but I thought I'd save that one for another time cos I'm mean.. It's good, doesn't sound that dated especially cos it's like him and keyboard and bits and people put out stuff not this good now, anyway if you wanna check it out it's here.

Bedlam of Cacophony - Neuroleptic

So I wanted to do two posts today and I shall, and I wanted to put up some brutal insane shit and this is just that. Some pretty brutal techgrind, techmetal shiz definitely worth a check if your in the mood for some of that shit. These guys hail from southern California, they formed back in 2007 and have been musically assaulting people ever since. I like this album, it goes from stupidly fast and chaotic to slow grinding almost doomy epic breakdown passages in some places, and some pretty cool bass solo bits almost a bit primus like? Anyway sweet mental fast and pretty chaotic. They have this and the rest of their stuff up on bandamp for free download link here, but yeah check um if you fancy some of that.