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RCRD OF THE DAY: The Secret Machines - Terrible Light
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The Secret Machines get mental in this new orchestral rock b-side, where frontman Brandon Curtis gives his most swinging metal-lite to date. In “Terrible Light,” the drums lumber down, the electric wails seep black, and by final boom of the prog-rock stomp, you’ll vow never, ever to let these guys use your basement. Buy the track in tandem with the band’s latest anti-social anthem, “Like I Can,” on iTunes via their very own label, TSM Recordings.
The Secret Machines - Terrible Light
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DOWNLOAD: Pelican - Specks Of Light
(Photo: Marty Watson)
Instrumental metal is either your thing or it isn't, unless we're talking about Pelican. They're not Sunn O))), you know? Dudes aren't soft, but the sludge they kick around is more cerebral than it is oppressive. And you don't have to know Calculus to find the first beat of a measure. And some dude who really worships Phil Anselmo isn't deepthroating the mic. It's approachable stuff. "Specks Of Light" is from their new LP for Southern Lord, What We All Come To Need. They're also headed out on tour come Saturday–those dates are after the break.
DOWNLOAD: Ancestors - The Ambrose Law
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We're going to be real with you: this Ancestors song is over thirteen minutes long. You might've surmised from the photo that these dudes aren't into brevity, but really you guys this is an almost quarter-hour of swashbuckling, organ-smeared doom riffage. It's a freaking leviathan. In terms of getting the most bang for you download or whatever, this trumps everything else. Should you need more, the album from whence it came is available from Tee Pee.
DOWNLOAD: Final - Wrong Signal (alt. mix)
Maybe the deep ambience of Final, a.k.a. Justin Broadrick, feels so weighty because there’s so much history behind it: He first carved his name into the earth playing guitar with Napalm Death in the mid-’80s, then drummed for Head Of David (slogan: “Peace through superior rock power”) before co-founding Godflesh, kind of the Velvet Underground of industrial metal, as far as influence goes. This decade he came back recharged with Jesu, taking on production and remixing duties for a wide spray of bands (including School of Seven Bells). Final was also the name of his first project in the early ’80s, but with the new album Reading All the Right Signals Wrong, you could say his ideas have evolved a bit: “Wrong Signal” is like heavy air under Gothic clouds, and you just want to breathe deeply and become it.
Final - Wrong Signal (alt. mix)
DOWNLOAD: Nebula - The Dagger
(Photo: Pamela Davies)
Take one look at Nebula's exhaustive tour schedule for the rest of the year–a current run with The Entrance Band, ending in early September, and a two-month run through Europe directly after that–and you get the feeling that this band can play. That is also evident on "The Dagger," a wormy riffgarden snatched from their newest album for Tee Pee, Heavy Psych (way get literal, guys).
DOWNLOAD: ISIS - 20 Minutes/40 Years
ISIS is an L.A. drone-metal band whose fifth studio album, Wavering Radiant, marks this year’s surrender to the inevitable crescendo of transcendent noise. “20 Minutes/40 Years” is nothing less than the prototype for stretched-out, dissonant guitar ballads. It’s a slow head-bang, a black riff on an atmospheric landscape. Made for peeling out of your driveway to dump that succubus who you were gonna take to Amsterdam but now she kissed that guy at Kendall’s party so you invoke ISIS to rain sonic darkness upon us all. God, she was the one.
Sounds like: Tool, Explosions in the Sky, Sleeping in Gethsemane
DOWNLOAD: Children - Power Spirit
We don't usually wax much on the photos that go along with our tracks, but can we just pause for a minute to marvel at the above? Could there be a more perfect and apt promo shot? Do I even have to tell you that Children are a ridiculously thrilling thrash metal band who use atomic mushroom clouds as their aesthetic constant? Probably not, but it's worth reiterating. Further proof can be found in the relentless deep shred of "Power Spirit," which, truth be told, sounds like something pulled from Megadeth's Rust In Peace if Dave Mustaine had been eating rocks while recording that record. Children's debut full-length, Hard Times Hanging At The End Of The World, hits May 12th through Kemado. Now go air guitar your ass off.
Sounds like: Megadeth, High On Fire, Ladyhawk (not really they're just bros)
DOWNLOAD: The Sword - How Heavy This Axe
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I'm not sure where to start with this one: the ridiculous guitar soup, the galloping metal cavalcade, the depths of Mordor grooves, or the amazing title. Austin's The Sword have been bringing the noise for a few years now and the question posed by this track is equally applicable to their sound, a furious hybrid of different styles of metal that cherrypicks all of the best elements of each.
Sounds Like: Black Mountain, Graveyard, Witch
The Sword - How Heavy This Axe
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