Silent, they're not. For that matter none of they seem particularly suicidal either, but when did you actually believe there was truth in advertising. According to the bandmembers, there's also no truth in those who assert they play deathcore. But of all the bands that seem to fit that categorization, Suicide Silence are one of the best.
As destructive as their latest album The Cleansing is, the band's natural element is the stage. For those who haven't seen them yet, Suicide Silence put on a destructive, overwhelming and exciting performance full of noise, chaos and unpredictability. Every song it seems like they're about to fall apart, yet they never do, pushing sensory overload to its rhythmic limits while still containing enough breakdowns for kids to do some serious damage to themselves and others.
For those who have yet to experience the devastation, MetalInjection.net have posted three songs from the band's Summer Slaughter performance in Sayreville, New Jersey. Click "more" to watch. Read more...
One of the highlights from MetalInjection.net's Summer Slaughter coverage is Cryptopsy's "Slit Your Guts." The clip was shot with at least two cameras and the sound quality is pretty damn good. The mix is perfect, nothing's overdistorted and the guitar leads slash through like a straight razor through a bed sheet. Plus the band is on fire -- precise, but not at all mechanical. Click "more" to see for yourself: Read more...
Screw Mayhem attractions like Slipknot, Disturbed and Dragonforce, MetalInjection.net have recruited the dudes from The Red Chord to provide semi-regular updates from the festival. Here, they film the autograph tent, a Jack and Coke fountain at a (not so) surprise backstage birthday party for organizer John Reese and a skinny dude dancing like an eel next to a set of free weights. The later sequence is looped over a soundbed of '70s porn funk. Click "more" to watch it all and get your groove on: Read more...
The Black Dahlia Murder, Kataklysm and Necrophagist are a few of the obvious highlights from this year's Summer Slaughter tour, but there are a bunch of other bands that are tearing faces and taking names as well, and one of the most lethal is Hobart, Tasmania's Psycroptic.
The band plays extreme technical death metal that's both intensely mathematical and absolutely captivating. With drums that pummel at, like, 8,000 BPM and guitars that shave flesh faster than a vegetable skinner, yet still leave something tangible in their slippery wake, Psycroptic could challenge Arsis and Meshuggah for the Nobel Noise Prize of Science. And they're every bit as brutal live, nailing each impossible rhythm shift and speed flurry with hunger and precision. Don't believe us? Click "more" and check out Metal Injection's excellent footage of "Isle of Disenchantment." Read more...
