Author Archives: Simo

Pay what you want for Invocation’s debut EP

I love when bands do things like these. No, this is not about an all girl thrash metal band with a passion for small dicks and they didn’t just invite me to be their roadie. Invocation, a djenty band from UK, have just released their debut EP (available through Bandcamp), and they are offering it on a “pay what you want” basis.

I’m not really in the mood for long rants about the music industry, but this is pretty much the future of (self) publishing. It’s great for you as well. I mean, really, I know some people don’t have lots of money, and buying a piece of plastic for $16 really seems a lot when you compare it to the alternatives (like, you know, getting it for free on torrent sites or whatever), so if you have a problem with this model, you’re simply a douschebag. I mean seriously, if you like their music (and you can check out the stream below) and feel like owning it, at least buy them a cup of coffee.

You can download the EP on their Bandcamp page, or you can stream it below.

An audio interview with Richie from Sol Invicto

Remember our little interview with Richie Londres from Sol Invicto we did a while back? Or the incident that caused it? Yeah, of course you do. Anyway, the interview I’m talking about now in this article wasn’t conducted by us, it was done by Anthony Saia from KUOI 89.3 FM.

Why did I even bother writing about it, then? Because it starts the only way a good interview should start like: talking about us! BOOM! Dose of Metal in da house! Represent! They talk about how we’re awesome or something like that for a few minutes, then they switch to other themes, which I didn’t quite understand because Richie is more well spoken than me in my mother tongue (and I’m Eastern European so naturally I’m better at stealing cars than talking).

We can’t wait to give you more material like that article that started it all. Just to make it clear, though, we didn’t review the EP, it was more of a news article. When we review it, it’s going to be more in the lines of this one.

You can listen to the interview with the player below:

Tuesday Trivia: The funniest (and/or worst) metal band name

Originally, the plan for this Tuesday Trivia was to write something that would tie in with Guido’s awesome death  metal week project. Unfortunately, I had the idea of looking up funny death metal bands (yeah, they exist), which led to funny death metal band names, which further led  me to look for just generally idiotic metal band names.

You can probably figure out what this is building up to: grind.

If there ever was a genre that really pushed the boundaries on all things gross, it was grindcore/death grind/gore grind/whatever grind. I’m fairly certain around 100% of them are, you know, actually kidding, which makes it kind of okay, I guess… Either way, make the jump.

Animals As Leaders posted a new track online

Animals As Leaders, the band that you’ve heard your metal hipster friend tell you about last year, have a new album, Weightless, coming out soon, and you must know that because I’ve bored you with it on a couple of occasions.

What better way to preview it than to listen to a track they just posted online at LA Weekly? Yeah, you can wait for like a day or something to listen to it on Spotify or whatever, but hey money is time and I’ve just wasted a few cents.

You can find the track at the link I posted above, you can find my sense of humor in the reverse universe of this one, and you can post a comment in the form below.

Architects release new song

It’s called Devil Islands and it’s pretty fucking sweet. If you want to listen to it, you can do so in exchange for a “like” on their Facebook page.