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Chiodos
Perhaps no one can explain the sheer ferocity and timid quietness it is better than when vocalist Craig Owens says “we don’t want to let the kids down” when discussing the group’s intense vocals live at shows. Well they never let a single kid down with their vicious assault on the ears and grip on the jugular...
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03.09.2007 by J-Sin
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Whitechapel — The Somatic Defilement Buy it at Amazon
Knoxville, Tennessee probably is the last place on Earth that you’d look towards to fulfill your need for some extreme metal. Whitechapel however hopes to change that perception with their death grind debut “The Somatic Defilement”. Culling their name from the infamous London district in which Jack the Ripper performed his grisly street walker murders, Whitechapel spews out ominous vocals of grunts, growls, and pig farts. The overt heaviness of sludge metal is soaked with death metal’s brutal technicality and grindcore’s boisterous extremities. Perhaps one of the more evil sounding groups to debut this year, Whitechapel is one gore-grind/death metal hybrid that you should pay full attention towards. Think Behemoth plus Nile and of course Carcass.
- J-Sin
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