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No-frills metal & punk CD reviews plus DC area shows and other music news

Archive for July, 2005

New Fear Factory

July 28, 2005

Fear Factory have posted an e-card that includes snippets of two songs (“540,000 Degrees Fahrenheit” & “Supernova”) off their upcoming album, Transgression. Now, I have pretty much every FF album ever released, and I can’t begin to count the number of times I’ve seen them live at 930, Ballroom et al. I consider myself a [...]

Throwdown: Vendetta

July 26, 2005

Band website: http://www.throwdowngo.com/
Nobody does Hatebreed like… well, Hatebreed. Let it be known throughout the hills and valleys of my empire that I am a Hatebreed fan; their last release (The Rise Of Brutality) was, in my opinion, their best yet. Vendetta was produced by the same guy that’s produced Hatebreed in the past; just so [...]

Tons of Eye Candy (and more)

July 26, 2005

Clutch: video for “Burning Beard” online here. [PRF review: 8]
Unearth: videos for multiple songs offa’ The Oncoming Storm. Click the links directly or copy/paste into Windows Media Player (open URL…) for OS X users. “Zombie Autopilot”; “Endless”; “The Great Dividers”; “Black Hearts Now Reign”. [PRF review: 7]
Bloodsimple: two videos offa’ A Cruel World. Both are [...]

Throwing Down?

July 21, 2005

After making fun of some Trustkill bands (previous post), I just got the new Throwdown offa’ iTMS. It’s not that bad upon primary inspection… but may end up being a Hatebreed wannabe.
It was released at the end of June. If it’d been released at the end of August, however… that would’ve been so much cooler.
It’s [...]

Trustkill Videos

July 21, 2005

Here.
Eighteen Visions and It Dies Today (both of which don’t necessarily suck). What the fuck is up with these 80s hair-style motherfuckers wearing black shirts with neckties (?!) while playing super-thrashy unoriginal metal?
What, the White Stripes fashion sense cum metal? Give me a fucking break. Yeah, break the mold. Shatter the paradigm. Be brand-new. If [...]

DKL Show & New Ill Niño

July 18, 2005

Some actual news caught over on The PRP.
Dry Kill Logic will be playing Jaxx on August 16, 2005 with others. That’s a friggin’ Tuesday (wtf?), cost is twelve bucks, doors at 6pm.
New Ill Niño track posted up at Roadrunner. Here’s the direct link to “This is War”. The rest of the album had better carry [...]

Nothin’ Doin’

July 14, 2005

There hasn’t been a post here on The Fury for a week.
Because there hasn’t been any news-worthy shit going on at all in the last couple of weeks… except the new Devildriver.
And, by all accounts, it fucking rules.
Afterthought: New albums by The Black Dahlia Murder and some band called The Knife Trade (and Through the [...]

Cannot stop listening to the newest DevilDriver

July 7, 2005

Doug’s right, it really fucking rocks.

Crash and Burn: The Value of Mistrust

July 1, 2005

Band website: http://www.crashandburn1.com/
This is one of those “oh, look… an ‘explicit’ tag next to a new release on iTMS… I sure hope it’s not some hip-hop shit” moments.
It starts off like your standard, kick-ass punk rock plus a hefty dose of metal guitars. Sometimes-syncopated snare hits, furious three chords, and out.
Thrashingly bendy guitar solos [...]