Candiria

Okay if you want me to give a short description of this band - meshuggah playing trip-top. The slightly long description follows.
I can't believe this band has existed for 17 years - this is true underground music! and for those who don't care for underground this is Urban fusion. post-rock-mathprog-electro-pop-grind-rap-core-ambient-dnb-jazz-metal. you are free to insert as many genres in the "-" in the previous sentence. Thats a pretty accurate description of their genre. These guys switch from heavy as fuck groove metal to latin jazz and along the way throw in a hip-hop interlude or acid mothers temple-ish space rock riffs. Now, if this may not be everyone's idea of music, but if you like listening to crazy stuff, listen to Candiria. If you don't care to label your music as this or that, you'll love this music. I have listened to all their previous albums and just downloaded their 2008 release "Kiss the lie". I'm into the second song and it feels like i'm listening to Don Caballero, Bill Laswell, Crack the Skye-ish Mastodon, Melvins, Deftones and Converge all put into one band. Trying to compare them to so many other bands doesn't justify this music, but I'm out of words!

Leviathan by Mastodon (album review)

Beware! Beware! This album is full of collosal, divine metal grooves that'll make you want to grab the nearest object and fling it out the window. The drumming is so non-standard and unpredictable. Brann dailor is a drumming monster gone berzerk - plays completely around the composition, but never confines his beats to the rhythm being played at the moment - beats swirling in and out of the tune and completely swallowing it at times - each snare hit is a hammer hit to the head - your head wants more of it - its a hammer hit drug that you can never get enough of. Makes me wonder if the drums are the lead instrument on this album. This kind of drumming very rarely comes by, if ever. I'm not sure if what I just said even makes sense, but that is the kind of madness we are dealing with in this album. Each song ends in a spastic riff, and the next one starts immediately leaving no time for the listener to breathe , but you know that you just went through the most insane amusement park ride and came back to senses and you are in for one more ride. The twisted painful screams of troy are so apt for the music, completely backing the tune and even giving a sense of direction to the listener who's losing his way in a mammoth of groove madness. Finally, the track hearts alive the longest in the album, clocking 13 mins is one of my favourite tracks of all time - starts off as a sober piece and takes the listener through a journey which only a band of this calibre can create - not to mention the amazing guitar solo right in the middle of the track and also the mind-numbing riffs that lead to the solo. This one is not for kids or for the light hearted. This album is a new beginning for anyone who wants to see the next level of metchulll.

The Mantle

Agalloch is a band from the US. The Mantle can be described using any number of tags like folk, black, doom, stoner, psychedelic or even post-rock, as the wikipedia page suggests. This is a rare piece of work - a dark primeval sound of desolation and hope. If you are into any of the genres I mentioned above, get this.

Unquestionable Presence

I've listened to Unquestionable Presence by Atheist a few times recently after a gap of about 2 years. And I rediscovered what a delight it is. This is aggressive, death-thrash-jazz-funk stuff with tons of jaw-dropping riffs that'll make you want to headbang and thrash around. The album opener Mother Man is sheer genius. The song immediately makes clear what to expect from the album. The drumming is mindnumbingly precise and lays down the perfect basis for the ensuing madness. The bass keeps switching between maniacal gallops and crazed funk slap. Kelly Shaefer screams like a demented prisoner trying to break his head. This is one heck of an album, one of metal's greatest.

My bass

I bought these yesterday!

RATM becomes Melt-Banana

The cassette player in my car got screwed a few weeks back. It plays songs at about 4 times their original speed. I've listened to Renegades of Funk, the album, almost always while driving. So the tape player getting screwed didn't stop me from listening to it. I still play it everyday, side a and side b. The extra revolutions make RATM sound like a groovy Melt-Banana and its just mind blowing. You should try this at home.
I listened to The Bedlam in Goliath by The Mars Volta just now, twice back to back. This is the first time I'm listening to these guys and wow they kicked my ass. Great prog music. Downloading Amputechture and listening to Hawkwind's In Search of Space in the meanwhile.

Hydrabad

I’m taking the elevator a lot these days at work. It should come as no surprise as I am a lazy ass. I noticed that the doors-open button was looking brand new and unused and the doors-close button was looking so worn out that it is difficult to imagine that it’s a button. I mean wtf? This demonstrates how concerned Hyderabadis are about not wasting time. You can see the same behavior on the roads too. If you were to drive in Hyderabad, be very careful while you put on your indicator to change lanes, because people will ram you down if you aren’t too rash and random in your lane-changing act. In fact you are likely to get rammed down even if you drive in a straight line. To maximize your chances of survival, the trick is to drive in as random a path as possible. Beautiful city this is, truly a blessed place.