Bands who surprised you (in a good way)

that new Pestilence is boring as all fuck.

As I said, haven't heard the full album yet... but that "Horror Detox" track @ Myspace is pretty cool.

But in general I think Pestilence is a corpse that should have been left rotting alone.
 
Since Tony Choy and Wildoer are on the record, I was wanting something more in the vein of Spheres.

this is like older pestilence, but with more boring songs, modern production and pretty awful and generic vocals I think.

hoping the new atheist will be better.
 
Since Tony Choy and Wildoer are on the record, I was wanting something more in the vein of Spheres.

this is like older pestilence, but with more boring songs, modern production and pretty awful and generic vocals I think.

hoping the new atheist will be better.

You know, while I kinda like Spheres - other bands like Atheist did the whole early tech-death thingy a lot better. IMO Pestilence were at their best with Van Drunen... and yeah, it seems like this is more in the vain of "Consuming Impulse". I shall restrain final judgement until I heard that thing...
 
I'd have to say Mastodon for one (that's a gimmie, I guess). But besides that faggotry, I don't think I can be surprised by what I am waiting for. WAIT! Hold da phone. I'll make a new thread about what surprised me.