Intronaut/Mouth of The Architect/Biolich in Brooklyn

[Danolich]

 

[xfer]

will i attend this show? magic eight ball says likely! amanda, adam doll, you in?

 

[deadair]

Intronaut's new album is super good. fyi

 

[azal]

what do they sound like?

 

[avi]

I think it's prog/trash, right? descended from cynic and the like.

 

[Danolich]

Nah, more like later Entombed meets Isis sort of. I really like them.

 

[avi]

oh, shows what I know

 

[Helm]

I think it's prog/trash, right?

I got all excited for a second.

 

[Danolich]

It's pretty proggy as well, just not in a cynic way, worth checking out though!

 

[Helm]

Technothrash (what most people understand as early thrash-cum-progressive metal, first Sieges Even record, Deathrow, Watchtower, Megace, Depressive Age, Aftermath) is a very special thing that bands that are 'proggy' have nothing to do with. Sadly a dead genre, but also my favourite.

I'll probably like Intronaut for all the other different reasons.

 

[rachmiel]

I'm going to have to check out those others bands cos I'd only heard of Watchtower amongst what you listed Helm.

 

[azal]

The first two Sieges Even records are total Watchtower worship, I like uneven and sophisticated more. I think that the detractor of that genre that keeps more fans away is the annoying vocals.

maybe mekong delta and the first confessor record could be considered to be a part of that genre as well.

 

[Helm]

I'm rarely useful on this board, so here's a pretty complete list of what I think is good in this quasigenre.

Aftermath - Eyes of Tomorrow
Annon Vin - A New Gate
Believer - everything
Calhoun Conquer - Lost in Oneself
Coroner - well, you know
Deathrow - Deception Ignored, Life Beyond <- Deception Ignored is my second pick in the genre. A real gem.
Depressive Age - First Depression, Lying In Wait, the rest of the stuff is marginally there
Flaming Anger - two demos, excellent.
Hexenhaus - Awakening (a bit more power metal than the rest)
Invocator - Weave the Apocalypse
Kinetic Dissent - I Will Fight No More Forever
Megace - Human Errors
Mekong Delta - everything
Mordred - Fool's Game
Realm - Endless War, Suiciety
Sieges Even - Lifecycle <- my first pick
Spiral Architect, marginally, mainly because they're Watchtower clones
Toxik - Think This
Tourniquet - I'd say everything besides those awful middle two albums
Watchtower - more Energetic Dissasembly than Control and Resistance
Windham Hell - everything
Zero Hour - A Fragile Mind, Metamorphoses

Closest bands these days with a strong technothrash influence would be stuff like Verse and Radiation, Keelhaul, possibly Behold the Arctopus, but I wouldn't say directly. By way of Voivod mostly, which isn't really in this subgenre. And there's a whole host of math-inspired bands that really don't have anything to do with this, although they sound it.

azal: steps, the second Sieges Even record has absolutely nothing to do with watchtower, or in fact, metal. It's colder, more complicated Rush. Confessor are totally technical but not thrash. Techdoom would be their own little genre and they're alone in there along with Loincloth and I guess the first Memory Garden record.

 

[xfer]

the little lady scheduled to work this night, so my chances are increasin'!

 

[avi]

a lot of the overly tech stuff on that list kinda bugs me, but I've got lots of love for Coroner and Invocator f'sure.

 

[minxnim]

i will be in MA =[

 

[Ralph_Tweed]

Neat! A flier that's actually got some visual appeal. Most of them around here make me nervous that a group of irate xerox employees are going to raid the show in revenge for copier abuse.

 

[azal]

danolich makes the best flyers ever. fact.

 

[xfer]

hey dan, what time do you think biolich is going on? i don't mind going to shows alone as long as i don't arrive 3 hours before the bands start.

 

[Barista_Dot]

Man, NYC is happening place these days....all we get out in LA, are a bunch of guys trying to fight everyone in a circle pit while a bad hatebreed cover band plays.