That is awesome. I saw NIN on this last tour, but I've never managed to see Dillinger live. I'm pretty sure that would be one of those shows where I would lose all sense of self-preservation and feel no pain until the next day.
CROSS EX played a storage unit here and kept asking people for peyote i guess...touring bands actually do that a lot in AZ. its not really prevelant. in fact ive never even seen anyone with some. ( i have seen them after theyve taken some though haha)
I've been disinclined to post in here, as there's a good chance that you all know more about metal than I do (though I could probably hold my own in a similar punk thread). But I figured, just in case, you should probably hear these guys. Metal-wise, I pretty much only listen to these guys, Meshuggah, Tool, Metallica, and maybe another band here and there that my brother-in-law plays while we're in the car.
@ Sleestak - I take it you've heard the bands that make up the members of Shrinebuilder?
Some other stuff I was listening to today:
Negura Bunget Romanian folk/Black Metal. "Om" was one the best albums in 06/07, definitely head and shoulders above a lot the cliched BM doing the rounds these days.
VHK/Galloping Coroners Tribal/Psychedelic Hungarian shaman hun rock! I picked up their album Dancing With The Sun a few years ago at a Neurosis show. Their back story is pretty interesting. Easiest album to get is said album available on Neurot recordings.
Oxbow Not exactly metal, but still I love this band and am finally seeing them just before my birthday. The Love That's Last compilation comes with the documentary DVD music for adults which is brilliant.
I've been disinclined to post in here, as there's a good chance that you all know more about metal than I do (though I could probably hold my own in a similar punk thread
eh, dont stress, as far as im concerned every band ive talked about in here is a punk band anyway...ive just been trying to avoid the delineation conversation and drop some powerviolence/hardcore bands into a conversation they would normally be left out of.
Also, we played with a band in Pittsburgh called "Bearskull" which was comprised of three dudes with microphones, one of whom played the drums and it basically amounted to three guys screaming their brains out while the one guy also played drums. They introduced one of their songs like this: "*Huff* One time *Puff* there was this *huff* this guy *puff* Whothoughthewasawolfthissongisaboutthat" (13 seconds of screaming/cymbals) End. I wasn't really into it at the beginning, but the more I think about it, the more I really like Bearskull.
speaking of strange bands, has everyone on here heard HATEBEAK and CANINUS? the HATEBEAK 7" "beak of putrefaction" is probably the only record in the parrot-metal sub genre. seriously. its a parrot singing. ill give you one guess who sings for CANINUS.
wee puppies! i prefer hatebeak to caninus, also didn't realise the pig destroyer/hatebeak connection 'till i read that awesome article on 'em earlier on in the thread...
@Giles, oxbow are incredible live, Eugene Robinson is a nutter. saw them support isis a while back and he joined them onstage a few times. not to sing or play anything mind you, just was walking around the stage like a lost homeless person.
Eugene is the best dancer ever! I strongly recommend his book "Fight: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass-Kicking but Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking".