Within the last year, djent has picked up followers by the truckload, replacing the tedium of deathcore with some long awaited inspiration and... also some more tedium. Low tunings and monotone vocals an interesting band do not make. So why should you bother with another 8-string-aping sound-alike? Because France's Om Mani doesn't really sound like [...]
Ehehe hoş geldin yeni yıl, mutlu yıllar falan filan.. ama durun, hey! Olay o değil ki... En önemli yıl sonu etkinliğini atladım, her ne kadar bir halta yaramasada "En İyi Albümler" listesini hazırlamadım, yeni yıla girsem ne olacak ?! Takvimin işleyişine de akıl sır erdiremiyorum ha, güya yeni yılın zamanı fi tarihinden beri belli, bir gün 24 saat filan.. Yeni yıl şakkadanak karşımıza nasıl çıkıyor o zaman ? Daha dün gibi 31 Aralık 2008. Neyse ki yeni yıla girmeden önce "en iyi" listeleri yapılıyorsa yeni yıla girdikten sonra da "geçen yıl neler oldu" gibi listeler yapılıyor. [...]

Hacride sings the following genre(s): Groove Metal More videos from Hacride : HACRIDE: The Daily Round thumbnail: http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ys6jceJI lkY/default.jpg
It's been a doozy of a year for metal releases already, hasn't it? After the jump, the records I've been jamming the most so far that might or might not end up on my year-end Top 10. Anaal Nathrakh - In the Constellation of the Black Widow Animals as Leaders - s/t Behemoth - Evangelion Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague Coalesce [...]
Lazy journalism comparisons to Gojira be damned, there is some damn fine metal coming out of France these days. Whether or not that has anything to do with Gojira laying the groundwork for French bands to gain wider recognition in America is up for debate, but the facts are the facts: good metal = happy [...]

I must have had a more troubled childhood than I can remember. I mean, what else would explain this absolute fascination with anything and all things metal? Well, metal and coffee, but we'll get to the coffee at a later date. At one point in my life, I thought that the more complex the music the better, but then I realized that just because something is complex doesn't necessarily mean that it's good. Complexity for the sake of complexity tends to lose the soul, and without the soul you've got no groove and, therefore, nothing to really shake your ass [...]

Hacride sings the following genre(s): Groove Metal More videos from Hacride : HACRIDE: The Daily Round thumbnail: http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ys6jceJI lkY/default.jpg
Round about the time this site was jocking the wares of avant-garde prog metallers Sikth and Textures, several of you emailed us about the French band Hacride. And as usual, you were right on the money. While Hacride don't have the frenetic nature of Sikth nor the epic sense of melody of Textures, they do [...]

Yeah! What a month we had last month! Traveling to and fro, stumbling on some of the most unique musical creatures that could pull themselves from the primordial sludge of cyberspace . . . damn! I love the internet! Get yourselves seated, Waveriders . . . we're about to do it all over again. The flight plan looks to have us cruising through France (what a surprise), Austria, Sweden, Norway, Canada, and then back to the friendly, or menacing (depends how hard you squint) faces of the folks in the good ole U.S. of A. So, we hope you have [...]

A year ago, Racer and I tossed around ideas of how we could pass on some music information to you that you may have missed through the course of your normal lives. We settled on this feature that you're reading right now. In the past year, we've taken you all over the map and shined a spotlight in some really bizarre places, and on some really bizarre bands. This episode is no different, my friends! This month, we're gonna' spend a great amount of time in France. Why? Well, France seems to be hoppin' right now with some fantastic music [...]

Hacride sings the following genre(s): Groove Metal More videos from Hacride : HACRIDE: The Daily Round thumbnail: http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ys6jceJI lkY/default.jpg
So a lot of you have been emailing us lately about this band Hacride, a really solid French progressive metal band very much in the Meshuggah / Textures / Benea Reach school. I think they're pretty F'n cool, even if not entirely original (see also: those bands). Here's the trippy Aronofsky-esque video for their song [...]
Hacride sings the following genre(s): Death Metal , Progressive Metal More videos from Hacride : No Related Post thumbnail: http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ys6jceJI lkY/default.jpg

Það er langt síðan almennilegur djöfulgangur birtist á síðum þessum. Úr því skal nú bætt einhverjum til ánægju en hugsanlega mörgum til ama. Það er eitthvað við þetta öfgafyllsta og grófasta form tónlistar sem heillar mig. Sjálfsagt er það reiðin, drifkrafturinn og útrásin sem heillar og einnig er það mikilfengleikinn, sem oft einkennir þessa tónlist, sem fyllir mann undarlegri lotningu. Það er heldur ekki á hvers manns færi að spila svona tónlist þó ljái fólki ekki að halda annað. Dauðarokkarar eru upp til hópa mjög færir tónlistarmenn og búa yfir mikilli tæknilegri getu og ótrúlegu úthaldi. Myndu þið treysta ykkur [...]

Hacride At Metal Injection, I've reviewed Hacride , whose Amoeba is the first metal album this year that drives me to evangelical fervor. It's like Gojira...but with acoustic guitar...and one song, "Zambra," with a Spanish flamenco group! Strange, thrilling, futuristic. Also up are my review of Facedown band Means and an interview with Dying Fetus . Hacride - Fate Hacride - Zambra At Stylus, I have a [...]

What Gojira was last year, Hacride is this year - a French metallic missile that should detonate devastatingly across the Atlantic. Put away those freedom fries and call FEMA. On second thought, don't - they've got their own French Quarter to deal with. It's been no quarter from the French this past year, with Merrimack, Antaeus, Blut Aus Nord, and Spektr tearing it up black metal-wise, and Gorod, Gojira, Yyrkoon, and Phazm delivering quality death metal. Hacride has now vaulted to the top of that list. Its debut, Deviant Current Signal , was [...]