Metal Reviews

Anyone else heard this stuff? What is it like
looked intersting
http://www.rumpelstiltskingrinder.com/

Sounds ok. The guy's voice reminds me of Phil Anselmo a little. For the love of God, though, we get that you're done fucking around. You don't need to repeat that sentiment for two minutes at the end of the damn song.
Also...that's some name.

I heard one song by them and thought it was pretty alright.

I can rely on Relapse to sign bands I'm not interested in almost as much as Victory records.

True. I typically hat relapse as well. Did not really know they were signed to them at first. The cover just peeked my interest. It is just eye catching i guess?
That is a bad label full of hardcore/grind metal hybrids. Not usually my stuff as well , but who knows.

Meh, they do some good stuff. If you don't like grindcore, you shouldn't check them out so much.

On a related note, why is Earache getting so crappy? In the early days it was Napalm Death, Carcass, Entombed, now they seem to be signing emo rubbish.

crap songs.

but relapse is a very solid label in my book.

Rumpelstiltskin Grinder rocks.

From what I can tell they're getting more diverse. There's still a load of really good bands on there, it's just that now there's a lot of utterly, humiliatingly awful bands as well. The qualities diluted a bit. In fact, I heard quite a few NU bands on there recently.

For a grind label, they've done quite well. I just hope they don't go the way of Roadrunner....

I don't think they could if they tried... Roadrunner make intelligent signings geared towards making them a tidy profit, by keeping up to date with current trends. Earache sign awful rap-metal bands five years too late. Earache have a lot less business sens, bless them.

the singer reminds me of eric a.k. from flotsam and jetsam...

the riffs are okay...the guitar tone is weak and too fucking fuzzy for me...

Been listening to this again recently, it's growing on me. Another song (not "we're fucking around" one).

I heard them a few times on www.pandora.com and they reminded me a lot of Death

Pandora pisses me off. Keeps bringing up the same song in different stations, like an industrial one and a doom one. Very annoyi-

They remind you of Death?! In what way?

I've known about this band for ages, nothing to good. BTW, Earache's re-releasing Nocturnis-The Key. Some classic death metal I really want to get my hands on, is it good?

Listening to it again I think it was the vocals.

Eh, didn't sound that great.

i'd bury this trigger crap in the front yard (not the back yard)

At one point I owned almost every album Victory Records had released, up around 60 or so, that was when they released quality hardcore. Then they got bought out by a major label—though Tony denies it—and they started signing fucking everything from shitty noisecore to faggy emo to techno dub shit. WTF? :shock: Now I ignore everything they release.

As for this band, kind of hardcore-ish, moreso than thrash I'd say. Not bad, not great, I'd pay $2 for it.