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I live in Australia and am forever complaining that not enough international metal bands come down here. I don't get to anywhere near the number of gigs I'd like to (and due to extreme circumstances won't be going to any local gigs for the foreseeable future). I don't have a last.fm and actually don't know what it is to be perfectly honest.

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I live in Australia and am forever complaining that not enough international metal bands come down here. I don't get to anywhere near the number of gigs I'd like to (and due to extreme circumstances won't be going to any local gigs for the foreseeable future). I don't have a last.fm and actually don't know what it is to be perfectly honest.
Cool. one of the greatest country ever but i haven't been there yet :/ I thought that in the place where you had belong is often attended the local even international gig.. do you know about Big Day Out, it seems so mainstream which didnt invited all the great metal bands... Have you ever been visited bali yet? in bali, I heard so many metal gig being shown over there..
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I just discovered this band through No Clean Singing' date=' and it sounds like tech-death mixed with the cavernous weird death metal of bands like Demilich and Mitochondrion. They're called Beyond Mortal Dreams, and they're actually from Adelaide. Check them out on the label Lavadome Productions:Lavadome productions
This is cool, though oh boy those solos kill me. The couple of tracks I've heard so far are pretty good. There's enough simplistic stuff that I don't mind the note-fests quite as much. Besides, how can you beat a band with a description like this: "unites the raw yet precisely accurate sonic destruction along with ecstatic leads under one belt in order to hit human senses uncompromisingly and deeply taking the mind to a devastating journey." BWAHAHAHA.
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For the tech-death beginner I'd suggest bands like Arsis' date=' Quo Vadis and Miseration. From there I'd go on to Alethian, Centaurus-A and Sickening Horror before introducing the more brutal side of tech-death with bands like Sympathy, Element and Kronos.[/quote'] Every single band on this list kicks ass. I'm flattered that this is the curriculum you'd use, so to speak. Sure, Miseration's latest stuff is a but weak, but Your Demons, Their Angels was excellent.
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This is cool, though oh boy those solos kill me. The couple of tracks I've heard so far are pretty good. There's enough simplistic stuff that I don't mind the note-fests quite as much. Besides, how can you beat a band with a description like this: "unites the raw yet precisely accurate sonic destruction along with ecstatic leads under one belt in order to hit human senses uncompromisingly and deeply taking the mind to a devastating journey." BWAHAHAHA.
Giving it a listen through. I like it! I agree the solos are a bit... gratuitous. But not bad! I really enjoyed it.
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Obscura spawn of possession. Necropagisht. Are other great tech death bands
I've tried to like Necrophagist, but they're really pretty boring. There's some material they've done which is good but for the most part it's very dry, flavorless technicality. Sucmiez is capable, but he could use some tutelage from somebody like Jeff Lewis or Dan Swano who can write a good riff.
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I've tried to like Necrophagist' date=' but they're really pretty boring. There's some material they've done which is good but for the most part it's very dry, flavorless technicality. Sucmiez is capable, but he could use some tutelage from somebody like Jeff Lewis or Dan Swano who can write a good riff.[/quote'] They won me over live, but they had that beast Marco Minneman on drums, that guy was wild. I don't find their albums as exciting as their live performances, but Onset of Putrifaction is still pretty good, and I'll even listen to Epitaph once in a while. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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