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Hi! There's a new name in the finnish death metal scene, Bastinado. Our priority is to make music that is as aggressive as possible without being incomprehensibly technical, play really aggressive and energetic live shows and bring something new to the table. Sweeping is for janitors. Go check us out! http://goo.gl/TPKlK You can also download our whole EP from bandcamp.com. Cheers! -T

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Re: Bastinado, Negative Grinding Metal of Death well this is a refreshing change, you wouldn't believe how many bands I've seen come here, post one thing about their band and nothing else, then disappear forever, checking Bastinado out as I type this and I must say mate I FUCKING LOVE IT!!! any chance you could post a link to the ep on here? I'd like to write a review for our little forum here

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Re: Bastinado, Negative Grinding Metal of Death Thanks a lot guys! Yeah our vocalist isn't your basic death metal growler, it's more like full out screaming. And it's LOUD I tell you. ;D We have some new songs as live videos in YouTube, they are a bit more "musical" at times. ;) I'll try to be as active as I can here. HKO_YwFHewM&feature=plcp

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Re: Bastinado, Negative Grinding Metal of Death I'm getting the feeling this is going to be another band I rave about endlessly, and that puts you guys in pretty good company as the only other new band that's gotten me this excited is Nevertanezra (who are also on here) a doom/death metal band from the US

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Re: Bastinado, Negative Grinding Metal of Death I do like the middle section of "The Fading" where they pick up the pace a bit (yeah I know it's doom and it's supposed to be slow). Looks like they had a bigger crowd at Doomfest than I've seen in their other gig vids which is great to see!

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Re: Bastinado, Negative Grinding Metal of Death @Todd, Doom is built around slow speeds, but doom bands since the beginning of the genre have also used faster sections/songs in contrast with the slow parts, like Trouble's The Tempter, Candlemass' At the Gallows End, Cathedral's Soul Sacrifice, etc... Also, being a doom/death metal band, we feel it would be wrong to leave death metal out of the equation, hence the uptempo death/thrash bits in Separation Anxiety, Bleak, and The Fading. Plenty of bands play slow all the time, and while we have a few songs that never leave a slow tempo, we change it up a bit most of the time. Murph, Yeah, that crowd was great. There were probably 150 people at the 2nd night of that show when we played, definitely a cool experience. There are a lot of bands here in Utah, but the quality is pretty inconsistent, some are great but many are bad, and there aren't many doom bands. We do have Eagle Twin, probably the most well known doom metal band here, kinda drone/sludge stuff, and then there's Moon of Delirium, black/doom/dark metal, sounds cool but we have yet to play with them. Gravecode Nebula were a black/funeral doom metal band, but I'm not sure if they're currently doing anything. Same goes for IX Zealot, cool black/sludge/doom metal band, but I haven't seen them play a show for almost a year and a half.

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Re: Bastinado, Negative Grinding Metal of Death Just listened, not bad. I wasn't totally sold on the vocals, and sometimes it felt a bit generic, but all of your instrumentation was tight and well presented. You guys have a good sense of things, if you put a little more of your own stamp on it, I think you guys could be a great band.

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Re: Bastinado, Negative Grinding Metal of Death They certainly performed well, with many of their grind riffs being actual grindcore riffs and not just fast paced noise, which seems to be a rarity in death/grind these days. They're a good band, but it would be interesting to hear them approach this sound from a more personal/original angle.

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