Tag Archives: Alternative Metal

Shaped in 1998, the Cleveland, Ohio-based hardcore sextet Chimaira includes singer/screamer Tag Hunter, guitarists Matt DeVries (who changed Jason Hager in mid-2001) and Rob Arnold, bassist Jim LaMarca, drummer Andols Herrick, and electronic specialist Chris Spicuzza. The band’s combination of hardcore, metallic, and electronics became a big strike back home, …

Bivouac first had become in the first ’90s in Western Yorkshire, Britain. The music group was comprised of vocalist/guitarist Paul Yeadon, bassist Granville Marsden, and drummer Keith York. Their previously efforts sounded a little like Teenage Fanclub or Superchunk making use of their solid melodies and noisy guitars; actually, that …

THE BRAND NEW Jersey-based Latin metal sextet Ill Nino includes members Cristian Machado (vocals), Dave Chavarri (drums), Marc Rizzo (guitars), Jardel Paisante (guitars), Lazaro Pina (bass), and Roger Vasquez (percussion). The majority of its users are of South American descent, producing a kind of music that combines crunchy rock with …

Because the scion of the well-heeled rock icon and his clever supervisor wife, Kelly Osbourne’s superstar was maybe inevitable. Still, it had been a curious mixture of bizarre fact TV success, skill for performance, standard teenage petulance, along with a flair for Courtney Love-like self-promotion that eventually posited Kelly completely …

Iron Monkey formed in Nottingham, Britain, in 1994, intending “to irritate as many folks as you possibly can,” based on bass participant Doug Dalziel. That could have worked for some time, but ultimately the band experienced to cope with the actual fact that a number of people actually loved what …

Alternative rockers Attraction Farm emerged in the suburbs of Detroit using a sound marrying the city’s indigineous techno rhythms using the proto-punk spirit from the Stooges as well as the MC5. The group was led by vocalist/songwriter Dennis Light, a graduate of Boston’s Berklee College of Music; although he initial …

Most likely the most enigmatic entity to emerge from the prolific Scandinavian black metal scene (and that is saying a whole lot), Norway’s secretive Within the Woods… produced a profession out of demanding this great subgenre’s limits making use of their extremely experimental and varied songwriting. A genuine musical collective, …

Following dissolution from the Atomic Bitchwax in early 2002, bassist/vocalist Chris Kosnik changed his focus on his other on-going task, Black colored Nasa — just one more New Jersey-based stoner rock and roll force trio. But, unlike the Bitchwax, which specific in extremely virtuosic psychedelic space rock and roll, Kosnik …

Following the breakup of Floor in 2004, Torche vocalist/guitarist Steve Brooks made a decision to keep on the thundering tradition of his former band, recruiting guitarist Juan Montoya (also formerly of Floor), drummer Rick Smith, and bassist Jonathan Nuñez. This lineup progressed the sonic template Brooks got created with Flooring …

Orange Region, CA’s Bleed the Sky was shaped in January 2003 by vocalist Noah Robinson, guitarists Kyle Moorman and Wayne Miller, bassist Casey Kulek, DJ Puck, and drummer Austin D’Amond, the people playing their 1st show, an starting place for Opeth, merely 8 weeks later. They released their 1st EP …