Metal Fan
Heh.
BONUS: You can get this on a t-shirt! I pretty much have to.
Our band this week brings us back to the European melodeath I love so much. Noumena is a five member band hailing from Finland. They’re sound is pretty much straight forward (very) melodic death metal, with just a dash of that folksy/pagan influence to keep things interesting.
They don’t come at you with crushing blast-beats but instead provide a slower and more gloomy ambiance. The growling vocals are well done, but again they aren’t really screaming at you as much as they are sort of just angrily brooding away. There are also some clean vocal breakdowns with female guest singers to bring some additional dimensions to the music.
I can recommend both of their most recent releases. From what I can tell, they’re about due for another album, so be on the lookout for some new material as well.
More on Noumena:
MySpace | Last.fm | Official Site
I’ve been thinking about jumping into Twitter for some time. It seemed like a cool service and all, but I always had two reservations about it:
Whether true or not, I’ve always had it in my mind that the majority of people you talk to really don’t care what you have to say. Unless you’re dying they’re just "waiting for their turn to speak." Maybe that’s why I’m so often told that I’m "quiet."
Thanks for letting me know, BTW.
Anyway, my curiosity has been piqued enough that I think I might give it a try. The guys at Videosift also just put out an interesting social voting site that fits right in with Twitter.
So the challenge will be: update my status often, but with something more compelling than the banal minutiae of my everyday existence. Hey, this thing might actually force me to make my life more interesting!