Search - Akercocke :: Antichrist

Still the Best Metal band you've probably never heard...

Six | Hell Centro, CA | 06/12/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I discovered this band with the release of "Words that go unspoken" and was changed, I now own their entire catalog sans one album... Comparing the experience to the first time I heard TOOL in high school and that band almost making all other rock bands obsolete. Same in the sense that I have grown into heavier things, but music for me has got to be something that you can bite and will bite you back and this band, if you let it, can and will make all other Death Metal bands seem obsolete. Now I love bands like cannibal corpse and Nevermore, but when bands get TOO technical I get lost and forget why the hell I'm listening to this music in the first place (bands like Dillinger escape plan and cryptopsy come to mind, but that's not to say they aren't extremely talented musicians and that I do enjoy a few of their songs, i'm just using them as a reference and also saying basically that I still appreciate the power of great song writing, arrangements and of course RIFFS, let alone the lost art of writing an album you can LISTEN TO ALL THE WAY THROUGH and as soon as it's done want to press play all over again!! But when bands get "Technical" in the sense of making the music progressive but still show you a song structure, then that's when you got me, like with say Mastodon... Now, when a band such as Akercocke comes along, with so much damn talent oozing from them and songs that leave you're jaw hanging open like you've had too much thorazine but yet you're still helplessly head-banging and air-guitaring like an idiot all over the place, let alone, as a musician find yourself inspired like you've never been to explore new territory with your instruments, well, bands like this are few and far between my friend. While wishing them great success, I'm also kind of glad they aren't everyones favorite band yet, just makes it all the more devilishly sweet. All hail AKERCOCKE!!!"