Saturday, March 24, 2012

Sybreed, In A League Of Its Own

Sybreed may seem to some like a guitarist just abusing the usage of power chords, and a drummer on coke with a drum machine. Even so, the abuse of the two meshes extremely well with the vocals and doesnt drown them out, but complements it, creating a strange harmony between the singer and the other band members.

The vocals themselves are really unique, as the singer switches from the usual shout singing one expects from Death Metal, to something more akin to the singers of the Alternative Metal genre, more purposeful, and a softer tone. The songs feel almost like a story is being told perhaps, and the switch between singing styles is putting emphasis on certain parts of the story.

In several of the band's songs, the vocals are almost relaxing, and eerily ethereal at times, using special effects to distort the singers voice just slightly, its perfect for them. T. Pain could learn a thing or two on voice enhancement from them.

Sybreed considers themselves not Death Metal or anything close, but a self created genre, called "Death Wave". I feel that Wikipedia's explanation of the genre says it best.
"This is described as a mix of various components and influences of extreme metal and progressive metal that incorporates melodies and groove-based rhythms synthesized with electronic music elements. The band also utilizes complex time signatures,polyrhythmic compositionblast beatssampling, and keyboard effects. Their vocal work makes use of distorted clean vocalsdeath growling, and high-pitched screams."


My favorite songs of theirs are:
A.E.O.N - Sybreed
Doomsday Party - Sybreed
Challenger - Sybreed

Be sure to check them out on their website, at sybreed.com, and listen for free on their Myspace site.

12 comments:

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  2. actually one of the better music reviews i have seen around for a long time. nice work. - Also i quite enjoy metal too ;)

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  3. Fuck yeah, I used to be big into metal. Definitely following this blog. Also gonna check the band out. I'm jamming to Necrophagist right now. I'd sell my left nut to play as well as this drummer.

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  4. Great songs Doomsday is my favorite so far and you are right t-pain could learn a few things from them.

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  5. Its interesting when bands go off into their own genre that differs from all bands close to them.

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  6. This is such a refreshing change of musical pace for myself! Thanks!

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  7. Thanks for turning me on to them. I am new to the genre but this is really good! Following!

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  8. Hello, I'm really liking this post, along with everything else you have written. keep up the great work...check out my little blog too :)

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  9. dangerous music while driving a car. gets your adrenalin high.

    keep it up mate

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  10. I used to listen to some death metal, but stopped. I feel like I'm getting drawn back in when I see posts like this. It's beautiful to see a genre evolve.

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  11. i love metal, rock, death metal, heavy metal...alot of things really. nice blog. i may need to check this stuff out now XD

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