For Those of You Pissed About the New Arsis Sound...

...maybe give Sons of Aurelius a try. They're a little more traditionally proggy than Arsis got - or at least than they got on We Are The Nightmare - but most of what I've heard thus far pretty much fits the Arsis bill. You could probably call them a more technical Between The Buried And Me and not lose any brownie points.

It might be artwork week here at BBB: I came across these guys because Metal Sucks did a post applauding the artwork for their as-yet-unreleased new album, The Farthest Reaches (and throwing in some props for the art on their first release, Myocardial Infarction, shown on the left below; the cover of The Farthest Reaches is on the right). It's not quite Howl awesome, but after hearing their music, I think I might be more likely to dig on what Sons of Aurelius is doing.

In the Name of Satan We Are Forced to Rock

I'm finally getting around to checking out the new Arsis. I'm not sure yet if they've undergone some sort of Motley Crue-esque awakening in the past two years, but the title of the first track is "Forced to Rock"...and it sounds just like what you'd expect: a more technically-proficient Grim Reaper. It's definitely a genre-bending moment and I'm curious to see if it's a one-off experiment or something they experiment with successfully through the whole album.

Edit: there's a video. A video in which Arsis is channeling their inner Van Halen. I can't help but be struck with admiration: