Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Shikabane - Why Do You Live?

Crossovers, mash-ups, whatever you want to call them, they've been happening forever.  Ever since about 1980, Metal bands started taking D-Beat and screamed vocals from early Hardcore bands, and those Hardcore bands (in return) were taking the heavy distortion, palm-muted riffing, and solos from the already well established Metal blueprint.  Fast-forward more than twenty years later, Crust Punks are still digging the hell out of Metal records, and   "strict" Metalheads (like I once was) are crossing over to the ultra-political and "P.C." world of Punk.  This particular record is an example of the former.

As is the norm with Crusties nowadays, the members of Shikabane love Black Metal so much that they decided to make a Crust/Black Metal hybrid.  While Shikabane may not be the first to create "Blackened Crust", they pre-date better-known bands of the style (Fall of the Bastards, Martyr Dod) by at least a couple years.  Why Do You Live? is also the first time I've heard the two genres mixed so evenly.  I'll spare you (and myself) the sonic details this time, just hear it for yourself...



listen this record and make die

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