Recent content by Ro Laren

Thanks for the response. Never listened to them, but I will now!

Okay. I was talking about the breakdowns that dominate metalcore and deathcore now, that are the gravitational centers of every damn song in those genres, and completely characterize those genres. Those breakdowns were born in the 90s. If not Meshuggah, Pantera. Domination by Pantera was the...

Meshuggah pretty much invented the breakdown with Destroy, Erase, Improve. Ironically all the -core people who are obsessed with breakdowns give them no credit for it or even know they were the originators. Meshuggah is a good pick for a 90s band.

If you like haunting female vocals, have you listened to SubRosa? Or Born Again by Overmars? With vocals by Marion Leclercq that are more than haunting. More like torture. Or Wylt by Black Math Horseman?

1. Godspeed You! Black Emperor (Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada + F# A# Infinite combined are better than any other combined output from any other band in the 90s) 2. Nine Inch Nails (Broken + The Downward Spiral + The Fragile) 3. Megadeth (Rust in Peace + Countdown to Extinction + Youthanasia)...