![]() ![]() I bought Addicted and really enjoyed it, but it didn’t suck me in. Friends kept telling me that I had to listen to Devin’s solo stuff, but I never gave it the proper shot. ![]() I have been listening to Strapping Young Lad for a long time and always loved their ferocity and energy. Devin Townsend – Ocean Machineīrett Boland (guitar/vocals): This album was a huge turning point for me. Blast Air in the background and get ready to dive into what makes Astronoid tick. What goes into such a broth? How does a band like this come to be, seemingly emerging from nowhere to revolutionize what we thought was possible within the somewhat stale confines of thrash? Instead of speculating, hear it from the band themselves! We reached out just after our interview and asked the band our fateful, Anatomy Of question: what made you the musicians that you are today? More specifically, which musicians contributed to how you write, think and perform music? Below you can find styles ranging from progressive pop to Norse metal and much in between. It’s like a hot, summer day when you were a child and the hours drew out in the long, dark tea time of the soul (as one Douglas Adams puts it) into a pastiche of nostalgia, fear, hope and dreams. In composition as well there is a marked style, a bright, lazy, honey-slow drip that just pulls you right in. The guitars go fast, the drums blast away but the vocals are clean and soar high above the music. If you’ve never run into the name, imagine what would happen if you take a dream and then crash-landed it into a thrash metal concert. ![]() We have (along with the rest of our niche of the community) been singing the praises of Astronoid for quite some time now. Welcome to Heavy Blog is Heavy’s feature, “The Anatomy Of.” Taken from the Between The Buried And Me album of the same name, in which the band pays tribute to artists/bands that they feel have most inspired their songwriting, “The Anatomy Of” allows us to hand off the metaphorical microphone to bands so they can talk about their influences. ![]()
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