Spineshank

[Halo Infinity]

I only listened to Strictly Diesel and The Height of Callousness, and then seemed to forget about them. The two things that did remind me of them was whenever I looked up a Mario vs. Sonic - The War (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/27922), I saw from Newgrounds (http://www.newgrounds.com), which is how I've actually heard of Spineshank in the first place. (It was also remade into Mario vs. Sonic S.E. (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/188478)) The other thing was the fact that we have an ETS member that has the same exact name with their third album.

I actually thought that they quit after their third album, but their latest album came out last year. It's called Anger Denial Acceptance. And from what I recall, even after not listening to Spineshank for a while, they covered The Beatles's While My Guitar Gently Weeps.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27e073tc6mA

@Self.Destructive.Pattern (http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/member.php?u=602) - Are/were you also by any chance a fan of Spineshank?

[Self.Destructive.Pattern]

YES! I always loved that cover and the take they had on it. It's dark, moody, and raw and the bass line I really enjoy. The first three albums have always been my favorite, and they were even nominated for a grammy on SDP which is their most accessible album as far as sound in my opinion. They are a bit different now in terms of sound because I always loved the industrial side they had to them, but the new stuff sounds more like Silent Civilian to me.


One of my favorite tracks from them:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_7PS4CcCoo

[aggroculture]

Kris, I gotta hand it to you: you've got worse taste than me ;)

Didn't like the first album, thought it overly cliched, Fear Factory-sponsored generic nu-metal.
The second album is where they really hit it out the park. Some great songs on there, New Disease in particular.
Third album they lost it: too "metal" and not enough pop.
Silent Civillian was embarassing, a cynical attempt to jump on the neo-thrash trend.
I heard one song from the new album and it didn't really interest me at all.

All in all, they had their 15 mins, and that's that.

[Halo Infinity]

Kris, I gotta hand it to you: you've got worse taste than me ;)
Yeah, after making the Kid Rock thread, the Insane Clown Posse thread, and "reviving" Vanilla Ice as a topic, I pretty much "came out with my hands up". I still give you props for inadvertently helping me get those threads out of my system though. It gave me one of those "glad to be not so alone" feelings. :p

That also sounds about right too. The Height of Callousness really was their greatest hit. Looking back on Strictly Diesel now, it kind of gives me a Deftones and Orgy vibe, aside from the evident influences from Fear Factory, but I can, and am only speaking for myself. It turns out that I've missed listening to the first two albums.

[Self.Destructive.Pattern]

I happen to really like SDP. I dunno.. it's catchy, heavy, but you can see them slowly going away from the industrial sound they did so well on Height. "Dead to Me" is a pretty bad ass song, and the b-sides from Height and SDP are probably some of their best songs.