Sydney tagged posts

Although some may argue that progressive metal is twenty years going past its expiry date, there are bands like Hemina to prove those naysayers wrong. Coming from the land down under, Hemina fuse stirring melodies with the sort of cerebral madness you may have come to expect from the genre. Douglas Skene (also in the neo-prog band Anubis- check ‘em out!) answered some questions I had about them, their craft, and their new album “Synthetic”, released at the dawn of 2012.

Conor: Introduce yourselves!

Doug: Hey dude, this is Dougie from Hemina. I’ll introduce the other guys. We have my main man Mitch Coull on guitar and backing vox, Jess Martin schlapping und backing vox, Phill Eltakchi providing the textural keys and Mat Irsak who is the brains and balls behind the groove...

From Sydney, Australia we get another gem of interfering vast field of subgenres, ranging from doom, drone, psychedelic rock to progressive. And that album cover above looks really good, I have to say.

“Huxwhukw” is an eccentric amalgamation of mind-melting, toe-tapping, psychedelic, progressive and poly-rhythmic discordant music, sure to please fans of Meshuggah, Mastodon, Botch, The Mars Volta and King Crimson. “Huxwhukw” was recorded at Studios 301 by Tim Carr. Huxwhukw is the supernatural long-beaked cannibal bird and servant to Baxwbakwalnuksiwe, the Cannibal-at-the-North-end-of-the-world in Kwakwaka’wakw mythology. Huxwhukw uses his long, snapping beak to crack open the skulls of men to eat their brains and pluck out their eyeballs...