I saw Devashesh Bhattacharya, the Indian slide guitar master who studied under Brij Bhushan Kabra, last week. It was pretty damn amazing. He took off where Kabra started, and took the modifications of the guitar and the playing techniques to even more incredible levels. His brother and sister played with him too, and were incredible musicians in their own right (bro on tabla, sis on vocals and harmonium).


Glice:
Nortt is pretty incredible as well. I have that split, but need more.

So, apart from being loud and angry, which current Death Metal bands write the best tunes?

I think i was a bit taken aback by a video i watched last night.Awseome,awseome,awseomeness in spades.WOW! Too Good for my own exsistence.

Hip Priest:
I am more into black metal than death metal right now; I think Everyneurotic might be able to weigh in on that better than I.

My current faves are Nortt, Xashur, Nokturnal Mortum, Maniac Butcher and Twilight.

Thanks.

I'll look those up on the web.

Nokturnal Mortum manage to get in a healthy dose of Ukranian folk melodies with their Black Metal, and I enjoy their music a great deal.
Politically, they definitely lean in a pro-Aryan direction, if that is something you care about one way or the other.

It is something that would bother me, yes. Which is a shame, because their music sounds interesting.

i haven't really dived into usbm, i might sometime soon.

porky: i'm listening to gamelan right now.

about the current death metal thing: right now bands are coming out with great stuff, especially the older bands like, say, cannibal corpse, whose last two albums are magnificient and i like even better than the older ones (although i must say i'm rediscovering butchered at birth), behemoth released demigod last year and it's a fantastic album, my current favorite dm band is cryptopsy, they play straight up dm but with an intensiry few can match. i need to check out the new suffocation album, i also need to check newer band.