I'll be your Despised Icon

The purpose of this blog if you didn't catch on is to talk about the band Despised Icon. I'm doing this because they have a new album being released on September 22nd called The Day of Mourning. First of all if you haven't heard what the new songs are sounding like i would highly suggest you go to their myspace and check it out. http://www.myspace.com/despisedicon . It is well worth the trip. Anyone who knows me knows that I'm a huge fan of Despised Icon. I had never heard them until their last release, The Ills Of Modern Man, but when i heard their single In The Arms Of Perdition I instantly became hooked on them. That CD killed from beginning to end. It had the perfect range of songs that go from full on brutal and rage (Quarantine, In The Arms of Perdition) to the ones with slower parts that still rip your ears apart (A Fractured Hand, Fainted Blue Ornaments). On that note I want to give you a video to watch. I just found this today and it is their song In The Arms Of Perdition filmed in an little area played live for what seems to be only a handful of people.



I hope you enjoyed that as much as i did -haha-. I was fortunate enough to see this wonderful band live last year at Summer Slaughter Tour 08. Which by the way had an amazing line up featuring bands like Kataklysm, Vader, Black Dahlia Murder, The Faceless and Whitechapel (even though we missed them damn it). Even with those other great bands Despised Icon was probably my favorite of the day. Their sound is just so heavy and brutal live. It's not even natural. You can watch live videos of bands all day long but it will not compare in any way to actually being there. I can't wait for the chance to see them again. Especially now with this new album coming out which sounds fantastic. Both songs on their myspace (MVP, The Day Of Mourning) are awesome songs and did not disappoint at all. As a matter of fact, I've listened to both of those songs repeatedly while writing this. The chorus for The Day Of Mourning damn near gives me goosebumps with that perfect speed of melodic type of chug. Their video for that song is set to be released on September 14th on their myspace page. In the meantime i have for you a making of the video that they have on their page. It looks like it will be a cool video and fit with the whole theme of the song.



-seth