Spades And Blades

We've said it before, and we'll say it again, the heavy metal genre may be churning out the most innovation musically speaking these days. Witness Los Angeles band Spades & Blades whose music centers around the metal sound with machine gun-fast grinds and face melting guitar solos. But they hold the vocals to this side of the death metal growling and instead inject vox with hardcore articulation. As a bonus they forgo the flat-ironed hair and skinny jeans so common to these metal hybrids in favor of grizzled mugs and menacing scowls. It's a rock thing, not a fashion show.