Song of the Day: The Dear Hunter - This Body

     I don't know if you've ever heard of The Dear Hunter. I hope you have, since I've written about them before, but maybe you're still in the dark. If that's the case, then it's time you saw the light -- every single colour of it.

Song of the Day: Haji's Kitchen - Sidhartha

     Today's song has one main purpose: to showcase what can be done with the bass guitar in modern metal, and what most bands aren't doing. Most of the time the bass is in the background, just minding its own business and not really doing much of anything cool. The guitars, drums, and even vocals usually get most of the attention. But if you've got a guy who can play some bass, and you let him do so, you get this:

Song of the Day: Wintergatan - Sommarfagel

     So I'm over on Heavyblogisheavy earlier (gotta give credit where credit is due, right?) and one of the posts for today implores readers to check out an eclectic Swedish band called Wintergatan for their cool melodies and interesting rhythms. I did, and now I'm joining Heavyblogisheavy in recommending this somewhat unusual band to you.

Song of the Day: Mandroid Echostar - Lost Luminaries

     So: Mandroid Echostar. I don't know if you know them -- they've had a song of the day before, but not for a while -- but today's the perfect day to get acquainted. Why? Because they've just put out a badass triple guitar playthrough video for one of their songs.

Song of the Day: The Mars Volta - Roulette Dares (The Haunt of)

     I read the other day that, if tweets are to be believed, The Mars Volta is no more. This is really a shame, since I can't really think of another quasi-mainstream rock act of the last few years that pushed the envelope to new and interesting places as much as The Mars Volta. It also occurred to me in the wake of this news that, despite writing about The Mars Volta at least once, I've never given them their own day. That changes now, while I still have the chance.

Song of the Day: Tesseract - April

     Back when I was writing my post about which albums have me excited for 2013 (hard to believe it's been like a month already) I made the virtually unforgivable mistake of leaving out British prog djentlemen Tesseract and the new album they're working on. I don't really know how I did it, considering their debut, 2011's epic One, is one of my favourite records of the last few years. But however it happened, today I apologize. Sorry Tesseract.

Song of the Day: Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug

     Recently I've read a couple of things about the place of electronic music within heavy music (in particular an excerpt from an interview with The Dillinger Escape Plan's Greg Puciato in which  he talks about the overlap of electronic music and metal) and I thought a song of the day would be the... ahem, perfect opportunity to remind everyone how electronic music and heavy music should overlap.