[Max Cow Disease]

Received "Epicloud" by Townsend from Amazon yesterday along with "God is an Automaton" from one of my top bands of the past few years: Sybreed. Most haven't heard of them, but they're a quasi-industrial/groove metal outfit hailing from Switzerland. Catchy choruses, slick use of electronics, and machine gun riffing impacts the visage like a bucket of ice water in a volcano. Lyrics can be a bit goofy at times (owing to the lack of English as a first language and all), but oh well, I s'pose. I love the futuristic "spacey" edge in their tunes, and it strikes me as the kind of music the characters of Mass Effect would be listening to, if they listened to metal music.