{"id":30234,"date":"2015-06-26T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toiletovhell.com\/?p=30234"},"modified":"2015-06-24T22:45:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T03:45:43","slug":"the-best-band-in-tennessee-is-forest-of-tygers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/the-best-band-in-tennessee-is-forest-of-tygers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Band In Tennessee Is Forest Of Tygers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Back in August 2014 we asked you to help us find the best unsigned bands in America<\/a>. After listening to hundreds of submissions and extended arguments about which bands could most effectively best Joe and his freakishly small hands in mortal combat, we finally narrowed down our pick for the Chet Atkins<\/a><\/strong>est\u00a0state in the union. The best band in Tennessee\u00a0is Forest Of Tygers.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Forest Of Tygers is a two-human project operating from within\u00a0the famed music mecca of the North American continent, Nashville, the “Home of Country Music”. Nashville (along with it’s sister city in Tennessee, Memphis) is also rife with a strong metal scene, so strong we had a hard time choosing from the many stellar acts we found therein.<\/p>\n

For the voting committee, Forest of Tygers separated themselves from the pack with just how ferocious<\/em> they are.\u00a0They embrace a sparse, slightly lo-fi sound\u00a0whose aesthetics border upon raw black metal, so you can’t help but hear every string pluck and drum thwap. There is nowhere to hide for either the performer or listener, so intimacy is inevitable. Forest of Tygers takes advantage of this intimacy to grapple with the listener, dragging us ever deeper into their world of shredding, blackened hardcore.<\/p>\n

The four tracks comprising Forest Of Tygers’ debut release Bruises<\/em> simply aren’t enough.\u00a0They move so nimbly within their aesthetic parameters that\u00a0they leave me craving for another take, another nimble guitar lead contrasted with overwhelming tremelo-picked chords, another fiery vocal blast, and yet another paean to\u00a0both anger and sadness.<\/p>\n