Once Human - fem-fronted metal

Searched for these guys like crazy here and couldn't find anything. Once Human has got to be my favorite discovery of the year. Completely addicted melodic-prog-death with a KILLER female vocalist/growler. She's menacing as hell. The music has a serious Sepultura vibe going on--figures since the project was started by the guitarist from Soulfly/Machine Head (Logan Mader). It twists and turns, sometimes gets doomy, sometimes thrashy, even sometimes funky. Check it out.

I enjoy them. The second album is great, but the first one seems better. Maybe just because I've spun it more. That's it probably.

mc666 wrote:

I enjoy them. The second album is great, but the first one seems better. Maybe just because I've spun it more. That's it probably.

I've only heard their latest, looking forward to hearing earlier work.

We've discussed them here before, probably in the big Female-Fronted Metal thread. But yeah, great band. And she's a badass.

Eyesore wrote:

We've discussed them here before, probably in the big Female-Fronted Metal thread. But yeah, great band. And she's a badass.

I had a feeling they were buried somewhere in that thread. Shoulda dug deeper.

She does have a powerful presence, and delivers solid in both the growls and the melody (I hate using the word "cleans") departments. She makes their videos rather mesmerizing.

You ever hear Logan Mader talk? He looks like a total badass, but when I watched the studio interviews from this new album, I was like, "Uh...that's his voice?" Haha.



And since we're making weird observations, she has a WICKED greasy face.

^^LOL. Dude comes across as so intimidating in the music videos and on stage, and here he sounds like the sweetest guy ever.

Yeah she's greasy--but still smokin' haha.