New York's Xombie are one of the Big Apple's leading "hood metal" groups, a five-piece sledgehammer of a band that combine the scattershot rap stylings of Rage Against The Machine with the dark, relentless riffage of System Of A Down, via a healthy dose of Pantera. It's a take-no-prisoners sound, a dynamic, super-tight offshoot of nu-metal that resonates with the fear, frustration and uncertainty of modern urban living.
Xombie's debut album, Capital X, was released in July, and lead single "Rock Bottom" is a bone-crunching face-melter of a track, an ode to those moments when the city has taken everything from you but the clothes on your back. The accompanying music video, directed by "Requiem For A Dream"'s Oren Sarch, stars world-famous backyard brawler Kimbo Slice and depicts an illicit underground fighting den in which enormous, muscle-bound men pummel the living crap out of each other while over the top rage Xombie's chunky, super-charged, pile-driving riffs...[more]
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