This fine Thursday we'd like you to welcome our featured band – Anu Beginning, a rock outfit from Ontario, Canada with "spirit filled lyrics, post-hardcore sound."
Please comment/rate and don't forget to be critical yet supportive.
Short Bio:
Anu Beginning started as a hardcore band in the winter of 2008 with founding members Matt Saunders and Aaron Barry. The band began playing shows around southwestern Ontario, gaining a reputation as a band whom put on a solid, yet erratic and explosive live performance. They gained momentum, as well as a loyal fanbase around their hometown of Chatham, Ontario and throughout southwestern Ontario.
After recording their first self-titled EP in 2009, Anu Beginning picked up steam, playing close to 50 shows that year. The following year they recorded "Quiet Your Voice" EP which pushed them further into the scene, and strengthened band's reputation as a "must see" for their performance and stage antics. The "Quiet Your Voice" EP has sold 500 copies.
In 2010 Anu Beginning recorded their first full length disc, "We Move Mountains" in under a week at X22ii Studios in Windsor Ont. They released the record in April 2011, selling the original pressing of 250 copies quickly, having to re-press and selling out soon after. Songs off this album have been playing on radio stations across southern Ontario.
In their 4 years of being a band, Anu Beginning has had the pleasure of sharing the stage with some of the greatest bands in the scene, such as Dead and Divine, Straight Reads The Line, Kingdoms, Protest The Hero, Silverstien, I Am Committing A Sin and many others.
The band most recently have released a new EP "These Colours Won’t Fade" in May 2012, and shot an accompanying video for the song "Good Heavens."
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Vocals killed it for me, but instrumental is good.
Anyway, can I suggest a band to be here next week? If yes, I suggest Arc of Ascent. Their second album, "The Higher Key" has just been released and I really think they deserve more attention.
UG, if you're ever going to do underground 'up and comings', please just dont do whatever is the most popular genre in the mainstream, its degrading to the denizens of UG. Next week: The latest djent/death/metalcore/breakbeat/super-post-nu-trance experience from Zimbabwe.
The big man with the curly mustache needs a deeper and less obnoxious voice. I enjoyed the instrumental parts and the unclean vocals, but I just couldn't take any more of the clean vocals.
Ewww...why do all of today's "hardcore" bands (who can't hold a flame to real hardcore bands from the early 2000s & the 90s) look like Hipsters?
RoxxHunter wrote:
If I see one more band with new flannel shirts and mustaches I'm going on a punch in the face spree...F*ck this sh*t!!!
Mind if I join you? We could show up to any band that wears new flannel shirts and/or has mustaches and tell them to either stop or get punched in the face. Sound good?
People shouldn't be so narrow minded. Yes this song is fairly generic and they arn't the most talented musicians in the world. However, calling them generic is a bit cliche. If we go back a few decades and the radio was filled with classic metal would all you guys be saying 'oh guns n roses are so generic'.. because let's face it there are heaps of bands like that and poison etc all playing the radio at the time. I'm not saying I'm a fan of this song but RADIO MUSIC IS GENERIC! IT doesn't matter what style of metal a band is there will always be hundreds of other bands who sound the same.
Not really my style, but I could see this band being pretty big. I like the vocals near the end, you guys know your stuff, that's for sure.
I really liked the end guitar riffs, as well.
I was looking forward to hearing this band from reading the article. Then I saw their picutre. THEN I heard the music. When is shit music like this going to stop?
That list of bands they've played with just makes me really sad...
Dead and Divine, SRTL, Kingdoms, I Am Committing a Sin...all broken up now. WHY DO ALL GOOD THINGS END?
