BAND OF THE DAY: WORLD BURNS TO DEATH

There's a fundamental dilemma at the heart of this Band of the Day business. Do I pick bands I'm certain you haven't heard yet (based on the fact I haven't), or do I feed the search engine traffic and embrace the fact that nobody really cares what anyone else thinks by picking something you're more likely to be all over (based on the fact I am) so you can just read my opinion, and either disregard it or use it to validate your own?

It's with some guilt that take this opportunity to celebrate World Burns to Death, because it feels like a betrayal of your trust - not a week goes by when I don't bang on their most recent full-length and work up some serious rage.

Formed 2000 with members of From Ashes Rise and Severed Head of State, suffice to say Austin, Texas' Severed Head of State are absolute unimpeachable stalwarts of US d-beat. Actually, formed of members of established bands who pretty much defined the subgenre that their newer band operates in sort of makes Severed Head of State the Texan Disfear. Vocalist Jack Control, also of Severed Head of State, rivals Tomas Lindberg as a set of instantly recognisably pipes – his bourbon-laced bellow cutting through the humming, melodious Anticimex riffs like a veil of acid in the face on superbly venomous 2008 full-length 'Graveyard of Utopia' or 2006's definitive 'Totalitarian Sodomy'.