#48: Imicus - Animal Factory

 

Animal Factory

Visceral

Inveigle

An Isolation Dawn

The Butterfly Effect

Wither

Killer Lies

Veiled Oedema

Keep Your Halo

Icarus Principle

All songs written by Imicus

 

Miller - vocals

Dale Chapman - guitar

Dan Baker - guitar

Steve Parker - bass

Mark Weatherley - drums

 

This is a band that you probably wouldn't have heard of. I caught them at Download Festival in 2010, where they played the Red Bull Tent just before the band I was in there to see - Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders. They impressed me with their performance, though they'd probably have gotten a lot more attention from people if they'd been around in the mid-to-late 90's than now. I was surprised to find that not only are they from Luton (the city closest to where I live, yet strangely also the city I find hardest to get to), but one of the guitarists is actually the boyfriend of one of my wives roommates from university. She'd asked her to go and see them, and completely forgot about it until they saw each other there by coincidence. I was relieved to be able to truthfully say that I enjoyed their performance when we were asked. The album is along the lines of Deftones, Korn, etc. Definitely worth a listen.

 

I realised that I should have been putting links on where to listen to the albums I talk about here, so the first two posts in this series have been edited with Spotify links.

 

Listen Here: Imicus – Animal Factory