Artist description For only a 5-piece, you'd swear you were listening to an army of ex-(and sort of still current) metalheads, doing their best to create something fresh while still paying homage to their heroes. Three guitars, three vocals, all perfectly and intricately interlaced.

Music Style Adirondack Metal

Musical Influences Even More Metal...

Similar Artists Mostly Metal

Group Members Scot - Guitar, Vocals, Greg - Guitar, Vocals Jason - Guitar,Vocals Geoff - Drums Aaron - Bass Tom - Vocals

Instruments Yes

Albums MATABURRO---WAR IN THE WOODS

Press Reviews From Cross My Heart With a Knife: MATABURRO - WAR IN THE WOODS This CD starts out assaulting everything and anything close. Its really really tight but its just fucking everywhere so youre not going to know what the hell is going on. All youll know is that its damn impressive. The music is unrelenting. The rough pounding parts are sometimes broken up by evil sounding castlevania-metal guitars and even sometimes a hint of something pretty. Behind the harsh main vocals can come shrieks and screams that make it nothing less than demonic sounding. Theres singing though sometimes too. Theres tons of stuff. And thats just all in the first song. You get 10 of these on this disk. Plain and simple, the band mixes brutal hardcore with metal and a little bit of straight up rock ...and it happens to turn out very well. Sometimes its like an 80s metal band was kidnapped from the past to play this stuff and sometimes its just straight up crushing hardcore with metal twists. I think if this were done by any other band, I wouldnt like it at all. Mataburro is thuroughly impressive though and its like they wrote the book on how to make this kind of music. Maybe they have? From Smother.net: MATABURRO - WAR IN THE WOODS Mataburro is the injection that is needed in the metalcore world. With complex riffs, ever-changing tempos, and innovative singing (not relying on the scream or hoarse-throated yell is a good thing), Mataburro tells a 10-day tale in the CD liner that is truly an interesting story. For some reason the album, artwork, and just feel of the band remind of that movie “The Thirteenth Warrior” maybe because of the story of man vs. beast but regardless, this is a great album with a truly original metal sound. Besides any band who names a song after one of the best board games ever— “Stratego”—is cool in my book. Ordered chaos would be a great selection of two words to describe Mataburro but even they don’t give the band the justice it commands. - J-Sin (Note: This was an "editor's pick" -S.U.) From Calamity Project: MATABURRO - WAR IN THE WOODS picture putting pg.99 and converge in a blender and throwing some nice metal harmonies in the mix, and this is what mataburro is. a refreshing metal/hardcore outfit that puts out genre-bending and genre-defying music, and does a very good job at it. the songs are primarily metal/hardcore songs, but they throw in melodic singing, tinges of death metal/grindcore, and even some of those nice metal leads in their songs. they're aggressive, raw, rabid, and very unrelenting in their delivery. a lot of times when you hear bands that try to do this, they don't do it quite right, but mataburro pulls it off w/out breaking a sweat. 10 songs of this uncompromising insanity makes for a wonderful listen. definitely somethign i wouldn't pass up. check out their mp3s on the slave union website, and pick up the record. you won't regret it. From Scenester Online: MATABURRO - WAR IN THE WOODS Wow. Melodic, harmonic, crazy, screamy metal. But not simply metal. This is great. Three guitars, three singers. All blended amazingly. Now I realize the word 'amazing' is very over-used and I am just as guilty of that as the nezt person, but in this case, it is very true. They throw in influences from so many different forms of music that it is very hard to try to break it down. The intro to Stratego sounds very latin influensed to me....and are those finger cymbols I hear in the begginning of Someday Science??? EXCELLENT. The layout is creepy as hell with strange bear-like creatures and a small story in the form of a diary in the inside. I usually hate not having lyrics to look at, and although I am extremely curious as to what they are singing and screaming about, I didn't even care that there were no lyrics because the space was instead used for something just as worthwhile and interesting. I literally haven't taken it out of my cd player since I got it. And I don't see myself taking it out any time soon. Bottom line: if you don't get this cd, you are fucking stupid. –AG From Calamity Project: MATABURRO - WAR IN THE WOODS picture putting pg.99 and converge in a blender and throwing some nice metal harmonies in the mix, and this is what mataburro is. a refreshing metal/hardcore outfit that puts out genre-bending and genre-defying music, and does a very good job at it. the songs are primarily metal/hardcore songs, but they throw in melodic singing, tinges of death metal/grindcore, and even some of those nice metal leads in their songs. they're aggressive, raw, rabid, and very unrelenting in their delivery. a lot of times when you hear bands that try to do this, they don't do it quite right, but mataburro pulls it off w/out breaking a sweat. 10 songs of this uncompromising insanity makes for a wonderful listen. definitely somethign i wouldn't pass up. check out their mp3s on the slave union website, and pick up the record. you won't regret it. From Scenester Online: MATABURRO - WAR IN THE WOODS Wow. Melodic, harmonic, crazy, screamy metal. But not simply metal. This is great. Three guitars, three singers. All blended amazingly. Now I realize the word 'amazing' is very over-used and I am just as guilty of that as the nezt person, but in this case, it is very true. They throw in influences from so many different forms of music that it is very hard to try to break it down. The intro to Stratego sounds very latin influensed to me....and are those finger cymbols I hear in the begginning of Someday Science??? EXCELLENT. The layout is creepy as hell with strange bear-like creatures and a small story in the form of a diary in the inside. I usually hate not having lyrics to look at, and although I am extremely curious as to what they are singing and screaming about, I didn't even care that there were no lyrics because the space was instead used for something just as worthwhile and interesting. I literally haven't taken it out of my cd player since I got it. And I don't see myself taking it out any time soon. Bottom line: if you don't get this cd, you are fucking stupid. –AG

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