Last weekend on the Studio at Webster Hall featured a string of "aggro" bands. We were expecting a bit of an edge from a band who changes a Z-word to an X-word… certainly the case for Xombie, who splits their sound between hip hop and metal. High energy and highly aggressive, the quintet features elements of both genres, flying V’s, crotch grabbing, hair flinging, and hand gesturing. Hey, can we call this this "Nu-Luddism wave"? (If you don’t get the reference, Luddism was a movement that preached to rage against technology, or… machines). – Meijin Bruttomesso
