What’s up freaks? T-Bone here with my first bone pick of the month. That’s right, every month I am going to be featuring only the heaviest, ear-splitting bands that deserve to be checked out. Why only the hard and heavy? Because "if it isn’t metal, it’s crap!"

Spineshank’s "The Height of Callousness" (Roadrunner) reaches the spotlight this month. With over 50,000 records sold, Spineshank is on the verge of blowing up. "Synthetic" the first single off the new CD (also featured on MTV’s Return of the Rock: Volume 2) is alone worth checking out and the band has already shot a video for the song.

If "Synthetic" doesn’t make you want to buy the CD try "New Disease" which kicks off in a metal blur sure to grab any metal heads attention. The song alludes to hanging out with the wrong girls. The band takes on a futuristic approach mixing brutally down tuned guitars and adding samples that seem to kick in when it really counts (but not too many samples). The band relies on their crunchy riffs and the use of vocalist Jonny Santos who can scream with the best of them. I would almost categorize them as a cross between Static-X and the Deftones.

"The Height of Callousness" represents the breaking point in someone. According to Santos "It’s when you have had so much anger and depression in your life that you don’t feel those emotions anymore and become calloused to everything."

The band has recently been touring with Type O negative and Simon Says and have now joined forces with Disturbed and the Union Underground starting in December. Look for Spineshank when they come to a town near you.

T-Bone