Demo review:
: Migraine, demo 1997
VESTIGIA TERRENT have re-named themselves GRAIN and style is more melodic than before.
Also they have now second guitarist called Michael Dass (Indian-born, by the way). The demo is
kind of divided in two parts, on the other hand there is tracks "The Way" and "A Piece of Blue
Sky", which represent quite similar stuff VESTIGIA TERRENT did. On the other hand there is
"Within Me" (with catchy chorus) and "Until the Dawn" which represent the promised renewal. But I
can't help feeling that this demo is intermediate stage from the days of VESTIGIA TERRENT to
more clearly different stuff. Playing is professional as usual and production is better than ever
before. In the old days their weak spot was vocals but than part in their sound have been better and
better by each tape. Nowdays there's nothing negative to say about vocs. But I guess we'll just have
to wait and see how's gonna GRAIN year -98 sound like.
Demo review: DIABLO BROTHERS: Aggressive Machinery, demo 1997
Right in the start of this review I must say here we are dealing with best attitude-metal demo in the
history of Finnish Metal. Behind this extraordinary tape are two men previously with ARMATAGE
so nobody needs to wonder where the quality comes from. ARMATAGE was good on it's own field
which was KREATOR -type thrash. They aren't now as fast as they used to be but tons of
heaviness have been added to the sound. Fascination of DIABLO BROTHERS like all other attitude-metal bands is based on very heavy and crunching guitar-riffs. Guitars are caught to this demo with
enjoyable weight. The fact that attitude-metal depends so much on guitar-sounds makes this music
over-sensitive for bad live-sounds, which kind of situation was in their Nummirock-gig. When guitars
were badly audible that gig didn't give too much delight. But in this tape sound policy is in good
shape so I can recommend this to all lovers of good music.
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