CD
REVIEWS (H - Q) - 10th Edition
HELL-BORN
– The Call of Megiddo (CD – Conquer Records – England). Incredible band,
incredible album. Crude and powerful black metal in the vein of MORBID ANGEL ,
SLAYER and POSSESSED, including some Thrash influences and death metal grooves.
This CD is very good produced, with a perfect mix and a curious cover. The lyric
proposal is Satanic, extremely satanic, talking about hell´s legions and the
Devil´ dominion and the sound is soberb, rapping riffs create a furious
nightmare enslaved by kataklismatic vocalizations and marvelous drums attack.
All musics have that epic e alegoric atmosphere that remember us the medieval
times and occult Satanic cults. The prominences are "Legion is Our
Name", Scepter of The Tomblord" and
the title track(it remember sometimes the first phase of DEICIDE!!). If you love
true black metal without melodic shit, this is your new kings! Contacts: band
– hellborn@wp.pl , label – podol@conquerec.com
(OE)
HONEY
FOR CHRIST – Forging Iron Will (MCD – Self Produced –
Northern Ireland). If you like bands that play metal with the 80th
groove, including influences of NWOBHM (JUDAS PRIEST, ANGEL WITCH, BLITZKRIEG)
and mix a touch of neo thrash metal wave, you will really love HONEY FOR CHRIST,
the band´s sound is true heavy metal with inspired clean epic vocals and
intense guitar riffs, some moments are introspective and anothers is real thrash
metal like in the best track of this release the great "Movements Below the
Surface". Great surprise and the labels ones need to open the eyes for the
work of that band, they deserve to be in a great label! Contacts: hfc@heavymetal.co.uk
(EF)
HORRIFIED – Deus Diabolus Inversus (CD – Black Lotus
– Greece). This is a real masterpiece, a fabulous work for all technic death
metal lovers! Open your mind and soul to the new brutal melodic death metal
holochaust coming from the more putrid and dark abyss of Greece, we are talking
about the incredible & creative furious HORRIFIED a stronger name to sign in
the list of the death metal heroes. The band exist since 1990 but they
returned in 1998 when released the powerful album ANIMAL, now they aborted the
agressive & technical eternal masterpiece "DEUS DIABOLUS
INVERSUS", one of the best death metal albums that we already listen in our
life! These power trio is simple insane, a organic machine
forged to create inspired death metal simphonies, including melodic
grooves but without lost the heavy sonority. Gore have a very personal cavernous
voice and Stravos (ex-Varathron, Rotting Christ) is one of the more technic and
fucking rifferamas king off all times, Thanos complete the crew with his
apokaliptik bass, some guest musicians contribue to generate this ethereal
holochaust: Mickael Akerfeldt (vocals from OPETH), Akis (drums), Dr. Petra
Ariadne (Violins & female vocals) & Kimon Hristodulidis (flutes), the
album was produced and mixed by the legendary Fredrik Nordstrom. This is a
perfect album to the beggining as the end! Contacts:
Band - akotzias@hotmail.com
Label -
invaders@otenet.gr
(EF)
HUMAN
MINCER
– Embryonized (CD – Xtreem Music – Spain). This is the rotten grinded
sound already aborted in the lands of Gaudi, spanish HUMAN MINCER is putrid and
crude grindeath attack in the line of great masters like INCANTATION, CANNIBAL
CORPSE, SIX FEET UNDER and with a repulsive grind influence of IMPETIGO,
DISGORGE, NAPALM DEATH and others. The cover art is grotesque like the sound.
Unhhapy the Cd isn´t completo some musics are edited by the label and we can´t
listen all this masterpiece. Good album, great band. Contacts: label – info@xtreemmusic.com
, band – info@humanmincer.com (OE)
IMAGO
MORTIS - Vida,
The Play of Change – (CD
- Die Hard – Brazil) - I
have no words to describe an album of such quality, I would like to write a lot
of things, but in the end it's difficult to put my thoughts in mere words.
"Vida,
The Play of Change", is one of the best albums released by a Brazilian band
in the last years. IMAGO MORTIS really did a surprising album!
The
album shows a person's history that suffers a terminal disease, called
Life(Vida), which has a single cure: the Death. During all over the songs, the
listenerg/reader get involved in a very interesting history... I say "reader",
because to hear that album it's very important to have the lyrics in hands to
accompany the history of the "ME"("I"), how the patient is called.
During the evolution of the presented theme, you will see all of the feelings
which a person that is in that situation passes, and everything begins with the
Me inside of an ambulance, going to the hospital and receiving the doctors'
news. Then it comes the typical feelings: disillusion, anger, depression, hate,
acceptance, transcendentalism... well, I could spend a thousand lines writing on
the albums's theme, but I believe that it would be interesting you really listen
to it to make your own conclusions. Alex
Vorhees' vocals are really good, he do it very well, interpreting the characters
very diligently, not forgetting Fábio Barreto's solid bass, keyboards of Alex
Guimarães, that helps to create a more depressive climate for the music, precision
drums from André Delacroix and Fabrício Lopes' competent and sad guitars. The
sound of the band has influences of several styles but is basically Heavy
Metal/Doom Metal. But all this varies with the course of the music, because if
the character is suffering, with pain or rage, the music accelerate and they are
"more nervous". We have to remind that the band used scientific
studies and declarations from patients to enrich the record, and of course,
their own philosophy to compose this masterpiece.
"Vida, The Play of Change" is a great album, to be listened
with a lot of attention, therefore you shouldn't make an early conclusion before
hearing it several times. Buy it, boworred it, find a way of listening this preciousness.
Die Hard Records deserves applauses for being involved once again in a great release. Maybe it's time to “Carpe Diem” … Contacts: www.imagomortis.com.br
(Në¢rø¢åññïßaL).
INCARNATUS
– Sinfonia de Hades (CD – Black Castle – Ecuador). South American
thrash-death metal act in the line of the eighties bands, INCARNATUS has the
deep underground feeling, remember great icons like SODOM, MUTILATOR, KREATOR
and EXUMER, but the band is very creative including beautiful melodic keyboards
in various moments creating marvelous metal odes like: "Anubis",
"Dioses de la Guerra", "Imperio Del Terror" &
"Aguario" , another fabulous aspect of the INCARNATUS music is the
bassist work, the guy is simple the best musician
of the band and one of the best bassists of the south american extreme music,
the bass lines is the melodic principle of all arrangments and the heavy
structure of the songs. Creative, furious, agressive, melodic and personal, this
is the INCARNATUS debut masterpiece! Contacts: label - Blackcastleusa@aol.com
(EF)
IVORY KNIGHT – Up from The Ashes. (CD – Self produced –
Canada). Turned and look at for the beginning of the eighties, when some bands
mixed the powerful guitars & groove of the NWOBHM with the 70th
hard rock feeling, yes...it is a marvelous sensation, arena heavy metal rock,
with great soles, rock´n´roll spirit and bluesy/epic vocals!!! Believe in me,
IVORY KNIGHT gets to renew all those emotions with its fenomenal music. Perfect
act to open the tour gigs of LED ZEP´s retturn, perfect act to open the tour
gigs of WHITESNAKE´s retturn and of course IAN GILLAN, SABATH, etc. The
incredible vocalist John Devadasan is in the rock scene since 1980 and his voice
is marvelous, they mix his talent with a great interpretation of the songs when
we can listen a lot of real feeling jump from the album, John is also a good
bassist, influenced by Roger Glover! The other guys of the band are great
musicians too, above all the talented guitarist Rob Gravelle, a king of the rock´roll
riffs and of the hard soles. Great 9 songs, where I highlight the impressive
ones: “Roads to Glory”, “Last Dance” & “True Signs of Life”. Hey
man, listen it now!!!!!! Contacts: band – j@ivoryknight.com
/ www.ivoryknight.com (EF)
KABBAL – Synthetically Revived (CD – Diamond Prod.
France). Good revelation of the brutal death coming from France. Kabaal are very
influenced by acts like SUFFOCATION, INCANTATION, SIX FEET UNDER and for old
thrash metal icons like SLAYER, POSSESSED & SODOM. We won´t encounter
nothing new here, but the technic and enthusiasm that the band play powerful
tracks like "Wisdom of the Graves", "Epithap of the Elder
Ones" and "Psychotic Democracy" will contaminate all the lovers
of death metal created with feeling and force. The cover artwork is very
interesting and the lyrics are curious & provocative. Great prominence and
good album. Contacts: label – info@diamond-prod.com
, band – p.rollero@wanadoo.fr (OE)
KOLDBORN
–
First Enslavement (CD – Diehard Music A/S – Denmark) - KOLDBORN
was formed in Denmark. In 1999, they released a demo called “Blessed By
Beyond”. In 2002, “First Enslavement” was released. This is a DEATHCORE
album, and it sounds fucking amazing. Here we can see several faces from
KOLDBORN: Death Metal, Thrash Metal, Grind Core, all this shit accompanied by
contagious groove and guitar solos. The band consist in Martin’s throat,
Rasmus’ blast beats, Henrik’s groove guitars and Kim’s stunning bass. I
must admit that lyrics from “First Enslavement” are very interesting, the
band really show their hate about christianity. And this is cool, man.
Especially because they criticize this stupid religion with good thought’s
line. To understand my view, listen to “Blessed By Beyond” (which
contains great fucking female vocals) and “In Breathless Sighs”.
Sometimes KOLDBORN deals with obscure, in songs like “Altar of Your Fate”
and “Wicked Arise Divine”. This debut album couldn’t be better!
Amazing work! Contact:
KOLDBORN c/o Byvejen 5 – DK-5620 Glamsbjerg – Denmark / thanatos@koldborn.dk
/ http://www.koldborn.dk / http://www.diehardmusic.com
(Në¢rø¢åññïßaL).
LUCIFERIANO
– Luciferiano (Demo CD – Self Produced – Brazil). Great revelation for
brazilian true black metal scene, LUCIFERIANO create one of the most original
black metal of the south America today. The are very furious but the guitar
grooves contribue to produce a crude melodic atmosphere in all 4 tracks put in
this demo. The vocalist ZORTIS vomit his blasphemies in portuguese language, his
voice is a real desperate cry , giving to the band a very personal aspect,
creating some of the best unholly black serenades of the new black metal
generation: "A Manifestação do Mal e as Faces da Virtude", "No
Ritual da Felação", "Tributo ao Inferno" and "A Glória de
Gabriel", the lyrics of the band are very damned and blasphemous including
verses as " Santa Maria mãe de Deus Minha Puta Predileta" (Sacred
Mary mother of God my Favorite Prostitute). We are very anxious to listen the
first full-lenght, labels of all world open your eyes to this talent! Contacts:
band – s666s@night.zip.net , www.luciferianoblackmetal.hpg.com.br
(OE)
LYMPHATIC
PHLEGM – Pathogenesis Infest Phlegmsepsia (CD –
Black Hole – Brazil) - The legendary brazilian “splattermedicgrind” act
LYMPHATIC PHLEGM was overcome, after more of dozens participations in gringore
compilations and some split Cds, the band arrives to the expected debut
album.The Digipack CD is an excellence, in the incredible graphFic concept, they
worked the booklet as if it was a book of legal & forensic medicine, with
subtileness as the art of the mirror of the CD where we can read the patient's
prontuary, and still the couple's presentation of insane responsible for the
band as if they were deads (really obituaries) ...but the most important is the
sound aspect, the production is impeccable and the mastered made by the crazy
Mieszko T. (Regurgitate, Nasum, Exhumed) still turned the music of the band
heavier, standing out that distorted climate of nightmare in the serious tones,
registered mark of LYMPHATIC. You can listen 37 minutes of the sickest
and powerful splatter already done from the time of old CARCASS' Reek Of
Putrefaction, but speaking the truth I liked LYMPHATIC much more. This CD is
already historical, certainty it will elevate the name of LYMPHATIC for the
elite of the world grindgoresplatter!!!!!!!! WONDERFUL! Contacts: mail@blackholemag.com/
www.blackhomemag.com/bhp (EF).
MADDER
MORTEM
– Deadland (CD – The End Records – Norway). All aspects of this release are great, the marvelous
and creep booklet artwork (based in a kind of dark world full of decrepit
machines and tortured & sad people), the sound production and, of course,
the band´s musical creativity! We can see all days an
infinite number of clones born in the global metal scene, millions of bands
without personality that are interested only in create a perfect copy of your
favourite metal idols...but sometimes, pearls like MADDER MORTEM arise from the
Metal World Pandora´s Box to give a kind of new pleasure to our ears. The album
Deadlands is a new opus from this impressive band, another great USA release of
the legendary marvellous label The End Records. Open your heart and mind to feel
the intense atmospheres that jump from tracks like “Omnivore”,
“Faceless” and “Jigsaw”, the personal mark of the band are the powerful
voice of Agnete Kirkevaag, the female band leader and the guitar work of Eirik
Langnes & Bp. Kirkevaag. Music to eternity! Contacts: Label – theend@theendrecords.com
, band – mail@maddermortem.com (EF)
MALEVOLENT
CREATION –
The Will to Kill (CD – Arctic Music Group – USA) - This is the eighth
album from MALEVOLENT CREATION, a fucking war machine Death Metal band from
Florida-USA. The album should be defined with a single expression: Pure
brutality. The band did express in the musicality everything that is written in
lyrics: The desire to kill will take care of your mind. The album contains
eleven tracks of purest and brutal Death Metal, not leaving aside the harmony of
the music. The CD begins with the murderer "The Will to Kill",
which shows the members’ assassin's purpose. All songs deserves to be
highlighted! The inhuman vocals from Kyle Symons will blow your brain, and Phil
Fasciana/Rob Barret's overpowering guitars are quite fast and strong, ready to
kill anyone who oppose to them.
People says there’s a rule in MALEVOLENT CREATION: "If you're too
slow, you've got to go". I guess this isn’t a rumour! Brazil waits
anxiously for MALEVOLENT CREATION murderer tour. Contacts: http://www.malevolentcreation.cjb.net
/ http://www.arcticmusicgroup.com
(Në¢rø¢åññïßaL).
MAPLE CROSS – Promo 2002 (MCD – Self Produced –
Finland). This promo CD brings 3 music presenting the new formation of that
veteran band from Finland, MAPLE CROSS exist since 1985 and the band was famous
for mixing saxophone, piano and other curious elements in the technical thrash
metal played by them. Now, they don´t use this strange elements but they give a
curious melodic groove to the music mixing it with the powerful guitar rythms
like in the good track
“Invencibles”. Great return that leaves us full of expectations for the next
album of the band! Contacts: maplecross@surfeu.fi
(EF)
MARDUK
– World Funeral (CD – Regain Records/The End Records - Hell ). One of the
most importants true black metal acts of the new hell´s generation create its
new armaggedom, it is a crude & technic black metal masterpiece, a
impressive bomb of black art that will destroy all impure melodic black lovers.
It is furious, sickness, perverse, insane, a collection of god bones, a real
world funeral buried by the incredible genious mind of four appocalyptic riders
called: Morgan Steinmeyer (guitar), B-war (bass), Legion (Vocals), Emil
Dragutnovic (Drums). MARDUK is GOD...oops, MARDUK IS DEMON!!!!!!!! Chaotic
extreme & classic black metal riffs, creating furious black grooves as in
the hole hell´s hymns: "Bleached Bones", "Castrum Doloris"
& "Blessed Unholy". The MARDUK´s music is more low now, but the
powerfull and heavy density are intact here, sometimes like in the crude
"Castrum Doloris" the guitar rythms created a curious melodic
nightmare proving that the musical evolution is happening with the band, but it
is not disturbing the crudeness and fury of its music! LEGION presents to be the
most tormented and torn vocalist of the black current metal, singing with an indescribable
hate!!! Finally, if you like the true black metal this album should play in your
head for many years!!!!! MARVELOUS PIECE OF PAIN FORGED IN INFERNO!! The
brazilian blackbangers are anxious to see a gig of this legend! Contacts: label
- theend@theendrecords.com
, band – www.marduk.nu (EF)
MASTIC
SCUM – Scar
(CD – Cudgel Agency – Germany) - This Australian band was formed in
1992, and they play Grindcore quite influenced by NAPALM DEATH. Their music is
very fuckin' well played by Will (throat), Man (drums), Steff (bass) and Harry
(guitar). Maybe their music be too much influenced by NAPALM DEATH, and I don't
think they'll find their own musicality when times goes on, because they have already
released a lot of EP and MC stuff and this is not an inexperienced band. Scar's
songs are very groovy and Grind, Will's vocals are very similar to Barney
Greenway from that band. It contains blast beats and interesting intro, their
lyrics show all the shit that is happening in this world, in their own sarcastic
way. I could say the best tracks from "Scars" are: "Face to
Face" (very nervous song!), "Distance to the Truth" (with punk
vein), "The Daily Grind", "Liar" (very fast grind),
"Self-Respect" and "Eyesolation".
Well, this is all. Great band with good lyrics. If you are into
Grindcore, this album is for you! Contact:
MASTIC SCUM – Burgwiesweg 155 – 5724 Stuhlfelden – Austria – Tel +43(0)699-12597254
– Fax (+43(0)65624179 / info@masticscum.com
/ http://www.masticscum.com/ / http://www.cudgel.de
(Në¢rø¢åññïßaL).
MASTODON – Lifesblood (MCD – Relapse – USA).
Another interesting new death metal act aborted in USA, MASTODON made a curious
fusion among deathcore (influenced by names like EARTH CRISIS & BIOHAZARD)
with brutal death metal vocals, some grunge feelings and a kind of progressive
furious drums (great work of the drummer Brann Dailor). Some tracks beginning
with a boring men talking order words (bulshit) and some guittar effects is very
boring too (badinfluence of guitar bands?!?) like in the track “Hail To
Fire”, but in the general this is a good work, we are curious to listen the
first full-lenght. Contacts: Label – relapse@relapse.com
(EF)
MESS
AGE – Self Convicted (CD - Conquer Records – Poland)- The gods of Metal have
a message for you: Listen to MESS AGE, a mixture of Thrash/Melodic Death Metal.
The band line-up is: Raaf(vocals), Alex (lead guitar), Amber (rhythm guitar),
Gruby(bass) and Otwieracz(drums). The first song, “Among The Empty Walls”
sounds really Thrash Metal, and Raaf vocals always sounds a kind of guttural,
but they aren’t a extreme Death Metal band, their songs are far away from
KRISIUN, VADER and
DECAPITATION music, but near from IN FLAMES (old), SLAYER (nice riffs),
METALLICA(ok, just in some moments) and other thrash/heavy metal shits. This is
not an original sound, the first three songs are basically the same, but this
album is really catchy and pleasant to be heard. Other great songs in this
release: “the EXIsTence DOOR”, “Devoured With Famished Eyes”
and “Waiting for Miracle”. It would be great to see MESS AGE live,
because their music perspires energy! I just can say that I liked a lot
Amber’s guitar solos, Otwieracz drums’ beats and of course, their lyrics
really sounds me good. Another fucking great band from Poland! Contact: Andrzej
Osmałek, ul. Szara 27/62, 80-116 Gdańsk, Poland
/ Tel. +48 501 160 699 / mailto:mess.age@wp.pl
/ http://message.rockmetal.art.pl
(Në¢rø¢åññïßaL).
MINCING
FURY AND GUTTURAL CLAMOUR OF QUEER DECAY
– Lamentations (CD – Bizarre Leprous Prod. Czech Republic). The music of
MINCING FURY is very personal, the band play one of the most technical gore grind
metal of all times, the guitar master Mara is simple genious, your riffs search
inspiration in death metal masters like Death, Carcass, Entombed, and he has a
perfect domine of his instrument, creating gore & heavy arrangments that
maintains a constant terror and despair climate, the bassist and drummer are
very furious and technic too, giving a special touch in the MINCING
(de)compositions, some tracks are tormented nightmares like the fast
"Sexual Spasm" and the grotesque "Studio Song", another
great moment is the cover for "Born to Murder the World " from the
godgore LAST DAYS OF HUMANITY. The cover art is beautiful an symbolic. Contacts:
label - roman@bizarreleprous.cz
, band – antitrend_ze@hotmail.com
(OE)
MIDNIGHT SYNDICATE – Vampyre (CD – Entity Productions – USA).
This is the new masterpiece coming from the genious minds of Edward Douglas
& Gavin Goszka, the two musicians behind MIDNIGHT SYNDICATE´s music, the
band is the most famous gothic-symphonic-atmospheric act coming from USA and its
music is a climatic, dark & classic sound based in keyboards, this is the
fifth album of the band and they already sell more than 115.000 units of your
CDs. MIDNIGHT SYNDICATE music was played by KING DIAMOND in some of his
pre-shows and it is used like soundtrack in several Full Moon Pictures horror
movies. Vampyre is one of the darkest albums of the band and the shadows
atmospheres are the mark of tracks like “Ravages of Time”, “Catacombs”
and the classic & epic “Ancient
Comes”. A beautiful cover artwork complete this great release. Contacts: band-
info@midnightsyndicate.com
(EF)
MONDO
CANE
– Mondo Cane (CD – Crust Records – Brazil).
Psychodelic-pop-indie-prog-punk music... it is a very strange
label to put in a band, but MONDO CANE is it and much more, melodic,
underground & punk rock´n´roll manifesto for all opened mind listeners.
The band is one of the new projects of the genious mind of Blackbird from the
dadaistic experimental act ESSENCE, but here they play all instruments and sing
all songs (the only special guest is Kendrakes from MU band that play some bass
lines), the music are write in portuguese and the lyrics are very interesting
talking about introspection, brazilian folk culture, critics to the mass media
and third world situation. Impressive work of one of the most creative minds of
the new brazilian rock music!!! Contacts: band - denio@netzap.com.br
(EF)
MU – Morfic Ressonances From The Big Bang Event
(Advanced CD – Self Produced – Brazil). It is one the most radical ambient
projects coming from the third world, MU is a kind of ritualistic project that
mix influences of ambient legends like LUSTMORD with some crudes grooves inpired
by brazilian indians rituals and the essence of obscure esotheric cults. The
music is based in keyboards and strange instruments, the lyrics talk about old
symbols of legendary civilizations like ATLANTIDA, LEMURIA & MU (the obscure
continent that named the band). Crude sound production and personal proposal are
the spirit of MU. Some of the strange & intense moments of this CD are:
“The Green Butterfly of Mu”, “The Painfull Embrace of Shamballa´s Lake”
& “The Sad Wisdom from Atlantis Manuscripts”. The band is seeking a
label interested in released that CD. Contacts: kendrakes@yahoo.com.br
(OE)
MUCUPURULENT – Soul Reaver (CD – Morbid Records –
Germany). The legend cut another neck! MUCUPURULENT aborted its new bastard son
and his name is "Soul Reaver", one of the best grindcore albums of the
present time. MUCUPURULENT isn´t only another band, their music is poerful and
inovative including rock´n´rool groove and some melodic death metal feelings,
the guitar riffs and drums work is very technic and furious creating a permanent
atmosphere of nightmare and torture. The tracks "Unbreakable",
"Nightcrawler" and "The Return of the Squad" are grind hyms
and I´m very curious to see the band on stage, because their music is perfect
for stage divings and head banging! MUCUPURULENT RULES! Contacts: band – contact@mucupurulent.de
, label – promo@morbidrecords.de
(EF)
NAPALMED
– Never Mind The MSBR, here´s the Napalmed (CD – Napal Med – Czech
Republic). When I placed this CD to play my 5 year-old nephew
thought that the sound system had broken! Yes, NAPALMED is one of the
most radicals industrial noise projects of the world, if you think that MINISTRY
& NINE INCH NAIL are industrial forget it now men, these band are pop sound
if compared to NAPALMED. Only two tracks in more than 70 minutes ("MBR, not
MSBR – 15´:10´´ & "Never Mind the MSBR, Here´s the MBFR" –
with more than 56 minutes). It is crude noise based in guitars and industrial
effects, no melodies, no rythms, no arrangments, only a tormented brain noise
that will damage your mind and soul! It is the future of music, it is the future
of pain, it is simple insane, it is the end of all boundaries, it is NAPALMED!
MARVELOUS!!!!!!!!! Contacts: band – napalmed@volny.cz
(EF)
NAPALMED
/ MERZBOW
– Crash of the Titans (Split CD – Merciless Core Records / Napal Med –
Czech republic /Japan). A couple of monsters of the true industrial experimental
music they gathered in its CD their forces, creating one of the most inaudible
and desconex items of the music´s history!!!! Everything here is dissonance and
noise, each band it attends with about 33 minutes, the legendary NAPALMED
divides their part in 4 decompositions named " Metal Fabricunt " (I,
II, IV & VII), their music includes chaotic guitars and purulent industrial
noises, a true nonsense and unbalanced symphony , an unequaled industrial
nightmare. MERZBOW divides their participation in two tracks entitled
"Chemlage Míni " & " Untitled I ", the proposal of the
band is also to produce dissonant, noisy and unbearable industrial music, but
for that they use only a Macintosh Powerbook G3. Did the chaos dominate the
music, or did the music die? LIVE THE DEATH OF MUSIC!!!!! GREAT BUT ONLY FOR
INITIATE!! Contacts: labels – napalmed@volny.cz
/ merciless.core@worldonline.cz
(EF)
NEGATIONIST – In Seas of Blasphemy (MCD – Self Produced
– The Netherlands). Agressive death metal with speed guitar riffs that cut our
brain like pissing razors!!!! The music remember some technical & brutal
legends like DISMEMBER, MASTER & SIX FEET UNDER, the most personal aspect is
the melodic guitars mid-tempos and the tribal-furious drums. You don´t listen
nothing new here, but the real fury of the death metal genre is intact in this 4
tracks! After listening intense music like “Worship the Beauty of Death”, we
are curious to listen the NEGATIONIST full-lenght. Contacts: band – negationist666@hotmail.com
(OE)
NEGATIVE CREEPS – In Uterus Rebirth (CD – Black Lotus –
Greece). When I listen this album I remember the best phase of brazilian gods
SEPULTURA (from the “Beneath The Remains” album), the crude guitar riffs
mid-tempos, the agressive-torn vocals and the tribal drums is a “deja-vu”
of old MAX CAVALERA band, but the music of NEGATIVE CREEPS also remember
another great brutal thrash icons like PANTERA & BIOHAZARD. The bands called
your musical style “Satancore”...strange label because I don´t understand
the word “satan” here, the lyrics are nihilistic and dark but we can´t see
satanic/occultist references?!? Forgetting the labels, NEGATIVE CREEPS´ music
are great, furious tracks for urban dogs that live in the underground, listen
the neo big city sad hymn “Bored” and you will understand my view, killer
music for decrepit minds. Band: boulam75@hotmail.com
/ Label: blacklotusrecords@hotmail.com
/ invaders@otenet.gr
(EF)
NEURO-VISCERAL
EXHUMATION – Mass Murder
Festival (CD – No Escape Records – Brazil).
Brazil now is a new barn of grind & gore bands, great names of the
world scene borned in our country, like the legendaries LIMPHATIC PHLEGM, FLESH
GRINDER, SARCASTIC & VÔMITO(R.I.P.); NEURO-VISCERAL EXHUMATION is the new
prominence of the brazilian scene, the band played a kind of furious &
technic grind core based in agressive guitars e tempestuous drums, searching
inspiration in classics of the genre like CARCASS, NAPALM DEATH and EXTREME
NOISE TERROR. The thematic of band´s lyrics are varied, they talk about legal
medicine exhumations and diseases, sexual pervertions ("Legalize
Rapes...for a happier humanity" & "Fatal Anal Sex
Disembowelment"), pshicotic serial killer´s perversions and a great
"vegan" spirit ("Horrid Animal Experiments in the name of
Science"), these ecologic preocupation remember us the legendary
AGATHOCLES. Furious gore grind for cadaveric decomposition serenades...
Contacts: band – Luis.Frederico@uol.com.br
, label – noescape666@hotmail.com
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NIGHTINGALE – Alive Again: The Breathing Shadow part IV
(CD – The End Records – Sweden). Please,
close your eyes and give a chance to your mind to voyage in a beautiful world of
melodies, sweetness, introspection and energy...The marvelous sensation of 80th
hard rock mixed with real 70th rock´n´roll is the mark of this incredible band
named NIGHTINGALE, a new name for the hall of the hard rock gods. The legendary
Dan Swano(vocals, lead guitars & keys) from EDGE OF SANITY is the
genious mind behind this fabulous project and he count with another great
musicians: Tom Nouga (guitar, Keys), Erik Oskarsson (bass) and Tom Bjorn
(Drums). The new opus „Alive
Again: The Breathing Shadow part IV“ (released by The End Records in USA) is a
kind of perfect album, a musical dream for hard lovers! Dozens of climates are
listen in musics as "Shadowman", "Into the Light",
Shadowland Serenade" & "Forever and Never". Simple great!
Contacts: label – theendrecords@theendrecords.com
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NO
COLOURS RECORDS
– Victory Through Total Domination – Vol. III (CD compilation – No Colours
Records – Germany). This is one of the most important european underground
metal labels, No Colours is the unholly hause of legends like GRAVELAND,
NARGAROTH, LORD WIND & THOR´S HAMMER, some of the more importants
folk&pagan black metal bands of the old continent!! This compilation is very
good because the label include important select tracks of 15 fabulous bands from
your crew, coming the diversity and quality of its bands, as the atmospheric
& deep LORD WIND, the powerful and misanthropic black attack of NARGAROTH,
the epic & dense IUVENES, the dark & melancholic WIGRID (simple
marvelous & strange!!!), the thrash & doom
influenced WOODTEMPLE, the intense & nihilist GRAVELAND, the eighties
thrash attack of SLAVES and the occult experimental ambient dark art of CURSE.
If you don't know those bands, you don't know what is losing! That compilation
is a good beginning to open your soul to the sound destruction done by the great
NO COLOURS acts ! Contacts: info@no-colours-records.de
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NOISE
FOR DEAF 5
– (CD Compilation – Rotthenness Records – Brazil). The first edition of
this traditional brazilian compilation is one of the best releases of this
noise/crust brazilian label, but the NOISE FOR DEAF project is open to all
styles of underground music, including thrash, death, hardcore, grind, etc. The
compilation include 32 bands!!!! Almost of them are from Brazil, but you can
find some bands from other countries like "Growing Cells" (Spain),
"Paradox" (UK), "Abreast" (Germany) and "Prosapia"
(Argentina), great acts from Brazil like "New York Agains The
Belzebu", "Corpse Grinder", "Rot" & "CHC"
including tracks in it too. It is a good initiative because a little of the
money collected with the CD is reverted for an association that takes care of
deaf. The symbolic cover art was
created by Edgar Franco (our webmaster). Congratulations to all bands that
participate in it, we are anxious for the next! Contacts: label – nyab@originet.com.br
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NOMENMORTIS
– Misanthrone (MCD – Downfall Records – Slovakia). The band called their
sound "Hyperblasting Death Metal", it is a good stamp to put in
NOMENMORTIS, hypercrude brutal death metal with furious grind vocals, the voice
of MaRTIN Likac is like a screams of a pig fist fucking, very rot, very putrid,
the riffs are extreme and speed in the line of american death metal style, it
remember DISMEMBER and ENTOMBED too. If you love brutal death buy it now and
rape your ears today with "Infected Bastard Planet" & "Steel
Wind Symphony"! Contacts: label – downfall_records@hotmail.com
, band – nomenmortis@post.sk (OE)
NOVEMBERS DOOM – To Welcome the Fade (CD – Dark Symphonies
- USA) - I believe that “To Welcome thhe Fade” is the best album
from NOVEMBERS DOOM. This album sounds me really good. “To Welcome the Fade”
is a mixture of MY DYING BRIDE with OPETH, sometimes sounding like ANATHEMA too.
Paul Kuhr’s vocals are brilliant. Most of time vocals are guttural growl, but
when it’s necessary, he sings clean, like in “The Spirit Seed”
song, which also features Nora O’Conner female vocals. I think this is one of
the best tracks from this album. I also liked “If Forever”, a very
sad song, with acoustic guitars . The lyrics are very personal, sometimes deep
thoughts of their minds. Other fucking great songs: “Broken”,
“Lost in a Day”, “Within my Flesh” and “The
Lifeless Silhouette”. Well, maybe I should list all tracks here.
Therefore, if you like Doom Metal, you shall listen to “To Welcome the Fade”.
I can affirm with courage: This is a masterpiece from NOVEMBERS DOOM. Contact:
http://www.novembersdoom.com / novdoom@aol.com / http://www.darksymphonies.com
(Në¢rø¢åññïßaL).
OMNIUM GATHERUM – Spirits and August Light (CD – The End
Records / Rage of Achilles – Finland). The Scandinavian peninsula genereted
one of the more interesting metal genres of nowadays, the called: “Melodic
Death Metal”, this label mark the work of icons as IN FLAMES, AT THE GATES,
CHILDREN OF BODOM and other new scandinavian promisses like this impressive
OMNIUM GATHERUM, the band coming from Finland and their music is a technic,
melodic and powerful death metal, that remember the first works of IN FLAMES
& DARK TRANQUILITY, all musicians are good and the prominences are the
fabulous guitar couple: Harri Pikka & Markus Vanhala, responsible for the
marvelous melodic & agressive atmospheres of tracks like the powerful
“Deathwhite” and the deep “Amor Tonight” (the more personal of the
album). OMNIUM GATHERUM is one of the great
promises coming from the new european melodic death metal and this is a good
album, an excellent beginning for a career that will still surprise everybody.
Contacts: Band: ogatherum@hotmail.com
, Label: theend@theendrecords.com
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ONE
STEP BEYOND
– Life Imitates Art (CD – Self Produced – Australia). It is a good surprise coming
from the kangaroo´s earth. Now we live in a worldyard of sound clones, dozens
of bands that copy and imitate another bands, even monkeys well trained they can
copy, but to create something new is a thing for courageous people! ONE
STEP BEYOND is one of that courageous band, they create a kind of impossible mix
with prog, jazz, Industrial, Hip Hop and GRINDCORE, strange, very strange but
very interesting too!!! The band comes from the AUSTRALIA but they don't
resemble AC/DC! "Life Imitates Art" is the first full lenght of the
band and curious songs like "Rockstar", "Infinite Illusion"
& "Chaos Engine" are proofs of the intense creative work of this
act. If you like grind and have a open mind, listen it or die! Contacts: gligster666@hotmail.com
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PERVERSITY – In The Garment of Lust (CD – Perennial
Quest Records – Slovakia). The cover & booklet art of that album is an
interesting agressive illustration of the artist Deather based in the H.R.Giger
style, the sound proposal of PERVERSITY is create one of the most agressive and
rot brutal death metal act off all times! The band existe since 1995 but this is
the first full lenght album, the musics is very agressive and has a slow
and heavy course(with some keyboards passages!) with certain fast parts,
they remember the first phase of CANNIBAL CORPSE and new acts like NILE &
DEEDS OF FLESH, in this work you can listen 9 (de)compositions in 35 minutes of
brain damage, including great moments like the tracks "Insane Angelic
Suffering" & "An Averted Collapse". Contacts: label – jean_marc.werly@club-internet.fr
, band – perversity@pobox.sk
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PHANTOM LORD - Circle
of the Wasted (CD – Black Lotus – Greece). The Melodic Power Metal is
one of the metal styles that will be in the end of the world, because this kind
of music has great names in all distant points of the world, Brazil is an earth
of great names as SHAMAN, ANGRA, VIPER (R.I.P.), but in Europe we will see the
best names, the greek PHANTOM LORD exist since 1997 and this is its third
full-lenght, the band create a great album with intense soles, liric harmonies
and a lot of feeling, if you love STRATOVARIOUS, NOSTRADAMEUS, FATES WARNING,
QUEENSRYCHE and all kings of melodic & prog metal, PHANTOM LORD will be your
next cake! The prominence of the band is the impressive performance of Vasilis
Axiotis, marvelous vocalist inspired by the Geoff Tate voice. Good album with
emotive songs as “Liquid State”, “Vanity(Reign of Supreme) and “Private
Universe”. Contacts: Band: phantomlord.gr@yahoo.com
Label: blacklotusrecords@hotmail.com
/ invaders@otenet.gr
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PIGSTY
– The Return (CD – Bizarre Leprous Prod. - Czech Republic). Sickness, sound
disease, purulent, depraved, insane, gore, funny, dark, rotten, it is the new
masterpiece of PIGSTY and mark their return to the world grind scene, the energy
of these band is uncommon, we are before one of the largest sound massacres of
the present time, mixing influences of brutal death metal and still a good crust
dose in some passages, Pigsty is crude and experimental in some tracks like the
crazies "Thief of Ganja", "Three Little Pigs" and the punk
groove "Who Will Fuck Your Fat Ass?" (it remember the songs of classic
album "Dirty Rotten" of D.R.I.). The vocals of Topi is very rispid and
torn, like a tortured pig in the end of line penetrated by dozens of knives! The
last track is an impressive grind cover version of "Bulls on Parade"
from the legend RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE. Contacts: label
- roman@bizarreleprous.cz
, band – otyn@quick.cz
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PLANTA
CADAVER – Ultimo Acto (CD
– Tribulacion Productions – Colombia). Rotten, putrid, purulent, dark, agressive, gore,
iconoclastic, and very intense, this is some words that we think when listen
this band coming from the legendary Medellin (the land of mitic Pablo Escobar).
It is music for sickness, for psychokillers and gore-nihilists, the production
is crude and the cover/booklet artwork is very repulsive, including coprophagic
acts, deformations, cum bathigs, fetus suffering and another sweet things that
will be loved for all perverted brains. 42 minutes of death - gore -splatter
insanity singing in a cavernous spanish language, the best prominence is the
guitars work, very curious and creative, including interesting mid-tempos and
thrash metal riffs sometimes (like in the title track), the best decompositions
is: “Anhedonia”, “Inmortalidad” and the nightmare bonus track “Mi
Cadaver”. Contacts: Label: tribulacion666@latinmail.com
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QWESTION – Y (CD – Self Produced – USA). No
boundaries here, no limits to the experimentalism, QWESTION is a perfect name to
this band, because the genre of QWESTION´s music is a good question for us...
It is instrumental music, it is ethereal sometimes and heavy for another times,
it sound like prog rock but it sound like heavy metal too, it mix jazz
influences with hip-hop scratches (like in the track “Freeprov”); it fuck
our closed concepts including thrash metal riffs with industrial beats (like in
the strange “Chaos Theory”), it is avantgarde ambient music mixed with King
Crimson essence in the ethereal track “Forest
of The Norm”. That is simply brilliant! FUCK OFF THE RADICALS,open your mind
and feel the pleasure of listen this QWESTION! Contacts: band – contact@qwestion.net
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