CDs REVIEWS (A - M) -   NEW 7th EDITION!

ABSORBED - Sunset Bleeding (MCD - Resuscitate Records - Holland). Good debut release from this death metal band. In these five songs we can listen the great balance of power and technic that the band present. The inspirations are european death metal icons like VADER, ENTOMBED, CARNAGE & new melodic death metals acts like IN FLAMES & AT THE GATES. The guitar rifs are speed and killer mixing heavy sonorities with good melodic touches like in the highlight track "Nihilistic Butchering". Great promise! Contacts: hedimi@rendo.dekooi.nl   / (EF)

ANDRALLS - Massacre, Corruption, Destruction...(CD - Self Produced - Brazil). THRASH ATACK KILL YOUR SOUL!!!! The name of the band is inspired by Andraus building, an big brazilian building that was destroyed by flames in 70's...Yeah, Andralls is fire, an union of ripping guitars, raped vocals and agressive drums in the line of great thrash acts (KREATOR, SEPULTURA, SLAYER, DEATH...). No midtempos, no sweet melodies, only powerful thrash atack in 10 extreme odious tracks. Music after music the band balances our soul and our heads, they are happened like this implacables " Chaotic World ", Andralls on Fire ", " Behind the Light ", "Lady Death" and other pearls of true thash metal. Contacts: http://come.to/andralls / andralls_thrash@yahoo.com.br    (EF)

ANTROPOFAGUS - No Waste of Flesh (CD - Beyond...Prod. - Italy). Total gore grind allucination!! This infame putridy act come from the italian underground scene, the lyrics is a kind of sado-zombie created by the perverted mind of the splatter vocalist Argento (great name, like the great italian horror movies director!). The album is a powerful lesson of good splattered riffs and purulent decompositions, songs like "Loving You in Decay"are hymns for rotten corpses!!! Another great moment is the insane cover to NECROPHOBIC, an classic of the gods SLAYER. Good for worms and perverted psycho killers!!!! Contacts: band - antropofagus@beyondprod.com Label: beyond@ats.it  (OE)

ANTAEUS - Cut Your Flesh and Worship Satan (CD - Spikekult Rekords - France). Extreme bblack metal act that remember the old scandinavian black legends. The highlight point of ANTAEUS is the impressive velocity of the musics, the guitars and drums are play more speed than the light, nothing of melodic vocals or melodies, only ferox odious satanic feelings like in great tracks "Those with no eyes"& "Nihil Chaos". The band have an strange attitude, the guys cut theirselves in gigs and picture sections. Without boundaires to devil devotion...great songs, intense dark emotions for true black metal lovers! Contacts: band - www.multimania.com/antaeus / label - spikekult@aol.com / http://members.aol.com/spk666  (EF)

ARCHAEAN HARMONY - Nihility Mundane Soul (MCD - Solemn Music - Malta). Archaean Harmony play melodic black metal with progressive experimentalisms. The prominence of their songs are the keyboards and sampling atmospheres, it is an good exemple of the use of electronic tecnologies to improve the music. Another mark of the band is the impressive midtempos inside the arrangements, introducing prog melodic touches but maintaining the black density. "Metabolism Under The Ascending Moon (part I & II)" are an epic for melodic black metal fans! Contacts: band - darkmortem@hotmail.com / www.darkmetal.com/archaean / Label - solemusic@hotmail.com / http://go.to/solemn (OE)

ARCHONTES - The World Where Shadows Come To Life (CD - Metalagen - Russia). MARVELOUS!!!!! This is a great surprise come from Russia, one of the most fabulous melodic metal bands of the new metal. All musical aspects of this album are perfects: guitar rifs,melodic sense, keyboards, incredible vocals, drums and bass beats!!! Vassily Marchenko (bass), Andrey Fedorenko (Vocals, Keyboards), Zakhar Karpikov (guitars) & Sergey Belyavsky (drums) are the name behind this new icon name of melodic metal, the result of these perfect alchemy is one masterpiece of melodic metal where all songs touch our soul. 40 minutes of melodic epic musical dream, an voyage to the only Archontes musical world. I don't have words to talk about "Mother Russia", the best epic music that I listen in my life!!!!!!!! PLEASE, DON'T DIE WITHOUT LISTEN THIS ALBUM!!!!!! Contacts: band - http://archontes.com.ru  / label  - metalagen@soyuz.ru / www.soyuz.ru/metalagen (OE)

ARISE FROM THORNS - Before An Audience of Stars (CD - Dark Symphonies -USA). This is one CD that you will listen and won't forget nevermore, music for eternity!!!!It is the new sweet & deep musical american dream. An marvelous voyage in one of the best sweet voices of the musical world: MICHELLE LOOSE and the deep feelings of the impressive acoustic & eletric guitars of Scott Loose and Tom Phillips. The masterpiece of prog acoustic music "...BEFORE AN AUDIENCE OF STARS...", released by the famous label Dark Symphonies, can be included in the list of ten best albuns of this style and only can be compared with the old marvelous RENAISSANCE CDs. All musics are special moments of feeling and harmony, like in the great "Time Alone" or in the incredible live song "Moonlight". Now the band change your name to BRAVE and we are very ansious to listen the new release. Contacts: band- michelle@bravemusic.com /  www.bravemusic.com     label- darksympho@aol.com / promo@darksymphonies.com / www.darksymphonies.com  (EF)

AUTUMNTEARS - Promotional Sampler Compilation (CD - Dark Symphonies -USA). This is a great initiative of the label Dark Symphonies, a compilation to present the metal press the great musical work of AUTUMNTEARS. We already reviwed the third work of the band the fabulous "Winter and the Broken Angel: Love Poems for Dying Children...Act 3", third act of a trilogy and these album is very beautiful. The compilation bring tracks from the 3 acts and from the MCD "Absolution" giving a general panorama in the career of the band where we can listen 14 sensitive songs. The band invest in a kind of prog dark atmospheric music set in keyboards and a couple of marvelous female voices with influences of Enya & Dead Can Dance. Great band with personality and feeling!!! Contacts: label- darksympho@aol.com / promo@darksymphonies.com / www.darksymphonies.com  (OE)

B.E.N.T. - Eleven (CD - Self Produced - USA). Very impressive act coming from Milwaukee, BENT give us an exemple of creativity, feeling, good musical taste and a deep lesson of guitar melodies & melodic sense. Eleven is a masterpiece of Neo Heavy Power Trash metal with incursions in another improbable genres like prog metal & melodic metal.The influences are MEGADETH, OVERKILL and another old thrash acts like EXODUS, METALLICA , ANTHRAX and DREAM TEATHER & FATES WARNING but BENT has a lot of personality! Great guitar midtempos and clean/ agressive vocals balance, Brian Bolle and Ryan Loehe are one of the best new guitar couples of new american metal and they create great atmospheres for tracks like "Nightscape"(killer riffs), "Avonlea"( intro with Dream Theater'sinfluence) and the beautiful/powerful "Masquerade". The cover art is great too, and remember the computer graphics of STRATOVARIOUS cover arts. Listen it now! Contacts: bulldog@ticon.net / www.bentforce.com  (EF)

BORING - The Darkest Innerself (CD - Self Produced - ) Strange, intense, deeep, curious, hypnotic, experimental, dark, crazy, this is some adjectives that we can put in the music of Boring, improbable landscapes played with an strange instrument called "didgeridoo" and guitars distortions & microphonies. 35 minutes of scarry lanscapes but only two tracks, the master mind behind this neo-experimental-ambient is Remy (didgeridoo) and he was accompanied by Fats (guitars) that left the band after the recording of this album. No musical structure, any kind of melody, the music coming from the spheres of time. Great for opened mind listeners. Contacts: boring@pandora.be / www.boringmusic.cjb.net  (EF)

BUNKDOPE - Uncut (CD - Self Produced - USA). ARGHHHHHHHH! Sikness decomposition, rotten mind, gore brutality, psychopatic guitars, sacrificial raped bass, thunder blinded knives drums...No mercy, no boundaires for the destruction, putridy music!! Yeaah, this is real underground, coming from the most hurted abyss of Portland, BUNKDOPE is the essence of grind metal music. A primitive cover, a primitive production and love for the rotten music, yes it is music for intense grind lovers. Devil and death gods blessed the underground limbo that create BUNKDOPE. Only for real grind lovers, it will be cut your head and desecrate your mind! Contacts: bunkdope@qwest.net / bunkdopeuncut@webtv.net  (OE)

CENTINEX - Hellbrigade (CD- Repulse Records - Sweden). Centinex are one kind of legend of european brutal death metal, and have a great number of fans in underground. Hellbrigade is the most agressive, technic and killer album relased by these band. Great production, we can fell all details of the insane performance of the drummer Kennet Englund, one of the best death drummers of the world !! The band have great musicians and the death feeling jump from the guitar rifs, but you can't listen novelties here. Some melodic touches are include in the musics, creating great moments like in the incredibles "One With Eternity" & "Last Redemption". Impressive work for neo death lovers! Contacts: www.centinex.com / centinex@hotmail.com / www.repulserecords.com / info@repulserecords.com  (OE)

CSSO - Are You Excrements? (CD - Morbid Records - Japan). This is and crazy insane act come from Japan. An improbable mix of grind core, basic rock, guitar distortions and psychodelic feelings, the sound results in a putrid gore grind with hurt dog vocals and very strange guitars, some sounds like in the basic rock from 50's another remember experimental progressive from 70's. Very strange and creative. In a metal scene infested by clones, CSSO is a great surprise! Listen "Living Dead A Go Go"( a incredible progressive experimental grind song with 12 minutes!!!!!!!!) and you don't forget this band nevermore!!! GREAT ALBUM ! Contacts: Band - csso@tf6.so-net.ne.jp  label - www.morbidrecords.de / promo@morbidrecords.de (OE)

DAWNBRINGER - Catharsis Instinct (CD - Icarus - USA). Good revelation of north american death metal, Dawnbringer released its first album "Unbleed"in 1997 and it receive good reviews in famous publications like Metal Maniacs and Terrorizer, this is the second album and the band have problems with their american label, signing with argentinian underground label ICARUS. This album is a mix of great influences above all european metal legends like IN FLAMES, AT THE GATES, DARKTHRONE & old bands from NWOBHM like the cult ANGEL WITCH. The vocals of John weston are very similar to the insane Lemmy from MOTORHEAD. Energized, melodic & intense music jump from this CD, the prominences: "The Man Who Could Not Die"( with an beautiful final sole), Mudslicer ( almost grind!) & the dramatic keyboard voyage "DNA".   Contacts:  band - deathofhunger@hotmail.com / label - icarus@ba.net  (EF)

DEATH SS - Panic (CD - Lucifer Rising - Italy). This is one of the great hard'n'heavy legends from Italy. Death SS exist since 1988 and invest in a creative mix of arena rock, horror, gothic and improbable & interesting Mad Max make up/clothes. Panic is a great album with an impressive production, the cover art is curious and mysterious, a creepy face that mix human and goat to represent the mythological figure of "Pan", the real reason of the name and album concept, " Panic" come from "Pan". The DEATH SS music is a mix of good influences, we can listen echoes of KISS, WASP, AC/DC, MOTLEY CRUE, DOKKEN and some prog, gothic & black lines. Steve Sylvester is a creative vocalist with dozen vocal intonations, in some musics like "Lady of Babylon, "The Cannibal Queen"& "Hermaphrodite" his performance is theatrical and intense. Emil Bandera is a good guitar with power to create stronger riffs with melody, feeling and pop balance. Another great point of "Panic" are the lyrics, they talk about polemic themes like cyberculture (Hi-Tech Jesus), androginy (Hermafrodite), paganism (Lady Of Babylon, The Equinox of The Gods) and the band invite the master of SF comic and underground movies cilean director ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY to write the intro lyric and to recit it with his intense voice!! MARVELOUS MASTERPIECE OF NEO HARD ROCK!!!! Contacts: stevesylvester@tiscaline.it / www.deathss.com / Management - emanuelegentile@sicilyonline (EF) 

DEFENDER KFS - The Command (CD - Self Produced - Austria). Melodic Death Thrash act coming from Vienna, the band presents us  their debut album, good production and good compositions here. The special mark of DEFENDER KFS music is the guitars (played by Gre Gore - vacalist too), it is very melodic in some moments and the riffs demostrate a complete compreeension of the death metal structures (some soles remember IN FLAMES & AT THE GATES). Gre Gore is a good vocalist too and your vocals are deep cavernous nightmares. Tracks like "Cold (mind War)", "The Command"& "LabyrinthOfYou" will leave any lover of the melodic death metal animated and impressed. DEFENDER KFS is a good surprise. Contacts: info@defenderkfs.com / www.defenderkfs.com (OE) 

DIESEL - Diesel (CD - Self  Produced - Brazil). This band is a great revelation of brazilian alterna heavy rock and win a competition to play in the famous festival Rock In Rio 3 (when Diesel divided the stage with JUDAS PRIEST, IRON MAIDEN. QUEENS OF STONE AGE, OASIS, R.E.M, etc.) The debut album is a piece of good taste, a great release with deep feelings & different atmospheres: sweet, dark & agressive in the line of grunge urban rock made by Seatlle bands. The vocals of Gustavo remember in some moments Veder's vocals (Pearl Jam) but the soft lines of Gustavo is more deep. Great songs with great hard melodic guitars: "Plastic Smile", "My Pain", "4D". With the  right record label that band can conquer the world. Contacts: band - diesel@diesel.art.br / www.diesel.art.br  (OE)

DRASTIC - Thieves of Kisses. (Beyond ...Prod.) This is one of the best Cd than arrived to KREPUSKULUM, DRASTIC is Italian and makes that your mentor Chris Buchman entitles of Dark Introspective poetry with avantgarde touch. It is an atmospheric melancolic inspired and creative doom, oniric and traveler, with operistic female vocals, keyboards colorings and obscure and lyrical guitars. The music are to each other very different and in three languages Polish, Italian and English. The sound is innovative, Chris is a genius of the melancholic sonorities. Music as Unearthly and Two Infinites are glorious hymns to the introspection. Finally, an extraordinary album !!! Long life to brilliant DRASTIC! Contacts: drastic@unive.it   or Beyond Prod: beyond@ats.it  (EF)

DREAM DIVER - 606 & Lokt Dor (CDs - Self Produced - Germany) coming from Eastern Germany an invest in a great mix of hardrock, alternative, darkrock & Pop. In its music we can listen echoes of different bands like MARILLION, DEF LEPPARD, THE POLICE, DREAM TEATHER, QUEEN & grunge touches of SOUNDGARDEN. But these improbable mix is made with great intelligence and feeling creating great musics that we can saw in the CDs: LOKT DOR & 606 . Two great albums for listeners that love prog rock with experimental touches. One of the personal marks of the band is the bautiful double vocals singing by Ruben Witchow (drummer too) & Chris Wein (guitar too). Some of the good tracks from LOKT DOR: "In Myself", "River"& "Eternity"; great moments of 606: "Phantom", "Stonewall", "Tag in Deinem Leben". Contacts: stahl@dreamdiver.de / hstahl@rz.uni-potsdam.de  (EF)

EXTERMINATOR - Mirror Images (CD - Self Produced - Belgium). Thrash death act coming from Belgium, Exterminator play a good thrash very inpirated in 80's acts like KREATOR, DESTRUCTION, ARTILLERY and above all SLAYER from the first albums (Show no Mercy & Hell Awaits). Great work of Baruch in drums, the guy have an style very similar to the legendary Dave Lombardo, good guitar soles too, like in the beautiful & powerful "Church of Chaos", the best track in this good work. If you love 80's thrash, Exterminator is an act for you! Contacts: imf_metal@hotmail.com / exterminator_e@hotmail.com / http://listen.to/exterminator  (OE)

FOREST STREAM - Last Season Purity (MCD - Self Produced - Russia). Deep intense dark symphonic black metal created by a couple of russian musicians: "Sonm the Darkest" & "Wizard Omin", two magicians of the folk deep climates, creating dark voyages inside frozen east european forests. Long and slow musics, with a deep sadness emanating of each note. The title track has 12 minutes of beautiful darkest keyboards in the line of BURZUM dark progressive experiments. For the souls that cry for the strange despair of existing. Contacts: forest_stream@mail.ru / fstream@newmail.ru / http://fstream.newmail.ru (EF)

GURKKHAS - Engraved in Blood, Flesh and Soul (CD - MassacreCD - France). GURKKHAS is very famous death act from French underground, its music is inpired in americam brutal death scene and sounds like famous acts like DEEDS OF FLESH, CANNIBAL CORPSE & MALEVOLENT CREATION. The musicians are very technicians and the result is 9 speed, tech, heavy tracks. The best songs of the album are: "Diabolic Mission" (crude, insane rifs), "Black Sun"(a real brutal death nightmare) and "The Voice of the Terrible One"(desperate vocals coming from hell!!). To burn your ears. Contacts: band - gurkkhas@aol.com  (OE)

HIMINBJORG - Third (MCD - Redstream - France). This is the third opus of legendary pagan black act HIMINBJORG, the style is more slow and melodic and the guitar climates are a deep and heavy metal voyage, the band invest in clean& brutal vocals creating various atmospheres: of the dark to the soft, all songs have personality and incredible melodic sense. Listen "Under The Spell of The Grass" and feel the pagan power!!!! A masterpiece of sophisticated metal music for elect ears! Contacts: Band- HiminbjorgPR@redstream.org   Label - www.redstream.org / restream666@hotmail.com (EF)

HORDE OF WORMS - Wormageddon (MCD - Bloodbucket - Canada) - Great title, fucking cover and insane sound!! This third work of great canadian underground legend HORDE OF WORMS is an exemple of ripping corpse riffs, abysmal drum machines and cataclismic vocals. The novelty is vocalist Peter Cythrawl's entrance turning the sound of the band more darker. If you love brutal grind death listen pearls like "Immortal Coil"& "Under Blood red Skies" and fell the power! Contacts: wormy_2@hotmail.com /  http://members.tripod.com/~WORM_3/index.html / Label - bloodbucketproductions@hotmail.com (OE) 

HORFIXION - Disynchronize (CD - Self Produced - Canada). Debut full lenght of canadian thrash masters Horfixion, this album is a piece of honestly and powerful true 80's thrash metal, nine tracks that remember us the good times of agressive legends like KREATOR, EXCITER, EXUMER, and other kings. The guitar couple have extreme feeling creating autenthic rifferamas with interesting soles. "Tears of Sand" (an instrumental thrash hymn with sad climatic intro and incredible soles) and "Desert Landscape"(intense vocal performance)  is some  of the great moments of this good work. Long live to HORFIXION! Contacts: horfixion@horfixion.com / www.horfixion.com  (OE)

IMMUNOAFFINITY - Slaves of DNA (CD - Self Produced - Brazil). This is the debut album from one the best brutal neo death acts from Rio De Janeiro."Slaves of DNA"is a masterpiece of agressivity, brutal guitars and great melodic experimentalisms, where the bass midtempos and guitars climates are really great! It is even difficult to believe that this is the first album of the band, because the work brings an excellent production where is evident the technique and mastery of the musicians. Another point to highlight is the lyrics of the album written and being about current themes as the human cloning and its implications. The cover art is very enigmatic and it helps to create the mystery and insane climate to listen great musics as Empty, Sucubus & Necrophagica. Contacts: www.immunoaffinity.cjb.net      / prionrecords@hotmail.com  (EF)

INSANIA - Hyms of Stokholm part II : Sunrise in Riverland ( CD - No Fashion - Finland). Simple marvelous!!! This is one the new revelations of epic melodic world metal and this new release are indispensable for all fans the style. We can listen echoes of Gamma Ray, Helloween and specially Angra, the vocals are very inpirated by the reference is, without doubt, Andre Matos' vocals. The guitars are dreams of swettness, power & feeling, all musicians have technic and give us a good exemple of how create good songs without virtusism and auto indulgence. The song "The Land of the Wintersong" is one beautiful hymn that touch our soul and heart with its divine final chorus!!!! Twelve great songs including the inpirated ballad "Angels in the Sky". Ah, the cover artwork are another high point. MARVELOUS AND FINAL POINT!!!!! Contacts: http://come.to/nofashion / nofashionrecords@chello.se /  (EF)

INTERNAL SUFFERING - Supreme Knowledge Domain ( CD - Repulse Records - Colombia). Great production, impressive darkness cover. The music? the music is one the most agressive works already produce in south america, an ferocious, insane gore grind that remember our most creepy nightmare. Great technic, putrid riffs, 10 songs in 31 minutes, to fans of old Carcass & Napalm Death. These colombian guys have a ferox hate of humanity, and songs like "Valley of Impaled" & "Enter the Gate of Death" are hymns for the end. Contacts: intersuffering@hotmail.com / qbalah@repulserecords.com / http://go.to/internalsuffering    (OE) 

KOROVAKILL - Waterhells ( CD - Red Stream - Austria). The austrian act is very inovative and creative, mixing influences of death, melodic, doom, dark & black metal, the band give us a masterpiece of opheristic dark metal. Waterhells is a kind of metal ophera where the vocalizations are interpretated with intense feeling and the songs have deep atmospheres created by guitar rifs, eletronic effects, keyboards climates or sweet chorus. Very impressive work without direct references, twelve musics, all the ones have personality. Special moments: the deep " Into the Underwhirls", the enigmatic "Blue Thrones" and the powerful "The Shadowhordes". Great work for new darkwave metalheads!! Contacts:  KorovaKillPR@redstream.org / RedStream@aol.com / www.redstream.org (EF)

KURGAN'S BANE - The Future Lies Broken ( CD - Fugitive Music - USA). Hard progressive rock with personal female vocals, Kurgan's Bane presents this masterpiece of neo-prog music with perfect balance of melody, experimentalism and feeling, this is really 50 minutes of deep musical voyage. Influences? yes, but it was mixed with great personality & musical sensibility...some echoes of RUSH, DREAM THEATER, PINK FLOYD and the incredible SONUS UMBRA (the bassist of Kurgan's Bane is Luis Nasser the leader of SONUS UMBRA).Lisa Francis has an beautiful voice with intensity and tonality very special and emotive, she get distant and sad atmospheres to the music as in the beauty "Warm Winter Nights"and "Regina"(a prog voyage with more than 8 minutes!). Neo prog lovers this is your band! Contacts: kurgansbane@aol.com / www.kurgansbane.com / nasser@wam.umd.edu  (EF)

LESSER KNOWN - Higher Levels - (MCD - LKE - Canada). Coming from Ontario, LESSER KNOWN is a good surprise for neo hard rock lovers, great guitars, vocals with groove and compositions that mix pop & heavy climates. The band has charted in the top 10 of mp3.com alterna metal a lot of weeks, and its interesting pop/heavy balance is the mark of the band. Only 4 tracks in this MCD, the best of is "Under Dog", heavy song with urban killer groove. Great work, great promise! Contacts: band - info@lesserknownzone.com / www.lesserknownzone.com  (OE)

LOVE HISTORY - Anasazi (CD - The End - Czech Republic). MARVELOUS, MARVELOUS, MARVELOUS!!! It is a present for our ears an incredible masterpiece of atmospheric, climatic, darkest, melodic, progressive, operistic, epic, avant-garde inpired metal. If you love the atmospheric acts this is your band, LOVE HISTORY (strange name?!?) mix folk influences, death touches, complex & beautiful guitar melodies with fury creating epic atmospheric hyms like the incredibles "Masterless" (this song penetrate the deep side of our soul with its intense chois and climatic guitars), "Sown" (darkwave atmospheric hymn!!!), "The Mass (beautiful midtempos and double clean/ killer vocals balance) & Voices (an sad deep lament that touch us). Very experimental but without losing the feeling, the band is formed by six musicians and invite another four to participate in soprano vocals, flutes, choirs & narrations. ANASAZI has also an impressive lyric concept, a beautiful cover and an curious video clip version for the music "Lost". This is one the most experimental and creative album of the atmospheric metal scene! GREATTTTT!!!! Contacts: band - l.history@email.cz / label - www.theendrecords.com / theend@theendrecords.com  (EF)

MIDNIGHT SYNDICATE - Realm of Shadows (CD - Entity - USA). The proposal of this creative ambient act is" to create music that stimulates listeners imaginations, transporting them to worlds and movies of their own creation". The band invest in an atmospheric keyboards instrumental compositions with intense mysterious climates inspired by classic music and gothic metal.The genious minds behind this project are Edward Douglas and Gavin Gozka, two masters of keyboards and synths creating intense soundscapes for darkwave ambient lovers. Realm of Shadows is the third album of this cult band and has 21 tracks, some great moments: "Twiligth", "Black Woods", "Beyond the Gates" & "Into The Abyss". Contacts: info@midnightsyndicate.com / www.midnightsyndicate.com   (EF)

MIDNIGHT SYNDICATE - Gates Of Delirium (CD - Entity - USA). New masterpiece of ambient keyboard sounscape! In this fourth  album the incredible music of the ambient masters Edward Douglas and Gavin Gozka is more intense and climatic, 21 lanscapes for gothic darkwave fanatics, the concept and cover art remind the KING DYAMOND albums and KING is a notorious fan of Midnight Syndicate, he play some musics of the band in the intros of his gigs! Great songs, creepy atmospheres, classic touches, listen "Room 47", "Phantom Sentinels" & Morbid Fascination" and fell to frozen your soul! MARVELOUS! Contacts: info@midnightsyndicate.com / www.midnightsyndicate.com   (EF)

MIND SNARE - Hateful Attitude (CD - Psychic Stream - Italy). The second release of MIND SNARE is one of the best grind nightmares that world already listen. Dark, depressive, heavy, putrid & intense feelings emanate from this grindeath new masterpiece. The music are more intense, more technic and agressive that in the debut album, now MIND SNARE are inside the cream of GOLD GRIND WORLD ACTS!!!! No keyboards, no melodic touches, no female vocal, only hate, only pain, only depression, only destruction, only agressive guitarbassdrumsvocalizations!! The track "HATEBOMB"is the eternal HYMN of unconformist underground minds!!!!!!! GREATTTTTTTT ALBUMMMMMMMMM!!!! LISTEN NOW!!!! Contacts: band - snaredeath@hotmail.com / mindsnareaddr@yahoo.com / www.mindsnare.nasha.com / Label - www.psychicscream.com / pscream@pd.jaring.my  (EF)

MORTIFER - If Tomorrow Comes (CD - Metalagen - Russia). Thrash metal old school act come from Russia, in the same vein of legends like KREATOR, EXUMER, EXCITER, SEPULTURA, SLAYER and cult brazilian band MX..GREAT ALBUM with thrash real grooves!!!!! When we listen songs like "I'm Your Fear", we return to the past and banging our heads how crazy old bangers!!! If you have more than 25 years you know that I are talking. All musics are powerfuls and the surprise is the ballad "Don't Say Never", beautiful song in the line of the Scorpions good ballads. LONG LIFE TO MORTIFER!! Contacts: band - tv@gtrk.kmtn.ru / label  - metalagen@soyuz.ru / www.soyuz.ru/metalagen (OE)

MOSHQUITO - Worlds End (CD - Morbid records - Germany). Strange namme...strange cover, but the sound is a good and old thrash metal with 90's death metal touch. The band aren't new, the guys are east german thrash veterans and Moshquito have been around for incredible 15 years by now. During the era of iron curtain the band gained its cult status with reason, because it is a powerful act with nervous guitars and killer guitar climates. The music aproach remember old great bands like KREATOR ( Extreme Agressions phase), but the technic of Moshquito are best, creating nightmare atmospheres like in the impressive title track and in climatic "Your Pleasure is Your Pain", a melodic rifferama nightmare. Contacts: band - huntingdemon@web.de / label - www.morbidrecords.de / promo@morbidrecords.de  (EF)

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