CD REVIEWS (Third Edition -NEW!)

AJNA - Mirror (CD - Destroyer - Brazil)

This is one of the best bands of the brazilian industrial thrash metal, and this album is the development of AJNA, investing very well in new tendencies of the nineties metal, including industrial elements and climates alternate-metal with clear influences of names as BIOHAZARD and FEAR FACTORY. Captained by the powerful vocalist TIBET, very known in the brazilian metal, having been member of the legendary MADE IN BRAZIL, the band still counts on other woman in the formation, the drummer PITCHU BORSOI, perhaps one of the best and more creative drummers of brasilian thrash metal. We highlighted the musics " INSANITY ", HOMELESS " and the post industrial avantgarde "EYES OF AJNA " with the special guest LOOP B, one of the most important  industrial musicians in Brazil. Contacts: tibet@sti.com.br   (EF)

ALL TOO HUMAN - Idem ( CD - Self Produced - USA).

Beautiful album of that American band that founds the influence of names with RUSH, MARRILION, DREAM TEATHER & STRATOVARIOUS, making a prog metal very close of the hard rock, but without the annoying virtuosity that a lot of times reigns in the albums of the bands of that style. The instrumentalists are excellent and the vocal is very good, reminding the vocal of RUSH. They are nine music, but we highlight the ballad " SOULS ON A MORTAL HIGH " and the crazy instrumental "DISMAL ARRAY " that includes some sounds of the famous computer game ODD WORLD! Highly advisable for the prog metal lovers.Contacts: alltoohu@alltoohuman.com   (EF)

ALPD WRONG MACHINE - Evolution of Hate (Cd-Demo - Self Produced - Italy)

Italian band that mixes RAP, INDUSTRIAL and THARSH metal creating a crossover a lot in fashion in the American metal of the present time, showing the diversity of the scene metal of Italy. The instrumental is competent but the vocal is very tiresome and annoying. Good band for who likes alternative metal, but if you don't like the style passes far away from this CD!

Contacts: alpdwm@tin.it (OE)

ANAND CLIQUE - Click - (CD - Abyss - USA)

Anand Bhatt is a american underground musician that invests in the alternative metal in the line of bands as FAITH NO MORE and RHCP. This work is mainly very interesting for the impressive form that Buban plays the bass, transforming the instrument in a type of creative motor of the music, he gets to sound more creative until that famous FLEA. Anand possesses a vocal one very dirty, in the line of Lemmy of MOTORHEAD that gives a format more heavy to the sound. If you like alternative metal, certainly yout will like this CD. Contacts: click@hotmail.com (EF)

ASHES YOU LEAVE - The Passage Back to Life (CD - Morbid Rec.- Croatia)

MARVELLOUSSSSSSSSS!! This is the lyrical and ethereal debut album of that incredible band of athmospheric doom metal coming from distant Croatia. It's a fenomenal work l that unites the sweetness of the DUNJA RADETIC's vocal and hers oniric flutes to the depth violins of MARTA BATINIC'S melting that to the abismal weight of the BREISLAV POJE's vocal and of GORDAN GENCIC'S great drums. Certain influences of bands are noticed as MY DYING BRIDE that finish diluting. The music are long and full of creative elements, everything works perfectly, and this is at once a classic of the style. Contacts: morbidrecords@ranet.de

ASHES YOU LEAVE - Desperate Existence (CD - Morbid Rec.- Croatia)

THIS IS ATMOSPHERIC METAL'S BEST ALBUM THAT I ALREADY HEARD IN MY LIFE!!! Simply touching!!! ASHES YOU LEAVE developed a lot from its impressive first album and in that work it presents a personal, only and grandiose style!!! DUNJA have a vocal one sentimental in the line of singers new age like Enya, but the creativity and depth turns DUNJA the best singer of the style to the moment. The flutes, the keyboards and violins are still deeper and creative, the very sensitive letters, the vocal ones guttural they are still present and the drums & bass have powerful presence . The music "SHADOW OF SOMEBODY'S ELSE BEING" is one of the prettiest music than I already heard, it takes our spirit to a new dimension. MOMENTARY ECLIPSE OF HOPE is definitively a classic. Finally, everything is perfect and brilliant in that album and ASHES YOU LEAVE already has its name guaranteed in the history of the heavy music!!!!!!!!!!! Contacts: morbidrecords@ranet.de  (OE)

CATHOLICON - Lost Chronicles of the war in Heaven (CD - Self Produced -USA)

Little bands of Black Metal that I listened in my life possess letters so interesting as CATHOLICON, " Altar of Science " and " Thorns of the Crown ", besides they be true brutality hymns they possess letters that are about antichrist thematic with a lot of seriousness, the connection of the band with ocultism is clear in the dedication of the disk: ANTON SZANDOR LAVEY and in the friendly relationship with Rev. VINCENT CROWLEY of ACHERON. The sound of the band unites the fury of the black traditional metal with creative dark instrumental atmospheric tracks as " Ashes of Eden " and " The Banks of River Styx ". The vocal of I.N.R.I possess limitless fury and Blasphyre Demiurge is a genius of Synths, finally, that work is extraordinary for the lovers of the true black metal! Contacts: constat@ibm.net (EF)

CHRISTABEL - Songs of Experience (MCD-Demo - Self Produced - Italy)

A beautiful layer and letters inspired by the poetry of the great english visionary William Blake (thing that Bruce Dickinson also did recently and some bands of progressive rock did in the past) are two of the attractiveness of that demo. We hear the sound, what felt is a great capacity to create atmospheric music based on the keyboards and with a certain brutality level, the most interesting is the contrast of Matteo Belli's hard rock vocal (Vocals, Keyboards and Programming) the owner of the project, with the guttural vocal of the guest Paolo Ojetti. A beautiful work that only sins for being so short. We will wait the full length album from CHRISTABEL. Contacts: mymetal@yahoo.com (EF)

COUNTERPARTS - Twlight Riders ( CD-Demo - Self produced - Brazil)

" The gods made heavy metal, and it's never gonna die ". That is the sentence in prominence in the layer of that CD, said by Joey DeMaio of MANOWAR, and that is the posture of COUNTERPARTS, making a competent melodic power metal with an instrumental one that reminds VIPER of the phase " Soldiers of Sunrise ". That is the first registration of the band that wastes competence and feeling, prominence for the track COUNTERPARTS where the bass and the drums appear in a creative way. The vocal of Emerson Peniari have very potential but they still need more a little of work. Extraordinary CD for TRUE METAL'S lovers! Contacts: andrecp@bestway.com.br (EF)

DAUNTLESS - Inhumankind - (MCD-demo - Self Produced - Finland)

Interesting and competent band of brutal grind death metal coming of Finland, country that come if highlighting in several styles of the metal. They are 5 music that don't give rest for the listener with a lot of punch and brutality, the musicians also demonstrate technique and knowledge to create riffs. The work doesn't have anything of innovator but it is a big band for the lovers of the style. Highlight for visceral BODY OPEN WYDE and for the great work of the drummer Santeri Salmi. Contacts: ssalmi@sci.fi (EF)

DREAMSFEAR - Prelude to Destiny (MCD - ILL-OMEN - IRELAND)

Nor only of IRA and U2 lives Ireland!!!!! DREAMSFEAR is a good surprised coming of Dublin, a powerful band of Power Thrash metal that offers us with that impressive MCD, that brings powerful compositions full of feeling allying the influence of the eighties thrash metal with very inspired power vocal. " Darkness Falls " is an great music with the feeling that reminds good musics of old OMEN and " Burning Bridges " is a beautiful heavy ballad. After the release of that work, the vocalist and the drummer left the band, we make votes that they find substitutes with the same potential. Contacts: dreamsfear@hotmail.com  (OE)

DISCERN - Revive and Rebuke ( CD - Independent - USA)

Several curiosity involves that CD, the first is the fact of being of a band of Brutal Grind Death metal that invests in Christian letters (including biblical references), the second is the interesting mix of blues moments in the middle of the rotten sound and the third are the fact of being of a band of an alone man, Bill Fraser that plays rhythmic, bass, drums and sings, being just aided by producing Andrew Albert that plays the lead guitars in the CD. The high point is the form with that him mixed weight and brutality with bluesy moments. Advisable! Discern's " Revive and Rebuke " CD is only $10 pos paid. Send well concealed cash, chek, or money order payable to Bill Fraser to the following adress: Discern - 11408 Audelia Road#4778 - Dallas, TX - 75243 USA - E-mail Contacts: discern@flash.net (EF)

DISCIPLES OF MOCKERY - Prelude to Apocalypse. (CD - Self Prodeced - USA)

This album could not have a name more perfect ...the shock it begins with the layer, a box in plastic red blood and a black cover. The CD went sended to us for CRAIG PILLARD ex- member of the legendary INCANTATION and mentor of the DOM where he is responsible for the vile vocal and for one of the guitars, beside the kings of the brutality Mike Boyce (G), Ronny Deo (Bass) and Jim Gnaws (Drums). The sound is a very aggressive and technical death/gore/grind, with slow moments of extreme depression as in the music " Prelude to Absolution ", where the vocal of Craig seem the a caged demon's grunt. Other moments of power and supreme insanity are " God of Love ", " An Endless Pursuit for Satisfying Pain " and the gore hymn of seven minutes " Dogma ". The great CD is avaiable for 13 US dollars (includes shipping) send cash or money order to: Disciples of Mockery - 153 Oaktree Av. / 50. Plainfield, NJ - 07080 - USA / e-mail contacts: twocount@bellatlantic.net   (OE)

EPILOG 6 - Witch Hunt (CD - Self produced - USA).

Another brilliant one man band, William D. Hodges answers for the vocal ones, guitars and synthesizers in that curious project, full of climates and atmospheres, it is a conceptual album counting the history of the hunt the witches in United States. The vocal of Hodges are very curious, hour they seem with the one of Bruce Dickinson, for another times they seem with the vocalist of BAUHAUS and later they remind BAL SAGOTH. The instrumental is also varied and it is going from the Black metal to the progressive, and the atmospheric moments prevail. In a scene marked by repetitive bands, EPILOG 6 is a good surprise!! Contacts: epilog6@lakes.com (EF)

FINAL TRAGEDY - Trial of Tears. (MCD - Self produced - France)

This French band just possesses two members, vocalist Delphine Cochand and Jean Luc Millot that answers for the guitars and programming, the sound is a prog metal very inspired with influences of bands as DREAM TEATHER. The vocal of Delphine is very sweet and it works well in some music as " On Fall's Night ", but in others isn't good, perhaps due to some problem in the mix. Band that promises. Contacts: final.tragedy@wanadoo.fr (OE)

THE GREAT KAT - Bloody Vivaldi (CD - TPR Music - USA)

This woman is a myth of the metal!!! With its visual S&M, a mixture of MARYLIN MANSON, CRADLE OF FILTHY and splatter movies, GREAT KAT scares us, taken a bath in blood, or torturing her slaves, we noticed that her concern with the visual is a good way to diffuse her crazy theories and wonderful music!!! KAT has classic formation in violin and decided to mix her knowledge with fast and delirious metal, creating an style entitled of Cyberspeeed. BLOODY VIVALDI is a CD with 4 music and not very more than seven minutes of duration, but that is enough to impress us with the power of KAT's music, creating cyberspeed versions, including a camera orchestra for " The four Seasons of Vivaldi " or producing the industrial trail for hers S&M deliriums, KAT is big!!!!!!!!!! THE goddess of the human deterioration and of the millennium end, uniting with brilliant idea tortures and classic music, is as to put TRENT REZNOR, MALMSTEEN and BEETHOVEN in a blender and to see what resulted!... THE GREAT KAT IS GOD!!!!!!!!

THE GREAT KAT - Digital Beethoven on Cyberspeed ( CD-ROM - Bureau of Electronic Publish - USA)

Spectacular work of KAT, where she shows hers didactic side, a walk for the history of the music and coming all the great geniuses of the periods Baroque, Romantic, Modern, Classic going by the rock and arriving to Heavy Metal, everything done with good mood, a lot of irony and an impressive visual. The CD-ROM is a true encyclopedia of the music, including a section where presents to us all the instruments of an orchestra, with good 3D visualization and to hear the sound of each one of them, it also brings pictures and biographies of musical geniuses of all the periods. We can listen six hallucinated musics of KAT in the CD-ROM, that make its impressive mixture of metal and classic music, with weight, brutality and vocal of caged wild animal!!!! Contacts: karent@thomas-pr.com or visit KAT's site: www.greatkat.com (OE)

HATRED - The Offering (CD - Self produced - USA)

We didn't believe that this band still is not part of a big label. This CD is in my modest opinion one of the largest classic of the DEATH/THRASH metal of all the times! Everything works perfectly, the violence of guitars, the fury and technique of the bass & drums and overcoat the incredible ones vocal of TIM CLAYBORNE (lead guitar too). There are times that I didn't hear as extreme and creative music like TRUST NO ONE, where the vocals and the instrumental begin like a melodic heavy and turn for the most explosive and powerful death!!! The letters are also very well written, expressing hate and distrust ...The cover was drawn by the bassman of the band Julio Castillo that also made the visceral illustrations of the layer. Finally, that album is extraordinary!!!!!!! Contacts: hatredva@aol.com (EF)

HOLOCHAUST - Ultimate Metal Trademark (CD - Self produced - Finland)

This CD is especially made for those lovers of the technical (and sentimental!) thrash metal done in the half of the eighties by icons as TESTAMENT, ANTHRAX, EXODUS, MEGADEATH and obviously METALLICA. The leader of the band TOMMI (G, V & K) is a composer of full hand and creates very sensitive music as " Sad Life Filosofy " and " Town of Silence ", besides the vocal style of Tommi and the structure of the music reminds the gold METALLICA's phase of the albums " Ride The Lightning " and " Master of Puppets ", is impossible not to notice the likeness, however that doesn't harm that beautiful work that should be heard by all the lovers of a good thrash metal with sensitive letters. The album was recorded and mixed in the homemade studio of Tommi but the impression that we have is that are a super production of a great label ! Contacts: ttiihone@kolumbus.fi (EF)

HORDE OF WORMS - Dreams and Dying Eyes (CD - Bloodbucket - Canada)

This is one of the most rotten and fucked albums of gore splatter metal already produced. The layer is frightening and it brings the image of an almost intact death frozen body with open eyes . The CD opens with a lullaby of those of music box and after that the nightmare comes, they are nine sounds that don't give peace for the listener. Heavy, fast and visceral musics like " Firestorm " are eternal hymns for the human decomposition! Technique and fury at the masters' level as CARCASS and ENTOMBED. To bale our rest eternal ...Dreams and Dying Eyes is candidate to classic of the splatter metal!! Contacts: WORMY_2@hotmail.com

INCH - Tortured Land - (MCD - Self produced - Germany)

A beautiful William Blake's image enriches the layer of that interesting MCD of the German band INCH. They make a Death Trash very well played, with prominence for the inclusion inspired guitar soils among the sharp rifs, the vocal reminds the one of good German bands like SODOM and DESTRUCTION and the aggressiveness of the sound also brings soon to our mind them mentioned German bands and KREATOR of the first albums, mainly of " Endless Pain ". Is impossible don't scream when hearing the tracks " Tortured Land"e " The Compulsion "!!! Contacts: INCH@gmx.de (OE)

JIM MARTIN And ANAND BHATT - Conflict Soundtrack (CD- Sonic Wave - USA).

This is a hallucinated and experimental soundtrack created by these two well-known artists of the American underground music, Jim Martin (Faith No More) and Anand Bhatt (Anand Clique). 13 musics, most of them minimalist experiences with synth and programming machines, creating industrial effects and until half techno.Is necessary to Have patience to hear the whole album because the music are going getting tired, perhaps for the fact of being of a sound track they work well only in the film CONFLICT. Survive some moments inspired like the track title and " Shooter's Theme ". Contacts: click@hotmail.com (EF)

JUNGLE ROT - Slaughter The Weak - (CD - Morbid Recs - USA)

" Jungle Rot " was the term given to what happened when soldiers in Vietnam stood in filthy, stinking water for hours on end, and the sodden flesh literally fell of their bodies. This album does be a Rotten thrash death metal with 80's feeling. Very furious and fast, reminding the first albums of SLAYER, and other bands as CANNIBAL CORPSE, MALEVOLENT CREATION only that the vocal is still more guttural. The cover presents a rough drawing of a cannibal American soldier, the mascot of the band!! Impossible we don't scarewith the power of music as " Demigorgon"e " Gore Bag", brutality and extreme insanity from beginning to the end. Contacts: morbidrecords@ranet.de (EF)

KILLER KHAN - Kill Devil Hills. (CD - Self produced -USA)

Great work of that heavy metal American band, captained by the vocalist and guitarist Killian Khan, that should be son or relative of the legendary OZZY OZBOURNE because your vocal are very similars to your master. The sound is very creative, a mixed of KING DIAMOND with JUDAS PRIEST, with wonderful guitar soils and torn rifs. The letters remind those of the bands of heavy of the eighties as the one of " Dr Strangelove " and " Metal Death Star "(the most powerful of the album!). The cover art is interesting and as everything in the album also reminds the one of albums of the eighties. Contacts: KhanMetal@webtv.net   (EF)

LUNATIC GODS - Sitting By The Fire (CD - METAL AGE - Slovakia)

A strange name, a strange layer and a strange sound ...however very, very good. LUNATIC GODS makes a solid and consistent mixture of melody, crudeness, power, peacefulness, agressivity and heavy metal. With two (!!!!) great vocalists that really interpret the music, seem that they are in a theater, of so emotional that is their performance!!! The CD has until inspired prog metal moments, with domain of the keyboards, as in the instrumental strip RETURN OF DEAD'S THOUGHTS. They were pointed for the magazine METAL HAMMER of Slovakia as better band of the year in that country, deserved title!!! Contacts: metal.age@mt.sknet.sk  (OE)

MACHINA COELI - Finitus Visus Nostri (CD - SIAE - Italy)

We are living the era of the one man bands, MACHINA COELI is the project of Coatl M. Evil, virtuous and brilliant keyboardist that offers us with that grandiose debut CD of dark progressive new age astral sound!! A great universe of atmospheres and climates, of the soturn to the cheerful, everything involved by a beautiful history about swords and faith. The album is all instrumental, except for the last music that presents a beautiful narration. Coatl is said influenced by MORTIIS, but actually he overcame the such keyboards monster from a distance. It should be heard by everybody that love good music without radicalisms. Contacts: csavol@tin.it (EF)

MECHANICAL CHAOS - Deaf Civilization ( CD - Opcion Sonica - Mexico)

Thrash metal very well played, with technique and excellent recording. The largest reference of the band is without doubts the SEPULTURA, mainly for the form that the vocalist and guitarist Carlos García Gobles sings and for your voice emblem. The band has a great concern with the lyrical aspect, presenting deep reflections on social and ecological problems, as we can see in the powerful musics " Deaf " and " Megalopolis ". The instrumental is varied and the guitar rifs are sharp, perhaps the only problem is the vocal that tires a little when we listened the whole CD, but that don't removes the shine of MECHANICAL CHAOS work. Contacts: mechanical_chaos@yahoo.com  (OE)

MALEVOLENCE - Martyrialized (CD - Maquiavel - Portugal)

This work begins to impress for the beautiful layer and for Fredrik Nordstrom's participation in the mix (that also worked with AT THE GATES, HAMMERFALL, DARK TRANQUILLITY), it is a innovative and technical death metal in the line of bands as IN FLAMES. All the music are very interesting, but we should highlight " Les Salles Obscures def Rose Noire XVIII", where the vocal of Carlos Cariano are very powerful and " Insubordination ", a touching neodramatic melody. The letters are very sensitive and all the instrumentalists waste technique and feeling, finally, after MOONSPELL this is the largest revelation of the Portuguese metal! Contacts: maquiavel@mail.telepac.pt  (EF)

NACHTMAHR - SCHATTENFURST - (Cd-Demo - Self produced - Germany)

The layer of that CD is neglected, but it brings a curiosity, it is all painted of black, getting ready for powerful Black Metal of that German band. The work presents us an intro and 4 very inspired music, with melancholy and perfect brutality, thrown hand of avant-garde elements as keyboards and soft vocals but maintaining the fury. " De Solitudine ", sung in German is the most beautiful music of that work with split vocals and one of the more beautiful heavy melodies than I already listened, it seems to touch our soul. We can't wait the debut album of those black metalheads!!! Contacts: Schattenbringer@gmx.de (EF)

PROFAN - Reset (7"EP - Pandemonium - Germany)

Industrial Avantgarde Black Metal, a heavy and dragged sound that gives the impression that the rotation of the disk is slow, strange effects and melody and letters Minimalist. Keyboards dark and urban atmosphere, finally, that is a vanguard work that certainly won't please many but that left me very curious to hear the debut CD. Are two musics " Reset" and " Without Touch ", in the layer sees a male goat, typical of black metal bands and in the back cover a SF typical scene of films as " Blade Runner " and industrial bands! For the metalheads of open mind! Contacts: profan@Netcologne.de (OE)

RAVENS OVER GOMORRAH - Darkly Melisma (CD demo - Self produced - USA).

That band makes something very interesting in its second work, it is a group of 7 songs, and their half is small soturn ballads, composed of keyboards and soft guitars as beautiful " Ballad to the Left Hand Path ", and the others are pure black primitive metal, reminding the first works of BATHORY. The climate is soturn and the simbology that it involves layer and titles is of who knows ocultism very well. Highlight for the drums of Bart Schimdt that plays in a strange and creative way. Contacts: heavenfalls@hotmail.com (EF)

RESURRECTURIS - Nocturnal (CD - Diamond Recs - Italy)

This is one of the recognized bands of death metal of Italy, and this wonderful album is a test of the power of fire of that band, sharp guitars and drums very creative mix with a very personalized vocals. Climatic changes of the sweetness to the apocalypse, including female vocal and keyboards, do of music as " Il Male Contro Male " and " Dark Moods " hymns of the European death metal. The layer is mysterious and it represents the sound of the band , finally, an extraordinary album for the fans of avantgarde death metal, with a lot of experimentalism but without losing the aggressiveness. The album brings as bonus track a violent cover of CARCASS " Heartwork " ! Contacts: resunoiz@tin.it (EF)

SLOW HORSE - Slow Horse ( CD - Freebird Recs - USA)

A creative mixture of Grunge, Heavy metal, psicodelism, Deep Purple and bluesy feeling , this is SLOW HORSE, revelation of the style STONER METAL, led by the fanatic by Kubrick and hardcore movies Daniel Bukszpan, guitar that also sings with your powerful and suffered voice creating music as " When Are You Coming Home ", a classic Stoner that represents this debut album!!!!!!!!! That work emanates honesty & force, besides the band possesses that special touch, a new sonority. Hear now, it's GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Contacts: dbukszpan@mindspring.com (EF)

STRANGEWAYS - Dry Season ( CD -Self produced - Brazil)

The fetid smell of money burns my nostrils, and the nostrils of thousands of inhabitants of this "brasilian" ship, because according to the majors executives that gives return never leaves the underground (ERROR: Sepultura, Angra, Pato Fu). But leaving the revolt sideways, I can say that is a happiness to hear in some tracks the melancholy with feeling of guitar band or in another great rockers, everything printing in the first CD of the band Strangeways. When placing the cd to play has in mind that turn passage doesn't exist, just leave the relaxed body and place the mind for a trip in the several things of the sad happiness of living in an imperfect world. The vocal of Ricardo Vergueiro a lot of times goes for a walk for Lou Reed's roadway. Grandiose first release of this excellent and true underground band. Contacts: aruana@netserv.com.br (MR)

ULCERATE FESTER - Souled Out - ( CD - Independent - Netherlands)

This band began making death grind metal in 1989, but now its work developed for a heavy metal in the line of bands as ARMORED SAINT, with a hard rock format and a lot of presence of the guitars. Souled Out is a good CD with music inspired like SHE, where the vocal of Michel De Groot have every space to show its beauty and " Try to Think" inspired by IRON MAIDEN of the Paul Dyano's phase! The ones that want to acquire the work they should send $15,00 directly for the band, in the following address: Michel De Groot - Rozenstraat 31 - 7601 AL Almelo - Netherlands. E-mail Contact: legrand@solcon.nl (EF)

WASTELAND - Genuine Parts. (CD - Self produced - Germany)

This CD is more a test than the thrash/death metal with 80's influence is reborning in Europe, mainly in Germany. When we hear that album remember ourselves the golden phase of KREATOR, mainly of albums as " Endless Pain ", because the vocal of Tobias and the guitar riffs of Stephan create that wonderful sound atmosphere view in this and in another great albums of KREATOR. In the 12 music of that interesting CD, WASTELAND also takes a risk some interesting games as in " First Knife " that mixes Rock'n Roll with thrash metal, generating curious music.Good album for the lovers of thrash metal! Contacts: Wasteland@Wolfsburg.de  (OE)

DEMOS:

ANGUISH IN EXILE - Abandoned (Demo - Self produced - USA).

This demo is a test of the force and sound creativity of that American band of Industrial grind death, the fucked mix with NINE INCH NAILS, SLAYER and KRAFTWERK......... .Very insane and brutal with the urban cyber gothic ended sight of the millenium!!!!! Only three music " Abandoned ", " Last Nail " & "Deconstructed", a tape color of blood and a despair climate ...listen if you have courage! Contacts: mcdisease@aol.com (OE)

BLOODSHED - Laughter of Destruction (Demo - Self Produced - Sweden)

Brutal Death metal extremely technician and well played, in a recording and impeccable production that should represent in a CD! The great prominence is above all the climatic variations of the music in grandiose " Once Future Might ", it proves exact that the Sweden is also a land of great Death metal's revelations! With certainty this band will find many labels interested in release its debut CD, we are already anxious to listen it! Contacts: bloodshed@post.com (EF)

BRAINDANCE - Redemption (Pre-prod. tape - Double Edge - USA)

This band makes a mixture of Gothic rock with new wave pop, presenting a vocal one in the line of TYPE O NEGATIVE and an instrumental one that mixes something among THE CURE and THE MISSION, the result is interesting but the intentions seem to be more big than the one that we heard in the tape. Only for the lovers of  Gothic Pop. Contacts: braindance@earthlink.net (OE)

CASTRUM - The Leading Spirit of Medieval Tortures - (Demo - Metal Force - Ukraine)

Collection of several recordings of CASTRUM, including rough rehearsals and studio recordings better taken care. In the general it is a good sample of the death raw and tribal metal of the band that invests in the brutality without worrying a lot with the technique. It reminded me a lot the recordings of the first vinyls of Brazilian bands as MUTILATOR and SARCOFAGO and I felt a pleasant nostalgia of those times. I like those underground garage productions, they make us to remind of the beginning of the metal movement. For the underground maniacs! Contacts: cornelius@kontr.uzhgorod.ua (EF)

CATHOLICON - Promo 1999 (Demo - Self Produced - USA).

Other powerful bomb of that great true Black Metal band from USA. Four very aggressive music in the line of MARDUK, BATHORY and VENOM, with vocal hallucinated and destructive instrumental. "CORONATION " & " REMEMBER THE FALLEN " is dirty and insane!! It only lacked a cover with larger details on the recording and the music. Contacts: constat@ibm.net (EF)

CENTERSHIP - Starbound (Master Copy - Self Produced - Brazil)

CENTERSHIP is a good example of the competence of Brazil to do rock in all thestyles. The band makes a pop rock with great presence of the guitars and hard rock melodies in some moments and with the progressive and the folk in others. Vocalist Luciana Ceravolo has a very pretty voice that approaches a lot of the singers' style as SINEAD O'CONNOR. Highlights for the beautiful hard ballad " Pilgrim ". Contacts: centership@oocities.com (OE)

VISIONOIR - Throught the Inner Gate. (Demo - Self Produced - Italy)

This is a good sample of the new prog dark new acts done by ALESSANDRO SICUR, mentor of VISIONOIR that plays keyboards, bass and vocals ones in that demo, with a guest in the guitars, Mattia Pascolini. Climates and obscure atmospheres sounds prevail, formed an alliance with a visual proposal based on MORTIIS. The vocal ones are deep and very low in the recording but the instrumental part is inspired. Visionoir signed recently with the Italian stamp BEYOND PROD... we awaited anxious its debut album. Contacts: visionoir@hotmail.com (OE)