Reviews
\r\n I never understood what purpose bands like Asking Alexandria serve. To put it better: why do they send their promos to metalzines for reviews. I mean, cummon, really? The outcome is predetermined either way. Music videos will come out so that the 13 year olds will be impressed by the tattoos and stupid haircuts, the charts will be conquered once again and the forthcoming success is iminent.
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\r\nArbalest come from Austria and have been together as a band no longer than a year...and their debut is here already. Some would call this a hasty move, perhaps something like a teenager’s impulse. But after listening to their music it becomes obvious that these guys have indeed something to offer, despite their rush.
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\r\n I actually never thought I’d see bands whose influences date back only a few years. Through Your Silence(cliche name, I know) try to mix all this melodic deathcore thing with their own sound but they do not manage to stray from the path that much..
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Xerath came to us from England and they are a new band as they formed in 2007, pointing to a progressive death metal in a more orchestral way. Unfortunately most bands offer lots of laugh cause they try to play some complicated music, with extra instruments and classical music opinions but they lack of fantasy and musical capabilities, resulting to mediocrity and blackening the bands’ course in time.
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\r\nHow much death metal could evolve and develope its sound is something noone could have predicted back in the early ’90s. After all the classic bands like Deicide and Cannibal Corpse, we had the more melodic acts, brutal death metal, grind/death, guttural revolutions and so on. All those and even more subgenres showed the open minds of the extreme musicians. And just when you thought all has been played and everyone nowadays walks on paths that have been walked before, bands like Cerebral Bore come to bewilder you.
\r\nAenaon are, from now on, something more than a underestimated force. My first contact with their music was with the "Phenomenon" mini cd two years ago, when I was impressed with the songs and their ability to compose with a clearly independed thought. So, after a 7 inch split album with Satanochio I see them returning with their very first full length. Man, that brought a big smile across my face!
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\r\n-GENERAL CHAOS- ARE HERE \r\n
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\r\n-General Chaos- are here with their debut album called - Calamity Circus - . This band plays a mix of Death/Rock and Metal and they come from Germany. -GC- were formed in 2008 and two years after they are finally ready with their very first full length. \r\n
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\r\nThe album is great and there are a lot of nice songs that mixes Death and Rock/Metal perfectly. Nice Death n Roll guitars, heavy bass, great drumming and a very good voice. The production is great and the whole album sounds very good. \r\n
\r\n Requiem have been killing humans with their music for the last 10 years using the like father like son way(oldschool!). But unlike kick ass bands like Vomitory who indulge themselves in the same sport, they do not touch the level of the beloved Swedes. This is their fifth full length album(an EP has been released too) and it finds them dwelling on the same floors, more or less. This stagnation is not all that bad to be honest since the band is indeed a dissent act with balls of concrete.
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\r\nDenmark is a country I deeply respect, regardless the type of music exported each time. The musicians hailing from Denmark seem to know all about composing a good song, wether it’s death metal or a pop song. In the case of Essence, it’s all about thrash metal delivered in up tempo mood and a good taste for tasty, analogue sound! In fact, this is something the band is proud enough to mention in the booklet of their cd...
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