Reviews
\r\nJesus on Extasy is claiming that their musical style is supposed to be Industrial/gothic rock. However, due to the fact that lately the situation is getting out of control as many bands claim to be part of this musical scene, allow me to use the term “Poser-Gothic”, as in some cases the looks matter much more than the music itself. Leaving the image behind, let’s try to focus on what we can actually hear in this album.
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\r\nThis release is the feeblest and the most incurious from the parcel that I received from Feto Records. 324 comes from Japan and plays Grindcore. Rebelgrind is their new album and in this they present to us 14 tracks, that are uninteresting, usual and unnecessary. With their basic influence being Napalm Death, 324 wants to make the difference into the Grindcore sound, but unfortunately they do not manage it.
\r\nI have the impression that Feto Records has come out in the search of groups that deals with Grind or Brutal Death Metal sound and until now it goes perfectly. Deadweight come from Great Britain and Origins Of Darkness is their debut album in which they present to us all the inspiration and their talent and they create an album that cannot leave no fan of the genre incurious.
\r\nThis band with this enough curious name comes from Poland and their second completed work More Than You Expect, is sure something much more from what we waited for and in particular came in order to rule the day of the Grindcore sound. In order to be honest, Grindcore release should be very good in order to leave to me pleasant impressions from the beginning and Nyia manage this very easily.
\r\nMany of you already know Origin from Topeka, Kansas as one of the best and most extreme bands in the new wave of technical brutal death metal. With ex and current members from many well known death metal bands like Cannibal Corpse, Dying Fetus, Vile, Gorgasm and Angel Corpse you could except nothing less than excellent musicianship and destructive brutality.
\r\nBlackwinds is the side project of Setherial’s drummer Lord Mysteriies along with Setherial’s guitarist Lord Kraath who is handling the vocals in this new album "Flesh inferno" and with guest musician Zathanel at the bass section. I suppose you are you already intrigued by the name of Setherial.
\r\nThe concept behind the new album of Crystallion is the battle of Hattin, and the artwork gives us a little bit of an idea of the cd content. The rhythm section is fast enough, covered by pompous riffs and powerful vocals, and there we have the picture. Musically, it’s a Sonata Artica meets Stratovarius kind of style, combining speed and lyricism, while the very good production helps a lot in having the result which the band might expect and also in fιtting together with the epic feeling which derives from said battle theme.\r\n
I would never imagine a big label like Metal Blade would sign a band like this today! It’s 2008 and Hatchet seem to be under the impression that we are back in the days when Thrash Metal was living its glory days. We leave out the fact; Thrash Metal is more and more rising again with releases which are – in their majority – above average. In fact some of them are really good. I’ll be brief as far as Awaiting Evil is concerned since we are looking at a release for which less is more. We are listening to a mixture of Slayer with the Bay Area Thrash we love.
\r\nThe debute album of "Year Long Disaster", as the name of the band, has the unique capability of travelling us back in time and remind us the good years of ZZ Top, Led Zeppelin etc. May this album has little to do with Metal, since it has more Rock influences, but in reality this album is related with Metal, since it has influences from Black Sabbath and its whole mentality refers to something harder. the band however has focused more on the Rock side of music and introduces us an album, which has already been discussed and its future will be much better.