California, USA’s Liquid Skull has an EP out, self released, entitled ABSCESSIVE AUTOPSY, and is certainly a non-album in terms of production value or creative darkness. I will often forgive a band for low-fi recording if their angst is high or their textures are diverse. Liquid Skull has none of these positive attributes. I mean, the EP plays but...

26/02/2009

Seeing the cover in that comic style offensive drawing, it is funny because it also has been 25 years since John Lennon died. But look for yourself and see more funny things. Or do you find it offensive? Anyway, Meat Shits is a gore porn grind band that put 29 songs on this album. Most of them are short or are intros and mostly dealing with porn (t...

26/02/2009

Parental Advisory comes from Austria and plays brutal death metal. After 2 demos they found the time right for a full length. Zombie Legion is recorded in 2004 but still not official released. You can't find the complete tracklist on their site!! Strange, huh? Their style is unrelentling, melodic and various. So enough variation in speed, rhythms,...

26/02/2009

Jan is a German guy who is doing all the shit by himself. This album is a collection of songs ranging from 2002 till unreleashed. A touch of Autopsy can be tasted. And ofcourse other bands too as you see his picture in the booklet. Primitve zombie death metal with deep vocals and filthy raw guitars in mid tempo based tracks. He should have done som...

26/02/2009

Very aggressive Hardcore that is the style of Shodaboi. Mixing elements of Death Metal they leave your quite heavy music. The vocal alternates among having torn and guttural, another attraction for the disk. In spite of they be only twenty-two minutes of music is enough to demonstrate the whole potential of Shodaboi. A good band to be heard.

26/02/2009

Three guys from Belarus (some little country in Eastern Europe) are playing extreme goregrind inspired by Utopie and Gut. It is going from very fast to groovy mid tempo. Vocals are distorted and brutal. The songs are rather short and before you know the blast is over. But it is an album that you easily play again as it is gore and it is catchy, it...

26/02/2009

Finally the new disc from Dutch death metal band Xenomorph. It almost took 5 years and that is too long guyz!! Anyway, here I have the promo and is it making rounds in my player. This album can be described as a hammer. Top death metal! Double bass drums, grunts with high screams, nailing guitarriffs (too little leads... but the one in track 7 is g...

26/02/2009

Armistice comes from the south of Germany and is trying to held the flag high of Germans 80 thrash metal. On this second album you hear thrash metal that is played solid with not too raw vocals and the obliged guitarriffing and leads. The kind of thrash metal Armistice is playing is a bit out dated. Back in the 80s it would have been cool but nowad...

26/02/2009

Since the release of Beyond Terror Beyond Grace’s EP in 2005 and this new full length, EXTINCTION|SALVATION, the Aussie band has built its confidence and licked the blurry line between hardcore and metal even cleaner. ‘Tis hard to split those genres asunder in their work. Case in point, a powerful little track of just a minute and a half smack in t...

26/02/2009

From Britian comes this band with their debut. Calm Insanity plays some aggressive metal with classical heavy metal influences but with the technological advances of today. Their sound is raw but not so original. The guitar have hear a like riffs, the vocals are ferocious and the drums pounds. Not bad but no top album. [embed]https://youtu.be/hG...

26/02/2009

Darxtar comes from Sweden and is playing stoner rock for more than 15 years. Songs that are leaning against poppy 70s rock songs. Clean vocals, mid tempo songs and slight heavy guitars with nice spacy leads. Songs that bring you back years ago and they surely would fit the alternative popcharts easily. This album comes as a 12 track CD and 10 track...

26/02/2009

Existing since 1992 and now delivering their third album. The band plays grind metal with influences from other styles. But don't most band do that? FSFI is ramming 16 tracks in a half hour in high tempo. The songs have some breaks to slower or even faster parts. 2 Styled vocals over a drumcomputer (and some other programming stuff) and distorted g...

26/02/2009

Ahhh, another band from a place that I still think of as home. Human Bloodfeast are from Regensburg Bavaria Germany (I lived in Wurzburg ). "She Cums Gutted" is...... well that title alone should tell what kind of music this is. It sure as shit isnt Las Vegas Showroom. Still want a discription... okokok. Human Bloodfeast is a sick, vestering swill...

26/02/2009

First points are in for the great coverart from Zig! Now the music of Insidious Decrepancy. There is one bandmember called Shawn Whitaker and he recorded this album in 2001 and dedicated to Dimebag who was murdered in 2004. Insidious Decrepancy fills this 35 minutes with brutal death metal. Deep gutter vocallines over raging guitars (where are the...

26/02/2009

This type of music (doom) is so depressive you wanna cry or maybe, better to kill yourself. Mourning Beloveth plays 6 tracks in 65 minutes! In those minutes you get the whole thing you paid for. The songs are well written and structured. The tempo is slow but there is enough variety to keep the tension in the long duration. The vocals are deep, mel...

26/02/2009