Sin Nanna’s re-issues of IN THE HEART OF THE RAINFOREST and MISANTHROPIC ISOLATION mark a cool day in the life of Striborg the artistic center because the album is made up of middle-length depressive black metal tracks in which not one has a single control over a premise. Please see my review of BLACK DESOLATE WINTER/DEPRESSIVE HIBERNATION to see w...

26/02/2009

It is very interesting that Dying Messiah has as their first “blog” at myspace their top 10 influencing albums. They list No. 1 as Metallica’s And Justice for All, No. 5 as Cannibal Corpse’s Eaten Back to Life, and The Ramones’ Self Titled album holds the No. 10 spot. Why do I think this is interesting? Because the band is really asking its listene...

26/02/2009

These three UK gore grind brutal bands, Crepitation, Kastrated, and Ingested have each submitted five tracks to this Grindethic Records release NORTH-WEST SLAM FEST. The result exhibits powerful variance between each band and altogether an awesome performance of metal sets. Crepitation opens the three-way split NORTH-WEST SLAM FEST with a track...

26/02/2009

Mental Amputation is total German Death Metal, and their self-released "Utter Subordination" is a CD worth investing in. It opens with some tribal chants, like all good pagan music should, and then as the rhythms pick up, the beauty falls apart and is replaced by some very dedicated death metal but with an opening reminiscent of Darkthrone’s “Croml...

26/02/2009

The Dallas, TX, USA band No Souls Lost joins the ranks and wranglers (used in honor of the band’s Texas-American roots) of bands that grab the whip of metal and slash with juicy morsels from variant genres of metal. The closes approximation to No Souls Lost I can think of would be the quite popular Lamb of God. No Souls Lost’s CD HOSTIS HUMANI GENE...

26/02/2009

Striborg, or rather, the other name for a man who already works under another name, Sin Nanna, has created another fine album of work called Ghostwoodlands. There are not as many tracks on this recording as there are on albums such as Nefaria: A Tragic Journey Towards the Light, Trepidation, or Mysterious Semblance, but what it lacks in track quant...

26/02/2009

The UK brutal metal act Detrimentum are hard at work on a brand new release already but in their EMBRACING THIS DEFORMITY, the band pulls the levers and cranks the machines into full production for this brutal beast of somehow post-death metal proportions. This band has risen above any anxiety of influence in such a complete way that even though I...

26/02/2009

This band claims no other origin than “France” on their Myspace page and the other band page they have does not work. So I can spread no other information about their home base than that. But in reality, when listening to a band as serious, chop-heavy, and well named as Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition, who cares anyway? There have been more and mor...

26/02/2009

This Barakaldo band The Howl is a female-led metal band that represents a slightly cross-genre effort. But, first, it is just awesome to see the feminine angle being explored more in metal. There are still not that not many women front metal bands but Miriam of The Howl has a very strong voice that compliments well the rock music that really is The...

26/02/2009

The Dutch band Sudden Access is searching for a label and I think this metal core group is worth some attention. The call themselves thrash, but I think they are more influenced by hardcore than by bands like Slayer or Sepultura (even though there still might be a bit of those bands in Sudden Access’ sound). They have been playing in The Netherland...

26/02/2009

This Czech band Eardelete is a reformation of musicians from the break-up of a band called Negligent Collateral Collapse. Four of the five members of the older band are in the newer one and have just released their first full length CD called Zombielogy. These guys are very heavy. Awesome! I once read, I think it was Jean Baudrillard who said it, t...

26/02/2009

The Swedes have traditionally delved into death and black metal and brought to the surface the choicest solidity. I will not go into the list here, but alas the statement is true. Triton Enigma lives up to this tradition. When I first heard BLACK LIES, I thought of TE’s fellow Swedes, Arch Enemy, because the sound is similar in the clarity of play,...

26/02/2009