Reviews written by: Jesse
Reviews
Garcharot - Core Of Despair
The Finnish band, Garcharot, has released a death metal album called CORE OF DESPAIR and this album is actually worthy to sit beside albums by Decapitated on the shelf. That to me is the gold standard of metal comparisons. Can a CD hold its own next to Decapitated or be annihilated due to extreme inferiority? This band is still not equal to Decapit...
26/02/2009
Havoc Unit - H.I.V.+
The Finnish band Havoc Unit marks the evolution of metal and the anti-human aesthetic into a logical and beautiful new species, the species of post-black metal. When we listen to bands that go way back in the history of metal and hard music, we have to not forget Ministry. Alien Jourgensen clearly forged that path all those years ago in the late 19...
26/02/2009
Trut - Traumwerdung
Trut, a fairly new Swiss band, released its demo TRAUMWERDUNG in 2006 and it is finally making its debut on BRUTALISM.com. The effort is a real pleasure to listen to and yet there is something less than about it. Less than what you might ask? I can not really say. I think this might be one of those black metal groups that slips along a slope of sty...
26/02/2009
Scale The Summit - Monument
The Texas, USA band Scale the Summit has just signed a deal with Prosthetic Records and expects their full length with PR out in late 2008. But in the meantime, I recommend we all take a little while and check out their self-released CD, "Monument". The general sound is clean and tightly woven between the guitars, bass riffs, and the precise drummi...
26/02/2009
The Lucifer Principle - Pitch Black Dawn
The Lucifer Principle, a powerful band from the Netherlands have released two demos and have just released a full length called Pitch Black Dawn. They are a mix between death metal and black metal and one could think that they have fabricated their band-name from the bowels of Satan worship. The band is called The Lucifer Principle. But they get th...
26/02/2009
Ebolie - Let Loose
This just-south-of-Sidney, Australia band Ebolie has released a demo, two EPs, a full-length, and are in the process of working on a split CD with Maximum Perversion right now. The band does work and their EP Let Loose speaks to this work in the sounds. The mix is wound together without emphasis given to any one article on the EP more than another...
26/02/2009
Tu Carne - Culto A La Muerte
The Spanish band Tu Carne (“your meat” in Spanish) has released just so many records in the last eight or nine years. And it looks like they plan to keep releasing full lengths and splits. I applaud their energy and their quality music. The front of their new album Culto a la Muerta (“Cult of the Dead” for the few that might not see the Latin) is s...
26/02/2009
Crimson Moon - Xepera Xeper Xeperu
This California USA band Crimson Moon has created the most arty black magick metal music I think I have heard from the contemporary American scene. I even think this is more creative that Nachtmystium (from near Chicago, USA), who tend toward amazing bouts of guitar noise and long-winded whispy flourishes. Crimson Moon, in their newest CD, XEPERA X...
26/02/2009
Extreme Metal Inside - 5-way Split
The Italian metal site/label S G Metal has released a 5-way split of various bands. Some tracks from the CD were featured on Brutalism Show #35 in 2007 and the bands on the split are: Agabus, Antagonism, Clinicamente Morti, Necrofili, and Resurrecturis. I like all the bands’ playing on this CD in some way or another but in reality I prefer to hear...
26/02/2009
Remasculate - Perversemonger
The Swedes in Remasculate have only been together four years but their sound is as powerful and rapid as brutal death can be. Of course there are always ways to adjust and innovate sound in this genre but Remasculate has released quite a heavy project in their PERVERSEMONGER. Only six of the sixteen tracks on the CD are longer than two minutes and...
26/02/2009
Vorkuta - Into The Chasms Of Lunacy
The Hungarian Black Metal band Vorkuta have been recording fairly steadily since 2002. They have just released “Into the Chasms of Lunacy” and have declared some influence by the American dark-fantasy writer H P Lovecraft. A personal favorite of mine I must say (he even has a Myspace page). Vorkuta recorded what they refer to as an “H P Lovecraft s...
26/02/2009
Ufomammut/Lento - Supernaturals “Record One”
These two Supernatural Cat Records bandmates have gathered here to record a strange hard music set that is arty and hopefully the first of a set of duo recordings from the label. Both of these bands, Ufomammut and Lento, are Italian and I have to say that in the future I hope I am able to get to know each band separately because their accomplishmen...
26/02/2009