Reviews written by: Jesse
Reviews
Gnaw Their Tongues - Reeking Pained And Shuddering
The Netherlands, the nation in which BRUTALISM itself is based and maintained, has spawned a true pagan band from its bowels. I say “pagan,” not because of tropes of Wicca or constant talk of runes and black nights, but because there is something pre-pagan and nonstandard and anti-even-the-light-of-known-European-pre-Christian-tribes-and-beliefs ab...
26/02/2009
Pigsty - Living Dead Stars
The Czech band Pigsty (not the Mexican one of the same name) has something to say. They claim on their website that humans were created by The univers pigs’ arrival on Earth and subsequent mating with monkey to create the humans we now eat with (sometimes just actually eat) and walk around with every day. Living Dead Stars is the 4th or 5th CD by P...
26/02/2009
Vrykolakas - Nocturnal Demons Of Death
This band from “Singapork” as they call Singapore on their page, lives up to its claim of playing unrelenting brutality. This band does just that. They live up to BRUTALISM.com’s claim for and support of SUPREME BRUTAL ART. The CD, NOCTURNAL DEMONS OF DEATH, opens with a cool repetitious and gradually loudening noisy jam called “Eternal Fire/Dark E...
26/02/2009
Unborn Suffer - Is This What We've Created?
This band, Unborn Suffer, from Bydgoszcz, Poland is just what the doctor ordered (sometimes one must use a cliché). It is death metal with all the growling and chop-it-to-the-head vomit-inducing blood letting that that entails in tracks like “Deceived, Betrayed, Killed, Enslaved” and “Drink Until I Die.” Then it slows down for moments in tracks lik...
26/02/2009
Svartahrid - Sadness And Wrath
The Norwegian band Svartahrid follows strongly in the Black Metal aesthetic. And when I listen to their newest CD, I hear the awesome effects of two bands. I bring them both up here for the necessity of comparison. The two bands are Keep of Kalessin and Darkthrone, a most powerful relationship and both militantly strong bands. Svartahrid opens Sadn...
26/02/2009
The Senseless - In The Realm Of The Senseless
Sam Bean of Berzerker fame has recently on 21 May 2007 released a side project, really a solo project, that is not named after his name or something. That is rare and I think the music is better for it because one does not get the sense (there’s that word) that The Senseless is the maniacal work of only one controlling force even though it is. It f...
26/02/2009
Svartsyn - Timeless Reign
The Swedish black metalers, Svartsyn, have released "Timeless Reign" on Carnal Records. The band is made up one only two people, Draugen and Ornias, in the tradition of some of the best black metal acts around who have very few members; Darkthrone, Satyricon, Ildjarn, and of course the leader of the pack, Burzum. All these bands are Scandinavian, b...
26/02/2009
Plasma - Creeping! Crushing! Crawling!
The metal distro site dis-order.com describes Plasma as a, “Perverse German one man gore grind fest.” The band has one or two more members in its current line-up, the line-up includes (in part) that “one man” Marcus who survived the destruction of his former project Afterblast. Plasma rips away at the fabric of reality through its brutal guitar and...
26/02/2009
Vverevvolf Grehv - Zombie Aesthetics
As far back as I listened to Ministry’s first albums and followed Alien Jurgensen’ subsequent sound changes made to the band’s projects over the years, I have thought that something of fullness, subtlety, and speed lacked. Vverevvulf Grehv (VG) has accomplished something in this space of lack on his (one man show) Relapse Records release, ZOMBIE AE...
26/02/2009
Dies Ater - Odium's Spring
The Berlin, Deutschland band Dies Ater is very much a black metal band. I have heard several German metal bands recently and I think Dies Ater has produced an album worth listening to… if you don’t want to cry too hard. "Odium’s Spring" has high production value and rides the line of hi-fi black metal as well as anybody today. It is violent in feel...
26/02/2009
Diftery - Corrupting The Evolution
Obviously, GRODHAISN PRODUCTIONS carries several Slovakian bands and Diftery is another great example. Their sound is solid sick core and the best tracks on the CD are “Masturbation Of My 13 Years Old Sister,” “Katrina,” and the CD closer, “Womb Full Of Scars (Cover By Disgorge).” The band plays well but the openings to about half the tracks sound...
26/02/2009
Hellsongs - Lounge
<div>Hellsongs is a Swedish band from Gothenburg and claim to revel in lounge versions of classical metal tracks. Let’s not, however, assume they are correct in their claim. The music they play, though mellow, is certainly not lounge. The word “lounge” is defined by several elements but all of them are associated with sitting in plush chairs. There...
26/02/2009