Reviews written by: Jo

Reviews

The Virus Has Been Spread - Tribute To Atari Teenage Riot

Here we got a Tribute release for the cult Digital/Electronic/Hardcore band Atari Teenage Riot from Germany,  which is a cult band in their scene.  This tribute CD is released by the Canadian based label D-Trash Records. This Tribute CD contains 16 varied cover versions performed by various bands which have incorporated their musical touches dur...

03/01/2010

The M.E.M.O.R.Y. Lab - Modern Expressing Machines Of Revolutionary Youth

Right, another band from the family of D-Trash Records, The M.E.M.O.R.Y. Lab (or better: The Modern Expressing Machine of Revolutionary Youth Lab) performs an eerie experimental blend of Psychadelic Trip-Hop, Darkened Industrial, Electro with light hints of Breakbeat, Cyber Punk, old school EBM and Metal, reminding me of bands like Skinny Puppy, Fr...

29/12/2009

Nachtvorst - Stills

Hailing from the Netherlands, this new outfit released their debut album entitled <strong>‘Stills’</strong> which will definitely leave a remarkable impact in the sub genre of Melancholic mid-tempo/slow Black Doom Metal scene. ‘Stills’ contains only 5 diverse tracks where 3 of them are durable for around 10 to 14 minutes. The album opens with th...

29/12/2009

Zahrim - Liber Compendium Diabolicum (The Genesis Of Enki)

Denmark doesn’t offer many Black Metal bands as such, but <strong>Zahrim</strong> will definitely compensates a lot for this kinda lack!  Managed by <strong>Aeljutur (Martin Rosendahl)</strong> who is also behind notorious bands as <strong>Exmortem, Corpus Mortale, Usipian</strong> and <strong>Iniquity</strong> among others – this very project in j...

29/12/2009

Barastir - Under The Banner Of Hate

<strong>"Under the Banner Of Hate" </strong>is a 4 track MCD performed by this German 2-man-band outfit, which I might consider that this band was meant to be a side project considering that the drummer/guitarist/bassist <em>(yes one musician, besides the vocalist) </em>is also involved with established acts like <strong>Odal,  Seelengrief, Wolfssc...

29/12/2009

MataMachete - Tanin No Kao

I couldn’t find many evidences about this Swiss outfit via the internet, however in a way or another I managed to gather more info about this band.  This band is relatively new to me and before I review their stuff, I wanna say that this band will surely deserve your attention. Sources defined the musical genre of Matamachete as Industrial Cyber...

22/12/2009

South Impact - Codex

Seems like that most bands from France are leaping into this modern sounding metal, and among all those bands, South Impact is one of them. The band calls their style as ‘Toulouse Hardcore’, since they come from the town of Toulouse (I might presume) and indeed their music is Hardcore but I don’t think that’s enough to describe their style. Havi...

13/12/2009

Ad Inferna - Trance:N:Dance

Quite interesting this album from Ad Inferna <em>(previously known as De Profundis)</em>, knowing that previously they played some kinda weird Symphonic Black Metal. Anyway, that era is over and nowadays Ad Inferna is performing a blend of Symphonic Melodic Gothic, EBM, together with an average dose of Industrialized Metal. Yes quite a good blend a...

13/12/2009

The Sin Committee - Confess

Such a splendid act, The Sin Committee is a band that deserves your attention especially being a band not yet fully known. What’s all about? Here we go: After switching on the player, the atmosphere is filled with some distorted funk-jazz drumming accompanied by some electronic sounds, which suddenly engulf into a blend of Progressive Modern Gro...

08/12/2009

Vanmakt - Ad Luciferi Regnum

I personally never heard about this band, but after I switched on their music... I could strictly realize that this outfit is Swedish. Indeed.. that's quite right. Hailing from Sweden, Vanmakt delivers the kind of blasting inhuman fury that Dark Funeral did and still doing, with the exception of their few occasional breaks including instrumental pa...

07/12/2009