Music has always been a way for people to tell stories or pass on folklore from generation to generation. Of course it is also very prominent in heavy metal as well. Many bands use Myths or Folklore from there respective countries as a bases for there lyrical expression of there music. But not alot of bands use folk instruments to drive home the id...

26/02/2009

Beatdown of Old School Death Metal, passion of Hardcore and Punk, one hell of a release!  Once again Germany shows the underground just how brutal a place it really is! The Lost Ones is one of the most accessable Death Metal records I have heard in awhile. This will cross over well with "Hot Topic" kids as well as the hardest of hardcore Death Meta...

26/02/2009

ALRIGHT!! BLACK METAL THATS NOT FROM NORWAY!!!!!! I only kidding guys. But there really not from Norway. Occidens hail from Chili in South America. These guys have come to whoop Satans ass, playing fast, superior technical black metal..without all the fancy keyboard stuff. This stuff is so good, it doesn't have a choice but to be evil!!!!! And to t...

26/02/2009

Everytime I listen to this record all I can say is wow. I don't know why I am so lost for words, or why I cant put my finger on it, but I'm not going to dwell on it. This is a pretty cool release with alot of different stuff going on in it at once. Imagine for a second if you can, Faith No More, Tool, Godflesh, Fantomas, and Apacoliptica.. with a d...

26/02/2009

Ok, I have to get this out there. In recent years, it has become overly aperant that musicians have become completely bored with creating grind. Polands Snuffgrinder have come to apease all who want alittle more with there grind core. Heavy, industrial, grinding techno! Yeah I said it-TECHNO-GRIND! Not a revolutionary idea, various artists have bee...

26/02/2009

Melodic, intense, death-thrash! Designed To Dislike kicks more ass than a disgruntled mule herder! Classic Thrash Metal elements melted in with harsh and melancholic vocal styles, pure adreneline, and a nice dose of black humor. Songs are most certainly serious-however for those of us who tend to see certian travesties as some what hilarious, lyric...

26/02/2009

Psycadelic Punk ! Man! If that doesn’t tell you what these guys do then I guess I’ll go abit more in depth. This Italian outfit makes their musical stance that punk is indeed NOT dead. Combining elements of jazz, funk, and pop-Elton Junk have come up with some really kewl and odd pieces to share with you. This isn’t the heavy distorted stuff that I...

26/02/2009

A very fitting title for the overall feeling of this record. Heavy, Haunting, and Eerie-behold The Vulture Industries! The Dystopia Journals play along as though it gives you a mental visual-chronicalizing a life forever paved in despair and desperation. Heavy and Experimental to say the least, bewildering sounds emerge as fearful emotions and chao...

26/02/2009

Beautifully dark and somberfull metal. Spawned from the mind of Lefthander, Sea Of Desperation is music chocked with raw depressive emotion. Lefthander covers the specturm of all music, from metal to folk acoustic, from Traditional to Death Metal. This record is as heavy as it is accessable to any metal fan. Weither you like dark, symphonic, heavy,...

26/02/2009

Amazing new release from this Belgium outfit! Cursed Earth Wasteland is chocked with all sorts of goodies for us to sink out teeth into!Fast, melodic, and brutal! Haunting, Gruff vocal style, Crunch Distorted guitars-harmonizing, and off key, Military precise drumming. This release is full of groove laden insanity sure to bring the masses to the fr...

26/02/2009

Dark, Cold Ukrainen Blackness! Svyatogor play black metal that is as unmerciful as war itself! Cold Buzzsaw guitars, rythmic and lighting quick drums, demonic screams! Black metal th way it is supposed to be played. Production is suprisingly clear-not something you hear to often in black metal. Even with the crisp production, music is still loud an...

26/02/2009

Here in America, if Vienna is mentioned, people here instantly think "Little Weinnies".  Well-I dare you to say that to these guys!  Crusade are from Vienna, Austria.  Resilience is 8 songs that will beat your ass like a red headed step child.   Tight, mid paced, machine gun riffing, interlaced rhythmic drumming, and Brutal as fucking shit!  This C...

26/02/2009