Reviews written by: mykke

Reviews

Infected Brain - Infected Brain

Infected Brain -- a band that has been together a while but not a lot of recordings save for one demo in 2000. Started out as "Brain Dead" in the 90's, they de-formed after a few years and then re-formed as "Infected Brain". The experience these guys have playing together is not well-documented but is evidenced by an absolutely stellar recording in...

26/02/2009

Sorrows Path - Resurrection

Yeah, I want to like this stuff but it's just too hard to get past the sloppy instrumentation -- out of tune guitars and absolutely horrendous singing voice of Sorrows Path, I mean really bad. You know Peter Murphy was able to pull off the gothed-out horror vibrato singing style with the Bauhaus, but the singer in this band just can't sing, which k...

26/02/2009

Chaosfear - One Step Behind Anger

A band on the order of Hatebreed or Sepultura, Chaosfear are a death-thrash dynamo on the rise. Feel the outrage of the vocalist Fernando Boccomino who also wields the guitars that express fury and anguish. Expereience the hammer of a rock solid rhythm section commanded by drummer Danilo de Freitas and bassist Anderson de Franca. This is a hard-dri...

26/02/2009

Gorgoroth - Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam

A band that has truly suffered in the name of Satan, Gorgoroth return with a spectacular Black metal release. Overcoming untold difficulties down through the years since their formation in the early 1990's, they only have one remaining original band member and that is the guitarist, Infernus. Using Frost of 1349 and Satyricon to fill in at drums, G...

26/02/2009

Inferia - 2 Unmastered Songs

Inferia is one of the original Finnish death-grind bands, influenced by oldschool North American death metal bands Deicide, Cannibal Corpse and Malevolent Creation. The two songs on their new Internet single are the product of Inferia's studio efforts this year which have so far resulted in a rather militaristic yet erotic sortie-ritual, balls-out...

26/02/2009

Fetus Eaters / Diorrhea -Split

The band that spawned the subgenre of extreme metal known as Vomitcore -- or as they put it themselves -- "An attempt to transcend the familiar 'bark-bark, woof-woof' of other extreme bands." Listening to the songs of Fetus Eater on this CD I would have to agree they do stand out and yes, each little diddy is like an abortion in process, unpredict...

26/02/2009

When There's No Room In Hell - When There's No Room In Hell

This EP is the side project of members of the band Caliga and was released 7-10-2006. It's deathcore, very raw with drum machines, not a whole helluva lot of production, but it seems to work. It reminds me of Coal Chamber, very hooky, heavy, it grooves and it's got some tech-metal time signature breaks thrown in for good measure. The vocals are so...

26/02/2009

Project Prometheus - Suicide For Sale

Pretty and rough together in a tale as old as time -- this male-female Dutch duo delivers a goth-metal sound, like a poor man's Draconian if you will. Heavy guitars and solid drumming, just about as good as one could expect a home recording to sound. The singing isn't always entirely in tune, which is a pity, but otherwise "Suicide For Sale" is not...

26/02/2009

Wicked Wisdom - Wisdom Wicked

The best way of describing Wicked Wisdom would be Hardcore punk meets groove metal. Fans of now defunct female-fronted metal band "Crisis" will find Wicked Wisdom interesting enough. Vocalist Jada Koren varies between rhythmic raps and melodic crooning, and the latter works out much better than the former. "Bleed Over Me" for example is a searing m...

26/02/2009

Spaceshiters - Grinding Dance From Outa Space

Yeah, that's the way. Don't do a cover of the song "Rawhide" instead just be "influenced" by it it for a little while as are the Spaceshiters in the third track, "Ride My Horse," and it's all about how creative and fun you are instead of what a cheesy clown act! A little like GUT with drum machines. They've got the grunts and gurgles and overall...

26/02/2009

Dekadent - Manifestation Of Seasonal Bleeding

Black metal with an ethereal feel to it contributed in part by wall of guitars interwoven with searing synth ensembles. My Bloody Valentine meets Draconian (how is that for a comparative reference). There is a nice mixture of ferocity and sensitivity in the vocals (with lyrics written in Slovenian) and it is easy to become caught up in the emoti...

26/02/2009

Hirax - Assassins Of War

Legendary thrash band from Orange County, California, Hirax is the long-time project of frontman Katon W. DePena, the only remaining original member. In the 80's Hirax shared the stage with such giants of the metal world as Slayer, Metallica and Exodus (Paul Baloff replaced DePena as the singer for Hirax for a brief period). Hirax disbanded until 2...

26/02/2009