Reviews
\r\n The greek brutal death metal scene just gained a new beast. I’m so glad the local brutal fuckers don’t stop to amaze me. Genna Apo Kolo hail from Salonica, I’ve been following them since their first steps back in the "glorious" myspace days. I particularly liked their fun, gory lyrics and their black humour aesthetics in general. So, finally after all this time their album fell into my hands. I, myself, am to blame so a review is obligatory.
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\r\nThis collection is not your typical label move that just has to release a best of because the contract says so. This is the total of unreleased, bonus, b-sides, split and EP’s songs the dearest Misery Index have released during the lifespan of their musical career. And believe me, there are many of those.
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\r\nNordvargr. The man with the 200 albums that has haunted his own self.
\r\nI won’t say much about this particular album which he decided to re-release.Awake was out in
\r\n2002 and was quite successful among the kind.As for the style he plays, let’s just call it sick,
\r\nblack ambient. And as one can obviously see, here you won’t find black metal, scratchy
\r\nguitars, noise or anything of the sort.
\r\nHere there are only sounds of the dirty life and mental state,
\r\nThe return of James Rivera behind the mic seemed as a great opportunity for the band to release a marvelous new album. However, things didn’t really turn out to be this way. Unfortunately, the new Seven Witches album lacks inspiration.
\r\nJames Rivera, who is such an expressive frontman, reunites with the guitar master Jack Frost and bassist Mike LePond (Symphony X) along with drummer Taz Marazz completes the band line up, creating together a solid and heavy “backbone” for the compositions.
When I first got this Marienbad cd in my hands, my first tough was the magnificent movie “Last Year In Marienbad” released in 1961, a dark movie full of mystery, romanticism, but also many undercover political statements (well enough said). So the concept album, Marienbad “Werk 1: Nachtfall can be described as an eerie, dark, theatrical opus with many gothic references, that allows the auditor to make a whole imaginary scenery ,lead by the lyrics of the album. Since I mentioned lyrics, I have to make clear that the album has been released in English and in German.
What we have here is a new release from the US outfit, Pharaoh, maybe the name of the band does not ring a bell for the most of you, but the name of their vocalist, Tim Aymar, does, since Tim was the vocalist on Chuck Schuldiner’s Control Denied album.
The Athenian outfit returns with their second E.P. release, entitled “Harvester Of Souls”. Their 1sr release the sametitled E.P. has been released a couple of years ago and for sure caused some positive comments!
\r\nAfter looking at the magnificent cover art I almost shed tears of joy. Finally some people do pay attention to this stuff, everyone should! Very beautiful work! I had heard about Inside It Grows before but I’d never listened to their music(what a paradox!). I’d love to get my hands on the physical form of this album to tell you the truth..
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\r\n I was always wondering why TBDM is supposed to be a love it or hate it band. They don’t sound that soft to my ears as they say. Anyway, who cares, I just had to start this review somehow..To the music: this is the new opus of the americans after almost 2 years from the latest "Defloration" and things look and sound...great! Fifth album in ten years of existence ain’t bad and while the band was ready to break apart(sometime after "Miasma" if I remember correctly) we are now witnessing a very creative period!
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\r\nSummer. Time for beers, breasts, beers and wet t-shirt contests. Did I mention beers? Well, it all comes down to one thing: rock ’n’ roll! This is what you get from Chrome Division’s third album. Pure, harsh, sing along boogie rock ’n’ roll, ideal soundtrack for a hit-on when you’re drunk.
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