Reviews
\r\nThis band with this enough curious name comes from Poland and their second completed work More Than You Expect, is sure something much more from what we waited for and in particular came in order to rule the day of the Grindcore sound. In order to be honest, Grindcore release should be very good in order to leave to me pleasant impressions from the beginning and Nyia manage this very easily.
\r\nMany of you already know Origin from Topeka, Kansas as one of the best and most extreme bands in the new wave of technical brutal death metal. With ex and current members from many well known death metal bands like Cannibal Corpse, Dying Fetus, Vile, Gorgasm and Angel Corpse you could except nothing less than excellent musicianship and destructive brutality.
\r\nBlackwinds is the side project of Setherial’s drummer Lord Mysteriies along with Setherial’s guitarist Lord Kraath who is handling the vocals in this new album "Flesh inferno" and with guest musician Zathanel at the bass section. I suppose you are you already intrigued by the name of Setherial.
\r\nThe concept behind the new album of Crystallion is the battle of Hattin, and the artwork gives us a little bit of an idea of the cd content. The rhythm section is fast enough, covered by pompous riffs and powerful vocals, and there we have the picture. Musically, it’s a Sonata Artica meets Stratovarius kind of style, combining speed and lyricism, while the very good production helps a lot in having the result which the band might expect and also in fιtting together with the epic feeling which derives from said battle theme.\r\n
I would never imagine a big label like Metal Blade would sign a band like this today! It’s 2008 and Hatchet seem to be under the impression that we are back in the days when Thrash Metal was living its glory days. We leave out the fact; Thrash Metal is more and more rising again with releases which are – in their majority – above average. In fact some of them are really good. I’ll be brief as far as Awaiting Evil is concerned since we are looking at a release for which less is more. We are listening to a mixture of Slayer with the Bay Area Thrash we love.
\r\nThe debute album of "Year Long Disaster", as the name of the band, has the unique capability of travelling us back in time and remind us the good years of ZZ Top, Led Zeppelin etc. May this album has little to do with Metal, since it has more Rock influences, but in reality this album is related with Metal, since it has influences from Black Sabbath and its whole mentality refers to something harder. the band however has focused more on the Rock side of music and introduces us an album, which has already been discussed and its future will be much better.
\r\nMany times ( if not always) when I don’t have a good mood I turn to music. I turn to things I have and still love but also in new projects that would give me shelter and make me feel better even for a little while. These days I admit I don’t have the time of my life. But fortunately I got «our» Randomwalk debut album and they instantly touched my soul.
The Swedish death metal outfit, Coldworker has return with the continuing of their fist album “The Contaminated Void” and the progress of the band is obvious.
The Finish with their previous EP “Tapetum Lucidum” (2007) really gave us something to hope for, but with their new album “Under the Spell of the Unlight” leave us wondering “Why Gloomy Grim never got the popularity they deserved??”
Here we have another band from Italy and this time in the Death Metal genre. So this is about the band “Mutala” and their second effort, “Cloning Wicked Minds”.
\r\nSo, Mutala tries to combine the American sound of Death metal with the European one, and especially the Swedish one. It’s a fact that they did it very well , from the brutality of Suffocation can easily pass to more “At The Gates” forms and with such a success. I also discover some Dark Traquillity passages mainly on some intros and preludes that sound more melodically.