tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70071217473917429842024-03-05T09:23:43.471+00:00Blessed Altar ZineWe are Blessed Altar Zine - The Zine Supporting The UndergroundBlessed Altar Zinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09939299746524469540noreply@blogger.comBlogger168125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007121747391742984.post-8209967428902954902018-06-27T15:02:00.000+01:002018-06-28T05:21:30.232+01:00Al Ard - Al Ard<style type="text/css">
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Band: Al Ard<br />
Title: Al Ard<br />
Label: code666<br />
Release Date: 22 June 2018<br />
Country: Italy<br />
Format reviewed: High quality digital promo<br />
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OK, this is interesting. As I have pointed out in some of my previous reviews, hybrid genres have never attracted me. However now I have the tough task to review the debut album of an industrial black metal band, born in 2011 in Sicily, Italy. Furthermore the band is not just industrial and black, but also integrates drum’n’bass and dirty dubstep elements. The trio claims they have been influenced by such acts like Dodheimsgard, Red Harvest, MZ412, Brighter Death Now, Aborym and DiabolicuM, Emperor, Satyricon and Diabolos Rising. Have I intrigued you already?<br />
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I little bit of a detour. Maybe the first clearly differentiating industrial black metal I heard was Diabolos Rising’s Blood, Vampirism and Sadism, in late 1995. By that time I had on tapes Abruptum’s In Umbra Malitiae Ambulabo, in Aeternum in Triumpho Tenebrarum, as well as Beherit’s H418ov21.C. Prior to them, it all was either industrial or black metal on the market. With the time, especially in the second half of the 90’s, I witnessed the rise of electronic music, d’n’b, ambient, and mixing it with all types of metal. This was also popular in the soundtracks of the movies (horror, drugs, killings…) and in the videogames (shooters and rally). To be honest these mixtures of metal and electronics (let’s for the sake of this review use this word in order to encompass the usage of machines) have never been of my preference.<br />
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Al Ard’s debut is good. It is excellent for a soundtrack of another Blade movie series, or for a high speed drive on a countryside/seaside road at hot summer night. It is an album of burning, extreme sounds consisting of 8 tracks of dark colours. Some of them are really into the black metal fury, others are in pure electronic, d’n’b and ambient mood, and third are pure disturbing noise. I really imagine blinking neon lamps in underground tunnels and corridors with white tiles, bathed in blood…<br />
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At the end of the day the album was enjoyable and actually it went comparably easy for me, despite of the experimental patterns and noise fuse at times. I must admit that the samples and the electronic background nicely complete the heavy parts in those tracks which combine both, creating a atmosphere from a nightmare - visual and emotional. The various non-metal rhythms and styles fit well, and the pure electronic tracks are even more enjoyable.<br />
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On and on Al Ard could be appreciated by all the heavy fans, nevertheless they are into industrial or black metal only. The combination here is good. Now push play to this record and create the apocalypse - go kill vampires and zombies. 6.5/10 <b>Count Vlad</b><br />
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<a href="https://alard.bandcamp.com/">Bandcamp</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.code666.net/">Official Website</a><br />
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<a href="https://auralmusic.bandcamp.com/">Bandcamp</a><br />
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6.5/10 We may survive<br />
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Band: Lychgate<br />
Title: Contagion In Nine Steps<br />
Label: Blood Music<br />
Release Date: 30 March 2018<br />
Country: United Kingdom<br />
Format reviewed: FLAC<br />
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This is one of those records which just happens to you. It finds you. Like a summer storm on a sunny day outside, like a momentary experience of a deja vu. Like a dream within a dream. Like a dark matter crossing the infinite. And that’s the main reason that the present review wasn’t easy to write at all. At the end of the day I decided just to play the record and to write down everything I was feeling while listening. No special preparation, no notes, just lines pushed by all the emotions.<br />
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Lychgate’s music is like an ambivalent paradox, a multidimensional question, a constant throw and pushes into finding the right decision for the key combination. A dichotomy of breathing black and white. An attraction of opposites. It is a labyrinth into the space, a quest, like a lifetime searching for the answers to the eternal questions. Imagine moving into endless corridors of space station, running, wandering and wondering, sometimes even finding a fields without gravitation, so you are just floating in the air...<br />
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OK, enough with the science fiction and the metaphysics and metaphors. However, this is not that much possible when reviewing “Contagion in Nine Steps”. Lychagate simply delivers an astonishing effort. “The album is inspired by Stanslav Lem’s book “The Invincible” and all the historical and philosophical sources on the idea of swarm behaviour in crowds and civilisations from the era of Plato to Le Bon and the modern era.” And even though I am not into Lem’s science fiction heritage and characters, I would say I really found “Contagion in Nine Steps” very contagious and addictive. This third record of the English band from London certainly requires special mood and state of mind. Just because these 42 minutes, wrapped in 6 special forms of own life, deserve serious attention and imagination. “Contagion…” is an album that can’t be just played. It must be listened to carefully, several times, and then experienced. “What’s the style?”, you may ask. Well, it is space avant-garde, black, doom. There are from clean to aggressive growling vocals presented, drowning into choir or operatic passages, heavy guitars and melodic solos. An organ playing from the in a solemn hall of the corner of your cosmic sleep, a piano and a mellotron. The music is a roller coaster taking you up to the stars and drowning you suddenly down into black space holes – that much variations, layers, textures and imaginations.<br />
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I strongly recommend “Contagion in Nine Steps” nevertheless you like or dislike Lem’s book. It is a record for all those who live an breath the mysteries in music. The explorers. Those who dare. Those who are not following the flock of sheep. It is for the connoisseurs only. 8/10 <b>Count Vlad</b><br />
<b><br /></b> <b><br /></b> <iframe seamless="" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2411065624/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/track=817537324/transparent=true/" style="border: 0; height: 120px; width: 100%;"><a href="http://blood-music.bandcamp.com/album/the-contagion-in-nine-steps">The Contagion in Nine Steps by Lychgate</a></iframe> <b><br /></b> <b><br /></b> <b>Band</b><br />
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<a href="https://lychgate.bandcamp.com/">Bandcamp</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.blood-music.com/">Official Website</a><br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/BlooodMusic">Facebook</a><br />
<a href="https://blood-music.bandcamp.com/">Bandcamp</a><br />
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<a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/104858218027076212268">Google+</a><br />
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8/10 To Greatness and Glory<br />
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<a href="http:/#TheZineSupportingTheUnderground">#TheZineSupportingTheUnderground</a>Blessed Altar Zinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09939299746524469540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007121747391742984.post-11977568334556350372018-06-25T14:50:00.000+01:002018-06-25T14:50:29.212+01:00Délétère - De Horae Leprae<style type="text/css">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Title: De Horae Leprae</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Release Date: June 15th, 2018</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The québéquois hordes attack again, in this fateful June, covering the poor foundations of what remains of civilization with a macabre chant of plague and redemptive futility, which will end up corrupting our black hearts in an absolute way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Délétère edits his second Full Length, and joins the already mythical occult black metal collection from Quebec. "De Horae Leprae" is a dense work that delves into a conceptual story set in the dirtiest entrails of the Middle Ages.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The work introduces us to the life of Teredinis, a taciturn leper who faces the fate of becoming a prophet and the very incarnation of the plague that will strike the entire population.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The band takes the arduous task of dividing the work into nine songs (Cantus), with a total duration of one hour and five minutes. Quite an odyssey of magnanimous proportions.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Stylistically you could compare Délétère with his compatriots Sorcier des Glaces, with some of Forteresse's characteristics, although strongly inclined towards a more melodic proposal, with hints of DSBM.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The truth is that the album sounds massive, from a sound view. You can see the band's emphasis on leaving behind the sound more inclined to Raw Black Metal, shown from their first demos and their first album, giving way to a more robust sound, with much more dynamics and depth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The chosen concept and the compositional and sound treatment come together in a wonderful way this time. Of course, even being very melodic, this is a work that swarms away from the accessible and most popular hosts of that genre. "De Horea Leprae" is still difficult, which can result from very difficult digestion, due to the amount of sonic layers, its conceptual density and its duration, perhaps a little excessive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I think that the only negative point that can be reproached is the lack of variety. The band almost never moves away from the tremolo technique formula on constant blasts, with occasional mattresses of synthesizers. There is a certain hypnotic factor at play, although hard to assimilate, due to its somewhat frenetic and melodic nature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Beyond these appreciations I can assure you that "De Horea Leprae" is a very solid work and a great step forward in the career of this young band, which ensures the continuity and quality of the Québécois combo and gives us a very good Black Metal album to enjoy, while we fly in a dark dream towards mythical death rattles of medieval decadence. 8/10. <b>Sergio</b>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">**Please support the underground! It’s vital to the future of our genre.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http:/#WeAreBlessedAltarZine" style="color: red; text-decoration-line: none;">#WeAreBlessedAltarZine</a><br /><a href="http:/#TheZineSupportingTheUnderground" style="color: red; text-decoration-line: none;">#TheZineSupportingTheUnderground</a><br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><a href="http:/#supporttheunderground" style="color: red; text-decoration-line: none;">#SupportTheUnderground</a></span></span></div>
<br />Count Vladhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14321137290447095120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007121747391742984.post-43520862260072279962018-06-23T13:23:00.000+01:002018-06-27T18:33:41.254+01:00Freedom Hawk - Beast Remains <style type="text/css">
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Band: Freedom Hawk<br />
Title: Beast Remains<br />
Label: Ripple Music<br />
Release date: March 23, 2018<br />
Country: USA<br />
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I truly dislike molds. Specifically, music made to fit a certain mold or another. Please feel free to substitute style, genre (or subgenre), for molds. Music should be created independent of any molds, and it should be allowed to be categorized after the fact, after it was composed, recorded and released. Trying to make something to fit in a certain mold does a huge detriment to music. A fact that has been proven time and time again. An artist, or a band, should have the ability to create music freely, and not dictated by trends and/or molds. The large record labels are responsible for forcing artists to confine to artificially imposed molds, a fact that became clearly visible in the 80s, and has taken a huge toll on free creativity ever since.<br />
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To fully comprehend the <b><i>heavy rock</i></b> music behind FREEDOM HAWK’s fifth full-length release “Beast Remains”, time-traveling is required. And since my DeLorean is currently in the shop, we shall employ virtual means to get to the roots of rock, and due to lack of space, a heavily simplified version of events, barely scratching the surface, is hereby presented. While one of most important influences on the contemporary era (post 1980) of <b>heavy metal</b>, lays on the rise in the late 70s of the <b>New Wave Of British Heavy Metal</b> (NWOBHM), with it’s forefronts <b>Iron Maiden </b>and<b> Saxon</b>, and even that scene’s close, mid 70s predecessors, the mighty <b>Judas Priest, Motörhead </b>and<b> Thin Lizzy</b>, the roots of heavy rock music are immensely deeper. Deeper than the enormous contributions to rock from the iconic <b>Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin </b>and<b> Black Sabbath</b>, in the late 60s and early 70s, often credited with the inception of heavy metal as a genre. Factually, both Deep Purple (psychedelic/progressive) and Led Zeppelin (blues rock) were <b>hard rock</b> acts, with Black Sabbath bringing “downer rock” to the table, a proto-doom metal root. All three strongly anchored into the late 60s psychedelic rock (alternatively “acid rock”).A period that immediately brings to mind vivid psychedelic acts such as <b>Vanilla Fudge </b>and<b> Iron Butterfly</b>, and explosive power trios: <b>The Jimi Hendrix Experience </b>and<b> Cream</b>, among others. Also, around the same period of time, rock saw a rise of occult influenced acts: <b>Arthur Brown, Coven </b>and<b> Black Widow</b> - indisputably influencers on the upcoming Black Sabbath. Going further down the rock history rabbit hole, in the early to mid 60s, solidly grounded in the earlier <b>American blues </b>and<b> rock and roll</b>, we found: the forefront of <b>The British Invasion</b> and counterculture rebels - <b>The Rolling Stones</b>, the shrine to three of rock's most famous guitarists, <b>Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page </b>and<b> Jeff Beck </b>- The Yardbirds, and the "bigger-louder-wall-of-Marshalls" - <b>The Who</b>. With the electric guitar at their common core and the liberal use of feedback, loud distortion and fuzz tones, these groups rapidly escalated to stardom status. Since we made it this far back, it begs the question: where all this originated? … On May 14th 1954 - Sun Records released a 45RPM single (#106) of blues performer <b>James Cotton</b>: “Cotton Crop Blues” (“Hold Me In Your Arms” B-side), featuring one <b>Pat Hare</b> and his "grittier, nastier, more ferocious electric guitar sound". A very worthy mention would also be the late 1950s instrumentals of <b>Link Wray</b>, particularly "Rumble" (1958), and of what was shaping to become the surf rock of the late 50s and early 60s. (As a side note: Jimmy Page plays airguitar to Link Ray’s “Rumble” in the 2009 documentary “It Might Get Loud” - look it <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">up!)</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">. </span></div>
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Returning as a four-piece band on “Beast Remains”, their first album on Ripple Music, FREEDOM HAWK delivers one of the best releases of 2018, so far. With the addition of guitarist Brendan O'Neill, the founding core of T.R. Morton (vocals/guitar), Mark Cave (bass) and Lenny Hines (drums), an already excellent band gains full artistic maturity. Their trajectory is in every way comparable to (Ozzy’s era) Black Sabbath, whom themselves reached their artistic maturity, and mainstream acceptance, (also) with the release of their fifth full-length “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath” in 1973. And like Black Sabbath before them, FREEDOM HAWK won’t confine to molds! While the 70s (and some early 80s) influences are obvious, the music on “Beast Remains” is in no way “recycled”. The dual-guitar dynamism layered upon the pervasive bass lines, both doubling and bottom filling to the streamlined drumming precision, allowing for an effective vocal delivery. As a whole, the main focus is on the melody and the sound: collectively, the Virginia Beach (VA) band exploits perfectly the inner details in their compositions, resulting in a dynamic, yet melodic flow. The band paints a beautiful canvas of elevated textures using a vibrant palette of colors in every song on the album: from the solid 1-2 opener (“Solid Gold”/“Danger“), instantly gripping the listener, to the very last track (“Champ“). Clocking in at just over forty-one minutes, shorter than the rest of their releases (with the exception of the 2009 self-titled), the impactful eight compositions on “Beast Remains” were all written and arranged by the band, with the lyrical content provided by T.R. Morton. The album, recorded and mixed at Master Sound Studios (Virginia Beach) by Rob Ulsh, assisted by David Stillman, mastered by Chris Goosman at Baseline Audio Labs (Ann Arbor, MI), was entirely produced by the band. The beautifully psychedelic cover art is the creation of Sandra Havik.</div>
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I’ve seen this album categorized as: stoner, doom, psych, heavy metal, whatever … While nuances of the aforementioned styles are present, “Beast Remains” is a <b><i>heavy rock</i></b> record. I see no point to the growing trends of over-categorizing and listing every shade of musical influence and crossover styles, on most newer releases. Also, I don’t see any gains in steering a potential listener towards one style or another. FREEDOM HAWK has rightfully landed on Ripple Music’s roster: the San Ramon, California, independent label that keeps charming the rock & metal congregation with one great album release after another.<br />
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I encourage any potential listeners to discover on their own the music and where any influences might lay. These reviews are hopefully a source of inspiration to discover something new and musically exciting. Other than that, any review is just an opinion, and those are as many as are people. Let FREEDOM HAWK elevate your mind and spirit, within and beyond the amazing journey that “Beast Remains” is.<br />
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I shall leave you with a David Stillman quote, printed on the LP’s insert: “Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not found of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things.” Utterly recommended! 9/10 By UHF</div>
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Band: Funeral Mist<br />
Title: Hekatomb<br />
Label: Norma Evangelium Diaboli<br />
Release Date: June 15th, 2018<br />
Country: Sweden<br />
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Arioch is back, without warning, and after nine years of having edited his last Full Length, "Maranatha", in 2009, his approach of non-Orthodox Swedish extremity becomes flesh and blood again, to delight us with a pure assault to our senses.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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Perhaps, most of our readers know about the origin of this demon, but, for those new enthusiasts of this incredible music, I clarify that Arioch is also a member of a well-known Swedish band. I speak of Marduk (who coincidentally will also be releasing an album in a few days), where he takes care of the vocals.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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Far has been the excessive chaotic delirium of his cult work "Salvation", from 2003 (One of the best Swedish black metal albums of all time), and his sound search seems to be more in connection with the sound clarity shown in "Maranatha". And this characteristic, in other artists, could be understood as a counter, but in the case of Funeral Mist, it works as an incredible tool for the promotion of aggressiveness without precedent.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWPsNOISjNvQCKEBJXvEE3hszUDTKLOxLfbrunLnJNhUTeq8pFYMO1hBCldmU3JBbb0lMvwHNHhGN2Ky7LE61ksiCNSyjmqvyVsO8HC30Lx8z8K1wmgL5iWfNkLi5pVJNRE-O0LvHKtSl-/s1600/Funeral+Mist.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWPsNOISjNvQCKEBJXvEE3hszUDTKLOxLfbrunLnJNhUTeq8pFYMO1hBCldmU3JBbb0lMvwHNHhGN2Ky7LE61ksiCNSyjmqvyVsO8HC30Lx8z8K1wmgL5iWfNkLi5pVJNRE-O0LvHKtSl-/s320/Funeral+Mist.jpg" width="320" /></a>I think that what always stood out for this project was the audacity and talent of the artist to develop, in his vision, a unique cosmogony that, even being far from the Avant-Garde niche, could advance the genre towards unsuspected territories of originality. This album is not the exception and, in its somewhat scarce 43 minutes, we attend a concatenation of ideas that are fresh, and totally necessary, that undoubtedly raise the genre to a peak rarely reached this year.</div>
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Obviously sleeping is for the weak. Why sleep when you can spend every waking minute writing riffs and constructing death metal tunes ad infinitum until you die. This, my friends, is how one Rogga Johansson and Dave Ingram choose to operate on what is, seemingly, a daily basis!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The roll call for these two metal reprobates is a veritable feast of Death – Ingram, currently set down with ‘Just Before Dawn/Echelon/Ursinne and Ex of the mighty ‘Benediction’ and ‘Bolt Thrower’. Johansson? – Well, whom hasn’t he worked with? – But for the sake of examples; Megascavenger/Paganizer/Revolting/Ribspreader/The Grotesquery…you get the idea? Prolific is an understatement.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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DATDM play exactly the type of steamrolling Death Metal I love to hear. Nothing complex about it – straight forward Old school Death (think Ingram’s other legendary acts) combined with a killer Crust/Dirty Punk element that is captured and delivered with sublime ferocity and power. Furthermore, there is a dark melodic feel to the 10 compositions on offer here. Match that with the deep-seated grooves that Rogga employs with his riffs and the whole thing just explodes with a fire and energy that is truly addictive. The album title itself is almost prophetic in nature as it implores you to reach for the repeat button just one more time. Oh yes, repeated spins is a given such is the spell that this album casts over the listener!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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For me personally, it must be stated that as great as Rogga’s work is on this album, it is Dave Ingram’s vocal performance that has me doing cartwheels. As a massive fan of classic Benediction, nothing pleases more that to hear Dave’s characteristic roar and distinctive tone given the full treatment on this record. Like a Willets or a Van Drunen, Dave’s phrasing and enunciation stands out amongst the crowd, and he is truly one of a kind in the way he constructs his lyrical delivery for maximum impact. For me, Barney Greenway is his only peer when it comes to all out Death Metal style conveyance.</div>
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The sound of this album is also a major deal breaker! So Heavy! Superbly crafted with just enough dirt and grime in the back end to heighten it’s ‘Crust’ vibe, ‘Obey..’ possesses a thick pummelling production that only accentuates further the power and devastating intensity of Rogga and co! Such is the experience of the two main protagonist here; they just simply know how to play to each other’s strengths and as such, the whole album flows with unadulterated conviction and sonic precision. Put simply, ‘Obey..’ crushes.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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‘Obey..’ is a fantastic album. At its core, a record that pays pure homage to Old School Death Metal – dark and foreboding, yet the direct and unyielding Crust/Punk element gives a real streamlined edge to DATDM’s compositions. Not a second is wasted here. From the get go of ‘Destroy the Infinite’ to the superb crunch of ‘Darkness of Glass’, ‘Obey…’ is turn on, tune in, heads down, see you at the end! It will be your master…You will Obey! Confident this will be considered as one of the Death Metal albums of the year.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>8/10 <b>KMaN</b></div>
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<br />Count Vladhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14321137290447095120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007121747391742984.post-23265605944302784922018-06-20T15:09:00.001+01:002018-06-20T15:09:08.355+01:00Taphos - Come Ethereal Somberness<style type="text/css">
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Band: Taphos<br />
Title: Come Ethereal Somberness<br />
Label: Blood Harvest Records<br />
Release Date: 8 June 2018<br />
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If we talk about pure Death Metal assault, uncompromising, aggressive, with a great sense of rottenness and a great old school aura, then we can not ignore Taphos, a Danish quartet ready to shake off the drowsiness of the world's most cavernous Death scene.</div>
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"Come Ethereal Somberness" is an album that shouts to the four winds its passion and devotion to the foundations of the best Death Metal of the late 80's, although trying to define the style can become a somewhat complicated task. You could say that the strength of the combo lies in the ability to amalgamate different influences of the past, passing them through a modern prism (in terms of sound quality) that leads to a vicious and frenetic concatenation of Death Metal very well made, simple and terribly addictive.<br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "times new roman";">Malauriu is a Black metal band from Sicily, Italy founded in 2013. They have participated numerous split releases and compilations in their relatively short existence. A band with a serious approach to the genre, personally I am not familiar with their earlier offerings. Some releases you just happen to come across, and how sweet it is to find some gold…</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The first real
track, Vortex of supremacy, is a kick of a tune. Full blast ahead, raw vocals
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Malauriu is proving that they have their own take on BM, though firmly planted
in the early 90`s, they show creativity and technical ability to bring
something new to the table. If I could change anything I would have skipped the
intro (and outro), and given it a fourth real track. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>Paroxsihzem is a Black/Death band from Toronto, Canada who formed in 2007. Hellthrasher Productions is their current label but they also have releases in different formats and distribution as well from Dark Descent records, Vault of Dried Bones and Krucyator Productions too. Inspired by nuclear warfare, darkness, chaos, and negativity, Paroxsihzem has been destroying the light for eleven years now. This is an interview with Krag, the vocalist from the band.</i><br />
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<b>Hello Krag and thank you for doing this interview with me for Blessed Altar Zine! What are the near future plans for Paroxsihzem?</b><br />
Thanks, we've just finished playing 2 shows very close together so now we are going to lay low and focus on writing for our next full-length album and then go from there.<br />
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<b>I see on Bandcamp, that you recently put up a previously unreleased track from 2013, titled Excavation of Despair. Is this a single release on its own or is this going to be part of a future release?</b><br />
It was an old demo track that we recorded before the split with Adversarial. We were pleased with how it turned out but it won’t be part of any future releases we just wanted to release it on its own as a 1 song demo track.<br />
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<b>Will Paroxsihzem do a tour in the future, whether for Canada, USA or elsewhere?</b><br />
We plan to eventually. Most likely after our next album comes out.<br />
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<b>Is there a main writer in the band musically or lyrically or do you all collaborate in this process?</b><br />
Impugnor is the main writer for all the music and I collaborate with him on the lyrics.<br />
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<b>Considering Paroxsihzem’s inspirations for lyrical or topic matters, are there certain main musical influences that have had a big impact on the sound or direction of Paroxshizem?</b><br />
Influences come from all over the place and there are too many to name, but a few of them are Incantation, Arkhon Infaustus, Archgoat, Revenge and Morbid Angel. For lyrics inspiration<br />
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<b>Being a musical collector myself, I tend to ask everyone this question. Which do you prefer for listening? Vinyl, CD, Cassette or digital format?</b><br />
Vinyl and CD for sure.<br />
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<b>Out of all the releases from Paroxsihzem so far, is there a release that you like the most?</b><br />
I would say our newest EP, Abyss of Excruciating Vexes is my favourite Paroxsihzem release.<br />
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<b>How do you feel about the ways and means of social media now and how information is used or conducted?</b><br />
I try to use social media as little as possible and usually only for contacting people. I have mostly a negative view on it these days.<br />
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<b>What are your main preferences in musical styles? Whether for metal or other types of music too?</b><br />
Filthy death metal<br />
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<b>Ok, in closing and thanks again Krag for your time with this interview. What inspired the creation of Paroxsihzem as a band and with the name itself too?</b><br />
We found we disliked the direction of most “metal” bands in the local scene and decided to start our own project. The name Paroxysm, “a sudden attack or violent expression of a particular emotion or activity.” Another meaning, “a sudden recurrence or attack of disease; a sudden worsening of symptoms”. Both apply to our influences, direction and intention with the band. The spelling was slightly altered to fit our directive as well as looks more aesthetically appealing in our opinion.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Band: Abythic</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Title: Beneath Ancient Portals</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Release Date: 11 May 2018</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Country: Germany</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Format reviewed: Digital CD quality</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNuPOncSXhiQyuKhHKlkzxLXH8EKmmSjhMozLDeM7WgE6QNSOSoVKbDeE3JH0GWPMHbMDe9cunKmvd_jwAFoOpjBOLqcp-9yeZVQG49GovT7zLEdxaY_WVosjnvMmRbB4eSZ-M-FC9WPmd/s1600/Abythic+-+photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1068" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNuPOncSXhiQyuKhHKlkzxLXH8EKmmSjhMozLDeM7WgE6QNSOSoVKbDeE3JH0GWPMHbMDe9cunKmvd_jwAFoOpjBOLqcp-9yeZVQG49GovT7zLEdxaY_WVosjnvMmRbB4eSZ-M-FC9WPmd/s320/Abythic+-+photo.jpg" width="212" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>"Beneath Ancient Portals"</b> is Abythic’s debut full-length release which contains eight tracks and goes a little over forty minutes in its entirety. Although <b>Abythic</b> is a death metal band and fairly much influenced by the old school, there are at times, quite the hints of doom here too. This can be heard on and off throughout the tracks, especially in the first track, "Prelude to Obscurity", which comes across as a bit of an intro </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">style track as well and without any vocals present either, and in the track, "T.H.O.N." and also in the track "Depths of Oblivion" too. In these moments the listener is cast into a world of slow, heavy, sustaining, sorrowful riffs which can be accompanied by dark harmonies and sometimes eerie solos as well. The sound here reminds me a bit of the likes of Desecresy and their style of a doomy death metal that they are known for. This combination of death and doom that </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Abythic</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> does, works well together while the vocals remain guttural and brutal throughout despite the pace being either slow, mid-pace or fast. The more faster tracks on this full-length are Purulent Phantasm and the track "Afterwards Behind Beyond", which presents the more aggressive attack of old school death metal styles, that is also part of this release by </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Abythic</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">. Not having heard this band before, until now, has made me take a further interest and shows how variations of styles can complement each other. What you have here, is raw, heavy, doomy death metal of the old school flavour taking you down a road of obscurities and dread. </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Abythic "Beneath Ancient Portals"</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">, is an example of underground death metal with a unique blend and worthy of your attention! 9/10 </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Wolven Deadsoul</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
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<span class="s1"><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I invited Andreas, one of the founding members of Traitor, also performing drums and vocals, for a friendly and very special punching chat, in order to share with us some inside information about the secrets of the Teutonic thrash.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> (And pelase make sure to check <a href="https://blessedaltarzine.blogspot.com/2018/06/traitor-knee-deep-in-dead.html">here</a> the review of Traitor's brand new album, which my brother in arms UHF made for Blessed Altar ZIne)</span></span></i></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- Hello Andreas, it is a real pleasure to have you here on Blessed Altar Zine! Busy times for you now?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- Hey Ho! Thank you for having us here. Not busier than usual. It got a little bit more administrational work, but its fun.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>- Who is the Traitor, what are his typical features and what are his sins so far?</b> A fictional character from our two songs „Traitor“ and „Hell-Hammer“. His typical features are very evil. Just listen to the songs. His sins<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>are told there in all their evilness.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>- You have changed the band’s name several time before choosing Traitor...</b></span></span><br />
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- Yes. The ones before were silly and/or to complicated.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- The band is already in the echelons of the Teutonic thrash. With such musical heritage on this scene, how hard is to get there?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- If you are from a German-speaking country (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and if you play Thrash Metal, you are in the Teutonic Thrash scene! It´s not that hard, isn’t it? But you are right: the heritage is glorious. It's nearly impossible to compete with the heroes from the 80s. But we are not trying to compete. We just<span class="Apple-converted-space"></span> want to honour the time and the Bands from then. And we want<span class="Apple-converted-space"></span> to play the music we love.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- I guess your main influences are in the Teutonic thrash scene, right? Are there more bands or genres, or even types of music, that inspire you?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- We love all types of music. And for example, I am listening to all kinds of music I enjoy and like. There are days where I listen to Ice Cube, Slayer and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in one row. But the main influences are the great Bands from the 80s like Darkness, Assassin, Violent Force, Tankard and all the others.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- What has changed for you since “Thrash Command”?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- We got<span class="Apple-converted-space"></span> better and improved our playing.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>- Is this the hard road to success?</b><br />- I would not call it hard. We had<span class="Apple-converted-space"></span> to make mistakes, we had<span class="Apple-converted-space"></span> to play bad<span class="Apple-converted-space"></span> shows and had to learn some lessons. But it was fun!</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWdCaMhAV1KeMxwlkYn_HyFHF0WStMacjzqktbwvKDn75X6cQCgaK8lWz7EBBdcr4aHMx8DtzJjbiHPaOYkAokpFXgCBbCuR5KAEdp0gLMrEJIh5dBROzpVervxSGEjD0113feWa5b-rg/s1600/Traitor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWdCaMhAV1KeMxwlkYn_HyFHF0WStMacjzqktbwvKDn75X6cQCgaK8lWz7EBBdcr4aHMx8DtzJjbiHPaOYkAokpFXgCBbCuR5KAEdp0gLMrEJIh5dBROzpVervxSGEjD0113feWa5b-rg/s200/Traitor.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- You have a brand new record “Knee-Deep In The Dead”. Could you please tell us more about it? What does it mean for you?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- The writing and recording process was the most intense so far. Pure aggression and power. But we also<span class="Apple-converted-space"></span> focused on groove and variable vocals.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In my opinion it's our best record so far.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- What is the initial response of the audience so far?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- The response of the press was not that good. But the response of our listeners was very good!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- You had a special guest in “Xenomorph”...</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- Yes. Gus Drax from Suicidal Angels.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- Since I saw the artwork of the album for the first time, I’ve always wanted to ask you about it. Whose head is the Predator carrying? Of course, I’m curious about “Venomizer” and “Thrash Command as well”!</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- It's not meant to be the predator. It's our mascot, inspired by Arnold Schwarzenegger from the Predator movie. And he is holding the head of Duke Nukem. On the other artworks, it's also our mascot. Always in different outfits.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- You have been always very critical in your lyrics pointing out all the venom spilling around. How dead is the society and the world, and how deep-knee are we in it?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- Not really to be honest. I try to avoid political lyrics because it got some kind of trendy mainstream to do that<span class="Apple-converted-space"></span>. We got<span class="Apple-converted-space"></span> very negative reviews because of that. But I don’t want to write the 101st lyrics about Donald Trump, Refugees or the climate change. When I listen to music, I want to have fun. So our lyrics are fictional and entertaining. Not about things, making a bad mood. They are about things we love<span class="Apple-converted-space"></span>. About things that let you enter a different world. It's better to be for something than to be against something.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- You are going to play Wacken very soon. How do you feel about it, what are your expectations?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- What are your plans after Wacken?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- You can find them at our online store on <a href="http://www.traitor-band.de/shop"><span class="s3">www.traitor-band.de/shop</span></a>. If they are out of stock, we will reissue them as soon as possible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- Hmmm… (thinking) …I never learned to play the drums. I just started to play. Sometimes I regret that. That's exclusive! ;-)</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- Thank you very much for taking time for this interview despite of your busy schedule. It’s been a real pleasure! We are wishing you much success and you guys have our full support! Thrash’em all!</span></b></div>
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<br />Count Vladhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14321137290447095120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007121747391742984.post-32836243907092857542018-06-15T14:20:00.001+01:002018-06-15T18:34:28.846+01:00Traitor - Knee-Deep In The Dead <style type="text/css">
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<span class="s1">Teutonic Thrash Metal is equally important to the rise to glory of the entire Thrash Metal genre, as is the Bay Area Thrash Metal. Circa 1982, German acts, Destruction and Holy Moses, and shortly after, Sodom, made the obvious move towards, and developed upon what Venom did on their 1981 debut album “Welcome To Hell” and the 1982 sophomore effort, “Black Metal”. Two releases that are rightfully credited with having a huge influential impact on what was to become Thrash, Death and Black Metal. Formed in 1982 in Essen as Tyrant, Kreator released their full-length debut “Endless Pain” in 1985, further cementing this European strain of Thrash, alongside the American (Bay Area & East Coast) and Brazilian counterparts. The Teutonic Thrash Metal scene also includes acts from Austria, Czech Republic and Switzerland, with the Swiss highly technical band Coroner, being the biggest name to come from outside Germany. Other notable acts of the Teutonic scene are: Iron Angel, Paradox, Exumer and Tankard, among many others. Notably, in 1990, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Coroner, Tankard, Kreator and UK’s Sabbat, captured and released their live appearances in East Berlin, on video, individually and as a video compilation billed “Thrashing East”. The Teutonic Thrash Alliance, forefronted by Kreator, continued to develop and grow to worldwide domination level, releasing strong, epic and iconic albums to these days.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHitny75Z6yP51dvCL0zmeaS0YiXj6BqnqrzzfPJRSKjpOrtQmakjBJv_wZsGv_oi1Rn6tTTLc0W6f3351Qa9I07-Q-lQwrxq2AeOHBj4iaoIqARfyw6Ue2cRmFDqn6vsC4GO3ypNcnq8/s1600/20180424_200337.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHitny75Z6yP51dvCL0zmeaS0YiXj6BqnqrzzfPJRSKjpOrtQmakjBJv_wZsGv_oi1Rn6tTTLc0W6f3351Qa9I07-Q-lQwrxq2AeOHBj4iaoIqARfyw6Ue2cRmFDqn6vsC4GO3ypNcnq8/s320/20180424_200337.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a><span class="s1">The brainchild of Andreas Mozer and Gerd Hery, the band existed under different names (Meatgrinder, Patricide, and Premature Burial) since 2004, and adopted their current, and final tag: TRAITOR, in 2009. Hailing from the southwestern city of Balingen, in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, TRAITOR, plays pure Teutonic Thrash Metal! Starting with their debut full-length release, in 2012, the current lineup of Andreas Mozer (drums/vocals), Gerd Hery (guitars/backing vocals), Lorenz Kandolf (bass/backing vocals), and Matthias Koch (guitars/backing vocals), provided three intense full-length productions: “Thrash Command” (2012), “Venomizer” (2015), and most recently, “KneeDeep In The Dead”. Released on April 27, 2018, with help from the Hamburg based label Violent Creek Records, “Knee-Deep In The Dead” showcases TRAITOR’s most aggressive, and at the same time, polished offering. To fully understand this band trajectory, I feel that the potential listener should be somewhat familiarized with the initial two albums. From the energy and enthusiasm of their 2012 debut release, “Thrash Command”, with its old-school vibe, slightly influenced by Slayer and Destruction, the band moved on to their 2015 sophomore album </span></div>
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“Venomizer”, a faster, stepped up aggression, clearly influenced by Kreator (Extreme Aggression) and Metallica (Kill ‘Em All) - seamlessly combined into a distinctive style, which I fondly like to call “Motoratmung”. On to the current “Knee-Deep In The Dead”: a vital step forward, as production value, composition complexity and, as aforementioned, aggressiveness. The obvious Kreator (90's) influence is still present, yet, on this release, some (early) Sodom nuances are also palpable. TRAITOR sustains their path through the world of Thrash Metal with precision, aplomb and ferocity! An absolutely crushing array of impressive riffs, in perfect fusion, courtesy of Hery/Koch guitar duo’s interplay, completed with Kandolf’s omnipresent bass lines, punctually accenting Mozer’s first class, utterly precise Thrash Metal drumming. Hats off to Andreas Mozer for his ability to provide quality, genre standard vocals in addition to playing the drums. Lyrically a great part of the tracks on this album is influenced by horror movies and video games, a slight departure from their past two full-length offerings. The catchy lyrics combined with the all-band background intoned tracks’ choruses, makes for an easy to follow, scream along listening experience, on this eleven tracks, just under 40 minutes release. Gus Drax (Black Fate, Suicidal Angels & Sunburst) provides a guest guitar solo on one of the album’s tracks. The album closes with a bonus track cover of Ramones’ “Blitzkrieg Bop”. The album’s cover art, a clear indication of what the listener is about to witness, was created by the legendary artist Ed Repka, responsible for a renowned collection of metal albums cover art, on display from acts such: Death, Megadeth, Gruesome, Whiplash and Atheist, among many others. A very special mention goes to Vagelis Maranis (Sanvoisen, Arrayan Path), whom not only produced, recorded, mixed and mastered “Knee-Deep In The Dead”, and the previous two full-length albums for the band, but he is also the additive, if you wish, that maintains TRAITOR’s consistency, their friend and mentor.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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<span class="s1">“(..) Prepare for the attack, there is no turning back, Hail to the TRAITOR!” - “KneeDeep In Dead” is an accessible, mad fun, beer gatherings appropriate, album for all: seasoned Thrash Metal maniacs and newcomers eager to dive into a new, more aggressive metal genre! Highly recommended! 8.5/10 <b>UHF</b></span><br />
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<i>For more things TRAITOR, check Count Vlad's exclusive interview with Andreas Mozer <a href="https://blessedaltarzine.blogspot.com/2018/06/traitor-interview.html">here</a>.</i></div>
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<br />Count Vladhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14321137290447095120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007121747391742984.post-2665126509100132882018-06-14T13:27:00.000+01:002018-06-14T18:17:14.614+01:00Convocation - Scars Across<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: inherit;">We are ready to walk again, wobbly, towards the horizon, with fear crossing our backs and our eyes somewhat fearful, stuck in another mastodontic beast coming from my admired Finland. The earth of metal. From the thickets of these plains comes Convocation, a project of two musicians LL (Lauri Laaksonen) and MN (Marko Neuman), coming from bands like Desolate Shrine and Dark Buddha Rising, among others, to create one of the most impressive albums of Death/Doom so far this year.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">These data are not minor to try to describe the sound of this behemoth. Those who know Desolate Shrine will know about the doom and highly atmospheric characteristics that go through their work. Convocation also stands out for crossing landscapes of unparalleled density with an eye always placed in a vortex of experimentation that, far from being diluted in the concatenation of dark matter of its riffs, gives a remarkable aura of etericity to the compositions. Something unique in the universe of Death/Doom.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: inherit;">This alchemy of epic proportions takes us on a journey for just over 50 minutes, divided into four tracks of very slow combustion, full of nuances and a death drive, sometimes close to the cosmogonic Funeral Doom of bands like Esoteric or Evoken. Although talking about comparisons is a somewhat futile exercise in the world of Convocation. This is a beast that breathes its own oxygen and walks with the certainty of knowing itself above the food chain.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The guitars, extremely leaden, are dispatched expertly. The vocals are predominantly deep growls, but what most stands out in Convocation is the use of synthesizers and organs, which overfly the work creating terribly climate-like textures, which grant a dramatic quality that works perfectly with the intentions of the band.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>Scars Across</b>" is an album that begins to show all the heaviest and stylistically closest to the most caustic and monstrous Death Doom, although it is developing a new facet, as it progresses, reaching a level of unique disturbing atmosphere. Convocation gives us a new vision about the world of doom with Death elements, and without doubt, this is an album that we will find in many lists of best albums at the end of the year, included in mine. An incredible album, highly recommended for lovers of slower and heavier music. 10/10 <b>Sergio</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I’m once more thinking and calculating: summer is definitely NOT the time to drown into this particular style, especially when I’m writing for a depressive black metal band coming from the cold depths of Heslinki! With a band’s name like this and form my experience with their previous release for sure I knew what to expect, but what the heck! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Perseverance through adversity, creation through destruction, strength through pain. After years of waiting, skulking and lying near-dormant, Totalselfhatred has returned to the fray. We are here to present you five songs of our own particular brand of melancholic desolation in an audial form. Turn off the lights, wallow in the sweetness of reclusive negativity and let yourself float freely in the soothing stream of emotion that our epitome of Solitude will provide"</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBMA9y9kgFjw6238htRW4IrzLI-KhgloSI7g_KNaKy4-mRlj3z4xRkfP-FAmxs1dHLdD_En7C11ZqISWYi9DwMpqSn1aUcZ1A512jTwmzyslpqC6O2jpcrM-SRYQ8PiBtqVaKFAEMtO7E/s1600/770918.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBMA9y9kgFjw6238htRW4IrzLI-KhgloSI7g_KNaKy4-mRlj3z4xRkfP-FAmxs1dHLdD_En7C11ZqISWYi9DwMpqSn1aUcZ1A512jTwmzyslpqC6O2jpcrM-SRYQ8PiBtqVaKFAEMtO7E/s320/770918.jpg" width="320" /></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">This announcement says a lot about the album and the band. “Solitude” comes seven years after bands second release “Apocalypse in your heart” released in 2011. With 5 songs and total running time of 41 minutes, in “Solitude” Totalselfhatred deliver another solid dose of despair and pain giving us just a solid reason to cut our veins. Depression, emotional crush and absolutely no light in the end of the tunnel. So painful and beautiful at once</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Musically the album is good. Shoegazing, black gazing, melancholy. With really fantastic (!) slower parts, clean or acoustic guitars passages, keys. However the slower to mid passages suddenly explode into hyper nihilistic crescendo blasts and lethal doses of pain and screaming vocals. Typically for the genre of course. Honestly this was my main problem - these particular parts of the songs and vocals. First of all the blasts - some mistakes in drumming rhythm were noticed, and really the music and the overall atmosphere do loose with that painful screams and harsh vocals. Of course with songs like Solitude, Cold Numbness, Hollow, Black infinity, there can’t be anything else but pure misanthropy and screams for help of hopelessness. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">At the end of the day I’m trying to convince myself about which half of the song parts will prevail in my judgement. The slow and gloomy desperation or the painful cut-knife black crescendos which for me are weathering the veins of this record. I leave it to everybody to find the answer for him self. 6/10 <b>Count Vlad</b></span></div>
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Count Vladhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14321137290447095120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007121747391742984.post-70108400930288901222018-06-12T16:06:00.000+01:002018-06-12T16:06:30.531+01:00Stortregn - Emptiness Fills the Void<style type="text/css">
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Band: Stortregn<br />
Title: Emptiness Fills the Voids<br />
Label: Non Serviam Records<br />
Release Date: May 25th, 2018<br />
Country: Switzerland<br />
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Moment of listening to the new Stortregn album. The already veteran Geneva formation gives us its new full-length, a behemoth full of light and darkness alike, masterfully composed and executed. The world of Melodic Black/Death can rejoice again, because we are facing one of the best albums of 2018.</div>
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"Emptiness Fills the Void" is quite an achievement from a technical point of view. There really is nothing that can be reproached in the instrumental aspect. The ability of each of the members is noted at the moment of executing extremely complex passages with absolute mastery. We are talking about highly trained musicians here.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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The drums of Samuel Jakubec give no respite throughout the journey. It is so technical, dynamic and precise that it seems almost inhuman! Vocals alternate between dark black shrieks and deep growls. The bass stands out, at times, interspersing harmonies like a tireless warrior in an eternal battle, but the absolute protagonists are the guitars, as it could not be otherwise in an album of the genre.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Mizmor is a one-man project from Portland, Oregon. Surely many remember the magnificent album "Yodh" of 2016: An overwhelming work that combines, with mastery, Doom and Black Metal, and with which he won the acclaim of the public and the specialized critics. I had the honor to exchange some words with A.L.N, the mastermind behind Mizmor, and he told me about his future projects, his other bands (Urzeit and Hell) and about very important aspects of his theological vision and of life in general. </i><i>A.L.N, welcome to Blessed Altar Zine. It is an honor to have you here.</i></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></i> <b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ok, Let's start from the roots. How did you start in the world of music? At what age were you aware that you wanted to dedicate yourself to this?</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I started playing and writing music pretty early on. I was born into a love of music; my dad taught me drums as a child, I learned guitar from my brothers, and was jamming with them and forming bands with friends from age 8. I made my first one-man CD when I was 11, performing and recording all the instruments myself on my parents computer. I drew the cover art and made physical copies I sold/gave away at school to friends. There have been ebbs and flows in my output throughout the years, but music has always been a part of my life and always will be.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span> <b><span style="font-family: inherit;">What does the word Mizmor mean? How does it come about to be able to identify your project?</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mizmor means ‘psalm’ in Hebrew. A psalm is a Biblical melodic prayer. I began creating the music for Mizmor in the aftermath of a tumultuous personal life experience: losing my faith in the Christian god. Although it is the religion of my parents, which I rejected in adolescence, I had an adult conversion experience that led to over two years of an intensely devoted, personal practice of Christianity. Mizmor tells the story of me coming out of that indoctrination and coming to terms with the world in truth, one devoid of god. Early on the music was actually addressed to god. The songs were embittered, enraged, confused, heartbroken, upwardly-directed utterances, much like a good portion of the book of Psalms. The name came very naturally after the music, since it had a specific purpose and scope.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span> <b><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have to ask you some questions about the incredible "Yodh." Although it was released 2 years ago, I think that the repercussion that achieved in the underground circuit will have been remarkable for you, and your development as a musician. How did you live this until now?</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Yodh” is a very special album to me. Like all of Mizmor’s music, it is deeply personal. But what sets it apart from my other albums is based on a promise I made to myself. I had been making music for many years at this point in my life, but had never felt I’d made an album where I didn’t make a single compromise from the start of the process through to the end. Although I don’t believe there to be a perfect album, so to speak, I wanted to make something I’d at least be comfortable enough hearing in 10 years, without cringing at the sound of everything I should have done differently. So I decided, no matter how tedious or long the process, no matter the cost or effort, I would make the album in my mind/heart. I’d self-release it and lose money if I had to. All I cared about was the art: presenting a vision effectively without any factor adulterating it. I’m extremely grateful that “Yodh” resonated with people, making ripples in the underground world. I’m honored that self-releasing the album was not its ultimate fate, for Gilead Media gave my art a larger platform, which undoubtedly encouraged the album’s impact on the community of extreme metal listeners.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">The music of "Yodh" is like an incredible amalgam of Black Metal, Doom, and even Drone. What artists influenced you to get to this mixture? Do you have a favorite band within the Black / Doom genre?</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The fusion of sub-genres that describes Mizmor’s music is due simply to my two favorite genres of music: doom metal and black metal. I find immense influence from both of these genres. In my own case, I wanted to convey my feelings of despondency and depression in the midst of an anti-Christian existential crisis. Writing and playing doom metal had already been a companion to me in my expression of depression, but dawning the black metal esthetic was new for me; it was the perfect way for me to express my internal, religious conflict. Ironically, I’m most inspired by the more pure forms of the genres rather than the fusion of them. From the doom camp Burning Witch and Worship are two essential bands for me, and from the black metal camp Burzum and Wolves in the Throne Room have been important sources of inspiration.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span> <b><span style="font-family: inherit;">One of the most striking aspects of "Yodh" was his incredible cover art. Its author is the Polish artist Zdzisław Beksiński, owner of an incredibly disturbing and obscure work. How do you get to it and how does the concept that illustrates the album come about? Does it have any special meaning?</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I am glad that the artwork is striking to you because it was very striking to me when I first saw it, and it hasn’t lost its effect yet. Back before “Yodh” was even on the horizon I saw that piece and was stunned. Visual art doesn’t grab me as easily as music. Something special happens to me when it does though; I felt a certain breathlessness because it resonated with me so much. The face in the piece, it just looks exactly how I feel... it looks how Mizmor feels and sounds to me. It’s not a brilliant answer, but it’s true. I wanted to use it for the album I was currently working on, but it seemed too good a painting - it needed a special album. I waited until “Yodh” materialized, at which time it became an obvious album cover. But obtaining the rights was certainly an ordeal. Luckily I had made that promise to myself.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span> <b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Another of your well-known projects is Urzeit, where you play drums and vocals. Stylistically, it is almost the opposite of Mizmor. What motivates you to be part of such dissimilar projects?</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">With music in general and metal in specific, my taste hinges on a precise balance of harmony and disharmony - too melodic and it sounds overly positive, poppy, and cheesy; too dissonant and it sounds overly chaotic, negative, and unmemorable. I’ve found that I typically don’t like anything too far on either end of the spectrum. I think Mizmor combines melody and dissonance in a pleasant way. Urzeit is a bit further toward the dissonant side of the spectrum though, which is understandable once you know that in addition to myself, R.F and M.S. (the Vrasubatlat lifeblood) complete the Urzeit lineup. They thrive on this more brutal style of metal, and there’s definitely a place in my heart for it as well. We pretty much just all love Darkthrone and enjoy music that expresses the nihilism we can’t help but feel in this chaotic existence. It’s fun to play our primitive, irreverent style of black metal. It’s absurd and absurdity is necessary. It sometimes feels more like playing rock and roll, which is just plain fun.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span> <b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Portland has gained notoriety for the amount of underground extreme metal bands that have emerged in recent times. Could you tell us what the scene is like at this moment, and particularly what reception do you have from the audience?</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I’m hardly the lens through which one might accurately see the scene. This is mainly because my projects are fairly inactive, as bands go. To this day Mizmor has performed only three times in the six years it’s been around and Urzeit is silent at the moment. This leaves Hell, the band I’m a part of that performs most frequently. We tour every year or two and play a handful of local shows every year when our friends’ bands tour through and need support. And although we play Portland, we are from Salem, which has its own weird little scene. Basically what I’m trying to say is, I’m kind of on the outside but the scene is active and growing from my point of view. There are lots of great bands here, and a scene to support them. There’s community and camaraderie but not without a healthy dose of pacific northwestern passivity and isolation. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Recently you edited a single and a compilation that gathers part of all your works. I imagine that many people must be waiting for the successor of your most successful album. Do you plan to edit it at some point? If so, at what stage is the project at this time?</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Yes, Gilead Media has just released my newest EP “This Unabating Wakefulness” on vinyl, and I self-released a cassette version. It’s a 15 minute long single track, originally released as a digital bonus track as part of last year’s box set release, now physically realized. The compilation you speak of is a digital album now being distributed that compiles my works from 2013-2015; these songs were originally released as various EPs and splits but now are a full digital album to help new fans catch up on the back catalog. As for a new full-length album... it is on the horizon, but still a ways off. I’ve begun writing, but do not have a schedule or plan to which I’m adhering. It will happen when it happens.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span> <b><span style="font-family: inherit;">What is your main objective when composing your songs? Is there something vitally important that you want to express with your art, knowing that there are many people who will listen to it?</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is vitally important for me to be an honest, vulnerable, struggling human in my music. My music is about what’s true (especially in the conversation of theism versus atheism), what parts of that truth are hard to accept, and how that makes me feel and influences my life. It’s been so cool and humbling to see and speak with those whom my music resonates with. Connecting over that empathy for pain caused by paradigm shifts in understanding regarding religion and worldview is amazing and incredibly human and natural. It’s not why I make the music of Mizmor, for it will be made no matter what, but why I release it to the public and continue to do so.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span> <b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Is there an artist that you admire, with whom you would like to share the stage sometime?</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Anything Stephen O’Malley is a part of. That dude’s riffs and tones are responsible for so much.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span> <b><span style="font-family: inherit;">What would you say to someone who wants to perform extreme music, feeling fully influenced by your style? Is there any advice you would like to express?</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">When talking about extreme metal I’d say, if it ain’t from the heart, if you don’t feel like you simply have to make the music or you’ll explode, then don’t make it. If you do feel you’ll explode, then open up, be yourself, and let it out. But we have enough derivative, unremarkable music in this world and don’t need anymore. Extreme metal is most compelling when it comes from extreme circumstances. Play a different genre if you have different goals in mind than catharsis for healing from music.</span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></i> <i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></i> <i><span style="font-family: inherit;">A.L.N., thank you very much for agreeing to carry out this interview. I wish you all the best in your future projects. You were very kind, really. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">I send you a big greeting from me and from all the staff of Blessed Altar Zine.</span></i><br />
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Album: Todos Los Colores De La Oscuridad<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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Label: Independent/Odio Sonoro<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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Release date: March 30, 2018<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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Country: Spain<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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Format reviewed: CD-quality download<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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“Mugre” (Spanish for: grime, dirt, filth, muck, grease) is the word that defines the sludge/doom/stoner style of Voltaje Cadáver. A band formed in the working class city of Torrelavega, an important industrial and commercial hub in the province of Cantabria in northern Spain. The city was an important agricultural (famous weekly livestock fair) center in the Kingdom of Castile since medieval times, and it is perhaps better known for the over fifteen thousand years old prehistoric paintings found in the nearby Cave of Altamira. A place that was profoundly marked by the most current global economic downturn, from which is still struggling to recover.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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There is absolutely no surprise to find the parallels of this gray landscape, and it’s strives in the music of Voltaje Cadáver’s debut album, “Todos Los Colores De La Oscuridad” (All The Colors Of Darkness, in English). There are no apologies, no self-pity on display here. This band’s music is fully anchored in the crude realities. Musically and lyrically the desolation, discouragement and decline is vividly evident. Surroundings and elements that push creation to extremes. Agonizingly angry, pissed and wounded is Manu’s vocal delivery (mostly in the vein of Max Cavalera), supported by the hostile dual guitar assault courtesy of Óscar and Fidel, with bassist Luis adding respectable weight to the bottom end, all cemented in place by Panchi’s destructively assertive drumming. The in-your-face, speakers’ shredding production of the nine songs on the album, is the combined effort of Pedro Setien and Alex Pis at Drive Division Estudios (in Santander), and mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege, in Portland. In just over forty minutes of sheer brutality, Voltaje Cadáver, takes the listener to a somber and thoroughly overcasted place. The lead weighted lyrics remain fixated on social issues: scornful, mentally constipated and corrupted society, naivety of organized religion and greed. All the lyrics are intoned in the band’s native language: Spanish.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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The maturity of the musicians involved in the band is obvious on this album, despite for this being their debut release. Please read the band’s exclusive interview, conducted by my partner in crime, Count Vlad, <a href="https://blessedaltarzine.blogspot.com/2018/06/voltaje-cadaver-interview.html">here</a>. Nos gusta la mugre! Recommended. 7.5/10 <b>UHF</b><br />
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<span class="s1"><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Voltaje Cadáver is a five piece band from North Spain. Their music is carrying tons of gygawats power – heavy and blowing with a lot of heart and soul. At Blessed Altar Zine we have been much impressed by their debut album “Todos los colores de la oscuridad” which is out now (Please check the review for Blessed Altar Zine by my borther in arms UHF <a href="https://blessedaltarzine.blogspot.com/2018/06/voltaje-cadaver-todos-los-colores-de-la.html">here</a>), so we decided to invite the band for a short chat about everything that’s going on around them currently. Fidel (guitar) and Manu (voice) will be the ones sweating on our tough 1 million-dollar questions.</span></i></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- Great that you accepted my invitation to have you for an interview on the Zine! Please present the Voltaje Cadáver and the members to our readers and give us a little background about the band.</span></b></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijhZrqbKs5BR3xDENatQUimXV3_DBFBvZ8lud9emcTvOMx4GKOEOYe0wIWMw7Ax-v9Ts5ys087ldW-kG7w8klYBxyGkUGm4gYnC-w3EYTsyGT_2oxQKKmdaAScpvT93lbYO8xPMdOMTUc/s1600/band2018.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="661" data-original-width="992" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijhZrqbKs5BR3xDENatQUimXV3_DBFBvZ8lud9emcTvOMx4GKOEOYe0wIWMw7Ax-v9Ts5ys087ldW-kG7w8klYBxyGkUGm4gYnC-w3EYTsyGT_2oxQKKmdaAScpvT93lbYO8xPMdOMTUc/s320/band2018.jpg" width="320" /></a><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- Voltaje Cadáver are Luis (bass), Oscar (guitar), Fidel (guitar) , Panchi (drums) and Manu (vocals). We are a band from the industrial city of Torrelavega in the north of Spain. We formed the group with the idea of reflecting our love for intense and aggressive music from a dark point of view. From the start, we´ve been playing quite a few gigs with some bands we love musically (Monarch,Okkultokrati, Adrift, Señor no,..) however, it's in 2018 when we released our first album. So, here we are.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- Voltaje Cadáver? - your tunes are so electric that they leave cadavers? What about the name of the band?</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- Indeed, your music is dark and very heavy, and it is soaked with many nuances and influences. You call it mugre metal...</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- Let's say it's a mixture of personal and collective influences coming from many sources and with which we try to make something that sounds coherent and above all intense, more than relating ourselves to a specific tag.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- Right, so you love to experiment in search of the right intense, aggressive tone which moves you and has a soul?</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- Well, it's the typical post-industrial landscape you may find in different places across Europe. It's ugly, grey, but it also has a certain identity that shapes you a little and links you to it. In a way that, if someone hasn't grown up in a place like that, they may have difficulty in getting it. Yeap, so what we feed on these contradictions and tensions a little. In addition, being a relatively small place, there's big tradition and passion for the most aggressive music (punk, hc, metal, plus rock in general). All that has obviously had an impact on us since we were kids.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- Individually really diverse, regarding our collective taste, rock and metal with a certain degree of heaviness and aggressiveness. There are some influences of some old school death metal bands, of the NWOBHM, doom, sludge. There are also some punk and HC bands, even prog rock. Our very own mixtape could mix without problem Bolt Thrower with Judas Priest, Witchfinder General, Rush, Eyehategod, Candlemass, Trouble, Discharge, Bad Brains or Sodom, and of course Black Sabbath (all periods, all of them), just to give some examples.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- As a result of many years of collective work, with some changes in the group line-up, ups and downs and generally speaking ,it is a search of our own identity as a band. The final verdict about the outcome belongs to those who listen to the record because our perception is very subjective, it´s highly interfered by the whole experience of the journey. Regarding the content, it's the best or worst reflection of that search.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">-It's been a long process with lots of involuntary halts due to personal reasons. Right now,we see it as the closure of a period and the beginning of another in which we want to reflect more who we are at the moment.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Pedro Setién carried out the recording at his home studio. He's a friend of the band who got involved and worked really hard in the recording because he likes the group and he was motivated to work in the project . We are really thankful for the unselfish job he's performed. He's saved us a big amount of money. We are a broke band, you know hahaha.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The reamp and mix were carried out at Drive Division Studios by Alex Pis. He's a local producer and tech who likes vintage sound without any additives. Thanks to him the record sounds rawer and natural and not as processed as records nowadays.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Finally, we worked with Audiosiege, with Brad Boatright. He's done the master for some tight records of YOB, Integrity, High on Fire, Tau Cross...we admire his work as a musician and as a tech. He knew how to capture our essence and he got quite involved. He even told us he loved our record, nice guy!!</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- It's the language in which we usually express ourselves , so it's more natural for us than English. Therefore, it is easier to communicate what we want to say with all its nuances. Although it's frequent that bands of our same like record in English, we always knew we wanted to sing in our mother tongue.Though, we´ve never had any problems listening to local bands singing in German, French or Italian...just to give some examples. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- Some of us play in other projects such as Wet Cactus (Stoner Psych), Becerro Negro, Butchers Left (Metal) or D.M.A (Crossover) which are orientated to other type of music styles. We are quite eager musically, so it's likely that in the future we'll plan some new ones.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- We think the scene we follow and we are interested in does very well. There's a big number of bands doing very powerful and interesting stuff. Not only the most underground metal (doom, death, sludge..) but also HC Punk. There's a lot to discover around here and luckily, there are more and more bands that tour Europe and have international underground recognition.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- We live day to day, it isn't piece of cake with our lives and obligations. The first objective is to keep on pushing the band forward, keep on playing, recording and especially, feeling that we are a little closer to our musical expectations as a band. The band is a little like our very own therapy and our collective way to escape from tensions and the negative stuff that affect us. Rehearsing relaxingly, working on new tunes and having a beer together in the meantime it's already a success. From there onwards, everything is welcomed and celebrated. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- It's difficult to think about touring, we aren't youngsters anymore and we have jobs, families... The usual limitations. Even though, we´d like to play as much as possible, especially outside Spain. That's another of our dreams. If we are lucky, in the near future we'll try make it come true, even partially....for now, we are thinking about starting touring after the summer. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- We are 5 guys with different eating habits, it's too difficult to choose one dish, but the most common is the tortilla de patata, it safes much lives when you are on the road.</span></span><br />
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">- Muchísimas gracias para esta conversación! We’ll be looking closely for news and further steps by Voltaje Cadáver. Keep it heavy and wishing you much success with “Todos los colores de la oscuridad”!</span></b></span><br />
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Title: Entropic Disillusion</div>
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Release Date: April 23rd 2018</div>
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</span>"Entropic disillusion" begins with a chord that immediately drags us into a world of misery and desolation. The rottenness of daily life is shattered swiftly, taking every fiber of our being through an endless culvert. How could it be otherwise, again we are facing a launch from Oregon, a place that, little by little, is becoming the Finnish epicenter of the new millennium (If we take into account the number of Doom bands that are taking over the scene).</div>
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Srine of the Serpent is a relatively new band, with only one EP and a split edited before "Entropic ...", its first long-duration. What do we have in our hands? A collection of monoliths in tune with the old Death / Doom of the old school, corrosive, sharp and extremely slow and atmospheric.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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Undoubtedly, the most positive characteristic of the band is the tone and sound textures acquired during the agonizing course of these compositions. The guitars steal the show, showing implacability and insane density, placing themselves within the most crunchy and scandinavian Death spectrum. Imagine Entombed trying to play Worship songs.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Title: Aion Sitra Ahra</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: inherit;">The triangle. The geometric figure of three sides and three angles, which encloses, from time immemorial, powerful meanings. The perfect number. Symbol, in many cultures, of the triad "Mind, body and spirit”.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: inherit;">I believe that the logo of Adversvm, the solo project of a mysterious musician, of which the identity is not known, is really powerful, something formal, if you will, but owner of a powerful and undeniable symbolism, and I believe that the music contained in this work has similar characteristics.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: inherit;">"Aion Sitra Ahra" is an album that arrives at a just moment. Currently, the genre of doom </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">is very popular in many parts of the world, although, being very much embraced in more mainstream environments, there are still certain aspects of this that correspond to the most absolute underground, and I mean the Funeral Doom sub-genre, of course. With the exception of bands like Ahab or Bell Witch, there are still projects that, fused with the most desperate characters of the genre, they continue navigating through more experimental waters, adding a quota of madness and mysticism to their slow-burning alchemy.</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHRH2_3no4GQD5UrU6gB4Exuz4znZ-vKVIY9v5W6TOqTKEP1qRUFSyzs0Xfp6S0meksF7YAnwn4VVub5et2r3CMnJn2U2qYUML1C9XAG1BgozV3ymGDyFUpQbybWOhyphenhyphencD2E4i026784UI/s1600/068968.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHRH2_3no4GQD5UrU6gB4Exuz4znZ-vKVIY9v5W6TOqTKEP1qRUFSyzs0Xfp6S0meksF7YAnwn4VVub5et2r3CMnJn2U2qYUML1C9XAG1BgozV3ymGDyFUpQbybWOhyphenhyphencD2E4i026784UI/s400/068968.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Adversvm could be considered within this very particular category. The kind of band that takes more elements from the darkest and belligerent part of this respectable style. The influences of Thergothon are quite obvious, and welcome since there are not many Funeral Doom bands that can replicate the atmospheres of those huge pioneers, but there is a touch of atmospheres bordering on the psychedelic terrain, very typical of bands like Esoteric or Urna (from Italy). These passages unfold between thick layers of guitars and incredibly successful recording effects.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Being a one-man project, it shows the dedication and time used to make the songs. The study tools are used as one more instrument, achieving an enormous, enveloping sound, with a careful detail and detainment for each texture, specifically of the guitars, and their careful work of a selection of chords. That is another feature that caught my attention. The chord structures used are simple, but perfect for the style. We really appreciate the dynamism and diversity of tones for a genre that tends to delve into extremely simple and repetitive structures. I mean that "Aion Sitra ..." is also repetitive, like a good album of Funeral Doom should be, but it stands out in its willingness to want to take the genre one </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">step further, by dint of remarkable theoretical knowledge and good taste.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: inherit;">“Aion Sitra Ahra” is an excellent album of Funeral Doom that moves away from the clichés of the sub-genre (excessive durations, dramatism, and redundant ideas) and offers a fresh mix of experimentation, finally achieved, in tune with the most psychedelic titans. Adversvm makes his debut, very aware of his qualities and praising the possibilities of his purely underground environment. Very recommendable. 8.5/10 <b>Sergio</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="ES" style="color: #212121;"><b>Dylan, how are you? It's a pleasure to be doing this interview with you. Tell us, how do you start in this? Before Full of Hell did you have other bands?</b> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our guitarist Spencer started full of Hell. We had all been in bands before this but had never put out a real record or anything, so this was and is our first serious project. We simply wanted to start a band that played the exact kind of music we wanted to hear and we wanted to tour as much as possible.</span></div>
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We definitely don’t define ourselves as a PV band at all. We love the style and take influence from it but it was never a label we used. We try to be casual about the genre labeling though. We don’t care what label people put on us, especially because no matter what genre you’re tagged with there will be people angry that you’re being labeled as such. It doesn’t matter. We are a band.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It usually comes down to bands like The Endless Blockade, Gasp, Man is the Bastard/Noise, Swans, Napalm Death and bands of that style. Obviously, as years go by we bring new elements into the sound. It’s good to grow! <i><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>I think that, currently, Full of Hell is one of the most energetic bands of extreme music, playing live. It must be tremendously exhausting. How do you live with being on tour and having to interpret music in this way? What is the secret? </b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We don’t try to play any specific kind of way. We just react as we want to and play with passion. I don’t think we are that crazy in the big scheme of crazy bands, but it’s nice to hear that some think we are energetic at least.<i> </i></span></span></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The most rewarding thing is the 20-30 minutes each night that we are playing. It is the most fulfilling part of this and why we do it. A small period of bliss.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Trumpeting Ecstasy, simply because I feel like it’s the furthest recorded example of what we want to sound like and I am most proud of that album. <i><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>One of the great milestones of your career was having recorded with Merzbow. How did you meet him? </b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We met Balazs Pandi in NYC years ago, he plays drums with Masami live. We became fast friends and he suggested the idea to Masami, who was very interested in it. It was all very simple and organic. No pressure, no guidelines. He is an amazing person. <i><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It was difficult for us because it was new territory. We had big shoes to fill and weren’t sure what to expect. We are content with the end result though. </span><i style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="ES" style="color: #212121;">Buy earplugs and suck it up. Or go listen to folk music instead.<i> </i></span><span style="color: #212121;">(Lol)</span></span></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We just want to keep progressing and making records. We have a lot left to say. We are going to keep touring and doing just that. The new LP is almost done, so that’s the next thing we will be recording.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Dylan, thank you very much for your kindness. I hope you continue to have the success you deserve. I wish you all the best in life. I send you a big greeting.</b> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Release Date: April 23rd, 2018</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Back with a new full-length and their sixth album to date, along with some past splits, Eps and demos as well, </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Cardiac Arrest</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> are doing what they do best. Having discovered this band, years ago and lucky to see them live when they played in Canada a few years back, I originally heard out their past album </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">"Cadaverous Presence"</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> and have followed them since. The impact that album made, with its catchy, heavy riffing and reflecting on an early 1990’s influenced death metal style, had me instantly </span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwUkJ2vGofFFHBaHYFIV0SAqdtktZ_-tcz9QDKRpAdsXTEwwJ6KHllSEkrjqXmlu8WWUDgJ3mj9xrexU8QeDoy2KXkwFfS1HjnKXLO6qImj2up8XL1WMDOQT3lx-iq_X-w-IwaBggzUlIU/s1600/Cardiac+Arrest.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline; float: right; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwUkJ2vGofFFHBaHYFIV0SAqdtktZ_-tcz9QDKRpAdsXTEwwJ6KHllSEkrjqXmlu8WWUDgJ3mj9xrexU8QeDoy2KXkwFfS1HjnKXLO6qImj2up8XL1WMDOQT3lx-iq_X-w-IwaBggzUlIU/s320/Cardiac+Arrest.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> hooked! Now, after hearing this new release for 2018 <b>"A Parallel Dimension of Despair"</b>, it certainly brought back more of the past influences with elements of old school death metal and grindcore and topping it all off with a superior, beefy production to go with it all too! Continuing on with their heavy, horror themed, old school death metal traditions, each track after the other, just pummels and draws one in, with a combination hooks, groove and sometimes, all out fast-blasting parts, for total head banging madness. For example, the first track titled <b>"Immoral and Absurd"</b> begins in an introductory style, building up upon itself as the volume and intensity increases, until a drum roll hits and all instruments let loose, driving all into a classic mid-paced tempo of death metal rage. Track five <b>"When Murder is Justified</b>, is an example of hooks and some slower groove parts with its very catchy beginning and heavy chugging riffs, while monstrous vocals roar over top, solidifying this death metal beast. Overall, there is not one bad or off kind of song here. All the songs are well written and cover the elements of catchy, heavy riffing, while varying tempos occur within the songs for the most part through out. <br /><b>"A Parallel Dimension of Despair"</b> by <b>Cardiac Arrest</b> is their best one yet and keeps traditional, old school death metal on the map to say, this is how its done! 10/10 <b>Wolven Deadsoul</b></span><br />
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<br />Blessed Altar Zinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09939299746524469540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007121747391742984.post-83046194844720828722018-06-01T13:34:00.000+01:002018-06-01T13:34:46.267+01:00UADA - Cult Of A Dying Sun<style type="text/css">
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Band: UADA</div>
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Title: "Cult Of A Dying Sun"</div>
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Label: Eisenwald</div>
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Release Date: 25 May 2018</div>
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Country: USA</div>
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Format reviewed: FLAC</div>
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After the masterpiece debut “Devoid of Light” released in 2016, UADA (“haunted” from latin) put a rock solid base for something spectacular. That’s why the expectations about their following album were really high. Actually “Cult Of A Dying Sun” was expected with huge impatience by all the those who were already praised their previous effort.</div>
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And UADA didn’t disappoint us! Really, there is something magical in Oregon most recently and “Cult Of A Dying Sun” is a stunning record. So lively, with big soul and beating heart. Besides the amazing black metal riffs, the record includes some very melodic, let’s call them, not black meta riffs, which creates butterflies in the stomach. The intensive tempo doesn’t leave a second in calm, and the record goes from the beginning till the end in just a breath.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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And indeed, with 7 songs and total running time of 55 minutes “ Cult Of A Dying Sun” is a pure blast. It is absolutely inspired and absolutely inspiring. It carries the roots of the best melodic black metal acts from the middle of the 90s, but at the same time the band plays amazingly vivid own atmospheric and epic tunes. Of course there is a strong continuation in the line of the composing presented in "Devoid the light", but now everything sounds much more mature. It is the next step. The record sounds very contemporary, and for sure within 20 years it will be untouched again by the time. The songs seem long enough on first glimpse, but in reality they come and go, leaving absolute hunger to listen more and more of them. There is some pure hypnosis in all the spectacular melodies and all the variety of tempos. These are so distinctive and at the same time so sophomore, so complete. Atmospheric to the core, all the seven tracks bring that amazing magical feeling which only the music can deliver. I’m not going to dissect “The Purging Fire”, “Snakes & Vultures”, “Cult Of A Dying Sun”, “The Wanderer”, “Blood Sand Ash”, “Sphere (Imprisonment) and “Mirrors”. I can’t. They just must be heard, experienced, lived, felt. And again, and again.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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Along with few very strong releases in the previous couple of years, as well as so far in 2018, “Cult Of A Dying Sun” is a black metal record-example, a record which makes me believe that the genre hasn’t lost of its passion and still can bring the brightest flame in burning pyres under the majestic night skies, deep into the black woods. UADA have delivered another glorious gem; a record which will haunt you many days ahead.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It is among the AOTY contenders in the heaviest and darkest music for 2018. 10/10 <b>Count Vlad</b></div>
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<a href="https://uada.bandcamp.com/">Bandcamp</a> </div>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/UADA-557297117740779">Facebook</a> </div>
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<a href="https://www.instagram.com/uada_official/">Instagram</a> </div>
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<b>Label</b></div>
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<a href="https://www.eisenton.de/">Website</a><b> </b></div>
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<a href="http://eisenwald.bandcamp.com/">Bandcamp</a><b> </b></div>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/Eisenwaldofficial">Facebook</a><b> </b></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/Eisenwaldofficial">YouTube</a><b> </b></div>
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<a href="https://soundcloud.com/eisenwald">Soundcloud</a><b> </b></div>
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10/10 Immortal Classic</div>
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**Please support the underground, it is vital to the future of our genre</div>
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<br />Count Vladhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14321137290447095120noreply@blogger.com