RITUALIZATION (France) – The abduction mass
Demo tape 2009 – Zombie Ritual Tapes
5 tracks
Rated: 6/10
This kind of stuff couldn't have been released by a French label except a very underground one like NH, but which label would release a demo tape inthere in our death metal supporting country? In a demo tape way, without the great sound from Denmark or Poland?
Blood Harvest did (in fact Zombie Ritual Tapes) and released this demo probably seduced by the evil death metal sound of RITUALIZATION. The death practiced here is in the fast and savage way, helped (or not) by the chaotic sound, reminding the most impious band, some specialists would even mention black/death metal, and they wouldn't be completely wrong. The early works of MORBID ANGEL , ANGEL CORPSE and KRISIUN can be a starting point but that's certainly more into the aussie burning ground that you can detect influences by ABOMINATOR or DESKRUTOR (especially for the drums style). The whole demo is a fire rain of murderous and fast riffs, drums machine gunning and bestial eructations against the way of christ. Some slowdowns appears here and there, and really create evil moods but they are too few according to me.
Contact: Zombie Ritual Tapes – BOX 7092 – 20042 MALMO – SWEDEN
info@bloodharvest.se http://www.bloodharvest.se/
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TRIBULATION the horror Review
TRIBULATION (Sweden) – The horrorCD 2008 – Pulverised Records
9 tracks - 32'47
Rated: 7/10
TRIBULATION has been spreading disease for some years now, and here is their first album. Another spawn of the Swedish death metal mafia. These last years many bands appear to keep the cult of death remaining. One must admit that most of these new bands know decently how to create unholy and graveyardssmelling atmospheres. TRIBULATION is among them with their « The horror » LP who definitely got the right name as the album bathes in sheer darkness and horror. If you would mention ENTOMBED or DISMEMBER as fuel of filth creation, you better think of DEATH BREATH and especially the incredible REPUGNANT as obvious lethal checkpoint. The way they used the reverberized vocals and thrashy riffing immediately reminds REPUGNANT. TRIBULATION didn't reach the same horrific atmosphere REPUGNANT created on their « Epitome of darkness », but if you dig that record, TRIBULATION is the right morgue to visit.
On the other hand, TRIBULATION uses parcimonious keyboards to create an horror-filled mood or some dissonant arpeggios (close to some black metal riffs sometimes). Some melodies are displayed but more in a gloomy lead guitars way, close to some heavy metal à la KING DIAMOND.
A good debut album, sometimes I feel the band is able to make something more personal to be something more than an additional new « old school » death metal band.
http://www.myspace.com/soultribulation
EMMOS Vol.1 & Vol.2 Reviews
EMMOS (Fr) – Vol.1 Emmos Kratos & Vol.2 The meaning of death
Demo CD 2009 – Self released
12 tracks - 53'04/ 7 tracks - 39'09
Rated: 3/10 - 5/10
So much material to review at a time, Jeff wants me dead!! This one man project with two CD is a gathering of Jeff's multiple musical tastes. EMMOS is a crossover of thrash/black and various raw metallic remnants. This lack of unity is the main problem with so much stuff compiled. I don't know where Jeff wants to go, probably he needs to create all this music in a cathartic goal but I must say I hardly get into his stuff. Musically and rhythmically speaking that's ok eventhough when he plays some leads or solos I can't prevent to grimace as it doesn't sound good to my ears. Vocally he also used a wide panel between black metal screams, clear vocals, crossover singing, more guttural ones, and once again it's sometimes a matter of tastes to bear them all. Think about some old SLAYER mixed with DARKTHRONE, VENOM, THE EXPLOITED and many hangovers. The use of drum machine isn't scandalous as it's back mixed so you don't really care about it while listening.
Vol. 2 follows the same path of multiple influences with a try in heavy metal voice. The thrash influence is stronger here (SLAYER « South... » and « Season... ») and one riff on « Fighting each other » seemed to be taken from « Silent scream ». To end on a positive note, I particularily enjoyed the last track, a long doom/thrash instrumental with clear-sounding guitars, not bad at all except some lead guitars that suck but that's demo stuff after all. I think it would have been better to keep the best track to release a single demo instead of all this stuff for the sake of releasing 19 tracks. Half of them could have been sufficient.
Contact: jeffboss07@hotmail.com
http://www.myspace.com/jeffboss
Demo CD 2009 – Self released
12 tracks - 53'04/ 7 tracks - 39'09
Rated: 3/10 - 5/10
So much material to review at a time, Jeff wants me dead!! This one man project with two CD is a gathering of Jeff's multiple musical tastes. EMMOS is a crossover of thrash/black and various raw metallic remnants. This lack of unity is the main problem with so much stuff compiled. I don't know where Jeff wants to go, probably he needs to create all this music in a cathartic goal but I must say I hardly get into his stuff. Musically and rhythmically speaking that's ok eventhough when he plays some leads or solos I can't prevent to grimace as it doesn't sound good to my ears. Vocally he also used a wide panel between black metal screams, clear vocals, crossover singing, more guttural ones, and once again it's sometimes a matter of tastes to bear them all. Think about some old SLAYER mixed with DARKTHRONE, VENOM, THE EXPLOITED and many hangovers. The use of drum machine isn't scandalous as it's back mixed so you don't really care about it while listening.
Vol. 2 follows the same path of multiple influences with a try in heavy metal voice. The thrash influence is stronger here (SLAYER « South... » and « Season... ») and one riff on « Fighting each other » seemed to be taken from « Silent scream ». To end on a positive note, I particularily enjoyed the last track, a long doom/thrash instrumental with clear-sounding guitars, not bad at all except some lead guitars that suck but that's demo stuff after all. I think it would have been better to keep the best track to release a single demo instead of all this stuff for the sake of releasing 19 tracks. Half of them could have been sufficient.
Contact: jeffboss07@hotmail.com
http://www.myspace.com/jeffboss
VASAELETH demo 2009 Review
VASAELETH (US) – Demo MMIXPromo 2009 – Self released
2 tracks – 7'22
Rated: 6/10
It's always good to discover a new band like VASAELETH who plays some traditional obscure death metal. Ultra low guttural vocals and low tuned hellsounding guitar, you can bet they abused of their INCANTATION and AUTOPSY records. The drums are buried under vocals and guitars but it enforces the chaotic and evil intents. They know how to create darkening moods by the use of simple riffs and heavy parts. These two tracks are repressed on an EP on Blood Harvest with an additional track, so you're advised to get it in you're into any kind of dark death metal. They can remind FATHER BEFOULED but without the artificial harmonic use. Promising stuff, an album shall be out while you're reading this.
Contact: vasaelethdeathkult@hotmail.com
http://www.myspace.com/vasaeleth
DEATH HEAVEN Viral apocalypse Review
DEATH HEAVEN (Italy) – Viral apocalypseCD 2007 – Punishment 18 Records
11 tracks - 72'01
Rated: 8/10
I reviewed a three-promo-track on PEZ#4, and later BRN sent me a promo of the full album. I had a positive opinion back then and listening to the whole album I must say I'm still impressed by these guys' skills (and that's why you can read a cool intie elsewhere in these pages!).
But one must know about DEATH HEAVEN that this band plays modern, technical and brutal death metal and that they are not afraid to experiment and give diversity to their music.
The intro itself can give you a chill with the female vocals (reminding OBSCENITY on the « Third Chapter ») but as the following track can prove, this is really death metal inside, ahah!!
The album is more than one hour long, so you will need several listenings to absorb and get fully infected by this viral load of death metal. If you like complex death metal with brutal parts and some nice atmospheres, you will find some worthy substance in there. Hard to give you a perfect description but think about a meeting between DEATH (« the sound of perseverance » for the technical aspect), NEURAXIS and CRYPTOPSY (for the modern and brutal aspect), OPETH (for the use of acoustic parts), NILE (for creating similar atmospheres, especially on the track « Sacrificial ritual of the Ugarit dead ») and many more depending on your tastes...but really DEATH HEAVEN is worth to be check out. Surely sometimes you felt oppressed by so many things at a time and the tracks' length, but the slower and more atmospheric parts really create majestic and mind catching moments. DEATH HEAVEN shows that it's still possible to create interesting and solid death metal without bastardizing it with wimpy elements.
Info: http://www.punishment18records.com/
http://www.myspace.com/deathheavenofficial
SANGUINEOUS demo 2009 Review
SANGUINEOUS (Australia) – Expurgating life from earthDemo tape 2009 – Self released
4 tracks – 18'54
Rated: 6/10
Featured in my previous issue, SANGUINEOUS unleashed this second demo tape release. The band doesn't calm down and gets higher in intensity and extremism. SANGUINEOUS is not the typical death metal band, it's more a studio project or let's say an laboratory experiment, a sick creature that escaped its cage, a monstrous metallic representation. SANGUINEOUS plays ultrafast dark brutal death metal, a kind of MORTICIAN meets INCANTATION under crack. The high speed reminds me sick shit like MENTAL HORROR or the polish MASTABAH. The guitar sound is far better than on the previous MCD, and the drum machine still sounds as a drum machine. The almost incessant pounding may be the main reproach concerning this stuff, nevertheless SANGUINEOUS still kept their morbid and brutal mood, cool guitar solos and the low guttural vocals. I just miss some slow and heavier parts one could find on the EP that made good alternances between fast parts and slower ones like the last track « Pious souls captured by oblivion ».
Contact: Tony ABOU NADER – PO BOX 436 – Coburg – Victoria 3058 – AUSTRALIA
sanguineousdeath@yahoo.com
http://www.sanguineousdeath.com/
DISFORTERROR Impalement and holocaust stench Review
DISFORTERROR (Brazil) - Impalement and holocaust stench
MCD 2008 – Nuclear War Now!
7 tracks - 21'59
Rated: 3/10
I may have a tape or two of DISFORTERROR, hidden somewhere beneath an amount of neverheard stuff, because I don't remember anything about them. So this MCD is a second chance to discover them again (luckily or not). DISFORTERROR isn't into the fast death metal stream one could expect from a Brazialian band. DISFORTERROR chose a more bestial and harsh death metal when tightness and high-defined sound is an utopy. Think about a sick mixture of BLASPHEMY and SADISTIK EXEKUTION. This vomit-filled maelstrom spares no one: if you like chaotic and hateful extreme metal, you'll probably find an interest in DISFORTERROR, on the contrary if you're looking for something with coherence and respectful from the musical theory you read the wrong review.
Beside this, even if the infernal rage and hatred if the main point here, the lack of catchy moments cannot prevent the boredom due to the abuse of too repetitive and common riffs. This could give excitement to some 20-year-old « 666 kult skullkrushing » wannabees, personally this release bores me. The guys play fast, they scream, shout at the devil, fuck Jesus in the ass, but nothing remains except the certitude the CD will remain in his case for a long time.
http://www.myspace.com/666dft
MCD 2008 – Nuclear War Now!
7 tracks - 21'59
Rated: 3/10
I may have a tape or two of DISFORTERROR, hidden somewhere beneath an amount of neverheard stuff, because I don't remember anything about them. So this MCD is a second chance to discover them again (luckily or not). DISFORTERROR isn't into the fast death metal stream one could expect from a Brazialian band. DISFORTERROR chose a more bestial and harsh death metal when tightness and high-defined sound is an utopy. Think about a sick mixture of BLASPHEMY and SADISTIK EXEKUTION. This vomit-filled maelstrom spares no one: if you like chaotic and hateful extreme metal, you'll probably find an interest in DISFORTERROR, on the contrary if you're looking for something with coherence and respectful from the musical theory you read the wrong review.
Beside this, even if the infernal rage and hatred if the main point here, the lack of catchy moments cannot prevent the boredom due to the abuse of too repetitive and common riffs. This could give excitement to some 20-year-old « 666 kult skullkrushing » wannabees, personally this release bores me. The guys play fast, they scream, shout at the devil, fuck Jesus in the ass, but nothing remains except the certitude the CD will remain in his case for a long time.
http://www.myspace.com/666dft
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