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This review will
be on the short side, I imagine. I mean do not get me wrong, I love
gore grind as much as the next deviant. But there are just not a
whole lot of dynamics, time changes, nuances etc… that lends the
genre to in depth description. One things is sure, Embryonic
Crytopathia are one sick and extremely manic band. For me “Uterine…”
immediately dredges up comparables such as early Carcass, old
Cryptopsy (but less dynamic) with a juicy sprinkle or splatter if
you like of the mighty Gut on the mix. A real relentless chugging
attack of flying riffs and dismembered drum runs. Whatever movie,
those first couple of intros are from, sounds awful twisted and just
campy as hell. I will have to make it a point to try to find and
watch that film. Recommended, if gore grind, is your thing.
– Dale
www.myspace.com/embryoniccryptopathia
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Coming at us
like a bat out of hell or rather a band out of Illinois is Exalted.
First thing that hits me is the recording. I really like it, it is
more than clear enough but definitely gives me that early nineties
feeling and suits the maelstrom just fine. The album starts off and
I feel creeping darkness that sends a freezing plague through the
veins of any devout black metal junky. At times “We are The Grim
Throng” resembles a mixing of tracks from “Transylvanian Hunger” and
“Panzerfaust”. It may not be as good as those classic Darkthrone
albums but it is a good album on its own. There is even some really
rocking guitar injected from time to time ala Celtic Frost. It
almost seems as if it should not fit the whole musical scheme but
somehow it just does. If you can not get enough of that early 90s
black metal and classic Hellhammer / Frost vibe then you might want
to pick this one up. –
Dale
www.battlekommand.com exaltedhail@yahoo.com
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I was in touch
with this band 10 years ago, yes you read that right, a fucking
decade ago, geez I am an old koot. I was in quite good touch with
them, the guitarist took out an advert in issue 2! As I recall he
never did paid me for it either, yet the man who ran Wild Rags that
everyone accused of shady took out a full page and paid me more up
front than I had ask for. Yes, well back in those gray sundry days
of yore, Fall of The Leafe, played an evil brand of epic black metal
band, raw yet thoughtful. Fast forward to modern day, these Finnish
blokes are still kicking. Are they still black metal? Fuck no, they
are not even melodic death metal at this point. No sir, now they are
commercial gothic rock with a homo erotic atmosphere. They say they
are old goth mixed with grunge? What the fuck? I do not hear grunge,
though the singer sounds like he is trying to be a hunky version of
the Pearl Jam singer, so maybe that is it? He Leafers, want to buy
back your demo so no one finds out what you used to be? Total Crap.
– Dale
www.firebox.fi www.falloftheleafe.com |
Funebrarum
– I am unsure if I have mentioned it lately. But Funebrarum are one
of my fave bands. So it should surprise no one that the 5 tracks
here have done nothing but blow me away! You must hear this to
believe it, simple words do not suffice. Funebrarum for the
uninitiated play absolutely crushing old school death metal with a
dirgy doom undertone. For a general reference point to their sound
and style, think of the old works by bands like Grave, Autopsy,
Repulsion, Nihilist… You know basically the stuff I worship. What a
brutalizing and suffocating atmosphere to this music – you will feel
it and know what I mean. It hits covers you in an avalanche. There
are two amazing cover tracks on here of Abhorrences “Caught In A
Vortex” + Grave’s “Into The Grave”. The Grave cover makes me want to
break shit and circle around an invisible pit in my living room! I
mean seriously I have not played this much air guitar or head banged
this mucking fucking in ages.
Interment
– Are really a great band to follow Funebrarum. They are a little
more thrashy and not doomy like Fune but are definitely cut from the
same cloth as the band they share this disc with. Think Autopsy on
speed mixed with heavy doses of Carnage and early Entombed. These
guys are fast and intense. The drummer Kennet Englund is a real
demon on the kit and asserts himself into sound quite prominently.
The riffing from Interment is just really heavy and catchy but in an
oh-so-brutal way. This made me an instant fan of Interment. This
release is just great and what an amazing split. This release is an
absolute must have it. – Dale
www.conquerorofthorns.com www.funebrarum.com
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If you want the
cliff notes version this is basically the French version of
Halloween mixed with Gamma Ray. I hate to over paint them with that
brush. Yet the fact of the matter is they wear their influences on
their sleeve to the point it is hard to say they have much of a
sound of their own. Coupled with the fact they play a style where
you kind of need some sort of unique identity to stick out from the
crowd. It is not like they are death metal and just make sure they
are brutal to make up for the fact they are unoriginal. By deduction
I do suppose the next question would be is it well done at least?
For my liking it is a touch too clean, synth heavy and over produced
but on the whole it is well done, yes. Some engaging riffs and sweet
guitar leads. Vocalist Ben Sotto just bleeds Halloween vocals but he
sounds excellent doing so, hitting all kinds ranges and high
registers along the way. That is something Heavenly really has going
for them, in this genre you need to have a strong vocalist and they
have that part covered. If you are a fanatic of this style and can
never get enough then by all means pick this up but otherwise just
break out your “Keeper…” records instead. – Dale |
This album is
nearly 2 years old and unfortunately, for the band the label, which
released it is now defunct. Yet the band must live on and keep
fighting. Hellacaust is doing just that and sent “Inevitable
Dementia” in for review to keep their name out there, while they
brew some new material. Hellacaust residing often quiet metal east
coast of Canada. They play a really interesting mix of black, death
and thrash metal. I can hear influences from everything from early
Mayhem & Immortal to Exhumed, Angelcorpse & Napalm Death to Kreator,
Slayer and Megadeth. One large melting pot but they know how to
smelt it all together into a solid and cohesive whole which is not
an easy feat by any means. I think we have all heard a band or ten
who attempted this sort thing, only to fall flat on their collective
faces. Hellacaust keep it evil sounding but never afraid to rumble
forward with some sick militaristic head banging sections in most
songs, not to mention some smoking guitar solos brief but regular
appearances. The vocals alternate between death metal bellows and
black metal rasps and are well done. This is a flat out a very good
album. I do not see Hellacaust being label-less for very long. –
Dale
http://welcome.to/hellacaust
http://www.myspace.com/hellacaust
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I possess
nothing but respect for Katon W. De Pena and Hirax. They continue to
just rage after all of these years. I mean to stick to your roots,
for literally decades, is amazing and a mean feat all of its own.
What we have here is a mini-album. I am sure this is just a stop-gap
to keep the die hards from dying of thirst until the next full
length brew comes out. So yes “Chaos and Brutality” is short but
still a fine piece of work and worth owning. With the 4 tracks here
Hirax explode out of the gates right off the first note and do not
let up with their face ripping thrash attack until the disc stops
spinning. Hirax pack punch after punch of fast headbanging riffs
rhythms backed with De Pena’s wails sounding off like a siren of
successive growls. ARGH! Once it is over though you have to hit the
repeat button as this is just too short to hear just once. We need a
new full album now and the sooner the better.
– Dale
www.selfmadegod.com www.hirax.org
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Hirudinea
– Are one frenetic death metal band. On these 4 tracks they employ a
set of dual vocals. The main set of pipes, sort of remind me to the
vox on the “Clandestine” album. The other set of vocals are harder
to pinpoint and are more frantic, angst filled volleys that remind
me a bit of old Ministry, of all things. I do not hear a lot of
bands playing this style lately. That is to Hirudinea’s benefit.
Watchmaker
– The Boston, Mass clusterfuck. If you are searching for some catchy
head bang riffs, actual song structuring and depth. Then look
somewhere else. It is no surprise, keeping with these comments that
Watchmaker used to have an Anal Cunt member. Because the 7 tracks on
this split are nothing short of a chaotic wall of thrashing white
noise. Their only purpose seems to be to play as fast and in as in
your face as they can, from a dead run, start to finish. They
destroy everything in their path. It is actually pretty good stuff
but you really have to be in the right mood for it, if you know what
I mean?
– Dale
www.bestialonslaught.com |
My deep and
lasting obsession with Horna began somewhere around the beginning of
1997. I received their first masterpiece of a record “Hiidentorni”
from their then label Solistitium records out Germany. Incidentally
this lead to an interview I did with them way back in issue # 2 of
Canadian Assault (I have put in a request for a new interview in
this issue, no word whether it is happening or not, as of yet). It
was during this period, the second wave after the rise of Darkthrone,
Immortal, Burzum etc… came to be and they have stood the test of
time as the best black metal band from this mid-90s era. This band
has never let me down, releasing album after album, seven inches, LP
and split vinyls at an alarming rate and each and every release has
been a quality work, a new splash of darkness across the UG scene.
Over the years the horde have managed to evolve and devolve in
interesting ways but never betraying their roots, never scarring
their devoted followers and never having to look themselves in the
mirror with anything but pride and dignity. They may make your head
bang with some devilish catchy riffs but they shall never stray far
from the epic melancholy longing and cold, evil sorrow that is the
foundation of their profound heartless cruelty. A very select few, a
diabolic elite, if you will, have the ability to create so many
emotions within the black metal realm, whilst relying upon on
traditional instrumentation. That includes Horna, they have the
uncanny ability to channel simultaneously through their music
emotions such as disgust, hate, sorrow, melancholy, introspection,
elation, adrenalized odium all while sweeping you away on a
journey. A vast journey outside of this pathetic existence, an epic
walk through fields of pain blanketed by black night. Horna have
always had some of the sickest rasps in black metal bar none and
nothing has changed in this respect with “Envaatnags…”, despite
member changes, the cold heart of Horna, Mr. Shatraug lives on, in
the infamous black metal conjurer. Almost a decade later and Horna
continues to haunt me! – Dale
www.woodcutrecords.com
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Okay, I have had
fucking enough...I won't even leave an address here. Lord Belial
does what millions of other bands are doing at this time. Yes,
especially the BM wanna-be scene; Melody, weak vocals...thus goddamn
lullabies. It is time that we at Canadian Assault and the many of
readers took a-stand and like these Swede's (who else?) jack knifed
and ended this endless torrent of generic shit pumped by labels that
ought not exist for releasing such factory bionoid crap! There is
nothing to say about this shit here but the message that only True
Underground Warriors need to express, and I ain't afraid of this
Amon Amarth turned BM turd and the 3,000,000,000 others into by
these simple steps.1. Melt Sweden and turn it into rock. 2. Start
WWIII with Scandinavia. 3. Boycott all regenerated and
bio-recyclable fodder as this anywhere but earth and outer space (I
think a crime against poisoning alien-life with this shit is
unforgivable!), so send it to the jews because they fucked
everything else in Humanity up. 4. Never, and I mean ever sell it
and contaminate the innocent. 5. Destroy all record labels,
my-spaces and poser 'zines (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!), or alas just
bust it over your knee and toss it in the Autopsy Kitchen's hottest
ovens as I'm truly goddamn fed the fuck up with this poser regime,
period. Lock and load Dale and Wilhelm and let's rid of all this
poser scum commercialism, what do 'ya say Warriors? I'm glad that my
fiancee Kim from the mighty Australia exists, else I'd consider
being a suicide bomber unto all false wanna-be Black Metal -
Clayton |
An Italian
“Occult black metal” is what this one man band bills itself as. The
7 tracks, which include 4 songs, 3 intros that were done in ’06 but
apparently just now seeing label release, from what I can gather. I
am rather hoping this release was nothing more than an early,
beginners demo tape. As Manth to be blunt are all kinds of sloppy
with a liberal does of down right horrible. Manth try to play equal
parts of extreme black metal ala Profanatica / Havohej and heavy
synth atmospheric ala a dying cat that swallowed a mini korg
keyboard. I mean what an mess we have on our hands here. The metal
half, is poor to barely passable but possess no real flow, feeling
or direction to the song. The atmospheric half, sounds like a child
who got a synthesizer for christmas. The two halves are merely
smashed together in exceptionally amateurish fashion. I am left
scratching my head as to why a label would want to release this?
– Dale
www.kampf.ws
kampfrec@go2.pl
info@kampf.ws
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"Well, that
ain't no virgin wool now!"...oopp's! Memories y'know, but that one
particularly reminds me of a band blazing in my ear's when I was
young, drunk and growing the fucking horns; and that band was Marduk.
the producer behind them and pen-pal Dan Swano (Just when Black Mark
was interested in Edge Of Sanity) introduced me to them, just when
'Dark Endless' was being wrote. I wrote across the pond in 1991 with
a reply by the earlier part of 1992.Soon-after(a year), my close
Brother, fan, and Tape trading God Dale Roy sent me a killer dub of
'Those of the Unlight'. In those days Marduk was A Swedish force to
be reckoned with alongside the truest Nordic bands. So,alas, Regain
had the grapefruits to reissue these gems, with all my tapes worn by
time and dust. Dark Endless stands alone in it's glory, with 5 old
school sounding as bootleg's sounded 1991 live tracks, the last
being a cover Death's 'Evil Dead' (off kilter) and dissapoint's me.
Indeed 'Still Fucking Dead', "The Sun Turns Black As Night", and
blacker than nighter's 'The Funeral Seemed To Be Endless' and 'Holy
Inquisition' demonizes me as it did then, a tape sampler Swano sent
me featured a goddamned un-fuckable cover of Venom's 'Hellchild'
ever recorded was not here as a bonus track that Regain could of
done so if the effort was there. 'Those of the Unlight' revel's as
it did when Osmose were the king's of everything Black, the re-issue
visual stun;s me with a great 3 song performance from 1993,as
'Wolves II' off the mighty 'Opus Nocturne' still rip's me a new
asshole. Yet as the masterpiece it is, some diabolic force keep's me
more with the first two albums. Again, your not true in the Black
Metal sense if you don't seek these treasure's out now or i'll be
more than obliged to plant a well-timed boot to thee groin and have
your jewel's planted through yer fucking skull and call you my
Bitch! Afterall, my days of harassing farm animals are like Marduk
along with my other fondest memories. - Clayton
www.regainrecords.com
/ www.marduk.nu
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The opening
movie sample on “Zombie Terror”, track number two for those keeping
score at home, of gut munching and that beyond awesome, high pitched
scream right out of the 80’s had me hooked like a fish. Do they have
quality music to back the window dressing? Oh Lucifer I invoke thee,
the dark prince raises a spiked hoof and proclaims “God be cursed,
Mephisto knows how make me headbang!” Speaking of Satan, there is
very little doubt Mephisto musically worship at the black magic
altar of Venom!! Hell, they even wear the influence on their sleeves
by closing with the richly titled inside nudge “Again At War With
Satan [Introduction]”, it is a short brutal little ditty
incorporating the song title in the lyrics and a nice little
“Teachers Pet” guitar run, among others, for nostalgic value. I only
hope I am not making Mephisto out to be some kind of un-serious band
because they make stone cold sober black metal of the thrash ‘n
death variety. These Italians do have a knack for writing that old
loose style, most of these plastic (i.e. – Pro Tool cheatin’) bands
would shake their head and call it sloppy, but no this is the way
real bands play, this is the way metal is supposed to be fucking
played, ‘Metal of Death’ indeed. The drums are so “Welcome To Hell /
Black Metal” sounding it almost hurts and other influences, speaking
in a much more general arena would be Sodom, Bulldozer and Slaughter
swim through my brain. The vocals sound so familiar as well but I
will damned if I can remember who, the closest I can seem to come is
Hellhammer with early Bathory with a dash of Cronos and something
else I just cannot put my finger upon. How does Bestial Burst keep
finding these maniac bands?! I must confess this album has an
atmosphere and feeling to it that I have not felt in a new band in
many years. Buy this now or I might interview and then you will be
sorry you waited later. – Dale
www.metalofdeath.com http://bestialburst.blackmetal.fi
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Muerte Villa
are, a Texas based, death metal band. The entire concept and lyrical
content deal with and promote the ideals of the Mexican Nationalist
agenda. As you may have already guessed all lyrics are sang or
rather growled in Spanish. Before you begin to scratch your head,
there is no need to get worked up you death purists, as there is no
Mariachi music or any traditional Mexican instruments like trumpets
or maracas incorporated into “La Conquista”. No, it is traditional,
straight forward, non-technical American style death metal. So for
better or worse, the music does not support or directly compliment
the message and/or concept. The production is pretty bass heavy and
kind of low (you will have to crank it up). “La Conquista” presents
some solid and enjoyable death metal but at the end of the day,
nothing really stands out for me.
– Dale
www.negativityrecords.com
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Metal in the old
days was about Women, leather and Hell, and the bigger the hooter's
that the yuppie class we stole from made us even more METAL! Okay,
fuck this noise literally into the trash! At least the debut 'Blood
And Vomit' had it's moments in old-school cuntutating, two handfuls
of ass and one pissflap, beef-curtain big-titted whore gang-banging
moments; see 'Sluts of Hell' in early impaled Nazarene/Beherit
(Remember 'The Gate Of Nanna' was covered there) all in the vein
(uh-huh Baby) "Whore/Witch, swallow my cum. Slut, Suck me Dry, Cunt,
choke n Die) in true blasphemic Black Metal, and if you spit I'll
fucking bloody you! However the Fire-Blood-Honoor-Death is amiss and
dissipated in the name of all but what is metal to us men. As in
'Transsexual Ubderwarves' in true homosexual (Faggot suits me!)in
true Homosexual "Primitive Norwegian Narrow-Minded Elite Black
Metal!": Nay, when I see your ass and balls doggy style behind this
uncensored CD. Hail to all in Heavy Fucking Metal because we conquer
Pussy, right? We fucking will die for our Babes, that is our creed,
are you METAL enough? Then give me all the fuckin' A's you can!!!
YEAH!!!! Thus, hey (When I say hey it's spooky, ask Dale) you
shit-weighing in a 'Zine Carpathian cunt, as one listen to 'Dinisadanasjeveldrykaar!'
or rectum produndand being man just ain’t metal. Sure old-school at
times laces this digi-pak yet in comic spoof kills it dead the next
second. Seriously, this is a re-make of a fag-fare that would make
the middle-east rejoice in tea and sodomy when there ought to be
plenty of T&A/Pussy erecting finger fucking violation mounting us BM
gods behind them masterbateror booklet filled up in porn yet filled
with just non-metal shit-ass gag natte fag photo's and some other
faggot. A Metal bro wants to see the fist-fucked (single or double)
anal tortured pussies like I do in my discs as being METAL is BEING
MAN while seeing that Carpathian Forest (Nattefag's other band)
played live in woman's guanch I shit you not and has me thinking
that Natte is none short of a faggot-fuck in the many metal names of
all we truly are lest Dale has converted? Ha-I don't fucking think
so! Because us REAL METALHEADS pulverize and die hard the 4
dimensional then 6 red gates of warm fuzzy pussy faster than popcorn
machines on overdrive! Natter here (Oh, and 'Goatworship' is not the
Blasphemy 1987 / Beherit 1990 cover, it is simply retarded), but
what a fukking waste or poser fodder of space this is as so many
sadly are when proclaiming the art of true BM; If Stallagh did a
last album I am sad Natte was not hacked into pieces in it as a
bonus track-Awwww, did I offend a gay black metaller out there? My
answer is: FUCK OFF AND DIE AS I HUNT YOU DOWN IN THE WOODS IN THE
FOGGED NIGHT I WRITE THIS!!! You Fucking Faggot Cluster fuck!!! You
want a Nattefrost album to stick your sick slick dick into? Buy the
great 'Blood & Vomit', Yet this one you can shove up your ass Natte
and you likely have with grace between the bread and butter. Word
around the campfire is the next Nattefrost album will be inducing
forest sounds and nature shit meaning well, fuck me a Quorthon!
- Clayton
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