Yes! Killer
grindcore with heavy death metal influence played with immense energy
and conviction - in short it will tear you apart! The compos are to the
point sick, heavy, and brutally catchy with super disgusting and
tortured vomitous vox. All death/grind fanatics feast your ears on this
14 track ball of phlemetic mayhem!
Morbid Records,
Postfach 3, 03114 Drebkau, GERMANY
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Well, if you read
issue # 1 or 2, you know how much I love this band on their early
material. My only knock on their amazing power/heavy metal style is that
they sounded too much like their heroes and not possessing an identity
you could call Hammerfall. Well they have taken a step towards that with
this mighty classic slab “Legacy Of Kings”. Joacim Cans has stepped up
his performance further putting in a superlative, first-rate vocal
display. He makes it seem so easy and effortless as he goes right
through all the ranges with silky finesse. Time honored traditional
metal with class the makes my inner flame rise! Hammerfall have still
not reached their peak potential but they are perilously close with this
album.
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More metal,
sludge-core from the fine people at Rhetoric. Hellchild are cool crusty
metal with bludgeoning riffs, clear/growly vocals. This band is tops in
my books for doing the dirtiest Venom cover of “Witching Hour” ever -
Yeah bitch!! I reviewed Kilara last issue and here we have more of the
same grungy, Sabbathy metal with a hardcore flavor. These new tracks are
a bit more catchy in a laid-back sorta way - Rockin’ stuff. $8US/$12
World for the vinyl version & $10 US/$12 World for the CD.
Rhetoric Records,
P.O. Box 82, Madison, WI. 53701, USA
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This is an
interesting find for Red Stream. With a choice production backing them,
Himinbjorg present some of the best emotional and blazing metal in
recent memory! Similar in sound to acts like (early) Ulver, Immortal,
Dark Funeral, and a bit of Marduk. They posses a flair for creating
brooding yet uplifting atmospheres of sound that will soon release
itself from your grey matter. There are acoustics and keys in spots but
are utilized in such a way not to force themselves ahead of the
structure or beyond the materials general intent. I can fully recommend
this to fans of brutal atmospheric black metal that will inspire visions
of battlefields filled with pagan pride.
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Should be “Lame In
Stereo”. I liked this once (as in formerly) black metal bands demo “Isle
Of Men” back in the day. Now they are no black metal, hell they are not
even metal anymore! This sounds like the new Ulver disc minus the
industrial parts. Maybe the two bands are incestuous lovers!? Would
explain a few things.
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Grindcore with death
influences from the Czech Republic. This is a cool album of straight on,
head down grind with maniacal vocals. The production on here is very
solid and fits to the music. 18 tracks (12 on the cassette version) of
music that is not thrilling but solid and enjoyable nonetheless. See
Shindy address elsewhere.
Tentamen Records,
P.O. Box 61, 67801 Blansko, CZECH REPUBLIC
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