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I have been
wanting to hear / experience Flauros for some time now and thanks to
a timely order to Dark Horizon Records from me that time is finally
here. I think I could call their music a mixing of pure early 90s
black metal grimness mixed with more traditional metal guitar
playing. They like to go from atmospheric sounds perfect for grave
robbing expeditions to lightning raw assaults which viciously cudgel
the senses. Excellent cryptic black metal from Finland, now I await
their album with anticipation!
- Dale |
 
The Goatfire
track "Scornful Chalice" really surprised me. This band is no
ancient cult but perform black metal as if they were it's inventors.
A raw piece of true ug black metal that I think none will deny. 2
tracks from the German cult Impending Doom:" Luceferian Curse" and
"Headshot Christ". More great sadistic pure and extreme heavy metal
as found on their latest LP "Apocalypse 3". Every release this band
does is unique and every song memorable. (Too bad Impeding Doom felt
Canadian Assault was not important enough to return the interview
sent which they promised to fill out... – Dale) - Jeffrey
c/o Marco Martin
- Lagesche Strasse 42 - 33818 Leopoldshohe – GERMANY |
 
GBK
– Rise out of their frozen & arcane undercroft swirled with anger
and ablazed with seething darkness – channeled into pure hate for
the plagues of this world – such as the subhuman infest they are
forced to endure! Grand Belial play harsh genocidal black metal and
sound like no one you’ve likely heard. This long unending hymn will
violate your ears, stab your heart and leave you cold!
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– Are antichrist veterans of the scene and demonic soldiers of the
metal way of life! They have been at it for almost as long as some
of you fleshbags reading this have been out of diapers! It perplexes
me every time I think this horde can not get any better they
seemingly gut check to a whole other level and reach a new plane of
musical hell superiority! They beat, batter & bludgeon all who cross
their path breaking them into submission with their satanic death
metal juggernaut. On top of all of this Nunslaughter honour the
masters of might & mayhem with a bone jarring pat on the back from
Satan for their cover of “Hellchild”!! Limited 666 copies!
- Dale
Nunslaughter
rule!! H. Recs., Joergensgaard 49B, 1.-4, DK-6400 Sonderborg,
DENMARK vampyr@get2net.dk
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I am always
appreciative towards dedicated labels, who will send vinyl for
review. An example of the dedication of the man behind Forever
Plagued. This is my first time hearing Incursus. The band features
VJS (Kult Ov Azazel, Demoncy, Crimson Moon etc...) playing on
everything and Horidus (Demoncy, Tenebrous etc...) handling the
vocal duties. So as you guess these two abyssic minions know what
they are doing and execute their aims with extreme precision. There
are two tracks on this short player and they are Daemonkult & Black
Burial. The first track starts off immediately with seething chaos
and intensity, that reminds me a bit to the early maelstrom conjured
by Impaled Nazarene. Maybe the vocals also remind me to something
like IP's Goat Perversion seven inch. The second tracks picks right
back up with the ferocity and blackened vomit death metal. Despite
the raw and raging nature of the music, if you focus beyond it you
can pick some nice little guitar intricacies that extra depth to
their sound. There is a great addictive and gloomy atmosphere on
this record. I can highly recommend this piece of wax.
- Dale
http://www.foreverplaguedrecords.com
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A new JI release
is always enough to get me feeling again. At least some things are
worth living for. 2 tracks recorded in 96 and pressed on side
Anti-Last Episode (y'know, the gay record label) and side Anti-egay.
haha! That's the way to do it. Fuck not limiting your releases so
the trendies can't get rich off of your art (?? – DALE). They give
me another reason to react. The track "Extinction" has a notably
metal feel to it revealing a Celtic Frost influence not really heard
in past JI material. Another fine cult vinyl. - Jeffrey |
 
The first thing
I immediately noticed about this LP is that the song titles are
great. Few bands put much thought into lyrics and titles these days
(or too much thought in some cases). Side A started off very
promising but for the first time ever I eventually found myself
becoming somewhat disinterested a few songs into a JI record. The
style is no longer grim but still hateful and eccentric. Akhenaten
swears his devotion to "Heaven In Flames" which is certainly not his
best work and this LP follows suit (I just wanted to interject here
for those that feel like me that “Heaven In Flames” was indeed a
masterpiece and some of JI’s finest work... – Dale). I experience
this record as simply a good black metal release but my attention is
not fully trained on it and I seek and live for the truest moments
of utter darkness and obscurity. The most honest. Side B changes
pace and even includes more metallish fare. I appreciate that JI is
not "defined" and I will always support it. Very few truly live life
and even fewer can understand why. Caring is not a part of it. Live
and let die. - Jeffrey
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Thanks to
Frederic of Painiac records for turning me onto this great band.
After I got this I went out and got some earlier Lugubrum stuff. My
favorite so far has been "Winterstones" but "Al Ghemist" is an
interesting listen indeed. The writing is fucking disjointed to say
the least and some parts may even have the average metal fan
struggling while some parts are straight ahead ruthless. Records
like this keep the ug existing and also prove that ug metal isn't
for everyone. This one's limited to 400 and I'm sure it's sold out
by now. - Jeffrey |
 
This is a
re-release of the Lust portion of the Lust/Unholy Archangel/Kult 3
way split tape on the now deceased (both man & label) Impaler Of
Trendies Productions. I reviewed said tape back in issue # 5. It is
amazing to own this mighty release on vinyl!! If you do not own this
already you suck and tough luck getting one. Limited to 300 copies
(mine is # 134). Hail the chaos legions!
- Dale
Band Email =
goatvulva@angelfire.com
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2 tracks: "El
Morroco" rocks out in a St Vitus meets Fu Manchu and Scissorfight
style. Up your wattage and this song will flow right in. "5 Skull
Bake" on the other hand is a total droning guitar flecked piece of
noise. The vox exist in a drug induced or sleep deprived plane of
half existence and half reflection. Something my weary body readily
relates to. One of the more important and believable artistic
endeavors I've heard in a while. - Jeffrey
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This vinyl gave
me a hard on, not just the music made it stiff – the German porn
samples helped as well. These music fuck ups Mindblaster mix crusty
punk (no none of that PC commercial shit!) with pure metal sickness.
It’s hard to imagine such a mix working but somehow Mindblaster
twist it into a cool form. The vocalist sounds like a pissed off bum
who just had his bottle of whiskey which he had panhandled for all
day stolen, it fits the music well.
- Dale
Mindblaster, c/o
Hogebrandt, Fjallvagen 48, 451 53 Uddevalla, SWEDEN mindblaster@Telia.com
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M
– Are older but not wiser as they shit out two new angry snot
drenched tracks “Chemical Lobotomy” & “Alcohol And Anguish”. More of
the same debauchery as above, but leaning now a little more in the
punk / crust direction but still as pissed and volatile as ever.
Anyone into heavy holocaust fist to the face metal punk should like
this. H – Are pure raunchy punk rock and I’m not a huge punk
fan but when it is this nasty I do. It makes me not want to bathe,
put on my grandpa’s ripped up clothes, go to a dollar show in
someone’s basement and puke on some smelly punker bitches rancid
fish cunt haha. Kind of reminds me of a faster, rougher Dead
Kennedy’s mixed with a little GBH and beyond. Only $3 US for this
fucking thing to the Mindblaster addy above.
- Dale |
 
The Moonblood
side consists of a track recorded in 97 called "Supreme Black Forces
of Steel". Not as majestic as some "Blut und Krieg" material but
very metallized and barbaric. A band that truly deserve a cult
status. Rest in hate..even though you seem to be releasing more
stuff now then when you were together. Katharsis offer no mercy with
the track "Watchtowers of Darkness". Not as epic minded or melodic
as their style is usually performed but the manic drumming and
sadistic vox keep this aloft. Great cover art by Solieri of Goatfire
& ex-Hellflame zine. - Jeffrey Kusbel
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A new release of
Nargaroth and of course a different one. I fully respect the vision
to not stagnate but keep the music directly in line with the
emotions that inspired it. This release takes a more melodic turn
towards more Norwegian sounding (notably Kampfar) black metal and
includes brief interludes of melancholy flute work. With most I
would say nay but it fits in this case. Kanwulf dedicates this
entire ep to a deceased friend who hung himself. As described in the
insert "Rasluka is the phonetic morphology for the Russian
expression of "parting ways". Such should be noted and understood
when listening.
Postfach 1119 -
04767 Mugeln – GERMANY - Jeffrey
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