Witness Of Perfect Torture-Indonesia is obsessed with brutal death metal. For some reason, probably because they have nothing to live for (haha just kidding), they just love brutal death metal and death metal in general. I scrolled through 90 bands on metal archives and 90% of those 90 bands were brutal death/death metal. i only found about for or 5 black/heavy/thrash metal bands. Jasad (meaning soul in malaysian) is at the forefront and was one of the earlier brutal death metal bands in the bandung, indonesia and Indonesia's general metal scene. This album comes off to me as more of an experimental brutal death project than standard brutal death. I heard alot of groove, hardcore, grind, and thrash elements. The music most of the time sounded like death metal but with a little bit tighter drums. I can understand with people why they're considered brutal death though. Recommended to fans of: Death Harmonic, Banaspati, Siksakubur, Symbiotic In Theory, and all brutal death from indonesia. Overall Rating: 8.1/10PS - an extra plus for the 3 demo tracks that came with the CD.
Catch For Us The Foxes-MewithoutYou's 4th release and sophomore full length release. I really embrace this as my favorite MWY album. The band really embraces their Indie roots and also show alot of old school screamo being revived in their material. I found out that the singer and guitarist's mother believes in Sufism, a certain sub-religion in islamic culture. The band as a whole, are all christian. The album itself really strikes a nerve with their lighter material. It is full of praise and uplifting but lamentful love for God. Key tracks i would say are the opening 3, and then the last half of the album. The center of it is good, but the power of love in the 2nd half is just so much stronger. Recommended to fans of: Death cab for cutie, Circle takes the square, Love like electrocution, and especially Saetia. Overall Rating:9.3/10
Annihilate The Enemy-Much more professional for their sophomore release. Jasad shows their real brutal death metal capabilities. This album being centered on brutal death instead of being experimental. For some reason, I am calmed by the fact Jasad dropped their experimental influences. Sometimes i just need to escape from my avant-garde music and hear some standard material (even sometimes, some cliche-ish material). Surely Jasad has mastered the art, but something im hoping they add to the album their writing right now is maybe some more blastbeats in the music alltogether. Recommended to fans of: Bandung brutal death, and Shuriken Cadaveric Entwinement.
As The Shroud Of Suffering Suffocates The Land-One-of-a-kind brutal death metal. Amazing artwork, amazing lyrical theme, amazing logo. Shuriken Cadaveric Entwinement is a 2 member project with Jay Barnes (Lust Of Decay) and Jordan Varela (Lust Of Decay, Debodified, Lividity, Domination Through Impurity, Carcinogenic, Cesspool Of Vermin, and Epic Of Empyrea) at the helm. The band is the only brutal death band that plays music about ninjas, the genma, and samurais. Every song is pretty similar and reminds you more of old school death metal because it is sugar coated in groove metal riffs. Jordan does all the guitar, bass, and drum work on the album. He did an amazing job. Jay showed his great range of screams pitched from high to low. He harmonized high and lows throughout most of the album; and that just gives the whole album that much more strength. Every song the drums go out on a standard slow machine gun pace double bass pedal whamming and then has sound bytes of samurais and ninjas in giant epic battles, sword fighting. You hear people screaming in agony, being stabbed, people fighting with anger and rage and screaming. SCE really grasped the whole aspect of the genma very well. I was surprised that american brutal death musicians could write material so good about a country that is thousands of miles from north carolina. Recommended to fans of: Dismember, Lividity, Jasad, Lust Of Decay, Debodified, etc. Overall Rating: 9.8/10
Catch For Us The Foxes-MewithoutYou's 4th release and sophomore full length release. I really embrace this as my favorite MWY album. The band really embraces their Indie roots and also show alot of old school screamo being revived in their material. I found out that the singer and guitarist's mother believes in Sufism, a certain sub-religion in islamic culture. The band as a whole, are all christian. The album itself really strikes a nerve with their lighter material. It is full of praise and uplifting but lamentful love for God. Key tracks i would say are the opening 3, and then the last half of the album. The center of it is good, but the power of love in the 2nd half is just so much stronger. Recommended to fans of: Death cab for cutie, Circle takes the square, Love like electrocution, and especially Saetia. Overall Rating:9.3/10
Annihilate The Enemy-Much more professional for their sophomore release. Jasad shows their real brutal death metal capabilities. This album being centered on brutal death instead of being experimental. For some reason, I am calmed by the fact Jasad dropped their experimental influences. Sometimes i just need to escape from my avant-garde music and hear some standard material (even sometimes, some cliche-ish material). Surely Jasad has mastered the art, but something im hoping they add to the album their writing right now is maybe some more blastbeats in the music alltogether. Recommended to fans of: Bandung brutal death, and Shuriken Cadaveric Entwinement.
As The Shroud Of Suffering Suffocates The Land-One-of-a-kind brutal death metal. Amazing artwork, amazing lyrical theme, amazing logo. Shuriken Cadaveric Entwinement is a 2 member project with Jay Barnes (Lust Of Decay) and Jordan Varela (Lust Of Decay, Debodified, Lividity, Domination Through Impurity, Carcinogenic, Cesspool Of Vermin, and Epic Of Empyrea) at the helm. The band is the only brutal death band that plays music about ninjas, the genma, and samurais. Every song is pretty similar and reminds you more of old school death metal because it is sugar coated in groove metal riffs. Jordan does all the guitar, bass, and drum work on the album. He did an amazing job. Jay showed his great range of screams pitched from high to low. He harmonized high and lows throughout most of the album; and that just gives the whole album that much more strength. Every song the drums go out on a standard slow machine gun pace double bass pedal whamming and then has sound bytes of samurais and ninjas in giant epic battles, sword fighting. You hear people screaming in agony, being stabbed, people fighting with anger and rage and screaming. SCE really grasped the whole aspect of the genma very well. I was surprised that american brutal death musicians could write material so good about a country that is thousands of miles from north carolina. Recommended to fans of: Dismember, Lividity, Jasad, Lust Of Decay, Debodified, etc. Overall Rating: 9.8/10
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