Friday, October 9, 2009

The Great Commission/I Killed The Prom Queen/Zao/Living Sacrifice/A Plea For Purging

And Every Knee Shall Bow: Balls out hardcore. This is the heaviest hardcore band to date i have heard and love. It smacks you to the ground and punches you in the face. Crunching guitar from the 3 guitarists. Hardcore yells from a male and female screamer. A guest in every song (including musicians from: xDeathstarx, For Today, Impending Doom, Sleeping Giant, Point Of Recognition, and more). The guitar running back and forth from one side of the speaker to the other is the best. One song also has amazing drum solos in between the breakdown. Recommended for fans of: xDeathstarx, Point Of Recognition, No Innocent Victim, xBishopx, etc. Overall Rating: 9.3/10
Music For The Recently Deceased: I underestimated this the first time i heard it years ago. This time i gave it a serious listen for once because i was checking out bands my girlfriend listens to. I listened to one song at first on occasion "Sharks In Your Mouth" and progressed to the whole album. It wasn't bad, and it grew on me. It is an extremely melodic metalcore band, but still has quite the heavy tendencies. And on top of it have heavy ties to the metal scene, having albums recorded by the such of people who did The Haunted, In Flames, and many more. Recommended for fans of: Unearth (EWEWEW) & Killswitch Engage. Overall Rating: 7/10
Awake?-Are you really awake? Sadly i was not. I really love Zao, growing up on them. But i am very dissapointed in the last 2 releases. They have gone in a slightly lighter direction with this release and i am very skeptical about it. Maybe one day it will grow on me; but not for a long time. Overall Rating: 6.7/10
Nonexistent: Early Living Sacrifice album. It sticks more towards their thrash roots, but is the start of their extreme overhaul into straight death metal. "Haven Of Blasphemy" a great example of their old thrash (especially because that song was on their first ever demo), and other tracks showing almost the complete opposite. Great drumming and guitar riffwork. Very catchy. Recommended for fans of: Mortification. Overall Rating: 7.3/10

A Plea For Purging-Completely different from the new material. Extremely influenced by power metal early on, AP4P played technical math/metalcore with power metal tendencies. Andy screamed less like a fat man and more like a throaty teenager. Even though it seemed like a bunch of rookies pulling something off in the big picture, you can go in with a fine tooth comb and see how beautiful it is. The overtly technical guitar riffs and double bass especially. Overall Rating: 9.7/10

Sunday, July 26, 2009

In Grief/Beneath The Massacre/Blind Witness/Armor For Sleep/Winds Of Sorrow

Deserted Soul-Odd music for odd people. This band is a very avant-garde progressive black/death metal band. They are signed to bombworks records which is a very up and coming christian metal label. The songs have extreme atmosphere, but in a norwegian black metal way; overlaying strong progressive death metal riffing. Most of all they overload the keyboars, in the best way possible. The band is great due to the strong vocals and keyboards in all the songs. It's a spacey release, recommended for late nite drives, where it will get you relaxed, but not tired. Recommended for fans of: Phlebotomized & Disaffected. Overall Rating: 7.8/10
Mechanics Of Dysfunction-Ballsiest f**kin' release since the stoneage. BTM is burly technical brutal death. They rumble your ass, even through headphones. Makes you want to get up and strangle your neighbor for not mowing the lawn. even though they play tech BDM they have burly breakdowns too. The breakdowns just make you want to murder. Recommended for fans of: Carnifex, Suffocation, & Oceano. Overall Rating: 9.6/10
Silences Are Words-Although they are a pretty commercial band; preferring to market their material through Hot Topic, mainly due to the fact they are signed to victory records. They are surprisingly good melodic death/metalcore. Nothing very amazing that juts out on the cd. I recommend purchasing a copy if you are a melodeath connoisseur. Recommended for fans of: German melo-death/metalcore, Darkest Hour, & early Killswitch Engage. Overall Rating: 6.9/10
What To Do When You Are Dead-Yes i know all the other releases i reviewed in this section are metal haha. I do have a light side =]. Armor For Sleep to me is classic Emotive music, remeniscent of early 90's emotive over new era "Emo" Post-Hardcore music. Every song is based on the storyline of a boy dying and following the girl he loved and finding things out about her. A reoccuring line throughout the whole album "Don't Believe, That The Weather, Is Perfect The Day That You Die" stands out very strong in context of every song. The idea they have has been done before but it is very unique the way they performed it. I am frustrated they went into playing indie pop instead of staying this style. Recommended for fans of: Hawthorne Heights & Sunny Day Real Estate. Overall Rating 9.7/10

Through Twilight...-A beautifully choreographed ambient misanthropic suicidal black metal release. Mort who is in many ambient/depressive black metal bands in the auckland new zealand scene; has learned how to perfect the art of depressive darkness mixed with the natural beauties of life. It makes you feel depressed how the world is so beautiful and people are so ugly, destroying the earth and scouring its natural resources. Recommended to fans of: Happy Days, Exiled From Light, & all depressive black ambient. Overall Rating: 9.8/10

Sunday, May 17, 2009

As Cities Burn/Allatus Adeo/Amongst The Ruin/Beneath A Blackened Sky/Beneath The Massacre

Hell Or High Water-Something different from ACB. I always loved their kickback screamo material, and then "Come Now Sleep" hit the shelves and they became lighter. I was knocked back in the change. This album totally took me off guard. This release is really light indie rock with some atmosphere. Their first song has the original singer that comes in and screams in it, and i think that was my favorite song. The rest of the tracks had no screaming, but still made it so that i liked them in some way. It was enjoyable, but i still really miss old ACB. Recommended for fans of: Emarosa, Death Cab For Cutie, & Mewithoutyou. Overall Rating: 6.4/10
Common Logic-Great release from a band that needs alot more attention. This band is very odd metalcore/mallcore with some balls and keyboards. To me they are like if TDWP and IWABO got in a fight. The songs jump to different sizes of heavy and liteness. The best part of the band as a whole is the keyboards. They make this band. "Goodbye Cylinder" in particular, with its funneling oscillator keyboard was amazing. Recommended for fans of: The Devil Wears Prada, I Wrestled A Bear Once, & The Number Twelve Looks Like You. Overall Rating: 7.9/10
My Dear My Love-Sludgy Metalcore/Mallcore. Not the best band i ever heard, but one i would buy a CD from if i knew how. Recommended for fans of: Oceana, Dance Gavin Dance, early Emarosa. Overall Rating: 6.3/10The Art Of Suffering-Broadcasted as deathcore, the more i hear it, the less i hear the deathcore. I liked this band at first, but the more i listen, the less i like it. The band has more groove/metalcore tendencies than deathcore all together. Now that i've listened to this band in full i will not listen to them again. Recommended for fans of: Pantera. Overall Rating: 4/10
Evidence Of Iniquity-GREAT!! Blasting brutal death/deathcore from canada. I always tended to think canada sucked until i heard about stutterfly, cry of the afflicted, secret & whisper, and Beneath The Massacre. The riffs and blasts shudder you, even on computer speakers. I can't wait to get a hold of a hard copy of the release and have the blasting breaks brutallize my asshole when i drive. Recommended to fans of: Whitechapel, Suicide Silence, Jasad. Overall Rating: 8.8/10

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Beneath The Massacre/A Plea For Purging/Death/Living Sacrifice

Dystopia-The first time i had finally given Beneath The Massacre and I really like them!! Slamming brutal death metal with the occasional breakdowns. It is sick! Along the lines of most the stuff i like listening to. Recommended for fans of: Necrophagist, The Roman Holiday, Suffocation, Impending Doom, & The Faceless. Overall Rating: 8.5/10
Depravity-Best release of 2009. Nothing like anything i've ever heard before. The band went in a new direction and started to play deathcore/metalcore. The change was for the better. People tell me "O I don't like it! I can hear the fat of the singer in his voice!!!" Well i think this fat guy has some sick pipes. He gives a great sound. The guitars are immense and the dribbling of the double bass pedal make you tremble. Recommended for fans of: Impending Doom & For Today. Overall Rating: 78934526813795326234/10
Individual Thought Patterns-Where Death started to change their direction to prog death metal. Really good talentwise. Best song was the single "The Philosopher"; which is Death's, probably most popular song. Recommended for fans of: Phlebotomized, Horror Of Horrors, Pathology Stench. Overall Rating: 6.9/10
Living Sacrifice-First release from the band, and is 200% thrash. I really hate thrash, but LS is one of the few bands i grew up on that i still like. Songs like Anorexia Spiritual really get you revved up to go do something. This cd is a pocket full of energy if u need that extra boost to wake up. Recommended to fans of: early early early Metallica. Overall rating: 7.7/10A Critique Of Mind And Thought-Nothing like the new album at all!! Heavily influenced power elements for this band. They played metalcore with crazy, constant sweeping guitar and bass. I don't recollect alot. It was great, but not a CD i'd listen to alot. Recommended for fans of: Straight Reads The Line & Protest The Hero. Overall Rating: 6/10

Mortal Treason/Living Sacrifice/Death/Impending Doom/Trouble

Reborn-LS is the only band i could ever stand that plays thrash. This release was more along an industrial side, relative to Meshuggah. Most memorable track is the single "Reject". Recommended for fans of: Ten Feet From Murder & Meshuggah. Overall Rating: 6.2/10
Symbolic-My favorite Death release. In Schuldiner's late days he went from Death metal more towards Prog Death. The CD has Gene Hoglan, from bands like Dethklok, Old Man's Child, Zimmer's Hole, Unearth, and many many more. Gene shows his supremacy of the double bass mixed with his technical jazz influenced cymbal and snare patterns. Chuck has amazing solos. The album has great grooves, lyrics, old school breakdowns. Anything a metalhead can ask for. Recommended for fans of: DEATH. Overall Rating: 387125/10
The Serpent Servant-Newest release by Impending Doom and their sophomore full-length. They went more in a ballsier deathcore direction with very dark atmospheric melodic lines fit in sporadicly, much like meshuggah. Their breakdowns are great and the bass drops (when heard) are immense. The CD's biggest two tracks to me are the one that the album is named after and of course "Anything Goes". Recommended for fans of: Meshuggah & Beneath The Massacre's breakdowns. Overall Rating: 8.9/10
The Skull-One of the 2 doom metal releases created by Trouble in their early life as a band. This one was the 2nd Doom Metal release and was headed more towards the psychadellic stoner metal direction, but still had doom as the huge picture. This one didn't have as many big tracks as "Psalm 9" but it was a good doom metal release for the early 80s. Recommended for fans of: Black Sabbath. Overall Rating: 6.7/10

Drudkh/Demilich/Misery Chastain

Anti-Urban-Probably my favorite of all the Drudkh releases. Instead of taking their atmosphere from nature; this 2 track EP was recorded with a glum, dark, anti-urban nature. By using atmosphere of what felt like a dark industrial city. What i hate is the fact i don't own this. Because my burned CD of this is broken and sounds horrible and cut-off both songs halfway through. Recommended for fans of: Hate Forest, Astrofaes, Blood Of Kingu, Sunwheel. Overall Rating: 8/10
Autumn Aurora-Another Drudkh release. This one more traditional to their style. This post-Hate Forest project takes alot of atmosphere of nature. I'm surprised that they are not like the stereotypical atmospheric black (with ambient tendencies) band that uses strictly winter influenced atmosphere. Drudkh experiments with various ones. This album is obviously using the fall. Great sound, but again, it was on the burned CD with the release above, and it only played a couple tracks in full and the rest broke. Recommended for fans of: All bands related to Hate Forest & In The Woods. Overall Rating: 4.8/10
The Four Instructive Tales...Of Decomposition-The earliest Demilich release. Later rereleased with Nespithe as a special edition. This release has been bootlegged through ebay so many times it would make your eyes spin. People seem to love Demilich and Antti hasn't done much to get them popular. Every time he releases a small pressing of CD's they sell out almost immediately. He should really go full out and repress them with a large record label and get their name out there, although they won't get back together besides a few possible reunion shows? Recommended for fans of: Old Tech Death, Suffocation, Etc.. Overall Rating: 6/10 (rawness of cassettes)
Nespithe-The only full length release by the band and probably one of the most coveted metal releases along with "Spiritual Healing" by Death. Antti rereleased this with one label, rereleased it again on another including the demo seen above, rereleased again on another label the same way, and then another one that rereleased the same on vinyl. I really don't see why they don't mass rerelease it on a label like relapse, because so many people love them and want their merch. The CD is codeword for "The Spine" and Demilich uses this cunning 3 word grouping pattern throughout the CD. The CD is raw, but very technical and Antti is very talented; being able to do such tech guitar lines and do his signature lowlowlow burping, gutterals. Recommended for fans of: Demilich haha. Overall Rating: 9.5/10
Awaiting The End-Only available through purchasing it through the band. This release is intense and immense. The singer of the band, the infamous Seth Kimbrough of BMX biking fame and also was singer of Mortal Treason, a large melodic death band in the early 2000's. When you listen to this release, it's hard not to contrast this to Mortal Treason. Seth carried on with making another christian project but his screams are alot more distinct and he jumps around more instead of having his same pitch screams. The CD is technical with its guitar lines and melodic. The CD has its occasional breakdowns, which are well worth the waiting. For a short EP, it really packs a punch. Recommended for fans of: Mortal Treason & Symphony In Peril. Overall Rating: 8.8/10

Trouble/Liars/Parabstruse/Isis

One For The Road-Nothing much to say about the release. It's an unheard of demo by doom metallers Trouble. Contained stuff not on other albums, but nothing too memorable about it. Recommended for fans of: Sir Lord Baltimore. Overall Rating: 4/10
Run To The Light-Mid-era album by Trouble. Released post "Manic Frustration"; this release contains quite a bit of the Jimi Hendrix sound they had on the earlier release mixed with alot of their old material. Again, another Trouble release that didn't make too much of an impact on me when i listened to it. Only memorable when you hear the CD, but not after the fact. Recommended for fans of: Jimi Hendrix & Black Sabbath. Overall Rating: 4/10
They Were Wrong, So We Drowned-The wierdest release that i listen to and actually like alot. This is probably the creepiest when it comes to atmosphere and vocal stylings. Heavily avant-garde, artistic lyrics. Recommended for fans of: Avant-Garde indie & The Blood Brothers. Overall Rating: 8.3/10
Back And Forth-One of the more beautiful post-rock releases i have in my collection. It's very contained but also has floods of emotion that just fade in and give you the chills, as if there was an outer body being (in my religion, God) touching you. I listened to this over in over while lying in bed with a smile on my face. The music is uplifting and i thank my friend Gary for saving one of the last copies he had left to mail me. Recommended for fans of: Godspeed You Black Emperor! & Sigur Ros. Overall Rating: 8.9/10
In The Absence Of Truth-1/3 of my top 3 favorite Isis releases (soon to be 4 once i hear "Wavering Radiant"). This one concentrates alot more on intricate drum work, guitar atmosphere, and singing with moreso occasional screams. Like Parabstruse (above); I would get floods of emotion when I sit in bed listening to this. The artwork is amazing and like nothing i've ever seen. Recommended to fans of: Parabstruse & Pelican. Overall Rating: 389206523/10

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Sir Lord Baltimore/Living Sacrifice/Isis/Cannabis Corpse/Isis

Kingdom Come-Hard rock. I understand that the album after this one was what invented "Heavy Metal" and Sir Lord Baltimore's the first band to go by the Heavy Metal moniker; but this was nowhere near metal. This is more of rock meets 80s love ballads (although this was a late 60's release). It is true that this is where the birth of metal came from, but this was more of it's pre-roaming ground. Recommended for fans of: MC5, Led Zeppelin, (early) Flower Travellin' Band. Overall Rating: 4/10
In Memoriam-Compilation of the best Living Sacrifice songs including 3 new songs. This was pre-breakup era of LS. These are all my favorites LS songs. Recommended for fans of: Death, Thrash, and tech-groove metal. Overall Rating: 9.9/10
The Red Sea-Early era Isis. More along the lines of old school sludge mixed with hardcore compared to their newer atmospheric sludge. My version came with the 1998 demo. The demo is even more raw than The Red Sea EP. Recommended for fans of: sludge. Overall Rating: 6/10
Blunted At Birth-First release by cannibal corpse parody pot metallers Cannabis Corpse. This was recorded with an 8-track and then rereleased on CD. The songs are more raw than "Tube Of The Resinated", but it's style and sound is just as good. It's only downside is that there aren't as many memorable tracks that you can really favoritize. Recommended to fans of: Municipal Waste & Cannibal Corpse. Overall Rating: 7/10
Oceanic-On my top favorite releases. Have listened to it beyond 40 times in the 2 months or so that i have owned the CD. It's sound is very relative to Panopticon and In The Absence Of Truth. This was their first album that they got deep into their atmosphere, although they did progress to it over their career. You actually get the atmosphere of being on the ocean when you listen to it. Just floating away with the one you love. Recommended to fans of: Kenoma, Giants, Giant, and Irreversible. Overall Rating: 76543245678543456787543456789/10

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Pathology Stench/Tides & Giant/Burzum/Nodes Of Ranvier/Cannabis Corpse

Accion Mutante-Underground speedy, angry death metal from poland. Pathology Stench pumps out pure fast past, almost brutal, death metal. It was actually a surprisingly good release, but i wasn't interested in it for some reason. It was great sound quality for an underground polish DM band. I heard their stuff the first time when i saw the video for the album track "Accion Mutante". Recommended to fans of: Tech death, brutal death, and fast paced death metal. Overall Rating: 7/10
Tides|Giant-Split CD between atmospheric sludge band Tides and Experimental doom band Giant. Tides pushed out a great 2 tracks. Beautiful, uplifting, atmospheric sludge. There are no lyrics on the 2 songs, but i presume the other material has lyrics because if not, i think the band would be considered post metal/post rock. Giant put a nice long song with great atmosphere with balls. Giant really, in my opinion, has no straight up doom metal elements whatsoever. I feel they play atmospheric sludge with some doom mixed in. The song had nice piano lines and better atmosphere than Tides. Recommended for fans of: new Isis, Irreversible, and Bossk. Overall Rating: 9/10 & 9.1/10
Filosofem-Released after Hvis Lyset Tar Oss, this album has alot more ambient elements than the previous. This was basically the changing of times, the transformation of turning burzum into free black metal into ambient music released while Varg is in jail. The songs were good, but track 5 was extremely annoying when he overused the same droning ambient lines for about 15 minutes after the black metal part of the song ended. Recommended for fans of: Bathory and black ambient music. Overall Rating: 6.7/10
The Years To Come-A very diverse band from the heart of south dakota. The band really to me seems like Atreyu with harder vocals. The vocals sound almost exactly like the drummer of atreyu, but the screams have a league of their own. Inhales, basically gutturals, but he uses them as vocals. It's hard to describe, so if you really want to know you're going to have to find out for yourself. I used to like all the bands material, but right after their new album came out on victory i lost interest in all releases but this one. It sucks that after the newer album "Defined By Struggle" was released, victory stopped supporting them on their new tour. The band went broke and decided to break up because there was only one original member left in the band. Recommended for fans of: Atreyu. Overall Rating: 8.3/10
Tube Of The Resinated-The 2nd release from death metallers Cannabis corpse. The band was created to poke fun at cannibal corpse's obsession over gore. Phil of Municipal Waste started Cannabis Corpse to make fun of that and took the name and changed it so the band talks strictly about marijuana instead of gore. They went all out, they took some song titles from cannibal and changed them to fit Cannabis Corpse's name (ie: Mummified In Bong Water and Every Bud Smoken). The band even has a mascot; a pot monster hahaha. A guy dresses up in a costume of a marijuana plant and is there at the shows and in photo promos; much like iron maiden's "Eddie" and how Cannibal has reoccuring characters in their album artwork that look similar. Recommended to fans of: Municipal Waste and Cannibal Corpse. Overall Rating: 7.7/10

Carnifex/Selenite Sleepover/Carnifex/Jungle Rot/Burzum

The Diseased And The Poisoned-The best release to date basically that i have gotten my hands on. I looked up carnifex through amazon.com a while back and finally decided because i really liked the samples that i'd buy a shirt by them (it was on clearance for 8$) and their two releases for sale at hot topic. I stuck the CD in on the ride home with my girlfriend and we were blown away. Best breakdowns, blasts, grooves, and vocals i have heard on a CD. Best quality recording done by a great studio (Planet Z). Recommended to fans of: The Catalan Garrote, Impending Doom, and early Underneath The Gun. Overall Rating: 9876543456787654345886543456787654345678765432345678765432345678/10

Selenite Sleepover 3 track demo-This band was made from the remains of ex-members of my good friends old band Ciano. He left the band and decided to start a project right after ciano deteriorated due to his absence. He created a project with frank carpenito and luciano who were both in ciano and other projects with billy. They decided to go more away from the emocore material and wrote poppy indie rock. They took one song from when they were Ciano and rewrote it as a pop track and also released an acoustic track (not on the demo, but i have a copy). This demo is a nice hardhitting pop CD with great keyboard lines and great vocals put out by frank. Recommended to fans of: Ivoryline and Amen. The Animal. Overall Rating: 9.5/10 
Dead In My Arms-Not as good as their newer album reviewed above, but still a really good release. The album has better groove, but more borecore lines. The vocals are great and haven't changed. Track 3 "Slitwrist Savior" was a great song. A couple of songs have real good sound clip interludes that were really tight. The sound quality wasn't at its best, but then again, this was released right before they got picked up by victory records. Recommended for fans of: Impending Doom and The Catalan Garrote. Overall Rating: 8.4/10
Dead And Buried-Next to "War Zone" this is the 2nd best release by Jungle Rot. This is face crushing old school hardcore influenced death metal. The lyrics are gruesome and overly brutal, and i love it. The guitar lines are all groove, no brutal or grind influence. The best songs by Jungle Rot come directly from this release. Their best song is "Psychotic Cremation". Recommended for fans of: old school DM and hardcore/groove. Overall Rating: 98765435678/10
Hvis Lyset Tar Oss-Most coveted of all of burzum releases, and ironically it was the first CD i purchased by him. This is old school hard hitting black metal mixed with ambient. I always thought of burzum as only bm before i listened to them and became a fan. But to my surprise his newest two releases were strictly ambient, and all the old material (this release and Filosofem) contain alot of ambient/atmospheric elements. His material is great black metal, the ambient sometimes gets droning to the point you start to ignore it. The band is on hold due to Varg Vikernes (the sole member) being in jail for multiple church burnings and the murder of Euronymous (from Mayhem). I won't be surprised if he is again denied parole a few years from now. Norway does not want him back on the streets. But it would be cool if he came back and started writing more black metal material. Recommended for fans of: Bathory. Overall Rating: 7.7/10

Monday, February 23, 2009

Immortal Technique/The Cure/Godspeed You! Black Emperor/Sir Lord Baltimore/Dark's Eve

Revolutionary Vol. 1-Probably one of the few rappers that i like to listen to in my free time. When i listen to Immortal Technique it makes me think. Think about the government, my lifestyle, where i'm going, where i've been. It's almost esoteric in a way. He pushes out this ethereal aura when he raps about his life; stating, this shit happened to me, don't get messed up in it or it'll end up happening to you. Some people look at his material as sick, morbid, and gory. I look to this as reality. Recommended for fans of: Necro and politics. Overall Rating: 7.7/10
4:13 Dream-Not the best release i ever heard. I've had a hard time starting to like The Cure because i'm not an emo kid hahaha. I first heard them play their newest material (this album) and it sounded really good live. The guys are dressed like complete queers, but whatever, the music was good. I got a hold of the album and i was a little disappointed. The vocals had this shitty echo effect placed on top of it. Otherwise than the bad vocals, the release was a good space-rock, new wave emo rock album. Recommended for fans of: The Cult. Overall Rating: 6.5/10
Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada-An EP release from post-rockers Godspeed You! Black Emperor. I really don't know why it is considered an EP release; the full length albums are 4 tracks and clock in about 40-50 minutes and this one is only 3 tracks but i think its around the same by what i remember. I'm putting emphasis again on this phrase but this is a good band all around to just sit and space out and think. Recommended for fans of: Silver Mt. Zion and Sigur Ros. Overall Rating: 6.8/10
Sir Lord Baltimore-No one knows this band. Sir Lord Baltimore formed in '68 and has members from notable bands (Erik Norlander, Munetaka Higuchi, Audiovision, Koala, Whitesnake, and many more). They were the first band to be labelled heavy metal. They released this and one other album before breaking up. Then their drummer went on to play in many notable musicians bands (metal and nonmetal). They reformed around 2005 and released a new album in 2006 and are still together. It's really cool to know that all the bands that invented metal are still together (Flower Travellin' Band [reformed in 2008], Black Sabbath [on hold], Deep Purple, and Sir Lord Baltimore). The album is more hard rock if anything than heavy metal though; i'm presuming their other releases are heavy metal. Recommended for fans of: all the old metal bands i just listed. Overall Rating: 7/10
Shameful Celebration-I was looking to get into the underground of christian metal. Felipe showed me this band that he had just got their CD in the mail from brazil through the underground. I scrounged up all the proof i could find of them online and posted them on metal-archives. Felipe needed some extra pocket change to buy things because he just moved to seattle from panama and offered the CD to me for 8$. I sent out the money the next day because i was so excited at the offer. I am the only man outside of latin america (and probably brazil) that has a hard copy of this CD. The album is a gem. It is old school death metal in the vein of death and dismember. The guitar solos are insane and remind me of christian DM band Taine (from romania). The drums are good, and the bass is pretty raw. The CD is only a demo, and i'm not sure they have any other releases. But i really hope if they do that i can get it, or they can make a myspace and i can contact them. Recommended to fans of: Death, Dismember, and Morbid Angel. Overall Rating: 9.8/10