Issue #19 - Fuglymaniacs

Mork (Brazit)
Epsylon
Hybrid
(Betgium)
Heav€h (tvexico)
Risen Prophecy (uK)
PLUS:
Assertion (..rapan),
Battery (Denmark),
Death Shroud 1u.s.1,
Marsh 1u.s.;,
Moraines (croatia)
reviews: Cruel Force,DiseaseIllusiorg Dyinise, Goatsoldiers,Heaven and Hell,
Helloween, Insulters, Kusoof, Lacuna Coil, Mastodon, Morbid FlesfuNapalm Deat]u
Obscured,Samael,Tomorrow's Demise,Vacillatioru Winter Axe
Metal
Bulletin
issue# { 9 May.June200e
www.myspace.
com/themetaIbu||etin
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Mork (Brazil)
Their cd is called Prryosterousand it is a professionalsounding cd with good, clear produc4on. The music is
symphonic, big-idea, ambitious, bften blasting black metal
with sharp gultar work and tight drumming. The vocals are
definitely black metal, but they are notsuPeT lasPy, whi-cht1
an advairtage becausethey appeal to both black metal and
death meta[ In additiorUthe music has the right attitude and
feel where the quality of guitar riffs and melodies c,onverges
with blasting, symptionic-speed in a strong way^showing a
serious and professionalapproach.
-a
Her6 they provide glimpse of what the band is all
about, as well is^informing about metal in Brasilia, the
ts an _excitingexample 9f wh3t
capital of Brazil. Preposterous
tn6 Uana is already'delivering and promises to continue in
the future. www.myspace.com/ morkofficial
bandsdon't hsaeAfro-Brazilian* maybe.a.few, onle in a u)hi.let
is?
this
think
you
do
Wlnt
Teq it's a shamethat raCismuntil thisdavis an existingmattu in
our country.But in metalmusicthat is a"rarething.Tllne are lots
in shslosand weryoneis treatedwith tlrc same
of afro-desiendents
iesitect.And as to bandswe reallv d6n't know why that hnppens.
herein brazil is siII ueryhard to afforda baid, and
Mhvbebecause
not" that many people get the chanile to do it.
ilians, but thrs
None in the band hnae in their family afro-brazilians,
country is based on miscellaneousracis ind, becauseof that, is
dfficult to ffirm such question. Due to what we said, racism is
nery
in
citndemned
situation.
Do you knsu) of any black metal bands in=Bra4il Toith wome,n.?
of women in metal and extreme metal is
ffis
Haae uou hnd a chnnce to pIQy liae =recentl,lt? groroing aenl fast. Its not rare to see u)omen playing anymor4
:re in Brasilia.But it's a shamethat lpecialfu in Biazil. There's one death metal band here in Brasilia
in Brazil and thereare not that is"made up of only women, the VaIhaIIa. Check them out:
underestimated
extreme'meialits so
thnt many shows.But anyway, we always haae! Y9?! hry7 h t tp :/ fruuw .mv space.com/aaIhaIIadeathmetaI
plaving libe andutelouethi sufiportfrom oiurlocalfani. We wish
*t"roild play moreoften,cauid thai's what ute utant to dofor a
Iiuing.
radiq play y94r -myl:c?,
Doe=s
write abqut.you?=
Do magazines
fheri ii not eoenoneradiolure that plaVsextrememetal,bfi ffiat
ye usually get something
would begreat!And, a,sto ryagazings,
written ab"outus.But thnt's dud to the fact that, in Brazil, thereis
not a qoodsuWortfor undergroundmital bandsand therearenot
irry' speciilized'magazin"esthat aalue blacl</deathmetal.
Are uou sellingcdsin Brazil south or .North!\meica o! Furop?!
labels'We
-F'uroPean
honeto qets6meors,iu on that. Anil we sell most of the cdshere
ASan independentb-andis hard to
because
at' our Ytometown,
a couitry as big as Brazil.
to
material
our
distribute
(aocds Lqq.)'
You haa,!tlttT
AII musicis written bu SamuelBorge=s
,
kind
. of
-
a
d is SepVltura.Ihif,iury
In the LI.S.oftenthe Brazilianmetqlcoaer-e,
about the metal scengw=here.
@ell
Uou liae?
feopli from tlwii don't knmt muchcauseueryfew bandsherehaae
the'op/ortunityto expandtheir musicathoiions. As we said, its
to buy instrumentsor recordanything here.
alsoabry expe-nsiae
to theonesin
meialsieneis srawink but it is smallcompared
T-hrc
othercountries,on7 hercin Brasilia its wen uiorstthentheyestof
Brazil. Thereare aery few shows and festiaals and people{ill.
prefer
to hearcooersihin ns(Dsongs.So that's ano-therthing that
'is'uery
hardfor bands,Brazilian/eoplein generaldon.'ts.uppo.rt
much rrither hear-coaers-Tft't .why
Brazifian bahds. W
senerallvthe bis banldsfrom Brazil like Krisiun and Sepultura
"Xrsutoitside, thin when'theyare big and recognized
in-the.restpf
\he world, Braziliansstart piying atlentionandstartadmiing the.
bands.And seriousluthai iissdsus off...Thereare lots of good
when-tfuyshould.
bandsthat don't get"thesttbntionthey-deserae
metalscene
Mork hasbeenaband since2006,and theblack/death
We
herein Brasilia is still grswing from wispy to recognizable.
that
scene
metal
blacQdeatll
ihe
ti
b"ands
good
some
uery
know
will becomtgr\oiu than any bandwe hearabout,and we only,
need the o,iirg support t"o shsu) our music to the world!
ti our musi6writing. We wantedto chose
ioimi"tt signi:frcanth1
of this EPi so u)epickedSamuel
;;l;';;';-rofni,i'fo, thii composer
is theone'whoputsit all
and'Samuel
ide'as
our
tho,r,
,If
b;;;il;:';;;
tosether,creatinTa coursefor the music.Music and rdeasllrys
mak-ingnew songsand 1'!o",q":1.',t1', ideas
iiiiouy to us f,ndwe keep"
and by theendoJ
ready
we haai now 13 new songs
- to berecorded,
"
cd'
nsw
our
haae
wiII
we
2009
the
think
Misant
. iobs== = do ,
ltou. , 4a9e?
a is studY'ing
it are all studyingaid t'ying t? g?t,our college,
airfriiiirtiir,
delreessowe canhaaebetteriobs in thefuture' !.nd,l,q\tt:,qo^o:
Wejust hope
iiii iit ,Iiavs difficultto fiid, but not-impossible'
'that
but
music,
our
liae-iustfor
!5ues: tnat,s
somedaiu:e"1nn
Brazil,so the
of
city
capital
the
Brisitia"is
dream!
;;;;;;;tician
rest of lhe
the
ii
thanoaerhereis morestable
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that hus
counrru
a
sritl
is
Brazil
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;;;;hi
" injustice'
social
ind
pouerty
oJ
ptenty
what
-
Brqzilian
Are therea lot of 4fro-Braziliansinto metal? o,ften
2
reaolt
and
o
IMat qre some cdswilh.g-ooddrummingin 2008 thot,llou!
likes?
,a**
XW
(upeffi)
fCryptopsy), obZen (Meshugga), Watershed
(Nile).
Sltlaie: Like Yaes says, Metal is a hard world in Belgium, so tne
took it in our hands and yes it cost us a lot, but alsogaae us aery
good control of our zttorkbeing representedour ruay, as, we wanted
Can Brazil rnin the soccer taorld cup in 2010?!!
the album to come togetherou)erone line of idea.Thealbum cost us
We really hope so! And if there's one thing that can really get
peoplehere united is soccer.We, fro* the band, are not big soccer around 10.000 euros, it is indeed a big price but looking at the
fans, but lt)e always cheer fo, our country with pride. result u)e nre aery happy with it and again, like Yaes says it is
worth eaerypenny of it! We also had the chanceto work with some
of the best europeanmetal musicians and artists like lan S. Eckert
!
comments?
Last
We want to thank you againfor this interuiew opportunity and we from Masterplan, leroen Simons, ex-drummer of Epica and
Heather Shockleyfro* Rock lgnition. And of course we had the
hope to be playing in the US oery soon! Seeyou guys later and
opportunitV of recording in one of the finest studios of Belgium,
THE
END.
year!
our
netp
CD
this
to
check
out
forSet
!1n't
Ace Studio, with a superbproducer, Frank Van Bogaert.
For
faaorit
album
I
chose
Ithyphallic
Epsylon
(Belgium)
Their album is called The Gift and it offers so many good
things in terms of memorable, quality, well-composed,
intelligent heavy/powerf prog metal songs. This cd has a
very good, clear production. The band released the cd by
themselves; however, this is a professional cd in every sense,
including a very cool cd booklet of 28 pages (counting front
and back) in color, with lyrics. If you demand high quality,
this is something to consider in a serious way. If you don't
believe it, go their myspace page and hear for yourself. It is
not just onb or two songs are that good, if s the whole cd. If
you like finding new bands making quality metal, Epsylon
should be on your priority list.
Within the music you will find songs that emphasize
dynamics and variety, from plenty of uptempo moments,
lots of melodies, good midrange male vocals and good
higher female vocals working together or alone, some
elements that suggest a bit of prog metal (but not overdone)
with emphasis on memorable songs.
Yves (guitars, bass, keys) and Sylvie (vocals)
answered here. www.myspace.com/ epsylonmusic
With doronloading, myspace, etc. some do not take the time to
Iisten to music and want "instant gratification." Are you too
complex?Is ltour music heard blt peoplewho really like music, not
fashionsor trends?
I cAn't speakfor others, but I knota hua I
@on,
listen to music, and zuhetherl'm relaxing, working, driuing or
sleeping,I always try to absorbqll elementstpithin the music I'm
hearing to get into the feel of the album. But to ansuteryour first
question, I think there's nothing too complexfor metalheads:). I
must say that you are right, we did want to createsongs that are
enjoyablefor a quick listen, but can giue you a little extra uthen
you really try to understand the songs. Thankfully,f'rom what I'ae
heard so far, our music is being listened to by a lot of music
enthousiasts and zuhen you get good resplnsesfro* them, you
know it meanssomething.
Sylaie:I loae this questi-on...I think that what Yaesand I wanted
to giae to the public is something real, somethingyou can listen to
Iightly or heaaily depending on the mood of the moment. I think it
giaes-theopporfunity to pebple to liae through the songs and find
piecesin there to identify with, to think about... Although e1tery
during the writing phase,
song of the album camb-spontaneously
we-goae it a lot of thought while producing it, it then came
togelher as magic to our ears! One last thought, I didn't g,iaeupHi, how are you?
Yaes: Hey Mauricio! We're doing great here! For the moment hopeyet that eaen today in this fast, more and more uirtual world
'The Gift'. It's ou.r
peoplbhaue stoppedto really listen to music. lf so, they would lose
wdre rrr! busy doing promotionf6r6ur album
"albu*, aii our efforts"ar,e
nrusic
our
ma-kin!
into
going
a pieceof this great art that is music!
so
first futl
'knorbn
to as manv peopleas possible.The peoplehere closeto us
do uou face?
haue all reacted*ry *at so far, we are reitUi pleasantly sho-cked Is beins in a band like a marriaseT! What obstacles
ere
by all the great commentszLte'uereceiaed!We haaen't played any
are
deciiions
twoaLI
a
band."
Mostly
out
as
the
only
two
key
membersln
started
are
actually
Epsylon
because
yet,
Iiae showi
people
project and zpe'aebeei working with a feta guest musicians made by Sylaid E me, so naturally there are times when we
'to
fiIl in the gaps,but if we get an opportunity to play a.great disagreeand in the beginning that could causesomemarriage-like
shotn,TDe'redefinitely hoping tb get them all togetherfor a kick ass struggles, but these dhys, tliat doesn't happen anymore, it's feels
more and more like a utell oiled machine.
show!
Sylaie: I must say that it is hard at times, as music. equals
emotionsit sometimesisn't easy to agreeon aII detailswithout a
How much monelt did you spendT The looklet lQ-oksso nlce -I
ftao
would think this ii expeisiae!You releasedyour cdby yout:-selyes.? Iittle struggle... But it is our riihness too, two headstogether-,
Yaes: Yes we did, Iike most metal bqnds in Belgium (probably.in different \ackgrounds and huo dffirent worlds make a good mix,all countries), it's hord to get noticed, si especially when ii ltorrtd to"oil the machine as Yues says and this for the best of
producing a debut qlbum, you ian be-pretty sure you'll be payl.ng the music! @
eaerypenn. yourself.But it goeswithout saying that we're hoping ln my opinion, the biggest obstaclea metal band has-toface is the
to ftni a re\ird conipanyforEpsylon soon! Anyway, I can tell you -haae
fnct ihai there are so many great metal bands out there,-and you
to be able to eaenge[ s[ightly noticed in that seaof loudness.
thht the costfor the'priduction of this album was pretty high, but
in my opinion, wort'h eaery dini:! And now that you mention the (sad thing is that a lot-of me{al bands seemto be aery competitiue
bookiet,'it's a funry thiig actually, since we wanted a great about thal, zohilezueshisuld really be standing next to each other
IookinX booklet'from the slart. A lot of bands seem to pay less and promoting one and other). So I think it'.s.ueryimportantfq, f.
aftent\on to thii, but it's alzoaysaery important to haae a go2d., band to be oliginal. During the song witing s-tage,ute didn'.t
what we Jelt, b.utlootungqt 1!
eye-catchingpackage
for your produc{. But I ryi7h! hauegortea bi,t really think about it, we iust wrote
iuerboard t-hbreas deII-:), I.was so pleasedzuith the designer's ,o*i I think we came oit with somethingricogrizable, bu[ fresh
work that I kept askingfor tnore, so the booklet becamequite big,. and new as znell.As far as opportunitiesgo to play liue, I know
from mv former baids that' it's pretfi hard heri in Belgium,
snd I found oiut afteriuardsthat going oaer o cer-tain.number
.of 'especial[y
toith
happy
io get somedecentshows,'buti keephoping that this will.
than
more
quite a bit extra, buthell,"l'm
pages'costs
changr, andlf u)e can help make that happen,we definitely wiII!
the result!
We do haae a few radio stations that haae metal-oriented which in my aiew representschildhood (r.uhoneuerwanted to be a
progr-am.s,
but tha-t'smostly restricted to a particular sub genre
of
coolpirate?i)
-enough,
metal. (sometimes-it's too heauy, sometimes not heauy
qhtg; 4h!t4,.. The Pirate! Of courseI enjoyedthe moaiesof "The
etc...) So it's hard to get airplaybn the right stations,ea:engetting Pirates Of The Caribbean," but there is dn6ther stont behiitd this
any airplayat aII...
"Pirate"-songlThe idea came to me last year while Liaainga little
trip to the Keys in Florida with my fiae year old son. The place is
mhgical,you ian still smell thosepirate sfiirits there..;)
{re people-_that
fee lrou liae understanding your music?
Pgs; Sadly, the scene in our city, an[ eaen country is bad. It was extremehl inspiring and so came the words, a little "TDink"
p.glgium is a country that is mostly-into Dance music, s-oif you'd
to all pirates utiihin us an"despeciallymy son! The rest of the lyrics
Iike to get somewheleouer here, you better becomea dj :) nitt the are created in about the same waq, a situation appears and so
pgoplethat are into our music do really appreciateand-enjoywhat
comesthe inspiration. "ForeuerAigel" is actually'inspiredfro*
tltey're listening to. I rememberfrom itast'shows with othei bands an imagined sudden death, mixed with the real pain of the recent
that no matter how small the audience,they ul)ereas enthusiastas a
Iost of a closeone, the non-acceptanceof the ineaitable.Like Yaes
stadium crowd!
sayq aII songs are based on emotionhl parts of our liaes, my
greatestjoy is that I could write as I felt, and beingfollowed by
Somepeople aQthey get older sau only metal.from the 80sor 90s. Yaes's music uthich supports eaery single part of niy roords is
strongly as needed!
4?pendilg on the age .taasgood.Are there neuibands iou lfLe?!
Yaes: Of course I also loae the 70-80-90's metals cene, but I
wouldn't say the sceneis dead nun. You iust haae to knotp tahere Hor/t is t-hehealthcaresJtstemwhere you liue? you are aery sick
If
to look... Tfiere'sa lot of araesome
bandsout there,but they'rejust
and needs\rgery, do ltou haae to wait q long time-7
not being promoted ai they utould haue been in the 8"T's.'l'ae Yaes: WeII, here in Belgium rr)e haue an excellent healthcare
qwoyt beena fan of Gamma Ray, Hellout)een,Ayreon, Symphony system. Eaeryonehas the right to this, not only the rich. tNhether
a milfionaire or youZlrrp in a carton blox,,f 1/ou're sickor
4,...At far aq neu)er bands go, I didn't haae-a lot oi time {o iou'-re
discoaer'newbands the last ye"arzahenI was working on our ou)n "needto go to the hospitlol,you ian aisit a doctor*\tiltn 5 minutes
album, but a fairly new band that comes to miid for me is
and most of it is refu'nded.i'm pretty sure zoehaaesomeof the best
'Stormrnarrior',
a german puaermetal band who's got Kai Hansen systems in the rnorld for these kind of things. And I think it's
as.their_producer,so you'can't go zurong there lguess :) I also rgally about time that- countries like the llS"do something about
enioy 'Streamof Passion'and someolder 'Epica' a Io1.
tltig as well, eaeryoneshould haae the right to this.
My
recent
metal
albunis
Ayreon's
are
album
Sylaie:
I had thi opportunity to liue iithe tlnited Statesfor four
fobquite
9:i!ijg:
'010 1 L 0 0 1' a
lot , f ls t u e l l a s A a a n ta s i a ' s ' T i e S c A recrow ' , yea-rsand so got to knaw your medicalsystempretty weII... I{ taas
Helloween's 'Gambling With The Deail'. Nof new bands of course, inde-ed aery surprising to me oaer there, at
first I didn't
but that's zohatI'm inlo thesedays...
understandany of the insurancepolicies.. . I must say it was a lot
harder than here io get good medicalcareand aery toigh rahenyou
" mnke a liain
get- refuqed becauseyou don't haae the right insurance! Aid I
is this attitude
inde-edfeel for the people liaing in the States being denied of
blcluse the musicianutilTdo whateaernot tohaui a-iob?
medical attention, but in the same way, I most applaud tie
Sylaie: t'm
>ylorc:
I'm not -rea.Uy
"success".Making
in search
searchoJ
of "success".
Makiig a liuing
liai
out
community netruorks that are created because of it, that is
-really rn
of music..h.as..alwayl
begn,hard'I think, and now ihrtt dafs roe something.thatzle haaelittle of ouer here,perhapsbecauseit's just
could caII it "trtopia"...When I utrite lyrics, rather than seaiching not needed,but a lot of American peoplehaae iheir heart on iheir
I.tend more to pass a"messageout to the publil,
handsto giae and to carefor others...
for "s1.t9cess"
something t.o-relateto, somethingcomforting-and/orconfroiting, a
Iittle material to enjoy the listening a:ndtalling it all in". of coirse
Who are vour fauoritesinsers?Haaeuou takenlessons?
Iike any artist -out' there, a good"recognitioi of ou, work is the
dmiration
greatestranard! ;-)
Siyqye Simons'from Epica, iut I listen to qii kind of music;
f_of
yaCS;I'm surefor somepeople/bands,this is the case.And I would
lrleta-I_(Virgin Steel, Masterplan, GammaRay,...) Prog, Rock,
be lying if I yid I don't' drbam of making music as a full time job,
Hard Rock, French Rock and chansons,Edith-Piaf... Allernatiue
Rock like Heather Noua or Natalie Merchant...i yew up in a
2"t y?y ?qn't lose track of realiiy here.-lf you're noi Metallica or
Iron Maiden, you'd best'haaea"job on th[ side. Eaery musician I
classicalballet world and so I also listen a lot to classicalmu'siclike
Icnuy, eaenfro:m successfulbands, haae a fulltime joi on the side. Rauel, Daorak, Delibes,.. .
"rDho'ueworked
Yaes:Oh, and Tsaikous,tchai, taik, well, the Russiandude!
!nd- a tpt gI them are nou; also great pioducers
hard to build their o-wn{rydio, prdduce neu)erbands and get their
Sylaie:Tchaikoaski!Yues:Yiah,"Iknow... ;)
main incomefrom that. I think it's the most logical careerThoiceif
SJblq Anyw-ay, like I said aboae,I haae been in the Statesfor a
trying to git
!/oy h?y9.sucha passionfor music. So I'm definitely
'
few years and a great lady heard me singing, Luckily she wai also
into aII thoseproducing{echniquesas well...
a great singing teacher,so I took the opporlunity aid so the great
adacnturebegan...;-)
Where do the lurics for "The Piratql' come.from? "pirates of the
Anlrthing else? When wiII you come to Madison. Wisconsin to
Iurics haaesubtle comme
rock out with peopleoaerhere?!
Yaes:I'd like to thank you for this interuieznand aII the peoplewho
support our music1nd scene,keepgoing strong!!! I cai't giae you
any date on a Madison gig iust ye{, haha, butlthen ute riach ihat
stage,_you'lllf t4y firsl to know! See,ncna I can't wait to grab
somebeersruith all the metalheadsoaer there! :)
an obaious theme Sltlaie; I'd like to add as a final note that making this album was
one of the greatest,fun experiencesI'ue had in *t lrfr... America,
Here We Come!!! @
THE END.
Moraines
(CroaUa)
The Perfect Pantheon of Absence is music where melancholy
and melody run up against doom massiveness, meld and
result in something like spiced-up, rocking, jamming,
massive headbanging heaviness. What Moraines does is
something not many bands do: keep super heavy music
interesting and avoid monotony.
Moraines is Sabbathesque rrtfs, melancholic and
dissonant melodic hooks; creative drumming with a good
feel for the song, revving things up when necessary, very
much at the heart of this machine; songs with a huge rhythm
perfect for the live environment; and just a generally creative
way of making heavy, doomy music interesting through
different time/mood/rtrythm
changes; limited, but growled
vocals (with sensibility; no dog barking, yelling stuff) and
some clean vocals, too. www.myspace.com/moraines
metal-core is predominant genre in Zagreb. But there are signs
that this "post-metal"thing will becomepopular as well. Time roill
tell, as always...
What are the htrical ideas for " Garden of his turbulence,"
Lyrics are the reflection of my thoughts. The lyrics on the EP deal
with term of perceiuing the reality and life and also focus the
narration through the eyesof a personutith a messiahcomplexzoho
is facing an upcoming end of days and dtaelling on his last
thoughtsand emotions.We haae limited aocalson the EP, due to
the desire that our music wiII speak more for itself, so the lyrics
haae limited role in our music - they are only echoof ideasu),eare
trying to portray with our work. ''Garden of his turbulence'' deals
with the creation of hfe and eaer-changing hierarchy of lrfr.
Human is just a witness of paradise giaen to him, an electronic
impulse in the seaof information, but still roe tend to get arrogant
and claim our liaes and our planetfor our own. The song also deals
with coping with our linear existenceand the inaisible hand which
Hoznareltou? Tell what's happeninqTuithuour band!
giaes the purpose to life. " And the waters separatethe space"
really fine.
dealsrnith symbolism of water as the most important elementof life
lust returned from our gig in Split and already there is another on Earth. In the beginning of time it harness,ed
the life from which
booked shozoin Zagreb in the beginning of April. We started the human hfe is uoou)en,
separating the earth and creating the land
working on some new material, there are already drafts for 4 more on which the life will blossom. Since history has a tendency of
ne(o songs and we also played our neruestsong " Fiery the angels repeating itself, the waters will separate the lands once mor4
feII" Iiae on the last ftuo gigs. Sort of an introduction into the next
proaing its power to the human ciailization. This zaill be the next
phaseof Moraines' roork. We are currently looking for datesfor a
phase of the eaolution of the human as the cognitiue being, and
small europeantour roith our goodfriends Emphasis (check them zuakinghim up to perceiaethe reality horoit really is.
out!) and we are qlso preparing material for a split EP with one
"Temples in chrome" dealstaith problem of religion. Not
band fro* England, but more on that sometime later because in the context of already establishedreligions, but in the context of
euerything is still in preparations. During this time we will
belieaingin something higher and that we are not alone. Faith and
completelyfocus our ffirts on creating new material for the hope are the most intense impulses
for surciaing. The song deals
album, nthich in my opinion zoill be a neTr)direction for Moraines. with
faith in terms of belieaing in the human race, sort
"f
So the plansfor 2009 and 20L0 are recording the mentionedsplit
"whateaer we do, euerything wiII be alright in the end" approach
EP and our first full length, and of courseplaying liae as much as - euen I personally belieae in that. At least, we know how to
we can.
suruiae. So the songfollows narrqtion of the preaiously mentioned
personfacing the end of days, who is nozu the sole suruiaor. He
Can ltou salt what llfe is like.for Moraines in Zagreb Croatia?
says that uoeare aII " open and blank" pog, in the history books
WeII, Iife in Croatia is not as bad as peopleroould probably think.
and only nouo we are ready to be "written page" or, in other
It's definitely not easy most of the time, but people get use to
words, only now uoecan comprehendour purpose,and that should
certaii way 67tiaing, io it's difiicult to ascertain'hoiltwd are really
be our only religion. " Comedeath" obaiously dealsutith death but
doing in comparisonzoith countries in the EU. But I can without a
also, more importantly, zoith rebirth. Most people meet death
doubt say that we haae the most beautiful Taomenin Europe, so at
unprepared,armed only roith ignorant familiarity. In other raords,
Ieast that's comforting :)
peopledie simply becauseit is ineuitable. OnIy the ones that face
We are all different indiaiduals zL)ithdifferent liues, some death as they face life, can understand that death is not the end.
of us are in college,s6meof us are employed,bi{ zzeare all trying
Sometimesthe destructiondoesn't stand for the end, but rather for
to make the best of opportunities rl,e qre giuen. As long as there is- the beginning,a new and a betterbeginning.So I guesswe haui to
money for neut omps I am not complaining. We play in rented " closeour ftightened eyes'' first and the life itself wiII " guide us
falloit shelterand recenthl we made some much needadjustments outside".
'to
makeit a comfortablep[acefor rehearsals.
The name of the EP - "The perfect pantheon of absence"
The situation with placesto play in Zagreb is pretty bad. - is actually taken fro* the book called "House of Leaues" by
Thereare a coupleof great clubs like Mochaara and KSET but lor
Mark Z. Danieleruski. This quote inspired me aery much. It
example Mochaara is closed by the decision of lggre.b's
reminded me how blind and ignorant we are and how absent the
administrntion due to some " diffelencesin opinion", tahich is a
truth is in our liues. Our ciailizntion is the pantheon of that
great shamebecauseMochaara had a really good programmeand absence.
great bandsplarledthere,world famous bands qnd also plenty of
bands fro* Croatian underground scene. KSET is another great INhat is the economic situation in Croatia like for workers and
club, d uenlfamous lne in Croatiaand getting a 8i8 therewas-aery
hard, but fortunately wefinally got a date thereand we are all uery Vesion'therewill bi u,ars becauseof the tensionsbefweenRussia
excited about that sitow."Othei {han Mochaara and KSET thereare aid Georgia and other countries like Poland?
coupleof smallerplacesto play but they rarely haue-bqndssimilar
plenty of problems rnith the economicsituation and a
Croatia llas .economic
to Moriines, for ixample. it ii general[yreally harl to-get gigs in
question of
integritu is a complex one. Neuertheless,
Croatia due to unchangeablenepotistic attitude ftont people ihere are aiwaysjobs, the ploblbm lies in the mentality of people.A
running- the music scene,but we are trying our best.,
student in Cioaiia can work part time jobs for 4 or more dollars
There IS a metal scene in Zageb, but it really lacks 'to
per hour, which in the contexf of Croatian currency is g-oodmo-ryey
aariety and it's susceptibleto trends - for the last couple of years
liae the student's life. But the frustration among the working
peopleis always present,especially
when it comesto syndicatesof
-where
Iarge corporations.Then again,
isn't? In comparison to
some other countries in the Balkans, hfe in Croatia is good.
Worried about the tensions? Of course not, young people-here
don't yorry about anything. AII'those political"macfrn'ations
seem
a-eryfar all,ay to aaeragey-oungCroat.'Croatia is a puppet of ElJ,
Jor now we are not a part of global political scheming,and the only
u)ny the relationship between USA and Russia-can influenie
Croatia is the sameway that relationship will influence the'Ell. So
in that aspect,I don't think peoplehereworry about that.
Would uou sau that vour music exqresses
a moodof desaeration.of
It seemsto me that vour lvrics are of an introspectipg_nglulg,_Ug!
It is correct that I am not concernedwith politics in my lyrics. My
lyrics tend to paint a picture and initially could bi Considered
poetry. Mqst of them were written years beforebeing usedfor these
songs ruith the exception of 'I am at one" zuhich is basically a
summation of my life and the duality and onenessof aII thiigs.
" Necro" is more primitiue, desolateand cold, being more of a
narration about a corpse in a graue,forgotten and rotting for aII
eternity.
Is_ playing
liae
a
goal?
VVhy or
why
not?
Playing liae is not a goal becausein thii area and the scenein
general there is no renl turnout and peopledon't really care about
the music, just a place to hang out for the night or get drunk. I
zaouldrathbr sharb my music iuith thosethat ire truiy passionate
about real black metal, not just looking cool with the.irfriends.
am correct or not really?
I would -say you are not correct. We are aII positiae and hopeful
people, but with our music we play the role of a critic. ind
sometimescriticism can look pretty gloomish and dark. We are
ry.grely,a. critics of human kind, spirituality and the future.
Neaertheless,u)e celebratethe life and the beiutv of it. War has
nothing to do with our musici zue do not like" tci get into the
politic-s,and social anxiety is counterproductiae.Our music is the
one that tries to transcend the queition of national identity or
socinl behaaiorism,but to ask the question of human identity-as a
part of the entire race. Spirituality is the fcirce behind our inusic,
not the material.
that -my.aocals,will continue to be intense and full of rage with an
emphasison deliaery and annunciation. As fo7 imfroalng I feel I
always try to make my aocals angry, tormented and dark-with
eaery song I record.In terms of musical deliaery or sound quality a
professioial studio used properly could only"Iend to thi touird.
Do vou haueanvthins elseaou would like to sau?!
IMat is the U.S. Black Metal Sect? I haae noticed that the
readersof Metal
Bulletin and lhopi: you stay tuned for riore fro* Moraiies. You
can expectmore interesting and complex musicfrom us in the near
THE END.
future.
Death Shroud (u.s.t
Thefirst impression of Death Shroud is raw, necro, blasting
black metal powered by blazrns chaos. However, it's not al-l
speed, as the guitar work displays the classic black metal
guita_1style of riffs that work the speed with feeling. There
are distinctive hooks, sometimes sounds like longei guitar
solos, by keeping the riffs distinctive from each other.
The vocals are also classic black metal style,
sounding painful and expressive, throat-destroying style,
but are not in the raspy family, i. *y opinion. I Urint
sometime,s supgl raspy vocals can sound annoying.
The self-titled recording is five songs of traditional,
no nonsense black metal. One thing thaf I think Death
Shroud could improve on is the use of a drum machine,
since I prefer a real human player to do drums. Maybe this
changes
in
the
future.
Sterthanas
answered.
*ysp ace.com / deathshro u dv a
:_y*.
C.an you =tell 4s about the members of the band?
I am the sole member in Death shrouM
except the drums which I programfirst befoiel"write alt the rffi.
Hsw lon
mysteriis dom Satho-n.?I",Ifipaled Naz'arene ,,ToI co"rmpt norz
norz norz", Immortal "DiabolicalfuIlmoon mysticism and'Samael
'.'A!orship.him"_.
It was Nlayheni and Furoiymous though that
inJluencedme the most at thii time period. In tirms of sheer"feeling
or.expressiaenessfor me it utould haae to be lon- Noddieidt of
Dissection.
Where do llou think that you can takeyour aocalsin thefuture?
bqnds that are starting to get their namesaround. is therea scene?
The US Black metal sect is an organization solely for the
promotion of black metal, with no political agenda whatsoeaer.
Thry do support and help promote Death Shroud.As for a scenein
formation, there are a handful of bands that "try"-to play black
'metal
and a few that succeeci
buti wouldn't really"caltit'a iangible
s,ceng,,maybe the same fraenty peoplefrequeniing their -fau"orite
local bar eaerv zueekend,but real- black metal is in the
undercurrents,itot in a physical scene.The music " scene"around
Blacksburgis mostly Indie rock, lam bands, Pop-punkand Dl's.
There is.no placefor Black metal. Black metal is morepriuate and
perso.nal,
somethinglistenedto in your homeor uehicle..
Therejust
aren't q ton of black metallersout and about toutn,in any city Iae
seen.Black nietal is shunned bV the mainstreamand I think tfiat is
because
it
is
not
them
anway.
frt
fo,
Currcntly thgre are more than a few thrash bandsgetting signed.
Is this thrash as a trend? Some of the bands are iaen utearing a
" genuine". Does it appearto you that-mostblackmetal musicians
are
more
serious
than
thrash?
Yes,-I would say that this thrash resurgenceis a trend, recently
madenew again-bv the success
of bandslike Municiaal Wastr. it
fq, ot the s/ecific style of shoeshnd clothing etc. I iould say that
.the
" thrash" Iook is"afaihion and has becoite cliche.But thi same
can be said for any trend or style, eoen thosewho claim to be black
metaljust.becauie they bougfit spikesor a bullet bett and put on
corpse paint. I do belieae some black metal musicians are more
serious and musically ueatiae than thosewho play thrash, but as
in a.Il types of musii there are also those in blick"metal who play
b?li"S, watered down rehash and look and come acrossas quiie
ridiculous. This is zuhat giaes black metal a bad n'ame.
,r anti-Semitism, the
There_arg bqnds promoting racism and
hltrtd qf lr*.ith p6op!r. Do-lrou how orl, opinion obort thit? k
there
racism
by
metallers
who
are
uthite?
Death shroud. There is ignorance eaeryrwherenot"juit the metal
scene.I don't think that metalheadswho are white are all racists
and I personallydon't carewhat someone'srace is. We all inhabit
and
try
to
suruiae
on
the
sqme
planet.
Afe metal people liking ltour music nmt in lapan?
We are actiae, and there is not yet it so much for around 2 years. I
am
publicizing
it.
Is the old black metal sound (Venom, Hellhammer, Bathoryr.
Sodom,etc.\ an accident,fromlack of plauing abili4t andbad studio
production? And would you say the Death Shroud sound is on
purpose? How do you get that raw guitar sound?
I think thosebands soundedraw becausethat was the production
of the days.I wouldn't say that sound was an accident,more of a
result of the production and playing. Death Shroud's sound is
intentional and I get that sound by using a Zoom 606 processor
and running direct to my recording program. INhat you are
hearing is ttno guitar lines with dffirent distortions and a
distorted bass line. The lead melodies are recordrd by miking a
cabinet and playing at high aolume while recording.
"Brain
a
INhat do ltou think about Darwin's explanation, eaolution, of life
on
planet?
the
many cosmic unknowns man cannot explain. I don't really
considermyself religious but I do belieaethere is a common leael of
understanding that all can achieaethrough rntional thought, Iogic
and onenesstaith nqture. We all haue a conscienceqnd a senseof
right and rorong, this is more than science. There qre too many
coincidencesfor hfe to just be by chance.I belieaethere are forces
at
roork.
INho
Earnest
Washing"
do
you
religious
in
certain
think
cult
inspired
blt
tphatT
comics
is
braintaashed?
belieaers
etc...
Wllat is brain washing ideas and ,for what purpose?
I describedthe state that was brainwashedwhile recognizing the
self zahofaded while keeping self. I haae nothing to do with music,
but the mass communication thinks whether it is a kind of
brainwashing recently, but, the person of composition is Miurd(guitar).
Sanbou
"The
INhat
about
CrueI
World"?
I stockeaerv information on the earth which included a heart and a
soul of the"huinan and I image an absolute secrecyproject to let
Iooseto the new spaceand composeit. I describethe statefilling up
the many parts of the world by a colloid in the natneof the relief of
the soul while containing it to the houseof peopledespairing of in
many disputes, u)ar. The person of composition is lmo
(uocals/guitar).
Do you sing in lqpanese? I cqn't tell. It's growling.
We sing in English, but our linguistic ability does not catch up
with it, and the publication of the English text zoill restrain itself
as of a thing of a thing deaotedto. On the other hand, TDeannounce
text.
lapanese
Do
haae any
other
news
or
comments?
ltou
Thanks for the interuiew! I haue played in many bands but
cunently I am drumming for my brother's band The Ziggurat
which plays his brand of "Mythos metal" . As for Death Shroud I
ruhere?
will continue to promote the E.P. raorking tunards label Are there a lot qf immigrants in lapan? From
Yes.
I
Korea.
haae
much
and
distribution and support. Stop by the site and thanks again!
China
feel
THE END.
Do
you
rights?
think
thelr
should
haae equol
Yes. But, actually, it might be dffirent, but theforeigner who was
Assertion (Iapan)
my friend did not suffer the disaduantage in particular.
Brain Washing is the name of their most recent recording of
thrashing and melodic growl metal. There are plenW of
Do you know that the U.S. goaernmentput [apanese-Americans
in
guitar melodies that make the songs a good listen. This
lI?
concentration
War
cemps
during
World
recording is only two songs but it has a good attitude and
feel. The guitars do have a certain penchant for melody so
of World War II, but do not haue the particularly deepknowledge.
that ifs not generic chug-chug thrashing (good, since chugchug is so bland and faceless). The feel of the music is
What does Yamati (drumsl contribute to the band, musically?
energetic, so they sound excited to be playing and it shows.
drum.
Continuing
beating
a
The band uses the world " soLrl" to describe their metal. I'm
not sure what that means, but I would say that their
OTDN
Does
he
utrite
his
aarts?
Bassist A demosound sourceis basic,but almost arrangemententrusts it.
riffing is probably it.
hooks/thrashy/energetic
/vocalist Gomura answered the questions. He apologizes
that his English is not good, but this zine doesn't care about
drums?
did
he
be"in
plalring
When
that. www.myspace.com/heavysoulmetal
naw.
I
around
for
the
more
sonos
Do
you
hque
.futqrq?
Do you think that Koreans who haae liaed in lapan for
noTo. generations should haae the right to be citizens? Thelt areBrainwashi.g
correct?
citizens
norn,
not
e.P.? Is naturalized in lapan; of them think that is
your
you
record
did
Where
and think that
free,
it into a pC o"4 tlpy4
there may be the citizen's right since liae in lapan. I do not haae
the other musicnl instruments with a PC at home. imo of Gt,Vo
opinion.
discriminatory
particularly
the
is a complete indie.
and Masterling. It
does Mix
songs together?
write
the
Imo
Miurq
Do
and
showg - play
you
Do
too.
- Iiae? Yes.
songs,
writes
Gomura
And
It is not so frAquent, but does ttuo once a month. We perform y
1'0. Do theu arsue a lot or do thev like the some bands?
MoY
on
eaent
plan
aoluntary
We do hot hauetroublein a band ii particular.At the time of
which resists solo asfor haaing trouble part-time assignment. The
almost faaoite thing is the \ame aboht the Melodicdeathmrtal.
or not?
Do_I hear someAmott influencesin the guitars
Miura
in
particular
takes
influence.
Who are Qomura's aocal inspirations?! Does he play bassonly?
Be
thir* the feeling packing ruith a text in particular to be the
influence. i am {he'originil that I haue begun'to take out the death
aoice recently becauseoriginally I did not hear death metal. There
is not the musician consciousin particular. If it is easy, the guitar
splits open, but there is not the ikill as I shdw it i_npitblic. iwork
as
a
base
and
a
aocalist.
Hoq old are you? You haae no influence.from blackand death.
Andreas:ruell im 16, and both Chris and Dennis are L8.
No ute don't bring in any Death/Blackinfluences,though ute listen
to alot of other stuff than just Thrash. This is sofar a Thrash, and
nothin'-but thrash-band.'Butwe aII haae our differentinfluences
and fauorites of course,7r1e
would be lying if toe ihid that '{uelisten
to nothing but"thrashmetal.
Chris: True.
Somepeopleare saying that a lot bands are plaving thrash because
-will
something happens, i dont know what, then we
still be
playing! As it has beenseenbefore,other influencescomestogether
in a bands music, it's not impossiblethat rne utould take it further
your
plans
2009
and
2010?! at somepoint, but for naw... it's Metal ThrashinMad hehe.'Andas
Wat
_ qre
.for
a-t pgrform LIVE energeticallyanil want to produce a full album. far as-.the "trend" thing you said; we didn't really notice the
Thank
"trend"- we thought it was a shame that the whole 80s thrash
THE
vou!!
END.
scene-had been put out. We wanted to play thrash, and also let
peopleknuu that: "EY, thrash ain't dead.andlong gone, it is aliae
Battery (Denmark)
Battery_
plays jazzy bluegrasscountry music by which I and we are eaoking it as we play!" That many otier bands think
mg?nthat they do not and insteadplay dirty, rough thrash that raay and qre troing the sami to bring thrish back...weII thats
just great
with sick vocals. This band's music is no pretty Sunday
Q,-hris:leah the Main-genre in thesedays AIN'T Thrash,far from
picnic in the p,arf unless pretty means uglt and Sunday
means dirty and the park means a thrash zone in which cas-e it. And eaer sinceAbattoir, ute haae had a "bond" befweenui and
real 80s Thrash! It's really cool to be able to takea genrefrom the
4u. ygs t4iq is a picnic and the words mean something
"golden ages','and re-Iia-eit your ozun way. Persinallyi the B\s
altogether different from the same.
metal
scenehas influenced aid interressteilme a lot. But it has
Their recording is their first demo and it has a dirty,
been-thatfor so long that euen if it Becamethe new trend, it
raw uptempo thrash feel. They like 80s thrash and they clo
zuot4ldn'tchangemy aiezuon it. So if you ask me, we will STILL be
sound like that. If you want to hear a young thrashers g-etto
in 2018,and Bhttery rnill stiUbe ptaying tr\}-eail-oldschool thrash
work, then this band provides the zonibies and music, fr you
hhaha!
provide the interest. They are working on a new recording,
too,
as
they
explain
here.
"Toxic In?ad"e_rs"altd "Zombie Assault" talk about slimy
www. myspace.com f b aftery zombies
cleatures.fNith_zombies. what ideasare ltou conaeyingT
fu.fuegp;Toxic Inaaders is about the way you actia\i LET drugs
kill you. I wrote the Zombie Assault lyricibecause i liaae a stroig
Andreos: well ute FINALLY made thehrst demohehe.Ambitions
interest in... yes horror moaies. I think Zombies are cool, and tlle
nis6een huge and_many,but the thiig'is thii ie aie aII busy with
idea 9f the Dead rising to kiII again is awsome,so a song that
both musicil AND noi-musical mattZrs aII the time so rue iimpty
matclies the old and clissical Zofibie mouieswould iust be"cooli
cynt fiyl the time or spaceto rehearsethat often,-that slows ihit
thought.. and it turned out quite cool i think hehe.' But its not
down. But nsu) we haaethe demo tape in our hands- it's beginning
impossiblethat the lyrical themeszuill aary fro* song to song or
to takeshapeand we hauea goal more than before,vou kin[da neid
demo
to
ddmo.
tlmt to stayfocusedand sharp in a band we think. "
Chris: Blood 'n gorg is some wicked kanl stuff, so why not write
Chris: \edh, and neut material is in the making. The things that
ntusic, basedon it heh? Allthough i zpouldlike to aniounce that
slows tlrc processdorun, is also the geographical distance b"efween
the nelo material holds more and-differentlyrical themes, and that
us. But we are working lt tl,n nex{ demo) that hopefully wiII see
zueutrite about what tpe hate,and dboutwiat we like! And as what
the light of day at the eid of the summer 09.
goesfor eaerything else;i don't really giae afuck.
in your city or town?
QoeFBattentplqy a lot=shqws
Would
" success" turn you into a sell out like aII those
Andreas: lrclrcrro ttoJar from it. Not dropping names-buti would
sayTitedanish sceneirrtit big time. rher[ iri'o iti-io"as hereand
Andreqs: h1nmm,i agre-ethat has happend,it sure has. But many
there worth men.tioning, tilat would be(my "opinion of course)
great. bands haoe made a liaing wi'thout turning into sell-oit
Denial of Ggd,Victimize4Crucifix,Lipid to hame some,"sorry if i
pussies.
long as we get SAMEWHERE with this, that is
forget some(of course Mercvfiil fate' but i suppose that ddseh't enough -Asme to keepup the enthusiasmand ambitions a loong
Jor
for
count hehe;)-alsoDennis qnd I libe in vejle- th'e'onlymetal we get
time. Howeaer if you just keep looping with rehearse,witd,
here are either the danish mainstream shii bandswh"odrop by oilce
rehearse,
write... an-dneier get airyuhere.it can be reeeallyhard to
in a uthile- or the " Annual" Lipid shout zaich we look
f6niard to
keepup thejoy of working in muiic and play...at leastfoi me. But
e,arryyear hehe.-there^isnothii-g much to do exept to iupport the
we'do'this lieiausezue,"iov playing loud'an"dfast thrash metal and
ynAUtt't
Iocal Record-store(Stereo Sludio-Veile FUCK
becausewe are dedicatedmetalfreatrsourselaei.I can only speakfor
C4riq: INhats keeps us from playing shozasis that we are stiil
myself but I want to get this- thing out on stage and rialiy bring
missing a bassplgyer-wich ta_ehopewiII changesoon. I agreewith
chaos and mayhem a[ong when we play liaei- That is My mailn
Andreas about the scenein Dentiark. But yoil can seetEat people
goal- to make"Battenl etien stronger liie,and play some tlhrashin
ay pe.Xlnning to reform old bands, and iignt nuo you can see
metal that wiII turn peoplesbrainlnto shit hehe.
danish legendsas Euil or Denmarks-finest:,{rtitlery li6e again!
Chris: lt has neaer harmedanyone to be "rewarded" for their hard
work. And many bands haue made it WITHOUT selling out. To
me , its aII about making someau)somehellthrashin metal, get it to
the masses-liae in peticular, that is rewarding enough to me.
What areyour.futureplansT
Andreas: The plans are to make the next demo- we haae written
new, faster, more thrashing songswhich zuill be on it. We are also
planning a better production this time. So if you like the first
demo, or just fast fucking furious B)s Thrash Metal - you should
really checkout the next, it's gonnabe "rrrete' feeei" ;)
Chris: Yeah mayn for sure! If the first demo meant anything to
yow you tuill be thrashin along to the next release-garanteed!!
THE END.
Marsh (u.s.)
Life's Contradiction is the recordi.g from Marsh, who play a
both
sounds
metal
that
twisted
black
pretfy
or
melancholic/spacey
and
necro/obscure/abstruse
listens
repeated
but
that
(ambient/experimental)
demonstrates that there is a method to the madness.
However, they have real songs and the "experimental" does
not mean long moments of stupid yelling in a cave or sfuff
like thal it is more like twisted melody. Marsh is probably
insulted that I am calling them black metal or spacey
because they probably consider themselves as "other" and
thafs fine, too. Nevertheless, on here, this is still within the
realms of metal, just pretty brave and nonstandard.
I think the sound quality is ok, but it could be a bit
clearer. Maybe this is too "underground"! That means you
have turn it up with this one. I do believe that this is too
"necro" or too muffled, but the band does not think so. Just
my opinion. As usual, I hope in the future th"y get a real
machines.
drum
not
like
I
as
do
drummer,
www.myspace.com/ marshus
Magic Orchestra,Furdidurke, BoneAutI, Cartoon Drips, and some
miscellaneousCambodian60's pop stars like Sinn Sisamouthand
Meas Samon. 2008 releases..J'maery fond of the album that
Pyramids put out on Hydra Head. It's definitely one of my faaoite
albums.
Wt is Lrte's Contradictton a cassettetape? Are ltou anti-cd?!
We released"Life's Contradiction" as a cassettebecausewe felt
that sinceit wai recordedon tape it should be releasedon tape.I'm
not anti-CD, but I do prefer uinyl and cassettesmuch more than
CDs.
INhere do you record? Do ltou not think the sound qualitlt is a bit
too muffIed? WilI lrou do anltthing to ,ftx this problem?
We record our music in a basement with a Tascam 4-track
Portastudio.I'm sort of pleasedzuith huu it sounds.I think we
could hauedonebetterbut we don't think it's muffIedor anything.
I find the album boring at times. Our music has becomemore rqzo
and noisy thesedays. I'm much more pleasedruith the music ute
lately.
haae
been
making
Yput ppealeqgraspy.What do you thinky
Byte distorts his aoice so he doesn't destroy his aocal chords.
We'ae started to do somereal singing on the new material. I guess
addition.
the
only
new
that's
What about in terms o.fimproaing the guitar pla+ting?!
l'ae just been experimenting with noise and effects rttith my
guitars and pedals. That's the only naa thing ute're adding when
it comesto that. We're just distorting anything roe can thesedays.
There are bands promoting anti-Semitism. Yet, in the metal
magazinesqnd websites,the reaiewersdo not saltanything about
-drqgons
rainbowsor zombies.IMat do ltou think?
sametopic as
I'm not a supporterof racism and Nazism.I don't understandwhy
Hi! VVhois marsh?
peoplehaaebeenpersecutingletasfor all of the years that they-haa-e
Uettot Marsh is Bvte Yenbot and KDY. Byte does aocals and been around. Something I'ue noticed is that most NSBM bands
proRramsdrums aid XOy handlesguitar. Ixioticezuedon't use a
comefto* countries that don't really haae any non-white people
and they shouldn't hate a group of peoplethey'aeprobably neaer,
basi. We don't need it. We like to manipulate the sound of our
recordings alsoand slsu) eaerything down slightly which lozoers beenaround! They haaeneaer eaenbeenqround coloredpeopleand
out and madecrappyand immature
I don't seewhy they hauegone
the notei of euerything in retirn. I{makes euerytling sound a bit
bands.
NSBM
unearthly.
Do rtou considerUour music to be both black metal and to be
IMat are lrou doing in 2009? What about201,0?
We're probably going to do some shorasin the summer. Marsh is
qualitV were clearer,would rrou sound more melodic.melancholrc, going to be dohe by 20t0 so nothing is going to happenthat year.
We haae some spiits in the worki and qfter those are released,
doomlt.
going to calllit quits. We'oe had enoilghof this and I'm sure
T-ffiose at the time we considered to haae some doomy black TLte're
aren't
just
there
THE END.
because
don't
we
nowadays
e[sehas.
but
elements,
eaeryone
methl'
any doom influencespresenl. I spriakfor myself when ! to.y that I
Hybrid Heaven
don't like d6om meta| anymore. lMen Life's Contradictton was
recordedwe Tnerelisteniig to a lot of post-blackmetal and some Hybrid Heaven (Mexico) is quite the listening experience.
They just sound like they want to go beyond the normal
doom bands like Warnilng and Wormphlegm. The music is
supposedto sound raw Elo-fi. We aren't fans of the crisp and metal sound and want their metal to stand out, to have it be
clirir productionsof most baids thesedays.'Also,-werecord on a
exciting, challenging even, when first hearing it. Metal
"that aids
rawness. people are often famitiar with the idea of having to hear a cd
to
tfie
so
GliShA
four-irack
several times before adjusting, understanding the songs-uld
Are you students,raorkers,etc.? HQ_wis-.tbetorlt.ltrQhe!?Jtgt liae? feeling the impact. Flybrid Heaven are pretty_ Syiltt of the
li\e it!2008?
listef to-?.Wa=t=didyou
above: their sound is complex, tight and overwhelming.
@tly
work. Richfield is q suburban town in
M
Hybrid Heaven's songs are filled with unexpected
Minnesota. It's not terrible,but it's not somethingI'm uery foryd turns, miklng
listen, p_rompting - thg
it an intereiting
of. I don,t go to manv metal shocos.I don't really care about the question, just-how many twists and turns does
f $yb.if
irnur, but"a nice oie is always a perk. As always, I'ae b.een Hearrett song have? Well, a lot. If s thrashy/death
Yellow
listening to The Smiths. I'ue alslobeei enioying Croisouer,
prog/ technical with black metal vocals. The speed is fast,
often blasting,_but it's creative, this is not tryingto be fast on
purpose. The Textures of Spirit is the name of their album.
www.myspace.com/ hybridheavenband
WeIl if thery is .somethi.ngdfficult to find musiciansfor an
experimentalproject totalli iniide the metal, most musicians in
this area who like the meial or are engagedto play this sfuIe of
music and want to play classicalgenrei (iuch as'dehth/ methl old
school (the heaay oi tirash of the"old schooDor otherwisewant to
Hq?_is the ci4r o! town tahereyou liae,for metal? Do you llaae_ play somemoreioday.-andis"metalcore,deathcore,or the like. Vrry
ctuos
wnere,
can
pW
few peoplewant q /llot project qnd lessof CASE metal, becauie
, Uou
,
they seeit unprofitable a'nd'risky, we had'somemembersthan the
e metal but is
somewhatdisjointed,not all people-wholistei to metal or is metal current alignment, but for their-oun reasonsas they were leauing
mouement,attending the shows, especiallyfor bands local bands. the band.As with purchase toolsif you buy them is kfficult and i7t
brlt despite this,.- if something sh,iuis and aery goodl
ryany cases qnd to try to get good tools. The Tirices of the
places to plyy metal there are plac& here in our small tiwnionly
instruments here are euen more expensiaethan'in the'LLS.,
when we uisit other countries-bands
will get larger. and it is uery euerything here goes up to a 30 to 406/odue to taxesand therefore
rare but sad that zuhil.ellaing in one of the"mostimportant cities 6f
thereis not much aarietrtof instruments,bandsor musicians-that
our country or eaen in Latin America, peopleare not drazunto see are good tools becausetite{ pose the brought
fro* abroadand buy
in action to the local talent,we had bett'erresponsein smaller cities cheaper
ther6.
taithin our country
-people in these cities is being deliaered,
tk^:rrf9. of the metal within the country is uery lar"ge,but only
In.Lqtin Alngrica a lot peoplebuy pirated copieso.fcds.But I think
30% of.the,sceneyou are interestedor kn6ut bandl in iour countfi
tt ts logical thqt peoplebult an illegal copy becausethe legal cds are
or_national,most peopleinside the metal is not intdrestedin tie
so experylrue_
that.it ma&eg.
it irltpossibleto buy the legal copies.The
Mexican metal becausethey think it is not up a good metal, and
this is not the point.
Piracieshere is rtthat is most coicerned to seII discsin alt genresof
the reality here is that there not many eaent organizers, music. \lery feru people haae the habit of buying origiital CDs
booking age.ntsand record company,becausepiople do noYthink of
becausein the caseof metal discs are more-expensi-ue
beiausemost
isking their money to-inaest in iational metal) if a band here iit
are imported and it is eaen dfficult to get a frut titles here in our
the country haae-achieued some recognition ritithin the same city and morefor new bands.Peopleutho burioriginal CDs because
country, in. most cases is because t4ey are all finance your
discs are really appreciatedthat they say so realTygood disc. Euen
promo.tion,but ?gi"s-so.bandsare not akpays good fiuality. lvletal
the younger generation no longer euen purchasepirated discs aII
here is not really llaying o aery profitaile hnd ii's simething
the music down fro* the netzuorkand the shirts ii uery rare to see
really sad to sei houi ta"Iented6qidt" huge throw in the towil
that a shirf
is sold here in
any ffiiat
Band
becausethey-aredisregardedby their own p"eoplennd in some clses
are able to haae sonrc proiection abroad but unable to leaae the Do ltou belieae_thattlryre zuill be a reaolution in your country
c.ountry..for lack of money
b:cluse, people zp_
-as the metal in the media if it is
transmitted
lalk about a new Mexican reaolution is something of much
9flen good melal, lut is aery rare rphile transmitting
national,m9tal, metal is something randlomon the radio to hear if
controaersyin-our country, but it is somethingthat if {ou"ask any
there.scheduledprograms, but they are night and not mqny ptopie person oaer 40 years will giue vou o total denTalon iiis issue, tie
can hear tlrc ta'an[ not ntuch theTejust Efew aery rare o1c'asi6ns reasonfor this- is that tlle re{tolution took place as does and a
and that is somethingmetal, and in'most iases is "moretraditional
century in our country, I leaaeout poor peopleeaenpoorerand the
or classicmetal. butbbaiouslv zoith the internet we all haae access rich pe-oplerich but not yet changed iheir economic turns, and
t.oeuerything we,taant and tiie adaantageis zaecan
find proposals. instead the onltl people taho benefitedwere the mercenaies and
this
that
criminals and they took oaer alt oir tax and they are still there,as
has
hetpeil
us
they always haa,! been,
ryany aillages and smkll tupns dissaper
Y,-ourl!,rics a.reabo4tleception and=the,fearo.[,failureand haaing with thesemurderers and mercenarlescalling itself reaolutiondry.
tlre collrage to art. what inspires the ideas of "The sores qf our
F.oypgoplg.rohodo not knozothat it is easy tisupp:ort a reoolutioin.
Admittedly t\ery.is much uncertainty inbur stie'etsand organized
foo!s
In the lyrics, Ttleqre.not-aery-ldent
crime is much bigger than anrl gouernment institution. H"ere,the
realize we truly feel or lmui felt. in-spirationcomesfrom the letters l.aw alo afraid it"tan make yiu"a criminal organization. De'spite
oJo.urc.urrentsituation in our locality. if rnestudj English, but to
this.most.people can establlsh their liues herd only the quesiion
write the letters in a way that is acciraie, ute had to i6ty on some itself is always a guard, neaer expectgoaernmentsitpport'in these
help.
matters
,f
security
As utell Tpesucceedin putting the concept of our ideologiesmore
l.ettersof a.certainclaim or tile socialhis'tonjof ourcoritry as in
How hqae people feact_e_dto your cd in your country?
t-hgc.a.2e
of t.heto-pic,"marking passqgeszaiih blood,, issue{, ,,The m a -m,atteroJ national public reaction to our album has beenadry
Mask" anchored to The Blfndness",, The sores of our roots
here in our country but u)ea.reaery ueryfezpbanls
Egod,becaus.e
"prettending Fullness" is aery personalfor ne (Ardoi show some that play this style. we haue bee"nwell receiaed,il,e eu:ei had good
anger, but the inspiratiort of-tlieseissuis are thteenuironment in
reaiewsfto* people elsewherein the world, and this record we
wlich they liae an'd the relaiionship I haue or haue had with manv
haue sent some20 record labels, but only 3 of us olJerseas
and we
people in .tlmt enaironment . but'l think it is good lyricks the{e respo,ndedcommentedthat the music zoasaery good but not zpas
concepts in the subiects that utill be the same"as simeone who
what. they.sought, but a company is aery eith"usiasticwith our
identifies.with th.e_m
qnd apar-tftory rescuing the music, you can music, and actually wanted to thiow our disk acrossAmerica and
"attention
saae the lyric2.
Euro.pe,we prefer better to giae another option, sincein the month
of the great
-This is.sohething I caII the
interuiew and I am glad
you
mZntioned
the
issues',pretteiding oJM.p we and our secondlecord discwith a productionfar better
Fullness"
and
sores
" the
tf
our
roots"u in all respects,and this record gonna selt directlv to the national
com.pany yo! had commentedand this is aicompaniedby a
.of
di.fficult
plq,
to.find
oeople
national tour. Eaen if yoy already haue a support of d compar! to
to
this
style
of
technical
music?
Yas,,it
k i t ,
remain independentii aII aspectls,of course'ipe'd iike to c'onciude
10
roith a trans-heaayroeight,it can bring benefit to our music and
metal bandstalk about
etc.IMu shouldmetal
identifu with the
our shorosall oaer the rnorld! That is the dream of all Bands hehe.
nd not the underdos?
Yet rae loaewhat ute do and be independentand deaelopmusic 1st
Ross(guitar\:(Laughs) It's about identifuing with the underdog. It
Ieael in a Third World country like ours that we belieaegiaes us
was written about peoplewho manipulate and aictimise others and
extra points comparedto many foreign bands that haaemuch more our retaliation to them people. I think it depends on people's
support in all aspects,we are aII young musicians band members perceptionand the way they interpret songs.I can understand why
and this giues us more adaantageof being able to exploit our
the title "Possessionof the Weak" might make people think we
potential qnd make a really kick ass! And zuehope that this nezo were controlling the zaeakyet it is a statementabout someoneelse
and not an action of our own. The lyrics throughout the rest of the
record
that
is
on
the
wav
to
achieue this!
song clarifu that we are standing up for the uteak.Although I know
zohat you are saying as far as some other bands go becauseit is
clearly euident that they do side with the strong; maybes its
WeII first of all thank you for this interaiew and a lot peoplewho
read this and hope you might be interested in our band, please becausethey feel roeak themselaesso therl haae to side with the
write to: http://www. myspace.com/hybridheaaenband,you can strong. AIio," it is clearly eaident that iome bands don't think
listen to someof our ep 2008 and of coursewe do you utill be the about lyrics as much as others becausethey don't haaemuch depth
or reason. I think to generaliseall metallers as either one of the
THE END.
first peopleto hearour new materiaM!!!
following- fantasy bullies or not thinking or just plain stupid- is
insane but there are definitely bands that apply to each of the
Risen Prophecy (U.K.)
categories
They report that th"y have been busy recently playing
shows, working on new music for their upcoming album
Does ltour drummer use triggers? Do you haae an opinion?
Screamingfor Death. At the time of contact with this zine,
Iames (drumsl: Personally I like more of a natural sound zuith my
th"y had a two-song recording of rocking thrashing/heavy
drums
and I think triggers can make the tone sound too digital and
metal with a feel for songs with good, catchy, thrashing
By using triggers it can substitute a drummer's endurance.
fake.
in
fit
well
well
vocal
lines
that
rrtfs, hooks and solos, as
as
Houeaer on our EP, samples were used on the snare and kicks;
the songs. The band consider themselves thrash, but they
which the producer suggested.Some bands suit them more than
have more going on than just thrash. They have hooks and
others
and
it
depends
are
used.
hmt
they
melodies that most thrash bands simply don't do. This, I
think, is their strength. There is a classic heavy metal
ln concert, can ltou reproduce eaerything .from ltour recording?
sensibility running making their music memorable, since it is
Don't you hate those bands roith huge productions of computer
not just about speed but about songs that rock. Of course, and studio tricks but liue. they don't come close to "epic"?
there.
this also does thrash, too, so no worries
Yeahwe can play eaerything liue that zue'aerecorded.To be honest
www. myspace.com/ risenprophecyl
Iiae music should be better than studio becausethere's more
enerry, intensity and atmosphere.Yecrhthere'snothing worse than
'perfect'
cording?
l-Iello RisenProphecy!What hashaapenedsincer '',r=rg,
a band ruho's album is
but there liae shuu is an absolute
n
abomination-if you cannot do it liae don't recordit. We loaedhow
base and riputation. We'ae also being zoorking on nsw material
the backing tracks on Kreator's neu) album were all recordedliae
and trying.to deaelopour sound. At the moment we'ae been yet sounded tight asfuck- total proof that they aren't a band who
'screaming
reheariing for our new album
tricks.
on
studio
for Denth' which is due relies
time.
zueeks
a
in
recorded
bi
to
feru
You play thrash. Somepeoplesay that bands playing thrash are a
How good is your local sc€neT Is therg -! Iot emo=.stu.ff? bunch
jumperi
trendy . music.
playing
trend
o.f
The main metal-music within our town and the surroundings is
In England, thrash is dying down and Deathcoreis taking oaer
Deathcorewhichis NOT our tasteat all and in most c&sesare emo and tliat's naw the trendy g-enre.Although it's clearly eaident that
'thrash'
kids attempting to play death metal and not haoing the knowledge shit bands like Triaiu* in7 Bullet for m"y Valentine"made
to p[ay it, so yeah there is a lot of emo in our toutn to
or ability
ngain (which is NOT thrash-it's a diluted and poor
popular
'iriitation)"degree.
ifoweaei, there is a small aariety of really good
certain
they created an influx of equally shit bands taking
bands ranging fro* black metal to thrash/deathmetal to southern influence fto* them. We played thrash before it wqs trendy (for
rock. We'ue p[ayed lots of gigs in the same areas last-year and
oir geneiation) and tue utill continue to utrite and play thrashwe're trying to play fewer gigs in thesesame are&sso that tt wtll
rootid music in the future. Howeuer, we zoant to expand on these
becomea biggei eaent when-we pla!/. There are people7yh9 9.an thrash rootsand mike somethingthat is our awn an.dnot a repeat
reallv appreli"ateour music liue but there are otherswho think that
of what's already been done.- Fuck trends and fuck posers.
becailsdiue don't play a breakdowneuery5 secondsthat we are shit
qdLnire?
but to be honest'fr;k them, we play rnhat we want to play and -We
met metal "Iegends" that y-o\
Haae you
that'
that's
receitly met Chuck BiIIy aftei a Testamentand Megadgtlt SiS.
He usasreally cool horueaeiit was only a brief meeting" We me-tttPatriots or Prisonersl' about the Guantanamo prison7rs?.
"o|te,an lced Earth gig ouer a yeqr ago. We were all
Is
Tim Ouert
about
zuritten
concept!But no it was
ffieiting
singing along and head bangin"g"during,ihe se{ tahich got his
ar.e attdntlon bec-ause
we u)ere some of the only peoplereally_getting
how the working classget fucked 6uer by !119g.ou.e-rnment.;119t
the first to defenldit. I tnink peoplecan git blinded by patriotisru to
into them at gig- it was when they played with Lqmb of God and
ooiitt thea shut off to what'is reaIIVhappening; that's when they Heaaen and-IIell So he was pietty cool to come and see us
brro*t p"ritorert"'totheir country."In i'nutsliell it's the irony,of, afterutnrds.We met Mantas when hlewas pIaVinR with his nent
" democracy"and wrote addressedto the person/peoplein control."
liand DryIt and he was down to eaith" aid really cool
Ross
If one listens to uour music. it qlmost-sounds.like deathand black
ttPossessionof the weak'l is about what? You know hoTDsome
on pl!rupt2:Is
this
existed.
neuer
haae
nAil
l l
We can understandwhy peoplewould think that. The songs on the
EP were obuiously injluenled by thrash but it wAsn't" done to
sound B)s or becausewe don't like death or black metal as rDeare
big fans of both genres.The new material has more influencefro*
other genressuchas thesebut when we urite we tn1 not to think in
a-labelledstate of mind. We take a wide range of iifluences
such as
'
ja'zz,
classical,
just
etc.
iot'
metal.
folk,
Whet madeDan Tyrens (aocals\want to screamin a metal band?!
Uhat _ flgdp . Iames Charlton start banging on drums?!
P%W:U ! just started to listen to dffirent typtt of singers like
Ult-t Barluu (Iced Earth), Ioe Lynn tirner- (Ex-Yngwie
Malmsteen), lames Labrie (Dream Theater), lim Gillette (Nltro),
loachim Cans (Hammerfall) and thought that it wns so powerful
and epic so I iust started to train mvse[f to be able to so hisher ind
higher and more powerful. Then tafren"lztsasable to to it it a good
enough leael I started to work it in to our songs and it just cl{cked
straight
au)aq.
[ames:A friend of mine at schoolwas starting to take lessonsaid
at round about the sametime I was starting to get into music, so I
thought l^d giug it a go. PIus it was a griat e-xcuseto get out of
lessons. Once I started I realised that I really enjoyedit and it
expanded
there.
fro*
D_=isease
l\lusion: Reality behind the Illusions of Li,fe
This -group's sound is something like death/black-styleraspy
grozuling,melodic thrashy rtffing constantly supportedwith hooki,
melody,- shredding and iotoing. The bord' (Italy) consider
thems"elaes
"meloiic death metaF' zuhich mav or miv not mean
depending
on rphat one meansby that \erm. Tiis is guitar-not
ryJrych,
driuen metal,
keyboards/electroinic-heaay
stuff arld the
thrashing/shredding is kept up pretty consislently--throughout.
Also, this is not a band that usesgruoling and clean aoca[sas a
formula, but it's mostly grualing lhroughout, giuing it a harderedge sound. The clean aocals are used iery brtefly trn a couple of
songs. I kind of enjoyed the fact that they did not use the clean
aocalsa lot.
In addition, the whole cd sounds like theu haae worked a
Iot on making a good cd and haaing good" sound quality.
www.myspace.com/ diseaseillusion
-Dyinise: Dainise
This recording is competentfor the style of thrash/heauymetal that
this band (Uk) playi. TheiT sound is tirash/heauy ietal, taking
influence-fro* baids like Metallica, Megadeth ind Testamenl.
Titus, tlrcy sound uptempo, but not ahything super fast or
"not iingihg, not
frenzi.ed.The aocals'are ihat midrange siyle,
grornling.
Iiae?!
'l'he-worst
The band sound uery traditional in the senseof rffing,
thing about where we liae is the mentality of a lot people
aocalsand drum*iryg They ian be criticizedfor that, peihafis.At
as-fayas musiCis concerned.Don't get us wrong ihire are'people
'the qny rat9, the sound quality is good and the instruments can be
za.hohaae-great bands and great muiic taste bu{ there a lot' of
heyd clearly. For a young band,for uthat they do, they do a good
time peopl-e.are
hoppy tg follua Kerrang
- TVs messageof "Iistbn to job w,ith it,,bspeciaUyi7 you like this
lessaggrissiaethr:ashstyTe,to
this
shitty
band
because
they
aie
popular. -zuhich,
they h(io; some good "ideas to contiibute.
haueonly enegldtar in the band.IMen you play and do solos www. myspace.com/ dyinise
Yr_ou
thereis a "hole" in_thesong.Is this a problem?
Goatsoldiers: Goatsoldiers
r haaing one guitar
o!\-it s.ounds
fine duiing the solos.Wefottota the exaitple ofBlack
9-oatsoldiers (Oregon, U.S.) is leather, denim and spikes
black/thrash usheretheir lean and fast speed/thrashmetal iffi"S
Sabbath, Paniera, Venim, Manunar and Motorhead'thei don't
need two guitarists to sound "frII" and neither Vo u)e. and drumming and blackmetal aocalskeepthe old schoolaibe.The first three songs on this demo haue a good sound
quality ryheie you can heil the music pretty clea/Iy and it's
our
band in
2009?!
Ale're.recordingan 8 track CD inbarly W
obuious that this band has good songs with iome spontaneousplan it wiII pressed nnd releasedby lufy. iVe are diing a"few of
soundingsoloing,sounding li-kea seriius endeauor.
irydependent
The last three songs are liae and so the sound quality is
fes.tiaal! and promoting ihe"album by gigging iround
not as good. For that reason, the liae songsdo not comeacrossas
the country. The CD will hopefulli attract somdln{elesl so we'll
distinctiae as the'first three, but instead [o sound like a loud band
s:l:llyre ihings go from therb. Thinks for the interuieru!
doing
their
THE END.
thing,
but
not
as
promising.
www.myspace.com/ goatsoldiers
REVIEWS
CruelForce: lnto the Crapts
" Deathstrike," " Crltel Force,"
"Victims of,Hellfirer" and the
that
they do a coaer of "Metal
fact
Inquisition" of ihe 80smore-metal-than-th6uband pilediiaer, it's
no mystery,whgt.dealis: B)s metal. Cruel Force (Germany) is 80s
style raw thrash/death/blackor uptempo and midtempo ciae-styler.ecordingm9!al.
.The nrcnt-alityis ight and aery c6mfortable"for
those into old school metal done in t-heraw, unpolishi:d, unfaicy
way of headbangingmetal.
I think this demois a bit too garage-style.The guitars and
drums sound like thev are far awav. df coirse."all uou Faaeto do is
turn up the aolunrc"ontnis tninfi a [ot and it so"unds
better. The
musical perspectiaeis definitely iight on. They'can
iust need to haaea
better recording next time. Sometlmes"necroil
be "too" necro,
y ou know. www.myspace.com/ cruelforce
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Heaven andHell: The Deail You Knout
L. SIunguitaryffi for far toomuchof thetime.Verylittle,if any
enerry, on display here.Major problem
2. Slow,^siryp.I9drumming for too much of the time. Very little
enerry.,Probably the biggeit'problem here.
3.W1.ry-slowguitar woik ahd drumming the songsare boring to
me. W here's the metal?! Where's the eiergy?! fdidn't listei to
this becauseI want to fall asleep.
4. lou.may be.thinkiitg that this could not possiblyas boring as I
make it sound: "It mist rock out for 60 61 70 percent of-time;
maybg this reaie-zpis e_x-aggerating
becauseit's n6t blasting black
metal or something like-1hat".-OK, but I'm just sayiig that
uptempo/midtempo,rocking heaoymetal is missing here.
Helloween: Gsmblinq utith the Deail
cds). There are fast,
thrashy potuer/heriay metal soigs with traditional metal high
singing but ruith grit. There are uptempo songs with great hooks
and singing. There are midtempo songs that are aery memorable
and melodic.
And that's it. I do not hear any low points. Basically,
Hellotpeen, on here, has kept a high leael 5f energy throughout the
whole cd, and often this appearsto be a pretty thrashy ffiir, while
at the sametime keeping the melody in place. Was it their goal to
keep it "pedal to the metal" this much? I guess, so.
www.myspace. com/ helloween
Insulters: Skull Krushers
sotneblack metal rtffing, as well as somesectionsof thrashy ,ifrrg,
but it's just that the low-groutl and their honor image giaes the
impression that this strictly guttural death metal. The sound
quality is dirty, not fancy and shiny, tahich is probably tahy the
stuff
sounds
charming
in
the
place.
first
www.myspace.com/ morbidoflesh
NapalrnDeath: Time Waits for No Slaae
The reasonwhy this is such a good album is becausethe bandkeeps
up the creatiaity in the songs: eaen though this goes at blasting
speed,the songs stand out on their own, so there's none of that
feeling that aII the songsare too similar or the same.
Napalm Death here doesrnhat they do best:good quality
grind roith distinctiae rffing, high leael of energy, plenty tf
creatiaity, uariety within a grind framework, intelligent lyrics, etc.
This is recommendednot just for listeners of grind, but
metallers that haue an open mind for quality metal of all styles.
Napalm Death is great and really, that's story here. A triumph.
www. myspace.com f nap almdeath
The four band members (Catalonia, Spain) aII haae names like
Blasphemic Vomitor (uocals),Bourbon Deaastator (guitars), etc.
On this 4-song demo they couer Celtic Frost's "lnto the Crypts of
Rays," in addition to three own songs. They call their music
" Alkoholocausti c Fueled Me t aI."
This demosoundslike it was recordedin the Mighty Caae
of Classic DeathftIack/Thrash. Insulters keep it seuere,bare and
uptempo, with a cool charm of ancient caaemetal mentality. They
raill probably tell you that they hate melody, etc., but the guitar
solos do haae melody Qtt, caae melody but melody neuertheless)
and the rffi also haue that classiccaae metal feel: a plus. I think
Obscur ed: When D arkness Comes
this band may be onto something. This is a demo, nothing fancy,
I think Obscured (Serbia) is what "pure death metal" probably
but the songs show the attitude is good. More!
means.The aocalsare lora and guttural, the rtfrng is classicdeath
rowTl).myspace.com/insulters666
metal and so is the drumming,you knora, blasting, etc. It appears
that Obscured wants to get mosh pits going eueryrcuhere
because
Kusoof: ViIe
this is death metal brutality that gets the kids pushing each other
tAsoof (Xwarit; Bahrain) has trno basic components. One is the until they get knockeddorun, only to get up again. The band haae
herea solid production where you can hear the instruments clearly
blasting black/death metal element. When this mode is on, it
nnd the death metal brutality is upfront, someu)hattechnical,often
sounds pretty good, competentand basically hard to dislike, gliryg
blasting.
aII out to biing the metal. The aocals sound black metal painful
This type of mosh pit is probably dangerousfor thoseoaer
and the blasting speedmodeutorks well for Kusoof.
Then there is the other component. It is something like 30 years of age as this may result in broken bonesor injures you
melodic or somerohatspacey,but not ouerusedat aII. On song will notice only the morning after, when you wake up in the
numberfotr, "Ongoing Processionof Demise" they do morg of the garbagedumpster and rlonder why you haoe so much ketchup on
your Jace.
ambient momentsfor a longer period of time. I guess we'll haae to
man!!
ketchup,
Oh,
zuait,
that
is
not
seeif- Kusoofgo that route a lot more in thefuture.
The- result is something like blasting or speedy black www.myspace. com/ obscuredsound
metal, with brief midtempo moments. At any rqte, this is not too
shabby and thdre are some good and eaen strong-ideas here in
Sarnael: Aboae
placei that suggestthnt Kusoof has a specificmusical direction thnt
blackmetal
This is a fast (oftenblasting),symphonic
is relatiaely well formed already on this demo.
album.
www.myspace.com/ kusoof
The oaerall sound is kind of "busy" with sympho-techno,
futuristic
sounds,and the aocals aitually" sound a"bii too low ii the mix.
This is also the casewith guitirs, I feel like I haue to " squint" to
Lacuna Coil: Shallow Life
the guitars and that's annoying becausethe drum machine
hear
Next!
Not
metal.
It's pop/rock.
and the sympho-techno computer sounds haae taken oaer this
thing. Therefore,is the guitar zuorkgood? I just don't seehow one
Mastodon: Crack the Skye
cqn make that judgmenf when you can't hear the guitars that weII.
,rnatiae rock and stoner rock.
Whai sh-ouldhaae Samael doneT: bring up the guitars
Maybe heaayhardcore,too. WelI, it's not metal. Next!
upfront so that they are more audible; allow more room for theand
a'ocals.Reduce the aolume of the techno-ketlboard-synthesizer
drum machine sounds or iust mix the irums beiter. AIso, the
Morbid Flesh:DlrinI Lapi dation
drums do sound like a drum machineand it's not a good sound,
be correct in thinking
"'d death metal. Morbid
it's plasticky.
inls is seaerely gltttural chqinsaw-fuitar
'
fiis is not a bsd album at aII. Howeuer, speakingfor
ruhat is better
hornerser,
is low-groTl),-sure,
Flesh (Barceloria,"Spain)
than their gore coa'eris thefactlhat their guitar wo-rkshows quite- myself,after hauing heard this somefour times, I don't feel like I
wlant"tofiear it again becauseof the isiuesI haaepointed6ut.
a bit of p"romise.Along witn the buzzguitar, there^is lotg tf
euidenie Lhat the rffi haue hooks and thi soloing is fun, crispy,
quick-ftnger workoilts. Then eaerything starts getting b-etter Tomorrow's Demise : Yesterdsu'sD emise
and (Canada)
becauseii's obuiousthat the buzzguitar noisehas a lot going Jor t-t,.
there is creatiuitryin there, nol iust a band re-arranging old oftm goes af a mid and biozupace,sometimessounding like super
Mo rb i d Angelif f t . T he s efo u r' s o n g s , p l u s . th e.D e a th cl aer doom anrbientand more like normal grual metal, at others.
("ScreamBlloodyeore") haue the sound of an initial.,recording,by
I think the main thing to nite hereis that this recording is
band that has inore to ffir. Actually, their song "Graues" has just too garage-quality. There is a heaay rumbling noise that
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stands out (bassguitarT) here and seemsto take oaer the sound,
making dfficult to hear eaerything else correctly. The music
sounds aery much like basic,learning-to-play the instruments. Or
at least, that's the impression I get.- I thiik this band and their
music would be bettei seruedbylmprouing the sound quality, as
right naui it sounds too garage-type to really commenf on.
www. myspace.com/ tdemise
Vacillation
Vacillation (Texas, U.S.) has the positiae quality of sounding like
they mean business.This is not a small matter becausetheir highspeed-rtffng, mean-thrash drumming and the energetic, truisled
growling aocalsmake up for thefactlhese fiae songi haoe a barebonessound quality.
AII this goes to shua uthat? That zahenyou do things
yight - atttitude - can carry you through, despiteob-stacles
like nbt
haaing the sound quality you woul[ like. The guitar utork has
some cgol, promising soloing, kind of fast aid melodic, but
memorable.'The drimmer [oes a gcioa ioU of attacking the
instrument and getting a raw, pounding thrash/speed metal
quality.
It is true that this sounds like a garage recording. That's
probably.becauseit is or something like it. Huneaer, ther-eis good
potential !rcre. This is demosongs,so you knorp what to expect,but
I think the aocals,drumminghnd r:ffisolos znork well'and will
likely get ! Iot better in thefuture, if tiiis is anything to go by.
long number 5, "Drift Away" is a fast, lhraihing/death
song. It has uery brief moments of clean aocals. I think tiis does
not work here becausethe clean uocalssound weak. Horaeuer,it is
oyly. a gery brief moment (Iike one aocal line, done twice). Maybe
don't do clean aocalsor maybedo clean aocals,but do them betier.
Right now, the all-growlin{ approachsoundsjust fine.
www. myspace.com / v acillattonmetal
Winter Axe: Eternitu
y this band (New lersey, U.S.). For
e.xample,the rlffing suggesisthat thereare good toigt to be made
in the future. The uocalsfit the style of-black mital that this
appearsto be.At times this sounds more thrashrl,and sometimesit
definitely sou-ndsmore black metal The fastei parts sound more
black metg!, the uptempoor midtempo, m6re thrdsh than anything.
Haweaer, the quality of the recording is uery bisic aid
makes it dfficult to hear the-music. As it stinds right now, this
dentosourj.rts
alright and thereis potential here,but"the qual'ity of
the recording u:iII haae to be impioaedfor sure to judge ihe mLsiT
more objectiaely. www. mysp ace.com/ winteraxe
May 22,2009
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