Metal Reviews

DYING FETUS - From Womb To Waste
I cannot take seriously a band with vocals that funny.
4/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mtd-ZJdQihA

Don Caballero - You Drink a Lot of Coffee For a Teenager. I got nothing whatsoever out of that. It was kinda spastic-y but not in a good way like DEP. And yeah it just kinda sucked. 1/10

Song was on Misfits last night: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzyKSyLavUY

I gotta start watching that show. Everybody's full of praise for it.
Nero - Doomsday WTF??? 1/10



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af7YJqcUumM

Attick Demons - Back In Time. Song keeps a nice pace, and I liked the (too short) solo, but this is stuff I've heard a million times before, and done better elsewhere. 3/10 (think that Nero track is way better, sorry).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lf1U2sx4Q8

ebd has got my back. Which we need to converse about this because I only love it because I think of drunken nights clubbing to it, which I don't think you've done. Hmmm...

Hypocrisy - The North Wind. One of those Swedish DM bands that I haven't listened to nearly enough. I kinda just wrote them off. This is good, but a little too slow for me to love. It just isn't grooving as much as I need it to and has just a hint too much of Gothenburg. 4/10

Ilsa - Deadbeat's Ballad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKsXe3BZBnI

Ilsa - Deadbeat's Ballad
Music's not bad. Hardcorey vocals fit well with it. 5/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLyZNEfPqxw

Envy-Left Hand

Quite like the guitarwork, could do without the rest. 6/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_086knDEyxE
(Didn't know which one to put here, but went with this one because of the top comment: "Unquestionable Presence of Finland" )

Sentenced - Fields of Blood, Harvester of Hate. Was curious where your new moniker came from. Very Atheist-y which is kinda awesome given how I had never heard them before. Not as heavy as I might want my death metal, but a solid atmosphere. 6/10.

Kuolemanlaakso - Minä elän: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ8YRuciB18

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rXZs9Fv ... r_embedded

Film clip is amusing enough but what did you lads think of the song?

Kuolemanlaakso- Minä elän

0

Intro riff is your sappy generic Katatonia-era Brave murder day knockoff, but then delves into a horribly produced Opeth-esque chug. The main riff is fucking plodding and boring as shit, not even death doom it just literally is a simple power chord that refuses to end. Vocals are fucking awful it sounds like he's rapping at points, and his death growls are awfully dependent on what computer is helping him along. The song is literally the same awful power chord pseudo-doom riff, awful rapping Finnish lyrics. Fuck that was awful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAvKeuRXotk

Aborted - The Saw and the Carnage Done
All these bands sound the same to me. This one's not worst than the next. 1/10


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JhefmIyUMk

Bad Brains - I Against I. Personal favorite. It's so frantic and different. Every forty seconds the song changes it seems. 9/10.

Imperial Triumphant - Manifesto: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-Zu6kQ1nQs

Good stuff, not sure how they'd do for a whole album, but certainly interesting material, 8/10. Was thinking of good follow ups from their influences for the next track, decided on that other French band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHAj0fl_Pfc

Blut Aus Nord - Axis

Probably my favourite BaN album, really the best and most effective usage of the dissonant atmopherics that they've been pushing on every album since.

8 / 10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfnjgsQSE8Q

Red Harvest - Hole in Me. After wanting to love these guys and it ultimately not blossoming, I haven't checked 'em out in forever. This kinda meanders and just never does anything for me. 3/10.

Red Harvest - Sick Transit Gloria Mundi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETjB2DRvfsQ

Red Harvest - Sick Transit Gloria Mundi

4

Intro riff is your average hyper distorted groove riff like Mnemic/Meshugghah insert x Nuclear blast label band, the keyboard samples break the already slow pace. Not much of a flow to the song other than that, the main riff resurfaces and is crunchy and not really all that heavy. Truth be told the song was really pointless, not bad but just kind of weak.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELEwcgjPtDE

Graves Of The Endless Fall- Roots Of Engines
Nicely heavy, powerfully slow (and I quite liked the hardcorey vocals too). Nice find, Steve.
6,5/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muUknQdMGkw

Heretic - Portrait of Faith

ok intro riff was nice, but then the main riff hit and it's been done a zillion times, just boring, drum work is decent I guess but those vocals are really annoying and the chorus is woefully uninspired, solo is nothing that hasn't been done before 4/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTaWwEeGGv4

Immortal-Withstand the Fall of Time

"Norsecore" or not, this is solid blackened melodic metal, 7.5/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWrmptJEjxQ

This is of no interest for me whatsoever. I cannot even tell if it's good or bad for those enjoying death metal. it's brutal, okay but what's the point? And the keyboards.... Ha ha ha.
1/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46K9jNPzUHs