REVIEW: RESURRECTED - BUTCHERED IN EXCREMENT

 

RESURRECTED - BUTCHERED IN EXCREMENT (Perverted Taste Records, 2002)

Produced by Resurrected

Recorded at Prolog Studios

Cover Art by David Bollt

Tracks: 1- The Beginning of Terror, 2- Dripping With Blood, 3- Deadly Lessons, 4- Wait To Suffer, 5- Macabre Fuckfest, 6- Infecting the Crypt, 7-Ophidicism, 8- Entangled in Madness, 9- Butchered in Excrement, Conquered Suffering

An eerie introduction starts this CD and then gives place to the devastating music of Resurrected. This band is brutal as fuck !!! And that does not mean that they are playing fast all the time....check as an example the killer beginning in "Wait to Suffer " to listen the ten ton heavy riff with an interesting double bass drum part that the drummer repeat in other parts of that track. Yes, they can play fast too but they prefer to rely on more effective riffs and then doing a blast beat here and there. The vocalist is guttural and he is risponsible of a lot of the brutality that this band has. The guitars are really well combined with the bass and drums creating the demolishing sound of Resurrected.

Favorite tracks: This release is brutal as hell. One of the most devastating releases in 2002

Contact: www.pervertedtaste.de or www.resurrected.de

REVIEW: RAVINE - DEPARTURE

 

RAVINE - DEPARTURE (Independent, 2001)

Produced by Ravine

Recorded at Eastcoast Studio

Cover Art by T. Öhman

Tracks: 1- Eclipse, 2- Towards 1000 Seas, 3- Departure - A Dream of Death

This is an excellent band with many ideas. Their music is extremely dark black metal with amny melodies and changes. And they also have some thrash metal elements that combined create great tracks. The main thing here is developing a dark atmosphere with the guitars (they play a lot of melodies and riffs in some sort of mid pace tempo). The vocals are trollish as in many black metal bands but this are more expresive (sort of a mix between a black metal band and Carcass to give you an example). The mix of the album is really good making all the melodies darker and pointing out all the atmospheres that the band wants to create. It is a pity that the recording has only three tracks because it leaves you wanting more

Favorite tracks: The threee contained here are amazing !!!

Contact:

RAVINE

Kirkkojärvi 431

49400 Hamina

Finland

REVIEW: PAYSAGE D´HIVER - STEINEICHE

 

PAYSAGE D´HIVER - STEINEICHE (Independent, 2001)

Produced by Paysage D´Hiver

Cover Art by Paysage D´Hiver

Tracks: 1- Die Baumfrau, 2- Der Baummann, 3- Der Baum, 4- Deja Vu

This is a CD of climatic black metal. First of all I have to say that most of the music here is ruined by the lack of a good sound that would help to listen better the different atmospheres that the band wants to create. The music is good, specially on the mid tempos but is barely audible iun many places (for example on the fastest parts). The guitars make interesting melodic passages that create a dark atmosphere on each of the tracks contained on this cd. This guys must rerecord this one and add a better mix in order to have better results becuase the music is really good and it deserves a better mix..

Favorite tracks: "Die Baummann" and "Der Baum"

Contact:

Tobias Moeckl

Muristrasse 74

3006 Bern

Helvetia

REVIEW: OBITUARY - CAUSE OF DEATH (REMASTERED EDITION)

OBITUARY - CAUSE OF DEATH (REMASTERED EDITION) (Roadrunner Records, 2000)

Produced by Scott Burns and Obituary

Recorded at Morrisound Recordings

Cover Art by Michael Whelan

Tracks: 1- Infected, 2- Body Bag, 3- Chopped in Half, 4- Circle of the Tyrants, 5- Dying, 6- Find the Arise, 7- Cause of Death, 8- Memories Remain, 9- Turned Inside Out, 10- Infected (demo), 11- Memories (demo), 12- Chopped in Half (demo)

Here we have the remastered edition of Obituary´s second album. Here is more evident the remastering than in the "Slowly We Rot" remaster. Here the guitars and drums are clearer than in the original version. Musically we have a great evolution in Obituary´s music with the addition of James Murphy on guitars (he plays killer solos through all the recording instead of Allen West´s fast runs of the first album). Here you can listen the change that this man brought to Obituary´s music by listening the original demos of some of the tracks contained here and comparing them to the final versions that finally made to the album. This is the album that catapulted Obituary´s career to the top of the death metal scene and you can find the reasons just listening to it.

Favorite tracks: "Infected", "Find the Arise" and "Memories Remain"

Contact: www.roadrunnerrecords.com

REVIEW: NECROPHOBIC - BLOODHYMNS

 

NECROPHOBIC - BLOODHYMNS (Hammerheart Records, 2002)

Produced by Necrophobic and Tomas Skogsberg

Recorded at Sunlight Studios

Cover Art by Sebastian Ramstedt

Tracks: 1- Taste of Black, 2- Dreams Shall Flesh, 3- Art of Rebellion, 4- Shadowseeds, 5- Mourningsoul, 6- Helfire, 7- Cult of Blood, 8-Roots of Heldrasil, 9- Blood Anthem, 10- Among the Storms

Necrophobic is a powerful death/black metal band with interesting thrash touches. Here we have their powerful new album which was recorded on the mythic Sunlight Studios where the nineties scandinavian death metal scene developed. This time they have ten powerful tracks that are extremely fast and really powerful. Tobias Sidegård´s vocals are powerful as hell going from screaming to guttural but always adding power to the tracks. Also thumbs up for the killer drummer Joakim Sterner who can be clearly listened on this album (this CD has a great mix....Tomas Skogsberg is a genius doing this). The tracks here have subtle melodies as the ones you can hear in "Shadowseeds" which create a darker mood that is great in Necrophobic hands.

Favorite tracks: "Dreams Shall Flesh", "Mourningsoul" and "Shadowseeds"

Contact: www.hammerheart.com

REVIEW: NÆRVÆR - SKIFTNINGER

 

NÆRVÆR - SKIFTNINGER (Prophecy Prods. , 2000)

Produced by Hans Eidskard and Nærvær

Recorded at Jailhouse Studios

Cover Art by Terje Sagen, Geir Solli and Companions in Art

Tracks: 1- To plan, 2- Døse Dager, 3- Vi Såkkeland, 4- 92-Tid-99, 5- Nummen, 6- Bob Dylan is the Fucking King, 7- Sug 99, 8- To Oyer..., 9- ...To Hav, 10- En Lonesome, 11-15 = Bonus tracks

Here we have an extremely atmospheric release with a lot of different textures on each of the tracks that are on this CD. Going from the almost ambient with lots of keyboards in "To Plan" to the weirder track "Døse Dager" with some drums and slide guitar on it. Here we have a great thing that is that each track is a world on its own and then you have lots of different moods here. Main composer here is Terje Sagen who is the only musician that appears on all tracks here and whose mind has created this wonderful album. He also plays guitar and many instruments here which allows him to express all his ideas on this eclectic CD.

Favorite tracks: The whole CD is amazingly weird. I like musicians who put originality as a top priority.

Contact: www.prophecyproductions.de

REVIEW: MOTÖRHEAD - HAMMERED

 

MOTÖRHEAD - HAMMERED (Metal Is Records, 2002)

Produced by Thom Panunzio and Motörhead

Recorded at Henson Studios and Chuck´s House

Cover Art by Joe Petagno

Tracks: 1- Walk a Crooked Mile, 2- Down the Line, 3- Brave New World, 4- Voices from the War, 5- Mine all Mine, 6- Shut Your Mouth, 7- Kill the World, 8- Dr. Love, 9- No Remorse, 10- Red Raw, 11- Serial Killer

Here we have Motörhead´s new album and we have no surprises. Fans of the band will love this recording and detractors of the band will hate it as they always do. Here are all the elements that have made the band famous....their simple but effective riffs...their rock and roll attitude...Lemmy´s vocals and the raw guitar sound (all of this are trademarks of the band). Comparing to their previous albums "(We are) Motorhead" and many more this one has a little bit more polished production and they have put more emphasis on the choruses (as you can check since the beginning with "Walk a Crooked Mile"). Another step in Motörhead´s career.

Favorite tracks: "Brave New World", "Shut Your Mouth" and "No Remorse"

Contact: http://www.sanctuaryrecordsgroup.com/

REVIEW: MORGUE SUPPLIER - NOT DEAD ENOUGH

 

MORGUE SUPPLIER - NOT DEAD ENOUGH (Independent, 2001)

Produced by Morgue Supplier

Recorded by Paul

Cover Art by Paul

Tracks: 1- Convulsive Reocurrence, 2- Jugular Appetizer, 3- Morgue Supplier, 4- Not Dead Enough

Morgue Supplier is an extremely brutal death-grind band that plays most of their music at full speed with a strong emphasis on brutality and the strength of their riffs. This CD is full of hyper fast parts and blast beats (the drummer is a beast behind the drum kit). The vocals are guttural and fit the music perfectly...I liked a lot the riffs that are on "Jugular Appetizer" because I think this is the side that the band needs to explore using this crushing rhythms and the interesting drums patterns (really twisted in many places). The mix is good but I think that the guitars and drums can be mixed a little bit louder and the result will be even more brutal. This is a band that guarantees the listener full brutality and will let you collecting pieces of your brain from the floor !!!

Favorite tracks: "Convulsive Reocurrence" and "Jugular Appetizer"

Contact: www.morguesupplier.com

REVIEW: MOONLYGHT - PROGRESSIVE DARKNESS

 

MOONLYGHT - PROGRESSIVE DARKNESS (Independent , 2002)

Produced by Moonlyght and Philippe Poissant

Recorded at Sonum Studio

Cover Art by Martin Lafleur

This CD really fooled me in the beginning because due to the melodies that are on the beginning (which are close to an european heavy metal style) of "Fantasy" I thought "Oh, they sent me a wrong record", but I was wrong, after a brief acoustic interlude enters a more deathly part with rawer vocals, and then enters some female vocals and everything has a lot of melodies and keyboards !! Moonlyght is an amazing band!!! They have one million of ideas and they construct songs with thousands of them going on putting melodies and heavy riffs and breaks here and there. Plus they have some guest musicians in female vocals (combined with the male vocals which are clean and screaming in many places), violin and accordion !! Some parts reminded me of In the Woods but Moonlyght have more variations within each of the tracks. The problem is that I want more Moonlyght....and this CD was recorded 2002...I don´t want to wait too long for more of their music...please guys write more songs in this style!!!! This is with no doubt one of the CDs of the year.

Tracks: 1- Fantasy, 2- The Sceptic Traveller, 3- Ride on Ice Storms, 4- A Tale from a Fantastic Kingdom, 5- The Autumn´s Freezing Harmony, 6- From Honour to Nothingness, 7- Progresive Darkness

Favorite tracks: The whole CD is amazing and really original. One of the CDs of 2002.

Contact: www.moonlyght.ca

REVIEW: MOONLIGHT CORPORATION - V 1.0

 

MOONLIGHT CORPORATION - V 1.0 (Sector 19, 2002)

Compiled by Cybthia Paris at Sector 19

Mastering by Marisa Dery at The Tape Complex

Cover Art by Franck Ackermann

Tracks: 1- Delirium Tremens (Jailbird), 2- Militia Love (S.M.P.), 3- Dagon (Progeria), 4- Twilight World (Aiboforcen), 5- Name of God (Six Past Seven), 6- Tense and Taut (Mouth of Indifference), 7- Jesus Christ V 2.0 (Chaos Engine), 8- Mysterious (System 81), 9- Crucifixion (Arkam Asylum), 10 Human Fragments (Mnemonic), 11- AnimalFarm (Tin.RP), 12- Soul and Substance (Mind Flux Funeral), 13- She Said (St. John´s Eve), 14- Kein Traum (Monoid), 15- Dock to Dock 2001 (Autocad), 16- Fullbandwidth (Silencer), 17- Last Pray (Jailbird)

Here we have this compilation that features sixteen bands from different sides of the electronic specter: from the industrial side represented by bands like Jailbird, to the almost dance in bands like Aïboforcen or Mnemonic or to the almost ambient machine sound of Progeria. Every band here features a lot of electronic sounds and passages and I think is great that we have such different personalities on one CD. There are results which I liked most like the ones of Jailbird, Aïboforcen or Arkam Asylum because they show a lot of the different moods that this bands can achieve while experimenting with their sound and they develop many good ideas on their tracks. This compilation is great for those who like electronic music or for the people who have not listened to it before and want to have a good idea of the different styles that they can find.

Favorite tracks: "Last Pray", "Twilight World" and "Crucifixion"

Contact: www.sector19.com or www.ackermann-studio-design.com