REVIEW: LAST RITES - PSYCHO KILLER

 

LAST RITES - PSYCHO KILLER (Independent, 2001)

Produced By: Last Rites

Tracks: 1- Psycho Killer, 2- Chainsaw, 3- Skeleton, 4- Paradise Lost, 5- Poisonous

Recorded at Nadir Studios 

What we have here? This is pure thrash metal !!!! Here are the technical riffs that amde the style so big in the eighties, here we have the suffering vocals done by Dave (he uses two types of vocals, one is more classical thrash metal and the other one is closer to bands like Kreator or Carcass), here we have alos the excellent guitar solos (thumbs up for Jan!). The songs here have the coimplexity of the style and at the same time has this memorable choruses and parts that make you start singing the vocals along with the music. The drummer uses a lot of double bass and that adds a lot of extra heaviness to the five songs on this CD. One thing to remark is the good souns that this recording has adding a lot of modern sound to this guys music while helping each of the instruments to be listened clearly.

Favorite tracks: "Chainsaw", "Skeleton" and "Psycho Killer"

Contact: www.last-rites.net

REVIEW: KURGAN´S BANE - THE FUTURE LIES BROKEN

KURGAN´S BANE - THE FUTURE LIES BROKEN (Independent, 2000)

Produced By: Kurgan´s Bane and John Grant

Tracks: 1- Through the Camer, 2- Just Look at Me Now, 3- Warm Winter Nights, 4- Frankie Five Angels, 5- Headless Mice, 6- Feudal Tourniquet, 7- Nap in E Minor, 8- The Curtain and the Rose, 9- Bad Blood, 10- Regina

Cover Art by Luis Nasser

Recorded at Secret Sound 

Kurgan´s Bane is a band whose style can be defined as progressive metal. It is progressive because of the complex song structures, the many different moods, melodies and atmospheres and the multiple changes. It is metal because of the distorted guitars and the power that each track here has. Here we have members of great bands like Sonus Umbra and we have Pete Laramee, a great guitarist who delivers great riffs and makes tasty solos on the tracks. Each of the songs on this CD has a distinctive personality and many interesting arrangements. A special note must be done on Lisa Francis vocals that are really powerful and give a lot of beauty to the songs constructing melodic lines that fit the musiand at the same time play with different feelings. Lovers of progressive music, here you have Kurgan´s Bane !

Favorite tracks: All the CD

Contact: www.kurgansbane.com

REVIEW: KAVIAR KAVALIER - STUDIO Y

 

KAVIAR KAVALIER - STUDIO Y (Obscene Productions, 2002)

Produced By: Kaviar Kavalier

Tracks: 1- Die Moderne Gummiklinik, 2- Julia, 3- Juanita, 4- Riesengebirge, 5- Erzlahung Zu Gummispielen, 6- Schuska Naslapo, 7- Baby Sex Complex, 8- thcaN ahcsitaf aID, 9- Gummiklinik, 10- A Trip to Växjö, 11-Kaviar, 12- 11th Street, 13- Exzess in San Salvador, 14- Galle Frau, 15-Viva

Cover Art by Chymus

Recorded at Gummistudio

This is what i call a weird band!!! The music of this duet (featuring Necrocock, ex Master´s Hammer, a classical Czech band) can not be described easily. They have many electronic elements and their music is full of keyboards and drum machines and at the same time they achieve heaviness through the use of this instruments and a distorted guitar (sort of a Rammstein but much more weird). The main thing here are the atmospheres that this two musicians create through their heavy use of keyboards and the experimentation that they do on all the tracks. There are some female vocals but they are used like another instrument and notm as the main vocal line. This guys are exploring new sounds and elements in the metal realm achieving strange results. Here we have also as bonus tracks the songs from the "Dreams of Kaviar" album. Weird stuff!!!

Favorite tracks: "Schuska Naslapo", "Julia" and "Baby Sex Complex"

Contact: www.obscene.cz

REVIEW: INTESTINAL DISGORGE - WHORE SPLATTERED WALLS

 

INTESTINAL DISGORGE - WHORE SPLATTERED WALLS (Lofty Storm Recs., 2002)

Produced By: Lofty Storm Records

Tracks: 1- |The Hooker Butcher, 2- No Use Crying Over Spilled Bitch, 3- Force Fed Diarrheal Slime, 4- Swamped in Liquefied Fecal Watter, 5- Bitch-ka-bob, 6- Bathing in Urine, 7- Dismemberment on the Bloated Body, 8- Sectioned With a Circular Saw, 9- From Stalking to killing, 10- Chewing on Coagulated Geriatric Feces, 11- Suffocated with a Used Adult Diaper, 12- Consuming Liquefied Insect-ridden Feces, 13- Methods of Disposing of Bodies, 14- Necrocoprophilia, 15- Rotting on your own excrement, 16- Masturbating on Overflowed Diarrheal Toilet Water, 17- Depraved Beyond all Comprehension, 18- Drenched in Gelatinous Sewage, 19- Intercourse With a Maggot Infested Emaciated Corpse, 20-Submerged in Festering Bodily Fluids, 21- Dining on Sludgeous Intestinal Contents, 22- Unheard Screams

Recorded at the Sewer Room

Intestinal Disgorge are sick as hell!! And they have reflected this sickness in their rotten music. This grind beasts have created here twenty two tracks of pure grind in its rawest and most distorted form. The tracks on this CD are super fast but with some slower parts (recalling old Autopsy records) with extremely guttural vocals (and some screaming...are those female screaming?). The guitars sound really distorted and fat and the bass is completely distorted too creating a wall of sound that Intestinal Disgorge uses effectively. Thios is what I call the sickest gore grind full of putrified song titles that fit perfectly the music of the band. Lovers of gore grind will love with no doubt this release from Intestinal Disgorge.

Favorite tracks: "Methods...", "Drenched..." and "Unheard Screams"

Contact: www.loftystorm.hpg.com.br

REVIEW: INNER EYE - FROM ETERNAL TO DESTINY

 

INNER EYE - FROM ETERNAL TO DESTINY (Independent, 2001)

Produced By: Inner Eye

Tracks: 1- Deceived Memory, 2- Legitimate Blame, 3- Pack of lies, 4- Cultivated Ignorance

Cover Art by Inner Eye

I really love technical music, and here we have four musicians who know how to play their instruments in many difficult changes, breaks and stops, and odd tempo parts. The music here can be defined as thrash metal with eighties influences but also with some touches of bands like Death or Watchtower. The main thing here are the guitars that deliver riff after riff with complete precission, the bass that does a lot of arrangements and follows perfectly the drums in the odd tempo parts (which are extremely difficult to play. The singer gives a lot of the thrash metal spirit that is present on this recording. Each song here has a lot of arrangements and are really complex. There are many melodies here and guitar solos (check "Legitimate Blame" to feel the good taste of the guitarists. I hope this guys record new songs really soon because this CD left me asking for more.

Favorite tracks: The four on this CD

Contact: inner_eye@lycos.it

REVIEW: INGERMANLAND - BEYOND EQUATOR

 

INGERMANLAND - BEYOND EQUATOR (Independent, 2001)

Produced By: Oddleif Stensland

Tracks: 1- Networked Vibrations, 2- Mindware lost, 3- The First Moment, 4- Delusion of Madness, 5- Sleeping With Worms, 6- At Dewy Prime

Cover Art by Oddleif Stensland

Recorded at RVPM Studios

Here we have this norwegian progressive metal band whose main goal is creating compositions with great instrumental quality and many arrangements that always surprise the listener with their melodies and multiple changes. And the musicians here (a trio plus one guest musician on keyboards) have amazing technical skills that are necessary for playing this compositions (check the odd timing that the drummer uses in some places). One thing that I found strange are that the vocals are completely different from the ones that can be heard in bands of the same style. This vocals are rawer and add heaviness to the songs...and that is one important point here....the songs are heavy and have a raw sound while having many rhythm changes and arrangements. It is like heavier progressive metal. A must for lovers of complex compositions and great musicianship.

Favorite tracks: "Mindware Lost", "The First Moment" and "Sleeping With Worms"

Contact: http://ingermanland.freeyellow.com

INTERVIEW WITH PERPETUAL DUSK

How do you feel about your "Incarnated Darkness" CD now that it has been released? 

I am very proud of it. Even though it sounds fuckin' great, I really Think that we can always improve our music. For an instance, I'd record "Incarnated Darkness" one more time, just to make it faster.

Do you have the songs for the debut album ready? 

Most of them are ready, but there's always room for more good ideas. When it comes to omposing, Perpetual Dusk  works constantly until the song is fully recorded. Then, there's no way back.

How did the line-up changes affect the sound of Perpetual Dusk´s music?

The current line-up is more aggressive and solid than the old one. Our songs are more sophisticated and complex, but we're still extreme, so cohesion and aggressiveness have to be our biggest musical foundations.

How is the process of composing a Perpetual Dusk tune?

It all begins with a couple of riffs. We take it to the studio and start throwing ideas over it, until we have a structure. Once the song it's structured, we take notes and build the more  complex parts at home. Then we go back into the studio and  modify the whole thing. Then we add lyrics. We had situations in which the songs became so complex that we had to rewrite them all over, but most of the time there's a point where we're totally satisfied with it and nobody touches a thing. We just find a way to play them faster and heavier. 

How important are the keyboards in Perpetual Dusk´s music?

VERY important!

What are the lyrics on "Incarnated Darkness" about?

The lyrics fit perfectly in the concept of the album. They're all about What shall happen when darkness takes over, when the unholy and heathen Desires of the hidden ones finally take place.

How would you compare the music in "Incarnated Darkness" with the one in "Waiting for the nightfall"? 

Despite the fact that both are from the same band, I'd say "Incarnated Darkness" is a more mature and complex record.

Which is the band´s equipment live and in studio?

The equipment of a record studio has a big difference from the one that works on a stage, we like to use on stage something  that we can setup faster and works like the studio equipment. The big difference is on the guitar amps (Laney, Mesa Boogie, Marshall), that are replaced on stage by amp simulators. 

We like to use the follow set of equipment on stage:

-B.C Rich and Ibanez Guitars 

-Yamaha Basses

-EMG and Dimarzio Pickups

-Behringer Pre-amps

-Roland Synthesizers

-Zildjian and Paiste cymbals and mapex

drums. 

Any final words? 

Thanks for your support! Keep up the great work! 

Hail Satan!

REVIEW: IMPURE DOMAIN - PROGRESSION OF IMPURITY

 

IMPURE DOMAIN - PROGRESSION OF IMPURITY (Independent, 2001)

 

Produced By: Impure Domain

Tracks: 1- The Armageddon Scenario, 2-Ecstasy by Losing Race, 3- The Gathering of the Black Powers, 4- By Light Forgotten, 5- Dying Aptera Humana Gens, 6- Requiem larvae

 

This CD starts wonderfully with a devastating guitar riff followed by some bass phrases and then a combination of brutal as hell music and some keyboards and original elements. The music here has elements of death metal (in some of the vocals and guitar riffs), of black metal (also in the vocals and the fastest parts), of industrial music and many more styles, all perfectly combined in order to create Impure Domain´s chaotic music. This guys have a lot of variation in their songs blending many different riffs to create the song structures. My favourite parts are when they combine the heaviest riffs with the more melodic side like in "The Gathering of the Black Powers" adding a lot of atmosphere to the songs (a special note goes to the bass player who makes remarcable melodic lines in each of the songs). If you like originality and music with many changes and arrangements then you will like Impure Domain.

Favorite tracks: "The gathering...", "By Light Forgotten" and "The Armageddon Scenario"

Contact: www.impuredomain.com

REVIEW: IMPURE DOMAIN - VIVERE DI MALE / THE EVIL WITHIN

 

IMPURE DOMAIN - VIVERE DI MALE / THE EVIL WITHIN (Independent, 2002 )

Produced By: Impure Domain

Tracks: 1- Trance Blood Chant, 2- As A Wolf Among The Sheep, 3- The Perverse Charm of Prevarikation, 4- Mysanthropya Apokalyptyka, 5- Type Triple-Six: Emey Defeated; 6- K.K.K. (Kold Karma of Kaos), 7- Love / Evol ov Evil, 8- The Razorblade Ritual-Kore, 9- The Rise of Hyperboream, 10- 2 B "Byond", 11- Neural inferno (Nihilist Disturbed Mix)

Recorded at SDR Studios 

Impure Domain is a band that always surprises the listener. This CD starts in a really electronic way with a lot of keyboards and distorted sounds, electronic vocals and melodies. The heavy guitars appear in the second track which is almost black metal but mixed with some extremely calm passage where the clean guitars does a lot of arpeggios and the distorted guitar plays only sustained chords and some notes. It is incredible the combination of ultrafast parts with keyboards passages and total experimentation that this band does in all the tracks. I think this CD is a progress when compared to the previous "Progression of Impurity" in sound and ideas, and also in the madness that each of the songs here deliver. Madness guaranteed.

Favorite tracks: "Trance Blood Chant", "The Perverse Charm..." and "The Rise of Hyperboream"

Contact: www.impuredomain.com

REVIEW: HESSION / WHARF / FELL - IMPROVABILLY

 

HESSION / WHARF / FELL - IMPROVABILLY (Bruce´s Fingers, 2002 )

Produced By: Hession/ Wharf/ Fell

Tracks: 1- Between the Clock and the Bed, 2- Enter, Leave, 3- The Interior of Sight, 4- Self Portrait with Burning Cigarette, 5- The Angel of Hearth and Home

Cover Art by Jo Fell

Recorded at Darkside Studio 

Here we have this recording of three masters of improvisation and experimental music. The CD starts with a fast tune with superb drumming and a lot of interesting experimental sax phrases. Then we have the incredible double bass lines that can beheard through all the recording (Simon Fell not only uses the double bass to create lines to support the sax melodies and phrases, but he also uses the instrument to create sounds that are beyond what one could think can be expressed with it). There are tracks that are more chaotic and others that are closer to jazz standards (like for example "Enter, Leave"). It is amazing how this three muscians can develope a lot of original ideas within a song format. This CD is a must for lovers of experimentation.

Favorite tracks: "Between the clock...", "Enter, Leave" and "The Angel..."

Contact: www.brucesfingers.com