19 NEW PROJECT - 19 NEW PROJECT

Line Up:

Emmanuel Burget - vocals, guitars, keyboards

Gilles Boyer - vocals, bass, keyboards

Music and lyrics by 19 New Project

Tracks:

1- Never Mind Boys

2- Vodka Lemon

3-Sunshine (Dizneuviem Mix)

4-Until you Will

5-A Space to Fill

6-Strange Girl

7-Interlude

8-I Want You

9-Let´s Going Out

10-Sunshine (BEnicassim Mix)

11- Scream Out

12-Don´t Stop

13-Soundtrack Melody

This is pure electronics full of interesting and original ideas.Starting with the more accessible tune, "Never Mind Boys", with a killer pop attitude this guys start experimenting with electronics sounds and melodies achieveing here thirteen good compositions. My aboslute favorite tracks here are the ones like "Sunshine" or "Vodka Lemon" where the duet gets into a darker atmosphere and explores all the textures that they can achieve within the song structure. The vocals here are clean and deep nd we have here also some guest female vocals giving a different feeling to some of the compositions. It is amazing how this duet develops incredible soundscapes without giving too much difficulties to the nlistener, because despite having heavy experimentation, this compositions are accessible to the ear. A killer electronic release !

Recorded at Studio Gilles Boyer

Produced by 19 New Project

8 FOOT SATIVA - HATE MADE ME

Line Up:

Justin - vocals

Gary - guitars

Brent - bass

Speed - drums

Music and Lyrics by G.Smith and J. Niesses, excc.3, 9 by Smith-Bailey and 12 by J.S.Bach

Tracks:

1- Before your suffering

2-Hate Made Me

3-Fuel Set

4-Cocktease

5-Believer

6-It´s All So Real

7-Grown Aggression

8-Stolen Life

9-Kick it all away

10- 8 Foot Sativa

11-Engine

12-Invention 13

If you like aggressive bands then you will surely like this album. 8 Foot Sativa delivers here twelve tracks full of power with riffs that go from thrash metal to fast death metal and including also many pure metal arrangements. There is an eighties thrash feeling in the music which I like a lot and this guys have a trademark sound that is their multiple changes in riffs and rhythms. There is plenty of good musicianship here and that is evident on each of the compositions. Justin´s vocals are closer to thrash than the voice of his successor Matt Sheppard fitting well the music of the band. One excellent ending to this album is the distorted verion of Bach´s "Invention 13" where power and beauty are blended with really good musicianship in order to give a killer ending to this album. A band that knows how to deliver powerfulc ompositions full of aggression !

Recorded at Area 51 Studios

Produced by 8 Foot Sativa and Mark Pavletich

8 FOOT SATIVA - SEASON FOR ASSAULT

Line Up:

Justin Niessen - vocals

Gary Smith - guitars

Brent Fox - bass

Sam Sheppard - drums

Music by Smith (1-4,6,7,8,9), Sheppard (5), Smith/Sheppard (10)

Lyrics by Niessen/Smith (1,2,3,6), Sheppard/Niessen (4), Sheppard (5,10), Smith (7,9), Niessen (8)

Tracks:

1- Whats lost is tomorrow

2-Escape from reality

3-For Religions to Suffer

4-Destined to be Dead

5-Hatred Forever

6-Season for Assault

7-Chelsea Smile

8-The Abused

9-Disorder

10- Gutless

Agression has no boundaries with 8 Foot Sativa !!! Kicking off with a killer bass line in "Whats lost is tomorrow" the band starts unleahing ten compositions designed to crush. You can almost see the guys in a live show playing this destructive compostions while the crowd headbangs and stagedives. I really like the thrash quality that the guitar riffs have in 8 Foot Sativa, giving a lot of power to the music but retaining that technical skills that this style of music must have. Justin vocals are really extrme, going from a growling voice to one more of the screaming type and also adding some clean moments that make things really memorable. Again, I have to remark the good sound that this guys achieve, with a devastating rhythm section and a wall of sound delivered by the guitars. Aggression at its highest level of intensity.

Recorded at York Street Studios

Produced by 8 Foot Sativa

8 FOOT SATIVA - BREED THE PAIN

Line Up:

Matt Sheppard  - vocals

Gary Smith - guitars

Brent Fox - bass

Sam Sheppard - drums

Music by G. Smith (1-6,8,9) and Sam Sheppard (7)

Lyrics by G.Smith (1,2,5,6) Smith/Fox (3), M. Sheppard (4,8), Sheppard/Sheppard (7), Sheppard/Fox (9)

Tracks:

1- Perpetual Torment

2-Breed the Pain

3-I Live My Death

4-Mentally Castrated

5-Altar of Obscenity

6-Human Abattoir

7-Brutal Revenge

8-The Punishment Within

9-Genetic Treason

This is 8 Foot Sativa´s latest album and surely is their best one. With a strong improvement in sound the band manages to create nine blasting tracks of their brutal thrash/death metal. The guitars start blowing your mnd with their huge guitar riffs and then comes the drums with incredible double bass drumming. This band was created to destroy the listener. And they achieve this through ultraaggressive guitar riffs and crushing rhythms. Matt Sheppard´s vocals are really extreme and give a death metal  feeling to the music. He is really crushing through all the nine tracks. The album has a really good sound that makes the music more devastating making the guitars sound huge and the drummer like an army of hammers smashing your brain !!! Don´t miss a step of this bestial band !!!

Recorded at Studio underground, Vasteras, Sweden

Produced by Pelle Saether and 8 Foot Sativa

ADOR DORATH - ADON NIN EDELETH ADOR DORATH

Line Up:

Martin Rozenek - keyboards, synths

Michael Rannosz - drums

Romana Aetsova - bass

Lenka Machova - vocals

Ivos Dosedel - vocals

Kamil Pfeffer - guitars, screams

Krystian Danel - cello, guitar

Music and lyrics by Ador Dorath

Tracks:

1- Ubique Daemon

2-Arcana Artis

3-Metamorphoses

4-Garden of Earthly Pleasures

5-Circle

6-Adon Nin Edeleth Ador Dorath

7-Hail to majesty

8-Rule of Nyx

9-Pharmakopoeia

10-Misery

Darkness has found new ways to achieve humanity. And Ador Dorath is one of them. Their music is aggressive and at the same time extremely dark. Full of guitar riffs buta lso of dark passages where cellos, keyboards and female vocals find their place. And this contrast and interaction between aggressive parts and dark ones is the heart and soul of Ador Dorath´s vocals. do you want screams and deathly vocals? Here you have plenty of them and also you have beautiful ethereal female vocals that show a different side of the musical personality of this band. There are passages where you can almost feel yourself lost in a dark wood while it is raining . Just check "Arcan Artis" to see how this guys manage perfectly the art of taking darkness directly into your brain (this is a tracks with oly keyboards and sounds that soon connects with "Metamorphoses"). There is really good musicianship here too making each composition a masterpiece in darkness. Ador Dorath deserves a place in the Olympus of the darkest of metals !!!

Produced by Ador Dorath

ADULTERY - AGE OF WINTER KINGS

Line Up:

Akharon - vocals

Elrabor - clean vocals, bass

Von Borowitz - drums

Edrogh - guitars

Eloaner - violin

Johanne - clean vocals

Siki - b.vocals

Pobor - b.vocals

Music and lyrics by Elrabor and Adultery

Tracks:

1- Silent Breath

2-Dark Ages

3-Last Hope

4-Struggle of Curse

5-Tears

6-Confession of Immortality

7-Crystal Light

8-The Ancient Prophecy

9-Black Well

10-Death of Sun

11-Silence

12-The Return of the King

13-Forgotten Rites

14-Time I

15-Time II

16-Time III

17-The Final Trial

Some screams and battle sounds....then some acoustic guitars and violins....then a really dark and extreme voice ....then comes the rest of the excellent music of this band from the Czech Repucblic. Here we have a band whose style they describe as slavonic black metal. That is this guys with no doubt play black metal (they have speed, they have the really extreme voice) , they also have the dark feeling in the melodies and they also have an epic feeling that most of the bands in black metal style don´t have....and they have many voices that sing epic melodies within some of the songs (they are really original!!). This guys are extreme and have original riffs that are essential to their music. This elements combined with the good sound that the recording has makes a good album...one of those albums that you really enjoy from beginning to end.

Recorded at Bluestudio Trinec

Produced by Elrabor

AGNES VEIN - ...OF CHAOS AND LAW

Music by Agnes Vein

Lyrics by Agnes Vein

Tracks:

1-Faethon

2-Catharsis: The voice of the sea

3-Age of Progress (?)

4-Dragon

5-The Sailor on the seas of Fate

Agnes Vein delivers heavier than hell riffs on the five tracks that are on this album, sometimes reminding me to bands like My Dying Bride or Paradise Lost (Icon era) and sometimes to more classic bands like Black Sabbath or Trouble. But the band manages to create fivce tracks thata re at the same time extremely powerful and dark with a melancholic feeling in them. The more climatic feeling is achieved through the guitar arrangements and melodies and through the ethereal vocals that deliver melancholic lines through all the recording. The guitars have a really heavy sound that when playing the slower riffs take you directly into a dark world full of heaviness and despair. I have to remark that here we have a really solid rhythm section playing heavy patterns really tightly. The sound is the exact one tat this type of bands needs: really direct but not too raw, with emphasis on the guitars and some reverb on the vocals. A great combination of powerful music and sadness.

Recorded at Jam Studios

Produced by Agnes vein

AIRGED L´AMH - THE SILVER ARM

Line Up:

Steve Venardo - vocals

Alexander Vasilopoulos - guitars

George Sofikitis - guitars

John Luna Tsimas -bass

George Thanasopoulos - drums

Music and lyrics by Airged L`Amh

Tracks:

1- Intro / Guardian of the Ancient Deeds

2-Fate of the king

3-Dissention Seeds

4-Warp Spasm

5-Mourning Grief

6-The Silver Arm

7-Balor of the Evil Eye

8-The Arrival

9-Armies Assemble

10-Splendor Divine

11-Painless Vengeance

12-End Domin

13-Homeland

The press release says that this band plays barbaric epic folk metal. And this is a good description of their music: with epic keyboards in the intro, powerful riffs, some folk elements and a pure heavy metal attitude. Starting with the epic intro the band soon gets into a more pure heavy metal mode with some power metal influences (and also some thrash in some of the shouted choruses). Steve Venardo is a realy good singer whose range is of the middle type and he also does some more extreme vocals that give a different feeling to the music. The band shows that they are extremely well rehearsed and also some virtuosism in the arrangements and in some changes. The band is really much heavier than most of the bands in the pure heavy metal style because of the huge sound of the guitars and also the intense drumming that is delivered here. the sound is excellent making things even heavier and more powerful if that is possible. A must have.

Produced by Airged L´Amh

AKERCOCKE - CHORONZON

Line Up:

Jason Mendonca

Paul Scanlan

Peter Theobalds

David Gray

Music by Akercocke

Lyrics by David Gray

Tracks:

1- Praise the Name of Satan

2-Prince of the North

3-Leviathan

4-Enraptured by Evil

5-Choronzon

6-Valley of teh Crucified

7-Bathykolpian Avatar

8-Upon Coriaceous Wings

9-Scapegoat

10- Son of the Morning

11-Becoming the Adversary

12-Goddess Flesh

As always Akercocke delivers their special style of black metal full of extremely aggressive guitars and majestic keyboards. One special feature of this band is the combiantion of the most aggressive moments with more climatic ones. This is evident from the start with "Praise the Name of Satan" where hyper fast parts are followed by clean guitar interludes. The combination of blast beating parts with parts full of arrangements done by the keyboards are an essential element here. The extreme vocals are of the black emtal type but there is also some melody in some parts and also some more guttural growls in the slower aprts. The drumming is superhuman with aprts really fast and technical that surprise with aggression and virtuosism. But for my taste the essence here are the keyboards being dark and majestic at the same time adding the dark feeling to the music. The guitars sound huge doing riffs and arrangements through all the album. A step forward on Akercocke´s career.

Recorded at Goat of Mendes Studios

Produced by Akercocke

AL BUNDY - I HATE THESE PEOPLE

Line Up:

Flo

Alex

Virgil

Ben

Music and lyrics by Al Bundy

Tracks:

1- Victor

2-Matt goes to the Paddy

3-Norberg

4-The Stupidity Incarnate

5-Pit of Trends

6-Master Pain

7-Grotesque Human Bastard

8-Assbroken

9-Unleash Rectorrhagy

10- King of the proctologist

Pure brutality, pure mayhem. Lovers of the most extreme grind can habe orgasms while listening to Al Bundy´s music This band has a lot of speed and their music is extremely aggressive with chainsaw like guitars and faster than the speed of light drums. Fast drumming, sometimes in the hardcore vein, sometimes doing blast beats in a pure grindcore vein are a trademark here creating the chaos and then creating the order that comes from disorder. The guitars are of the chainsaw like type playing fast riffs and also adding here and there more rhythmic riffs that turn the mayhem into a headbanging experience. The vocals sound like other instrument and are of the screaming type but very distorted fitting really well the grindocre feeling of the music. The sound is extremely raw but it allows the listener to listen clearly all the ideas that the band developes. Pure grindocre for lovers of the most extreme style !!!

Produced by Al Bundy

ALMAVENUS - BAMBINI DI STRADA

Line Up:

Michele Roddichio - keyboards

Federico Buccichio - bass

Riccardo di Renzo - vocals

Alessio Rugo - guitars

Luca Paparelli - drums

Music and lyrics by Almavenus

Tracks:

1- Niños de Calle

2-Atmosfera Zero

3-lacrima Nera

4-Pioggia Acida

5-Solo Io

6-Memorie di un Eroe

Almavenus is a band that can combines different musical styles into their own identity. For example the first track has a pop vocal line with some heavy guitars in the choruses and incredible keyboards that do amazing arrangements through all the track. And this keyboards are essential for the Almavenus sound as can be seen in "Atmosfera Zero" where they create a space like passage while the guitars do some background riff. the vocals are really clean and are mixed really loud here and this guy creates some melodic vocal lines that soon stick into your mind. the us of clean guitars adds alos a mdifferent feeling, such as in "Lacrima Nera" where they are doing arpeggios and ten change into rhythms and they also are doing some phrases with wah wah before getting into a more powerful part. A truly original rocking band.

Recorded at SoundPark Studios

Produced by Almavenus

ALTARIA - DIVINITY

Line Up:

Taage - vocals

Jani Liimatainen - guitars / keyboards

Marko Pukkila - bass

Tony Smedjebacka - drums

Tracks:

1- Unchain the Rain

2-Will to Live

3-Prophet of Pestilence

4-Darkened Highlight

5-Discovery

6-Falling Again

7-Divine

8-Haven

9-Try to Remember

10-Stain on the Switchblade

11-Enemy

12-Final Warning

Altaria is a band that has Jani Liimatainen from Sonata Arctica on its lineup and their music is pure heavy metal with a definite european sound. Here the main thing is the combination of pure metal riffs with incredible vocal melodies. I really liked Taage´s voice, full of feeling and managing really well his middle range. Some tracks like "Will to Live" are extremely memorable, specially because of the chorus and they could be hits in the pure metal world. There are plenty of virtuoso guitar parts that are an essential part of the compositions here, showing that the band knows how to do complex parts within good songs. The album has a really good sound where everything is perfectly mixed letting you appreciate all what this finnish guys can do with their instruments. Pure metal for lovers of the style.

Produced by Ahti Kortelainen, Jani Liimatainen and Altaria

ANCARA - ANCARA

Line Up:

Sammy Salminen - vocals

Mika Rajala - bass

Samuel Hjelt - guitars, vocals

Juice Wahlsten - guitars, vocals

Timo Rajala - drums

Tracks:

1- Bound to Roam

2-Come Apart

3-Why

This is pure metal with a definite eighties flavor but with a modern sound in the guitars that gives a much more modern feeling to them. Here we have elements of pure heavy metal and also some power metal. This is full of melodies that go from melancholic int racks like "Bound to Roam" to epic in other tracks. The vocals are excellent being clean and powerful at the same time and there are also some vocal harmonies that add a strong feeling to the music. The guitars sound really heavy and the good thing is that they play original riffs instead of the ususla galloping done by many bands in the style. There are also many clean parts that give sort of a progressive feeling to the music. Good sound is essential here and this guys have achieved it through a killer mix. A good combination of heavy metal with subtle elements and a lot of imagination !

Recorded by Samuel Hjelt

Produced by Ancara

ANTHROFUGE - IMPALED IN COMPARISON

Line Up:

Coach - vocals

Al-throfuge - bass

Kanoo - drums, vocals

Batlord - guitars, vocals

Music and lyrics by Anthrofuge exc. 8 by Jim Stinman and Dean Pitchford.

Tracks:

1- Embracing the Pain

2-None Righteous

3-Tinea Cruris

4-Geisselung

5-Kopf und Schultern

6-Skidmark Grin

7-Weak Species

8- Holding Out for a Hero

A really brutal band that can combine death metal with some old school influences and with some doom in the slower tracks (such as "Embracing the Pain"). With a guttural voice that leads the path this guys ahve achieved moments of pure brutality without abusing speed and making the band sound devastating with the use of pure heavy guitar riffs and crushing drumming. I really like teh way the drummer emphasizes the riffs and also the slower aprts uing a lot of creativy in his fills and patterns. the vocals are extremely guttural fitting the feeliung of the music and adding even more brutality. The sound is really good and clear making the guitars shine. There is also a hidden track after almost twenty minutes of voices and noises, called "Holding Out for a Hero" that sounds more direct and less death (even if it still has the guttural vocals...it is a Bonnie Tyler song done in the Anthrofuge vein). A bestial band full of intense aggression !!

Recorded at Mercenary Digital

Produced by Anthrofuge

ARMAGEDDON OVER WACKEN 2004

Track list of the definitive version:

CD1:

1-ANTHRAX - Indians

2-ANTHRAX - Only

3-DESTRUCTION - Nailed to the Cross

4-CHILDREN OF BODOM - Sicpounder

5-CANNIBAL CORPSE - Gallery of Suicide

6-MAYHEM - Pagans Fears

7-DEATH ANGEL - Thicker than Blood

8-UNLEASHED - To Asgard we fly

9-ORPHANAGE - Five Crystals

10-EKTOMORF - I KNow them

11-EKTOMORF - Destroy

12-BAL SAGOTH - The Emperial Lexicon

13- MNEMIC - Ghost

14- CATHEDRAL - Stained Glass Horizon

15-NEVERMORE - Enemies of Reality

CD2:

1-DIO - Holy Diver

2-DIO - Don´t Talk to Strangers

3-HELLOWEEN - Dr. Stein

4-DORO - Für Immer

5-KOTIPELTO - Reasons

6-MYSTIC PROPHECY - In the Land of the Dead

7-BRAINSTORM - Hollow Hideaway

8-MOTORHEAD - We are Motorhead

9-MOTORHEAD - Life is a bitch

10-PARAGON - Green Hell

11-WEINHOLD - Strike

12-FEINSTEIN - Rebelutions

13-JBO - Arschloch und Spass Dabei

14-BLAZE BAYLEY - Fear of the Dark

CD3:

1-VANGUARD - Forgive

2-RECKLESS TIDE - Death TRain

3-RECKLESS TIDE - Equality

4-GRIFFIN - The Sentence

5-HOBBS ANGEL OF DEATH - Crucifiction

6- DR. ROCK - Wicked how

7- DR. ROCK - Dr. Rock

8-EVERFEST - See me Rising

9-SUFFERAGE - Civilized

10-GUN BARREL - Only a Passenger

11-GUTBUCKET - 82 Hours Bus Hellride

12-GUTBUCKET - You never

13-SUPERSOMA - Missing Nola

14-THORA - Christ Abuse

15-METHEDRAS  - Wreck n Roll

16- ZODIAC MINDWARP - Like a Hurricane

17- RAUNCHY - Summer of Overload

18-ELÄKELÄISET - Humppa

It is really difficult to be objective while describing this album. Wacken open Air Festival is the biggest metal festival in Earth and if you have been there you know that everything you breathe is pure metal and that the environment is really special. For me the Wacken Open Air 2004 was an experience of a lifetime and I had the pleasure of witnessing several of the artists featured on this triple CD !!! I remember the killer Children of Bodom set which was really overwhelming from which you can listen on this album the extremely aggressive "Six Pounder", the emotive show by Doro and Warlock that here is represented with "Für Immer" and "Fear of the Dar" (with Blaze Bayley on vocals) and many other great shows. Here we have a couple of Dio classics like "Holy Diver" and  "Don´t talk to Strangers", just a part of a show set that contained only classics from his solo band, from Rainbow and from Black Sabbath. And what can we say about the monumental shows by Unleashed or Bal Sagoth. You just had to see those bands ripping their instruments under the heat of the german summer. And here we have also newcomers like the incredible thrash machine called Reckless Tide, a band that won the 2004 Metal Battle and whose set was one of the most intense in the festival. If you are a metalhead you can not miss the Wacken Open Air Festival and as a sample you can listen this amazing 3 CD set that gives you a taste of what is going on in that small town in the north of Germany.

ARMANDO PETRINI - GOOD MOOD

Music by Armando Petrini

Tracks:

1- Good Mood

2-On the Run Again

3-Flowers for Phrygian

4-Relax

5-Just Me and You

6-Lethal Weapon

7-Out from the Darkness

8-A Beautiful Day

Armando Petrini is a guitar virtuoso coming directly from Italy. He has studied in the G.I.T. in the U.S.A. and there he developed new elements in his style. Here he shows us eight of his compositions. They are all instrumental ones in the vein of guitarists like Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and Tony Macalpine. There are plenty of guitar solos here but most of them are played within a song contest. Armando knows how to reflect his feelings in his music and that is evident in "A Beautiful Day", a track with plenty of melodies that come directly from the heart. On most of the songs Armando works with a main idea or melody and then twists it and adds arrangements and solos over it creating this beautiful songs. If you want to know how virtuosism is developed within good songs, then you should check Armando Petrini because he is really good in doing this.

Produced by Armando Petrini

ATROCITY - ATLANTIS

Line Up:

Alexander Krull - vocals

Mathias Röderer - guitar

THorsten Bauer - guitar

Chris Lukhaup - bass

Martin Schmidt - drums

Music by Krull, Lukhaup, Bauer, Röderer, Schmidt

Lyrics by Krull

Tracks:

01. Reich of Phenomena
02. Superior Race
03. Gods of Nations
04. Ichor
05. Enigma
06. Morbid Mind
07. Omen
08. Cold Black Days
09. Atlantean Empire
10. Clash of the Titans
11. Apocalypse
12. Lost Eden
13. The Sunken Paradise
14. Aeon

15. Ein Volk
 

Recorded at Mastersound Studios

Produced by Alexander Krull

AVENUE F - AVENUE F

Line Up:

Jack Kemple - vocals

Mike Marino - guitars

Mike BEtkowski - drums

Vinnie Valdes - bass

Music and lyrics by Avenue F

Tracks:

1- Suffer Unto Me

2-Thin Ice

3-I don´t Need You

Avenue F is pure rock with killer riffs and with a guitar sound that is heavier than most of the bands of the style. In fact they have a guitar sound that can be close to Alice in Chains but even more powerful. As I said before the tardemark here are the powerful riffs that the band has developed here. The songs are extremely memorable due to the good riffs and the vocals that do interesting lines that stick into your mind really soon. And the vocals are essential because it seems to me that a lot of time has been spent in creating this vocal lines because they are carefully constructed against the heavy riffs and they are essential to keep the compositions in your mind. The sound of the recording is good and clear helping the band to sound as powerful as they want. A really rocking release !

Produced by Avenue F

BALATONIZER - OCCLUSED IN OTTUSITY

Line Up:

Mario Musumeci - vocals

Marco Failla - guitars, programming

Rodan Di Maria - bass

Music by Balatonizer

Lyrics by Balatonizer

Tracks:

THere are 32 tracks of pure brutality here plus a video of the "Muscular Prevarication" track

Blatonizer is pure bestiality. Here we have over thirty tracks that are pure bursts of energy in the form of pure grind - brutal death metal. Here we have downtuned guitars that sound really crushing delivering ultra fast riffs that are like a machine gun to your brain. And we have an extremely guttural voice that delivers the vocls in a really brutal way. The programmed drums give the music a strange feeling of mechanical rhythms which add some originality. And this programmed drums does blast beats and incredibly fast patterns full of double bass drumming, sounding fresh and original. Most of the tracks are short and that allows the band to concentrate their power in some seconds in order toa chieve the most bestial track possible. Pure bestiality in thirty two atom bombs contained on this album.

Recorded at Circle of Power Studio

Produced by Balatonizer

BARRITUS - DEMO 2004

Line Up:

Rodolfo Valentino Wagner Martinez -  guitars

Rudiger Olshausen - drums

Hille Braun - vocals

Michi Blohm - guitars

Oscar Juan Muñoz Valderrama - bass

Music by Barritus

Lyrics by Barritus

Tracks:

1- Me and You

2-It

 + CD-ROM part

Barritus is a blasting band and they show this here through two tracks that leave you wanting more from this powerful german band. Crushing guitar riffs are the main thing here with multiple changes in a style that we can label something like modern death/thrash. Hille is really a beast with her  brutal voice and mixing it  the more melodic one style that she uses in the more climatic parts. This cleaner voice  adds melody to the utter power and intensity that the band unleashes. It is amazing this vocal contrast because she starts singing like an angel and then all of a sudden she transforms herself into the most brutal singer !! The two tracks have a really powerful sound, specially on drums and guitars. Also, onthe CD-Rom aprt we can appreciate a short glimpse of few seconds of a new song that shows all the power that Hille can unleash with her lungs. We want more from Barritus !!!!!

recorded at High Gain Studios

Produced by Barritus

BARZAKH - HEART HOLY IN HYPOCRITE

Music and lyrics by Barzakh

Tracks:

1- Border Holy in the Sin

2- The Power darkness that eternal

3- Her Robe Willingness in the trash

4- Ligh the End

I really like when bands go beyond styles and show good musicianship combining elements from different kinds of extreme music. Barzakh has achieved really good compositions here mixing the rawest of black emtals with dark melodies and also a pure metal feeling. THeir music is a combination of pure aggression with heavier than hell rifs and vocal that sometimes are close to black metal and sometimes to death metal with incredible melodies taht would have not been out of place ina  pure heavy metal band. The guitars are raw and they play fast riffs when is neded and more mid paced ones in the more cliamtic parts, also adding melodies in many parts. I like the combination of the death and the black metal voices emphasizing certain feeling of the music here. The sound is a little bit buried and with a better mix the band will surely sound even more powerful. THis band rules and shows that Indonesia is a country that has killer bands.

Produced by Barzakh

BEEF CONSPIRACY - HUNG DRAWN AND QUARTER POUNDERED

Music and lyrics by Beef Conspiracy

Tracks:

1- Intro

2-Cerebral Mince

3- Jam or butter, not both

4-Nothing says I love you Like...A Chainsaw injury to the head

5- Spunky Beefcake

6-Beneath My Skin

7-Rover does the Splits

8-The Sweet Caress of a Nailgun

9-Beef Denied

This is pure grind death with extremely fast riffs and strong emphasis on the brutality of each riff and rhythm. This guys have managed to combine ultra fast riffs with blast beating drums with more rhytmic ones that gives their music and even heavier feeling. The drums have that exact feeling that this type of music must have, being powerful and at the same time having this dry sound that makes them sound like a stomping nightmare in your brain. The vocals are guttural in many parts but also of the screaming type. The interaction of the death metal parts with the faster grinding ones are the trademark of this band. This is pure brutality unleashed by this band that has no mercy through all this album making your brain feel sore because of the aggression suffered. Pure bestiality !!!!

Produced by Beef Conspiracy

BELLGRAVE - MY SOUL IS MY GUN

Music and lyrics by Bellgrave

Tracks:

1- Cold Bleeding Angel

2- My Soul is My Gun

3-Repayment

4-Back iN Town

5-A Place for Sale

6-Rattlesnakes Ra