New Reviews 2/26/2011
Septic Flesh- The Great Mass- CD (Season of Mist)
So the Greek Symphonic Blackened Metal Force is back in full force with The Great Mass. The Epic sounds that you have come to know from Septic Flesh is there this reminds me a lot of Ophidian Wheel period from the band with a much cleaner and strong production but the feelings are all there. They mix Goth, Black metal, Orchestral , Prog Metal and Death metal all into a electronic backdrop that you know is Septic Flesh the moment you hear it. The male and female vocal mix with choirs is brilliant . They have much in comment with bands like Therion and Elend as well which always has been the case. If you never heard them there is no better place then " The Great Mass " to start but mandatory is getting Ophidian Wheel and Sumerian Daemons ... Septic Flesh even in there weaking tracks still impress. Glad to see there still making interesting and very creative music..
http://season-of-mist.com/
Feral- Dragged to the Altar-CD (Ibex Moon)
Wow this is Old School Swedish Death Metal at its finest . It reminds me so much on 90's Disemember and Entombed. Esp in Vocal and guitar tone.. The Harmonics of the Guitars are mind numbing and The leads are so tasteful. This sounds like like a Death metal war machine.. The Bass and drums sound like the tanks are coming in to take your last breathe. Jesus it even has samples of torment and madness on some tracks. Feral even has that Complex Tech Death metal element the 90's Swedish Death metal scene had. If you mixed in elements of Panzerchrist and Bolt Thrower and Incantation you would have Feral in a nut shell. The recording is full as hell you can hear everything and nothing is too up front in the mix . Damn have I told you how much I love the guitar solos... Get this...
http://ibexmoonrecords.com/
Vicious Rumors- Razorback Killers-CD (SPV/ Steamhammer)
Its a crime that Vicious Rumors is not a huge metal force in sales and performing in areas here. This U.S. Power/Thrash metal monster for years has made some of the best melodic edge extreme music in the scene. If you like bands like Hades, Judas Priest, Pretty Maids and Armored Saint then its a crime for you not to own or at least check out Razorback Killers and there over 10 yrs back catalog. Vicious Rumors is American Metal. They Breathe, Sweat and Bleed it 24/7. The skill level of the arrangements and vocal talent is 2nd to none here. I know in Europe they are much better know and loved. We need to change that here for sure. Long live real metal and its name is Vicious Rumors is thy name....
Ovo- Cor Cordium-CD (Supernatural Cat)
How do you explain those voices in your head you know the ones that even think Suicide is to easy of a way out and laugh at you when you don't hurt yourself enough to show real pain from it??? Well Ovo have found a way to create that into musical form. Ovo is just madness and sickness profound. Ovo are part Doom, Noise Rock and Industrial elements. The vocals are just this side of insanity and work so well for this project. There are layers of Crisis, Jarboe, Diamanda Galas in the vocals as well. The music is like Sonic Youth, Bastard Noise and Wolf eyes joined forces with Crusty Doom bands like Eyehategod, Cavity or Noothgrush. There are so many things going on with Ovo you could listen to the album 10 times and never hear the same album twice. I really want to see them live as I think you will never be the same once this happens (for the good or bad). Ovo is Sonic destruction plain and simple....
Section 37 - The kudos of Serial Killing-CD ( Aesthetic Death)
If your a fan of experimental free form Industrial then you need to check out Section 37 as they mix elements of Skinny Puppy, Pigface , Lunar Bear Ensemble, FLA and early NIN all into a stew of things that are more that the parts of the whole. I have so say great minds think a like as well . As my project As All Die used the same Charles Manson sample in our track " Let lying dogs sleep" off our Victory CD .. Though Section 37 is more about the ritual electronic collective as we go through a spoke word digital land scape that at time sounds like Rev Co or Mid period Ministry. I do love that all the songs or tracks are about murder or the need to murder in different tongue in cheek ways. Coming from a label that has released Endvra, Esoteric, Fleurety etc I'm not shocked our awesome this release is. I could hear this on a label like Cold Spring or Invisible in a second. Stellar Industrial movement here with Section 37 I hope there more to come..
http://aestheticdeath.com/
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