Big Batch of New Reviews 11/6/2011
Junius- Reports from the threshold of death-CD (Prosthetic Records)
You know when you get that chill from music the 1st time you hear it well this is just that. The mix Post Metal, Emo and Indie Rock in to a way that has not been hear much like this . If you could have members of Radiohead, Deftones and Neurosis create some kind of bastard metallic hybrid then you would 100% be listening and producing what Junius does. There is a hypontic trance like element that intermingle through out this release. The album is massive and heavy without being extreme metal in anyway too. I know this is all so confusing but you know what Junius is a confusing band and oh so good at the same time. I think that want to be Katatonia more then any other band I've heard in years. As that is as close to any one band they project. I need to see this band live as if they are half as great as there album they are one of the best touring bands ever... GET THIS ALBUM!!!!
Hull- Beyond the Lightless Sky-CD (The End)
Hull is a band of as much fury as passion in the way thy create what they do. The have that NOLA sound think Down, Crowbar, COC mixed with Hardcore of Sick of it all and Madball mixed with a 90's Sludge rock sound all mix into one powerful force of guys here for one reason to rock your fucking faces off. The Triple guitar action really help with the powerful harmonies that come through it all. I feel a strong love for Today is the Day and Brutal Truth going through this band as well. Hull is much more than the parts of the whole. I swear there are even prog and math rock moments. This is were the End record use to go with bands like Sleepy Time Gorilla Museum, Made out of Babies etc I hope this is a direction that the label will return to .
http://theendrecords.com/
Brainstorm- On the Spur of the moment-CD (AFM)
Ah what we have here is brilliantly done German Power metal its just that nothing more. If you like your Metal Classic in the Dio, Iron Maiden , Savatage and The Pretty Maids then you have you need to fall to your knees and thank the metal gods above that have not forgotten this Genre. AFM is one of the best labels out there for this style with Inside Out and The Lasers Edge. The melody that is here fills the speakers in only a Metal band with talents like Brainstorm can do. The songs on " Sur of the moment" are beyond catchy and draw you in. Love the slight electronic elements all the modern Power metal bands use now as well. Check this out if you like your metal old school it will be one the years best...
RUE- Thorn-CD (Shifty Records)
Can you actually mix Crusty Sludge with Indie Rock and Post Rock all into one band and make it a project that would impress most on 1st listen well folks RUE just did it and I'm unnerved as Disturbed by it. If you like bands like Polkadot Cadaver and Mike Patton creation then mix in bands like Deadhorse, Meatjack and Type O Negative in to that stew mix and you get something that would be in the range of RUE. This album is just plain crushing and madness to your ears. I don't really have words for how cool this album sounds and Doom for the 21st century is just lame because there are Hardcore, Noise, Thrash, Punk and Retro elements all going on at the same time in most of the tracks here. RUE is just RUE and do we need anything less. RUE kicks the ass of 10,000 mules.. Enough Said...
PTAHIL- For His Satanic Majesty's Glory-CD ( Wraith Productions)
So who wants there Black metal raw with massive does of Punk and Indie Movie soundtrack vibes well clearly PTAHIL does as they are like if Bathory, King Diamond, Venom and Marduk all got into a room at the same time listened to a lot of Dead Kennedy's, Black Flag and Meatmen. Then decided to make a record. PTAHIL is just crazy free will blackness put on to a record for the helpless masses to stumble upon and join there legions for the destruction of mankind. This will scar you mentally as well as aurally.. Horns up high for this one my readers this gives you those moments of when Black metal was new and a very hidden art form on the world. Well Done PTAHIL Well Done..
Infernal Legion- The Spear of Longinus-CD (Moribund Cult)
Infernal Legion is a band that has been around a while and with this they have not changed there course this is Black Death with a very heavy does of thrash mixed in just because it makes the music the create all the better. This is for fans of bands like Immolation, Incantation, Bolt Thrower and Panzerchrist. Moribund seems to know have to let a band breathe and do what they do best as its the reason they got on the label to start. There is some real complexity to some of the tracks and this is what Death metal needs to do to evolve. Infernal Legion is keeping the Death Metal flame alive in the Blackest sense of it all. Any Album names after the Spear that killed Christ you know is going be be intense..
http://moribundcult.com/
TSJUDER- Legion Helevate-CD (Season of Mist)
TSJUDER is just one of those bands that waves the banner of Northern European Black metal so much that the members of the band must bleed BLACK.. Its Grim, Cold and Harmonic all at the same time just like the Forfathers of the 1st and 2nd waves of Black metal. This is no game people there on a mission . Play loud , fast and piss off as many as they can on there why to river Styx. TSJUDER is one of those mandatory Corpse Paint movement bands as without it they would be missing the whole picture. Sometime the past is a good place a very good place. Remember you Roots and Heritage or whats the point?
http://season-of-mist.com/
Enid- Munsalvaesche-CD (Code 666)
Medieval Metal is something very few have won me over on actually I think the closest that of this style to win me over has been Bal Sagoth which is what Enid most reminds me of with elements of Tenhi and Falkenbach all with moments of bands like Thyrfing and Subway to Sally. Enid also has much in bands like Dagaard and The Soil Bleeds Black in the arrangement and writing at time. This is more an event then an records as its almost a cinematic moment in the making that the music was just done 1st for. Code 666 is one of those Avantgarde label that will take the risks with a band like this and well done as this is a win across the board from the delicate pianos the choir like movements to the full on Dark metal that goes over all of it. At time Enid is just a brilliant Neoclassic force but then it becomes so much more. Enid should be so much more well known lets make it so ...
http://code666.net/
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