Metal Fire from Hell

Hell yeah!
My joints are still doomed and in pain for the fu*king amazing amount of rain around here this year, but I'm still able to sniff good booty trails... and this morning I runsacked a Disc Union galeon I knew was going to cross my way!

HELLHOUND-Metal Fire From Hell (2008): yeah, there it is, the new-born! I was waiting for it and I LOOOOVE it already!

Eight hot old school metal tracks hosted on a lovely old-style vinyl shaped CD! "If you don't like us, you don't like metal" says a mark on the cover... and that's the way it goes.
Buddies got nastier! First track 'Metal Fire From Hell' kicks your butt without concessions to melody: harsh old school pounding. The following 'Headcrusher' is a small jewel and probably my preferred one: firebreathing Crossfire refrains from screaming only to make space to a couple of more melodic guitar and bass solos. "Heavy Metal Highway" and "METAL Education" follow in a row: you get back a bit to the previous album sonorities (tougher the first, nicer the second... school bell rings at the beginning reminding me of Venom's Teacher's Pet). The 5th is a kick-ass: "Metal Psycho" not only has the coolest pun for a chorus I ever heard (English psycho has the same pronuciation of the Japanese word for "SAIKO" the best ), but it's got also an incredible drive (heard it live and can assure it's a hit). Last three songs I would define them as more "experimental". Hellhound style is all there, but the "metal this and metal that..." clichè are left behind, in a research for longer texts and more melodic lines. While I still appreciate the tunes (guitar work and choruses effects are great), I stay a bit more skeptical about the songwriting...

By the way, the disc came with a DVD-R containing a re-aranged video track from the live footage from Meguro concert. And that's the only thing you're going to get for now! Wanna see you drooling! Get it before the link expires...!

By the way, on the same ship I found also MARCH OF SEASON-My Winter (2007), a disc of freaky good MDM from... Italy (yeah, most surprisingly). Already known stuff to the Port brotherhood, but you know, the Cpt. always wants good things to stay in his personal chest! The growling singer is a beast and if he really can withstand a full tour of concers spitting out his lungs that way, well, I can only bow down to him!