Hell yeah ...at last! While waiting for money and gigs to combine for some live action again, here you go with another very "juicy" piece of music! Something for your air-guitarring and banging. I'll not be spending many words about them: go checking previous posts for more details or do the homework! Just this: I love these crazy fuckers...!!! Were they not so damn good, I wouldn't hesitate to apostrophe them as a "joke". Most of their lyrics are real none-senses...cultural parodies, puns and word-plays; all very amusing if you can grasp Japanese... but absolutely non-metallic! But if you can't pierce through the language - as many of you losers do... (just kidding!) - you are left only with an awesome dynamite-like explosion of freaky good music and four-balled screamer of a singer!
It is absolute mystery to me whay they are not yet world-wide famous af Firewind, Symphony X or others! Guess for the Jap. language...
SEX MACHINEGUNS-Final Attack at Budokan (2003 CDx2 )
Hei, dudes! Help me out! I must be sick or something, because it's a while I can't get full pleasure from anything I'm going through. Nothing that really makes me bang seriously...
Here a few of the aces that attracted more my attention lately. It's all new stuff and guess you can still find it around.
THE BURNING-Rewakening (2009)
This is a sturdy Death/Thrash M. from Denmark, a country with a good and healthy tradition in this thread. I don't really think it will leave any deep scar into the metal scene, but it has some different sound and some extra originality in it. Virtually all the tunes are build on very heavy and slow grindings armor, rythmic session drilling a good bunch of holes in it. The singing by Johnny Haven(!) - a breed between Cannibal Corpse death growling and Horse the Band semi-histeric core creaming - provide a rather fitting - and pleasant - rust coating to it. Forget speed ups here... You get a very slow metal scarnification.
VIII Strada-La Leggenda della Grande Porta (2009)
Here you have another very fine weirdo specimen. You are not going to bang on this, for sure. But this is an extremly talented Italian band playing one of the most refined Prog. M. I have ever heard. Don't gear up yet (or down): this is no Dream Theater-like wanna be stuff. I said "refined". Indeed I would hesitate even calling it metal at all. Singing is in Italian (with a very fine songwriting) and very high level, placing it quite close to the "cantautore" tradition of the country. Historical pop-rock band Pooh reminiscenses in melodies and singing are most striking and welcome. No jazz-like, relax! Yet, definitely eight tracks to listen with care and to enjoy and explore over and over.
ABROGATION-Sarggeburt (2009)
I must have gone really crazy! These guys sing in German... and I like them quite a bit! Rocking from Germany, they have a rather established curriculum, with already four full-lenghts and a series of demos and EPs, which strangerly I don't know! It's a rather immediate MDM with sustained but not excessive speed, a well aged and rotten-to-the good-point growl and an orgy of subtle & catchy melodies. Nothing complex, but nothing very simple either. Production is fine, sound is clean and, well... I'd dare to say quite refined - if we can go so far for this kind of music. It reminds me a bit of Artillery (whicha actually is thrash): a guitar sound that really gives me much pleasure! And, yes, here you can bang! Enjoy! The video below is pretty nice! Already loving these dudes...!
Sorry for keeping you waiting... Little time, few interesting gigs, not much time to go trough music. Anyway... Several boxes of treasures have been brought by the waves to the Port shores. Most of them are valuable stuff (Lambo fo God, Ansur, Acid Drinkers, Another Life, Gaia Epicus, Deathstars, etc.), but nothing really able to get under Cpt. skin too much. Except for a couple of items that really kicked my ass this week. So there you go!
ARTAS-The Healing (2008)
Fire! One shot, one kill! Ilove them and you'll love them too!MDM (actually thrash/death) from Austria. Young and fresh band at their first bloodbath.There is virtually nothing new in their tunes and singing style (which actually is above the average cosidering the style) except for a bit of German and Spanish singing seasoning. Nontheless they managed to give the usual ingredients a vigorous and original shake, creating a freaky good mayhem cocktail!Production is perfect and sound is very clean. You get raw & powerful grindings, speed, and a rythmic session boasting at the right point the singer thrasshy growling. No concession to clean singing, solos decorations or Nu-metal like release from agony's slow downs. Think it as a breed between Blood Stain Child sound and As I lay Dying power. Melodically brutal. Absolute highlights to try: Bastardo, The Healing, Raghenfels and... Gangster Paradise, an amazing EMINEM cover - believe it or not!
SYLOSIS-The Supreme Oppressor (2007 EP)
Brutal and yet coyly melodic - it has beed said. Sylosis, self-termed the ‘Shredding from Reading’, is a UK quintet mixing crunching guitars, ball-busting vocals and battering double-kick and snare combinations. Then just when you think you pinned them, they throw in long cyclical sequences of melodic guitars and softened vocals (and that I don't like).I came to know them through their first full-lenght, "Conclusion of an Age". But, despite being that one a brave concept based work, it sounded so much close to modern (good) core-, nu-like music comming from US, that it didn't really impress me much. On the contrary, this previous EP is so much more intriguing and plenty of ideas! Again, nothing new to it, as for the music style, nor for the vocal performance, which is so average and already heard. Yet they show a particular ability in nailing down raw power and turning it into seemingly effortless mood-music. Very good intuitions and (yet undeveloped) threads are dispayed here. I really hope I will reevaluate the full lenght trhough the promises of this shorter effort. Absolutely to try: Manipulations through Idols, Silence from those in the Sky, Blind Desperation.
