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.
