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WACO
JESUS (Usa) Filth CD’03 MORBID Recs.
Here’s a band I
discovered from their logo on a big American festival flyer! You
know, these big fests that take place during 3 days and offer only
Brutal death and Grindcore bands, with enough bowels and brutal
gore to rejoice any Brutal metal lover!
The name of WACO JESUS
could sound like a new school Grind band, but they have (at least)
as much to do with Brutal death. The shit pillage is primal in here,
with no real technical riffs. It sounds like BRODEQUIN meets a bit
of old DEEDS OF FLESH, old CANNIBAL CORPSE, VIBRION (old) and NAPALM
DEATH ("Utopia banished" era). This is a mostly fast pile
of decomposing bowels, with many blasts, but there are few grooves
or old school Death metal beats.
Ok, this is an ok release with
tight musicians and enough changes between the ok riffs, but nothing
really special or really fucking brutal! It lacks the fucking mind-blowing
energy and brutality! Can be cool for those who listen to underground
brutal death as your local factory produces your hundred daily cheeseburgers!
But there's unfortunately not much more than a cheeseburger here!
What about a maxi beef burger with a triple dose of mustard??
http://www.wacojesus.com
WELT
(Usa) Paranoid Delusion MCD’94 NUCLEAR BLAST.
This MCD I
got by total hazard during a trade turned into a quite nice surprise
since it's nothing more than a project of Doug Ceritto! (Suffocation's
guitarist).
Before the blood runs warmer in your veins, you have
to know WELT doesn't play Brutal death grind! But somekind of Deathcore
that's mostly mid placed or slow. There are some enjoyable parts
in here, such as the good crushing break of "This fine day"
(around 1:20) but all in all it's average stuff!
It could remind
of the heavier moments on "Effigy of the forgotten", but
also old ROTTING (Can), BAPHOMET, old OBITUARY, MASTER, a bit of
mid old DEATH. Some quite deathcorish riffs make them sound like
the heavier moments of BAPHOMET; but the quite hardcorish vocals
are a real waste of intensity!
The musicians doesn't show much
brutal strength or inspiration, apart from some Ceritto's riffs
I didn't hear much catchy?
All in all, it's an average but decent
MCD with pleasant parts. It might be interesting for SUFFO fans
as well as pretty boring for those who hate Brutaldeathcore!
WICKED
INNOCENCE (USA) Worship CD'99 HEADFUCKER.
Here's a bizarre
heavy Brutal death band... "bizarre" taking a quite negative
sense here.
By moments the clear vox and the bizarre
false sounding guitars made me think about some Nu metal bands of
the 2nd generation that muted the original style. There are vocals
ranging from PEAR JAM ("Ten") to Mike Patton (FAITH NO
MORE) to the gore excreted purulence of EXHUMED. There are a few
Brutal death elements and very few jazzy and old heavy metal touches.
But stop for a minute and think! All of this seems to me the goal
is to be original to be original without any deep meaning nor inner
motive! It tastes like almost soulless music! Unfortunately... Some
discordant heaviness (including a touch of nonsense) made me think
a bit about ADNAUSEAM but it sounds heavier. The
low tuned discordances mixed with beautifull vocals makes them a
bit an original band, but original doesn't mean efficient nor good! Some parts are totally senseless. Their few
blast parts are more used in a song's evolution and constructiveness
than in a ripp and blast your head off one (as with lots of Brutal
Death bands nowadays). I'd rather say the blasy parts are cerebral
and were done in a demonstrative way. "Demonstratively original"
would be a nice definition of their music, it lacks of feeling for
me! Their heavy "3 legs"
music didn't hack me for any great barbecure, I could say "at least they
try to be original" but is it better to be original or not
when the feeling isn't it here in anyway? No! The motives shall
be the feeling and some inner motives to play! Not some other unpure
reasons that has not much to do with passion, but unfortunately
business...
In short words: I don't like it because it lacks
of feeling :)
WILLOW
WISP (Usa) Delusion of grandeur CD'99 FULLMOON Prod.
Ah
Ah Ah! Total poser "Black metal gothic rock white wave"!
They are so fucking sexy with their beautiful make-ups and cradle
of shit like corpse paints my cock strongly grows! Their music sounds
stupid and laughable! As if Cradle of the burger shit added some
rock pop rhythms and Electro gayness in their crap! I even didn't
speak about the childish logo! This band can only be a joke!! This
WILLOW WIMP CD has two qualities: I had a good laugh and a great
masturbation!
WITCHGRAVE
(Swe) The devil's night MCD. 2010. METAL INQUISITION Records.
Two
members of the Death metal band EVISCERATED created another project
to get more fun in metal (Perhaps instead of releasing something
to follow their first and 4 years old demo? Maybe Death metal is
quite restricting after all?)... After the morbid death of THE ROTTING,
the thrash metal of ANTICHRIST, we now have the heavy metal of WITCHGRAVE.
This
is something like very old school, early 80's heavy metal that globally
reminds of the first MERCYFUL FATE album, with touches of early
IRON MAIDEN and other old NWOBHM bands... The music sounds less
dynamic/ "technical" than the two big names quoted just
before, but there's some atmosphere in common. You could also feel
a little "loose/ not too serious" aspect that feels like
early VENOM (It's mostly about the vocals, but some early satanic
heavy metal atmosphere can also be a reason...). To be more precise,
and possibly describe better some "cheap" satanic vibe,
I could use the names of PILEDRIVER (First albums from the 80's)
and a bit of old BULLDOZER (But much less thrashy). Somewhere the
shape of these sounds reminds me of the first WITCHCURSE (Greece)
demo, but the content is better.
It remains an underground recording
from the depths and touches of "amateurism" (Not particularly
in a bad way) are present… I could bet an hellish fridge this recording
was previously a demo, and I could win. It was finally released
on MCD by Metal Inquisition (Aka No colours) who probably realized
strictly sending me very poor black metal promos for years was becoming
too boring...
I think improvements are possible (At the level
of the songs' dynamic or drum-playing for example), but I like some
of the atmospheres and some riffs are nice... So it's a quite cool
recording that could please fans of early satanic heavy metal. (Now
I'm not sure if WITCHGRAVE will remain just a project or develop
into something else)
http://www.myspace.com/witchgrave
WTN
(Singapore) Rotting in pestilence CD'04 RAZORBACK.
Hmmm..
RAZORBACK gave me the habit of more entertaining releases! What
you have here is gore death grind being very similar to CARCASS'
"Symphonies of sickness" and some EXHUMED. You can find
all the usual ingredients: gore vocals, hyper fast gore blasts,
butchery sounding crusty riffs, slower bizarre and pathological
heaviness, etc... You got the point!
The problem lies in the
fact all these riffs sound too much like CARCASS, it even sounds
messed up in some blasts or confused in some leads.
Finally nothing
more than another old CARCASS clone, without any really crushing
energy or catchy riff. Ok, some guys will say WTN can be cool for
CARCASS maniacs and will they will notice this band is above the
average level of the Singapore Extreme metal underground (That's
very low if you ask me!) but it's not bloody enough for me! I have
ever all the CARCASS, GENERAL SURGEY, some DEAD INFECTION, EXHUMED,
SQUASH BOWELS, REGURGITATE and many other gore tendencies grindcore
bands in my collection, so there aren't much rooms to justify the
owning of this CD! Just an average/ very average old CARCASS copy...
Ok, some will say WTN might be a cool live band , and a bunch of
other arguments...but money isn't endlessly flowing from my raped
bank account! So I keep it at that: average/ very average!
http://www.razorbackrecords.com
