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CADAVERIC
INCUBATOR (Fin) Resurgence of morbidity Demo CDr'05.
Previous
members of DEEP RED decided to resurrect from the ashes of nothingness
to play it putrid and disgusting... à la early CARCASS.
CADAVERIC
INCUBATOR sounds more crepitating and purulent then the quite many
current CARCASS clones, but that might be a matter of production
since these Finnish Death metal heads chose to record and execrate
in an (almost) old sounding demo way. (Keep in mind the too powerfully
and clear produced isn't able to rot!). Some quite chaotic leads
and blasting shooting stars of frenetically ejected pus sound cool,
but the whole don't touch the inner maelstrom of your vominous convictions;
it remains cool. The fast and blasting parts would probably sound
cool in the hears of a decrepited sarcastic (old) CARCASS fan ("Reek
of putrefaction" with the worked aspects of "Symphonies
of sickness", but I feel some mid placed or heavy parts would
need to be reworked to make sure the putridity emanates stronger
from the rancid pussy compost.
The band has just signed to RAZORBACK
Recs; hope it won't be too much too soon and they'll have the time
to macerate and purulate the cool potential of putridity currently
nauseating the 12:48 minutes of this demo; because they seem able
to record more than just another cool CARCASS clone album if they
have the time to develop the putrid. But if they rush the maceration,
I'm afraid the putrid beer won't be that tasty.
http://www.myspace.com/cadavericincubator
CALCINED
(Switzerland) Thwarted Demo MCD. 2011. Self-released.
Dissecting
yourself from the inside, precisely cutting the flesh and tearing
the veins, the nanorobots keep on marching from your penis towards
your brain... You will learn to avoid free-of-charge sexual androids,
you fucking imprudent bastard!
CALCINED is a Swiss band who quotes
the early MONSTROSITY album as an influence; It could have begun
a better way since I'm not a fan of "Imperial doom" (Neither
of the following ones, even if it sounded better). Their music could
be described as something in the middle between mid old brutal death,
blasting death and more "regular" (yet fast) old Death
metal parts.
Sometimes I feel like this demo could have been
recorded a couple of years ago by a French band, since it regularly
happens to remind me of the first KRONOS album, some old RECUEIL
MORBIDE and maybe an early MORGUE (Fra) demo... But this sentence
could globally only describe half of the music as you can also hear
a good portion of typically US brutality (Let's quote DISGORGE (Usa)
or CINERARY, even if I don't feel super precise…), brutal mosh or
grooves à la old DEVOURMENT (Or eventually REPUDIILATION), some
old DAMNABLE (Pol), and more "regular" yet quite brutal
death metal closer to old FLESHTIZED (First Cd), old DEICIDE or
blasting old MORBID ANGEL...
On a brutal point of view this sounds
like a decent effort, the "regular" Death metal parts
are more of my putrid liking and some moments could be quite intense
in live conditions, but I'm not always too interested in the content
and some of the elements sound a bit strange in my hears (The drumming
style isn't always really of my tastes, and isn't the whole a little
"messy" due to the production or amount of riffs?)
I
don't like too much the guitar sound, it's a bit too rasp and lacks
of some heaviness (Something with more bass frequencies could have
enhanced vibrations of morbid brutality... But maybe it's simply
more a brutal (Not so modern) production than an old school one?)
CALCINED didn't kick the "I like" ball nor the "I
don't like" bleeding ball, in my hears it sounds like an average
recording with both its highs and lows...
The result is respectable,
freaks of underground brutality could like it, and it would be nice
to have a band of this kind in your area... But I'm waiting for
the upcoming improvements!
http://www.myspace.com/calcined
CALIBER
666 (Swe) Caliber 666 Demo MCD'07.
This band plays Swedish
Death metal, but not in the most retro manner since their music
sounds more professional and less frenetic than what the legions
of the necro exhume. The most of this demo resides in the heavy
and slow moments of GRAVE on "Back from the grave"...
Add to this various kinds of death such as some fast and "melodic"
tremolo riffs of DISMEMBER, some MALEVOLENT CREATION ("Eternal")
for the double kicks ridden, a bit of BOLT THROWER/ SLAYERish epic
riffs, few blasts, and maybe the most brutal from EDGE OF SANITY
(On "Cryptic").
I know few MALEVOLENT CREATION alike
rhythmic guitars and quite "modern" influences wouldn't
please the old school Swedish integrists.
The recording is good
quality, sounds almost like an album.
This tastes quite heavy
and brutal, there are nice ideas from here and there, but maybe
the band tends to be a bit too slow and heavy (A few more fast patterns
the old Swedish way could help, yes)
I think fans of the mentioned
GRAVE album, or some FACEBREAKERS/ FLESHCRAWL or CHAOSBREED wouldn't
dislike. Now let's see how CALIBER 666 evolves.
http://www.myspace.com/caliber666sweden
CANDERO
(Usa) Human Disease Demo CDr. 2011.
The sanguineous cunnilingual
crusade keeps on going.
When searching for some brutal death
metal, in the middle of the unlistenable you happen to find something
cooler.
Even if the Americans of CANDERO aren't super technical,
mega complicated or tera modern (Which isn't necessarily good),
their music contains some quite good and kicking moments.
The
first half of the first track is strongly in the SUFFOCATION "Effigy"
manner: Simple, kicking, quite heavily blasting and well put together.
Some peoples might say it's carbon copying, but some guts are there,
so give me more brutal cloning! Unfortunately in the middle it turns
to mid-paced grooves, in a more hardcore and also quite "experimental"
manner that sounds like "Flop!" in my energized hears.
The
same kind of problem also happens in the other songs... There are
quite good moments, and then "BLAM!" they inject something
strange or less interesting that calms down the brutal smurfing
enthusiasm.
Let's describe a bit more the music, to have a better
idea of the content: There's more SUFFOCATION (Not the most technical,
I'm talking about some heaviness and some powerful chord riffing),
some SKINLESS (First records) in the heavy moments, some touches
of the first PYREXIA album (For some ways of structuring stuffs)...
It's obviously more than SUFFO influenced, but I'm sorry my head
seems to become something like a forget-everything-punching-ball...
The whole is very much in the old 98-2004 US brutal death genre,
yet with more grooves, and the guitar production is quite heavy
(No stupid abuse of unbrutal high-pitched frequencies).
As said
before, some parts are good and quite kicking, while some patterns
are quite strange or too "groovycore" for my needs. CANDERO
is a band that might still hesitate between a couple of brutal goals
and would need to improve the riff compacting efficiency. For a
first recording it's quite encouraging.
http://www.myspace.com/canderobrutaldeath
CARMINA
(Fra) Demo 2004.
I didn't expect
that kind of death metal from CARMINA, especially when you take
in consideration former members of ANANDA (A great hardcore metal
band. R.I.P) are a part of this new obscure deadly reincarnation!
Raw and obscure Brutal death metal along the lines of IMMOLATION
and INCANTATION ("Mortal throne...") with a bunch of really
heaviness and a quite destructive power amplified by a raw production!
Some bestial fukkers of deads will also find face crushed similarities
with CANNIBAL CORPSE ("Gallery of suicide") for some punching
beats and blood-soaked harmonies while DERANGED ("III")
can be detected for the raw simple style. Some riffs keep an early
emocore and depressed side ANANDA once had. This isn't very original,
nor that much personal music, but who gives a fuck since CARMINA
flies above the vast lakes of stagnant putrid shits! So visit their
website and download these 4 tracks before you'll be devoured by
your own voracious vaginal cancer! Fucking moron!
http://carminagrind.free.fr
CARNAGE
(Usa) Live tracks 2005.
The sound is fucking raw, but you
can't reproach them since it wasn't released...Héhé.
Brutal death
metal à la early CANNIBAL CORPSE (when the band was playing splatter
death gore!). The drums are for most following the typically old
school Death metal rythm (chuga chuga) with some mid-placed patterns.
The whole seems Ok, even if good tightness lacks! Some high pitched
screams sound strange and the leads might need to be rearranged
as well.
This is a live recording with a very average sound,
I don't understand half of the riffs... But the band seems
to be kicking enough to be a quite cool splattering live outfit
of gore. (At least the crowd doesn't seem to disagree...). Not original
at all, but I think with a real sound, some intense rehearsals and
a real band name (Don't blaspheme the cult "CARNAGE" monicker
and find your own!) they might record a cool demo with some decent
'Rotting energy'!
http://www.carnage.altpro.net/
http://www.purevolume.com/carnage
CARNAL
RAPTURE (Ita) Promo 2008. CDr
This Italian band plays
technical Death metal in a way that sounds close to the techno death
of mid 90's, in a little more modern way.
While there are lots
of jazzy influences on beats, the guitar side of the thing could
remind of PESTILENCE ("Spheres") in a bit more changing
and less rigid manner, while the first CYNIC album wouldn't be displaced
(Eventhough this is not the same atmosphere), and some parts reminds
me of ATHEIST ("Elements") without all the samba interludes...
To replace it in a more "current" spectrum, I might
say the band doesn't sound too far from COPROFAGO (Chile), maybe
mid old ILLOGICIST (Without the DEATH influence) and perhaps a little
of GORY BLISTER (But this last one is not certain).
One thing
that bothers me a bit lies in the fact the guitars have a very thing
sound in the more controlled parts, all the little notes sound a
bit like flies, while it shows no problem in other moments... The
vocals are more or less hoarse, maybe something like CORONER with
a bit more saturation, it's ok for the genre but some sporadic little
effects or changes could improve the rendering.
I used to like
the techno death style more or less, depending on the bands, and
I didn't follow closely at all the evolutions of technical death
metal, so don't ask me for a precise description nor an expert emotional
introspection... All I could say is: CARNAL RAPTURE has a quite
good musical level (This is complex, and stuffs doesn't seem misplaced),
and the atmosphere would be quite modern, yet not too much, with
some quite luminous or dissonant touches from here and there...
I
regret it's not a bit more emotional, and no stuffs really branded
my brain the haunting way... This seems to be a valid recording
big fans of the style could get a grip on.
http://www.myspace.com/carnalrapture
CARNAL
RAPTURE (Ita) Promo 2004.
I was afraid of the content
when I received this demo: the cover looks rather uninspiring, and
the band name is common... The same doubtful feeling isn’t change
during the first seconds... But finally this demo isn't so bad,
this isn't the ultra common Death grind I expected. What you could
hear is somekind of techno death metal with loads of jazzy and complex
influences that would remind nothing more than the good old ATHEIST!
(Between the 2nd and 3rd albums). Not much fast or real Death metal
parts could be found since C.R. focuses on the mid placed or slow
"original" parts. Some CYNIC could also be heard, not
much for the vocals that sound like somekind of deeper pitched ATHEIST,
but for the guitars.
I can't say much more since I'm not a big
fan of the style; this demo sounds decent and the musicians know
how to handle their instruments without sucking the dustsoil, but
I didn't hear catchy riffs or melodies that brand your brain and
haunt you until flesh sadistfaction. All in all, an average demo
that might please the big fans of the bands mentioned before. But
I need deeper feeling and emotive ideas to be turned on! As always,
try few Mp3s and make your own mind (if you have one). I didn't
feel much emotional, sounds rather like a decent demo to listen
on a cerebral point of view.
Email: esseti1@inwind.it
cymbal@libero.it
CARNEUS
(Swe) Heaven is painted in gore Demo'04.
Old sounding blasting
Death metal with strong "Harmony corruption/ Utopia banished"
reminiscences, as well as more old school Death metal patterns
that could remind of early DEATH ("Leprozy"), few early
MORGOTH and early BENEDICTION ("Subconscious terror").
Nothing
stands out from the whole, and face it: it's average! But I like
their influences, and the guys seem to decently handle their tools
of sarcastic torture. The vocals are the quite too usual low screams.
In some heavy riffs they succeed in re-creating the boredom of BENEDICTION's
first Lp "Subconscious terror", which is quite amazing!
One could find other cooler influences such as old DEICIDE, early
MONSTROSITY, old SUFFER (Swe), MASTER (On the 7th day...).. All
in all, an average demo that won't soak my walls with blood, but
CARNEUS might be a cool live band for Death metal fans, and they
might have a potential of Brutal evolution. But they're currently
only around the average.
CATALYST
(Usa) Demo'04.
Sometimes a Mp3 stands out as a bright and golden
piece of beauty from the rotten amount of dust-sucking putrid averageness
that hits your mind in nauseous vomit! CATALYST is a cool band who
performs some kind of technical Death metal with structural progressive
touches, and everything from the good sounding music to the powerful
sound were here for a stand out! A strong influence for this Canadian
band would surely be DEATH's last releases, for several semi-melodic
and technical reasons ranging around the Heavy metal, melodic and
quite fast Death metal. Other similarities with CARCASS (Heartwork-
heavy riffs), ILLOGICIST, few heavy NEVERMORE and CAPHARNAUM (well
some guys from CATALYST played in there) can be drawn. The vocals
are deeper than many DEATH influenced bands. The best way to analyze
this 3 tracks demo would be to divide it in 3 different pieces,
one member for a track.
The first song of dismemberment is the
best one since it sounds well inspired for most of the well balanced
and arranged riffs. The thing evolved nicely between beautiful sounding
riffs à la "Symbolic", faster parts of thrashing tech
death, blasting death grind rage and heavier death metal moments
à la DEATH.
The second song of soft quartering is a more common
piece of technical/ progressive death/ heavy. Eventhough it sounds
ok, it's not that entertaining.
The third song of defibrillation
quite follows some ideas of the opening dismemberment, it's a bit
more entertaining than the previous and second piece of meat (understand:
my flesh bleeds), but it isn't as cool as the opening song that
half-penetrated the intramuscular.
So what you have here is a
cool professional demo that will likely please and enjewel a couple
of many sorrowful minutes in the existence of some DEATH fans! Not
for real and putrid Death metal fans, that's clear, but it's clearly
outstanding from the deeply under the average averageness! I guess
CATALYST won't have much problems to find a deal, if they aren't
already in a recording studio! HéHé
http://catalyst.20m.com
CATASTROPHE
(Turkey) Atrocious chaos Demo MCDr. 2009. EXTREMINAL Recs.
Here's
a small demo that contains only 1 track, but it could be worse.
The
style of this Turkish band is incrustated in Brutal death metal,
but in a not too modern fashioned genre: It occurs to remind me
of old NECROPHAGIST (The demo or eventually the first album), SINISTER
("Creative killings"/ "Savage or grace") and
CANNIBAL CORPSE ("Vile" and some later stuffs, but not
"Gallery of suicide" which was less brutal). The riffing
is more or less technical by moments, but not too much. The tempo
varies between the fast blasting moments and slower parts.
The
drums might be electronic, triggered or machine programmed, but
for the genre it doesn't bother.
There's nothing original, but
this song is packed a quite efficient way. I kinda like the nice
dark red atmosphere (It wasn't erased by a plastic production).
So
CATASTROPHE might be quite cool for fans of the genre; What about
recording a longer demo?
http://www.myspace.com/catastrophetr
CAUSTIC
STRIKE (Swe) Straight down the drain Demo CDr'05.
The
Swedish thrashers LEPROZY changed their name for CAUSTIC STRIKE
and recorded this second demo with a cover evoking the mighty NUCLEAR
ASSHOLE! (Ahr!). So you already know what to sexpect: Thrash metal.
Neat
Thrash metal with a strong bay area influence, plus reminiscences
of old MEGADETH, old EXODUS, early METALLICA (When this name still
meant something) among the living influences of others thrashers.
My copy of the demo includes a cool DEATH ANGEL cover (not noticed
on the track listing).
The cool sounding vocals of Olof (Isn't
it a Viking name?) and a bit of the music reminds me of something
like old... FORBIDDEN? Ahr!
Ok, this is neat thrash with nothing
wrong sounding, but I think the LEPROZY demo had more little surprises
hidden everywhere, while CAUSTIC STRIKE is more 'usual' and also
simpler the "In your face" way... even if some cool riffs
are there and the whole was produced in a better way, with more
tightness...
I guess this newer approach will be more efficient
live, but I hope they won't totally forget the "Complex thrash
speed" touch they had with LEPROZY.
Anyway, a cool demo
for big fans of thrash whose minds are trapped far behind 2006...
TRAPPED UNDER ICE!
http://www.caustic-strike.tk
CERVICAL
GAG (Usa) Demo'03.
Here's
a very new band I've just discovered thanks to Mp3. It's their fist
demo that has a raw/ almost rehearsal like sound. The music is an
American Brutal death metal with some blasts, but surprisingly enough
it's not so fast (mostly mid placed). Their riffs didn't turn me
on, it's your very common average Brutal death riffs! The point
that quoted my attention is a nice drumming style with cool Brutal
ideas. The grunted vocals that sound almost goregrind like by moments
are Ok. A bit more tightness and a brutal lifting would be a nice
thing for this band. Fuck: sometimes I don't understand the riffs
due to the poor sound...
Nothing special here, it's average/
very average, but their tracks aren't badly constructed (try to
compress more your shit!) and they sound like some demos bands who
turned into something better later. Good luck guys!
CESSPIT
(FRA) Demolition factory Demo CD'02 Autoprod.
This French
band plays some Death Thrash metal with vocals à la SIX FEET
UNDER (First album).
A bit of old NUCLEAR ASSAULT can be spelled
for typical Thrash metal riffs mixed with double bass drumming and
a little Hardcore touch somewhere in the spirit. Other old forgotten
(?) bands I'd like to quote while listening to their music are HIRAX
(still alive!) and D.B.C (=Dead Brain Cells). But there is of course
some SLAYER ("South of heaven") touches in some riffs.
Notice
there are some a bit Hardcore like vocals here and there, while
some mouth's appearances are more screamy.
A few SEPULTURA's
"Roots" influences for some heavy riffs and some discording
high tuned moments directly influenced by GODFLESH. One may also
notice some little DEATH touches for some more melodic riffs. Some
tracks' articulation sounds a bit strange to me.
There some more
mechanical a bit Indus like influences on the beginning of the "Cadaveric
State" track, but then it comes back to their style mixing
Death/Thrash and Thrashcore.
To conclude, all is correctly played,
but I found nothing above the average in this demo (and some parts
bored me). It may be a nice band for gigs.
http://cesspit.free.fr/
CHAINS
OF FLESH (Usa) Demo 2003
Hell!
I thought the times of finding new cool obscure Brutal death bands
from USA where over! But I was pleasantly surprised by this little
Demo!
CHAINS OF FLESH plays obscure and heavy Brutal death metal
in the way of SUFFOCATION ("Pierced from within"), ENCABULOS
("Abandoning the flesh") and a little bit of INCANTATION.
Nothing new, but there's an obscure mood in this Demo. The tracks
are correctly constructed and it has its picks of heavy intensity!
It's not your hyper-technical Death metal that goes everywhere!
Quite hypnotizing darkened riffs with growls (that sound a lot like
SUFFO) and a correct Drum playing, plus a cool heavy sound. Ok it
sounds a lot like SUFFOCATION, some could even call them a clone
band, and according to the overwhelming amount of US-style Brutal
Death bands many might not be interested... But there's a cool mood
here and the tracks sound honest. I think the fans of heavy and
obscure Brutal death might find a cool Demo to drink a few beers
and mourn on! Nothing exceptional, but CHAINS OF FLESH reminds me
the nice Demos of some bands like ENCABULOS who did more powerful
stuffs later...
http://www.chainsofflesh.com
CHAOSBREED
(Fin) Unleashed carnage Demo'03.
What can we expect from
a side project while many of these short length formations didn't
offer something very convincing?
This project composed of SENTENCE,
GANDALG (Nice Carnage shirt, but boring music!) and BLACK LEAGUE
members was ever hailed by the press as a "Super Death metal
band" even before a demo was recorded! Recognition helps! Anyway
what we got here is s totally old school Death metal demo revisiting
the Swedish scene of the 88-91 epoch in 3 quite nice tracks. It
sounds a lot like old ENTOMBED, old GRAVE, old DISMEMBER, etc. You'll
get the point if this is of your bloody interest.
This
demo that's quite roughly produced (in the old Swedish way, but
with less heaviness) also reminds me of GOD MACABRE. Nicely packaged
tracks, but it lacks a deep feeling of total destruction and crushing
hatred to distinguish them from the actually emerging horde of old
school Death metal bands.
Some cool listenings for the fans
of the old school!
http://www.chaosbreed.net
CHOKING
ON BILE (Fra) Disgruntled Demo’04.
Just another French
Brutal Death band that tries to play it brutal… but fails! Because
the guts aren't there!
Even if it sounds US Brutal death influenced,
quite a lot of riffs sound like old INCANTATION... but the whole
sounds quite flat, everheard and unsurprising! (These fucking easy
Brutal death riffs every US Bands already played and abused...)
The
vocals happen to sound quite cool, when a lot of echo makes it sound
like old DEICIDE, but there are also a lot of water plunging grunts
and other squeezing frog-kills... that sounds uncool!
The drum-machine
gives a little C.U.M touch... but all in all it's far from behing
enough to keep maniacs of brutality receptive!
Just another band
who tries to play the brutal game, but even didn't succeed yet (!)
to kick our ass a little bit... Between the average and very average.
It sounds too lazy and comfortable to kill!
http://chokingonbile.free.fr
CHRISTICIDE
(Swe) Apex of negativity Demo'04.
It's a so fucking long
time I didn't hear a self-pleasing Black metal demo I unconsciously
began to abjectly think about all the crap circulating in the Black
metal scene, some sulfuric urges of hatred almost began to disguise
my brain with "Why the fuck am I sharing all these mediocre
black metal demos in my distro?... ". It only seemed worst
and worst, expect for few cool demos such as the ones of VINGDAR
or FERA, but it remained worst and worst anyway... Until the motherfucker
of CHRISTICIDE phoned me to offer a trade of demos! (It actually
seems unthinkable to receive a phone-call of a guy you don't know...
especially when all the email shit is faster than your brain...
but it's bloody old school and I like it! Ah!) And finally I'm there
listening to their cool demo that transports me in a Black metal
pasts, when everything at least seemed more pure!
What you have
here is raw Black metal in a quite old Norwegian sense of the word,
but it's not abusively voluntary fucked up, nope, the guys rather
seem to have a simple, cold and fresh feeling that could remind
of the very early EMPEROR days (Without keyboards, but with some
melodies), with some old HORNA and few other bands I unfortunately
am impossible to remind as for now (but these where a part of the
BLACKENED #1 and #2 sampler CDs).
The music of CHRISTICIDE also
has strong IMMORTAL ("Pure holocaust") influences, even
if it's not as darkened and if the stagnant obscurity doesn't embalms
your mind that much. The vocals sound nice, sometimes remind of
stuffs like HORNA with few old MAYHEM (Attila/ De mysteriis) and
others... but don't ask for too much, I'm not a Black metal fanatic.
Sometimes I don't like the way the drums blast (bassdrum and snare
at the same time) it wastes the efficiency in my crucifucked hears.
There might be a problem of length as some tracks might be a bit
long, and it could be a good idea to rework some tracks' structures
to be more surprising. The 3 rd track is the less inspired one.
To
conclude, this demo isn't original, nor really killer, nor what
you expect in your impossible dreams, but it sounds free from any
gay influences of the "modern" pink-flowers-and-white-excrements-whorshipping-black-metal-scene;
the band seems honest and plays it with enough feeling to entertain
the non-black-metal-fan I am who enjoyed some fresh, darkened and
pure stuffs from the 92-96 era. So if you feel like me, you might
be interested in this winterizing and midly past-awaking demo tape.
http://christicide.chez.tiscali.fr
CHRONIC
INFECTION (Mex) Paradoxical infection Demo tape'07. DEATHMUTT
Records.
Where are all the brutal death and Death metal webzines
that infected the web 4-5 years ago? In lack of cool underground
scriptures to read on a weekly basis, it seems I'll have to do it
myself...
"Paradoxical infection" is a quite cool demo
that roughly mixes almost current brutal death, regular brutal stuffs
and old styled 94-98 brutality. First you have the DISGORGE (Usa),
early DISGORGE (Mex), MINDLY ROTTEN and some American ultra blastong
brutalitong, then you hear some early SOILS OF FATE/ CANNIBAL CORPSE,
and you like some BROKEN HOPE (Before the ultra technical), MORTAL
DECAY (First CD) or old SKINLESS (Heavier riffs)... (You also find
few jazzy technical touches or eventually zests of older Death metal...)
I'm
not too much into their fast/ most brutal "crazy" moments,
as it seems to be a bit "too much", and some songs' structures
are a bit strange (Kinda like imperfect changes or too much riffs),
but some other riffs are cool à la mid old BROKEN HOPE or old MORTAL
DECAY and turns the whole morbid dysentery into a more entertaining
symphony for castrated bowels. It remains perfectible and some tracks
are a bit long, but this demo contains proofs of coolness and might
please brutal death heads who aren't against some "diversity".
Label:
muttcoremuttcore@yahoo.com
Band:
http://www.chronicinfection.com
CHTON
(Nor) Chton promo 2003.
What you are actually reading about
is a quite old school Brutal death band from Norway. Not much new
school or American Brutal death influences can be found here since
the music evolves along the lines of mid old MORBID ANGEL, DEICIDE,
ASPHYX and IMMOLATION (in parts). Quite raw vocals with a satanic
touch à la old DEICIDE. Some riffs almost tend to Black metal as
few touches of old IMMORTAL or DISSECTION could be found. I don't
like that much some aspects of the drum playing. Notice CHTON doesn't
come from the North of France and doesn't play Cht'i Grindcore!
It had to be said for some beer junkies.
The band sounds quite
professional, and even if I would have needed deeply intense or
catchy riffs, I think a lot of guys will dig it. CHTON has signed
a deal with Retribute Records, so the interested individuals will
probably hear about them.
http://www.chton.com
CHURCH
BIZARRE (Den) Demo'04.
Even though the cover of this
demo looks crappy, in the vein of the cheezy drawings Mr. Chris
Szpajdel once did in his fanzine SCEPTICORE (Hu hu), the metal of
CHURCH BIZARRE isn't so bad. What you can hear after several horny
beers is an evil melting of thrash and heavy metal with some early
raw black death and some black metal! With strong influences of
early DESTRUCTION meets early SARCOFAGO and other beer thrashing
metal influences. It reminds me a bit of the 1st AURA NOIR CD, but
I might be wrong.
Some riffs sound nice, some have a more usual
taste. Most of the vocals are high-pitched screams. Notice a NUNSLAUGHTER
cover entitled "Devil metal" that sounds better than the
usual Nunslaughter craps. It's in the old metal tradition, nice
for alcoholic fukkers!
This project of some VICTIMIZER musicians
isn't really special, but I heard worst projects and it might be
a cool item in a metallic collection of old school tapes. I found
it nice to rest in the embracing waves of the golden beer with a
CHURCH BIZARRE background :-) Quite average, but nice to 'rust in
peace'.
c/o J. Pedersen, Fjordbyen 44, 9000 AALBORG, DENMARK.
COFFIN
TEXTS (Usa) Demo'03.
Evil incantations emerging from
the ancient forgotten tomb. Words of a deep occult sense meant to
awake the undead from its eternal morbid rest. Old school is the
style of COFFIN TEXTS who practice a Death/ Grind with many riffs
reminding me of the early MORBID ANGEL's stuffs. Morbid sounding
Death metal that also reminds me of SADISTIC INTENT ("Ancient
black earth" MCD) for both the riffs and vocals, but also of
ANGEL CORPSE's 2 first LPs. Exploding emanations of burning sulfur!
Evil spells, fill the world with plague! You can read in hell and
damnation this is fast tremolo driven death metal with many POSSESSED
influences! Few 2 guitars melodies à la Trey Azagoth emerge from
the deepness of a hellish pit! COFFIN TEXTS could also remind of
INCANTATION (heaviest parts). Nice tracks with many variations.
Cool drummer. Cool vocals.
This demo will be pretty cool for
the fans of ancient satanic Death metal who need it obscure, damn
old school and who still burn in hell!
http://www.deathmetal.com/coffin
COFFINS
(Jap) Demo'03.
This demo might be of a mourning interest
for those who cum on old AUTOPSY, early CATHEDRAL (demos) and the
Deathpunk of ABSCESS! This is obscure and heavy crust influenced
old school doom death, this is heavy, even in the midly seldom-fast
parts! Some Melvinistic Doom-sludge riffs almost sound like "Acts
of the unspeakable", it's totally heavy and monolithic (but
the high-pitched epic stuffs aren't there). The "Tchuk-Pam
Tchuk-Pam" beats especially reminds me the "Mental funeral"
Lp for the stagnant heaviness. Most of the vocals are low pitched
and almost gore death. This demo sounds average in my hears: it's
quite too slowed down as fuck to kick my ass, and the overwhelming
doomy riffs are too monolithic and simple to keep me in the crazy
truck! (You got it, I'm bored). Those who like it Death, ugly, simple
and heavy (even when it's faster) might be interested... but beware
of the building-sized metal ball rolling behind you!
http://www.freewebs.com/coffins
CONDEMNED
(Uk) ...And that's how I found them Demo CDr'05.
This band
coming from Uk plays an extreme metal that could be characterized
as quite modern in structures, with not so modern musical influences
for a good part of the nut.
You can find both death/ brutal death/
grind and 'newer' smoke or quite complex stuffs like CEPHALIC CARNAGE
or DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN.
I also heard some mid old DYING FETUS
(For the technical touches and deathcore riffs), a bit of ORIGIN,
some old CANNIBAL CORPSE, a bit of HATEWAVE (Demo), some EXIT 13,
some old SANITYS DAWN (For the quite stoned HC side, blasting moments,
and quite neat production), some SOILS OF FATE... etc!
The songs
are generally quite varied and contain quite a lot of riffs, some
have fucked up moments with complex structures that makes it quite
crazy.
I found both some good, quite good, and common or too
usual stuffs... For example some smoke stuff sounds cool, some blasting
patterns sound quite intense, some tech-death is neat... But some
brutal death (A la Cannibal C) is fucking usual, and some mid-placed
to slow patterns are doing nothing of a nut for me...
I think
CONDEMNED might find a good way if they choose to evolve in their
most crazy, blasting, brutal death and smoke patterns, because some
ideas are not bad at all, and so they could become something more
than just another average band with good ideas from here and there...
They could write entirely cool and crazy songs, I think they are
able to do... Might be nice, huh? It might be the right time for
a crazy lifting and brutal retargettng dudes!
http://www.condemned-uk.com
CONGENITAL
HELL (Jap) Into The Doom Demo CDr'05.
Fellow Gab knows
I have a thing for weird Japanese extreme bands and keeps adding
his latest discoveries to his promo sendings. This time we deal
with a sort of doom/noise act with a live recording. As one could
expect at this stage, the sound is downright awful, I have fan bootlegs
of mid-80s thrash bands gigs that sound far better than this so
it’s pretty much a shame. Besides the sound quality, the music isn’t
great either. Admitedly I’m not very familiar with this genre, but
what I hear on every song is the same riff repeated over and over,
making a possibly good riff become totally annoying after 5 minutes.
From time to time upper tempos appear, but it’s not enough to repress
my envy of jumping right now to the next track, the latter having
no more appeal than the previous one. The only weird thing on this
CD, finally, is the vocals, since the core “music” is nothing but
predictable. These vocals sound like guitar amp feedback and noisy
larsens, rather than an actual human voice (even deformed), although
one can recognize harsh screams from time to time, heavily buried
in the “mix”. Or perhaps these sounds are actually feedback noises,
but I doubt it since a) the guitar riffing remains somewhat distinct,
and b) how the hell can a guitar player produce feedback during
the whole fucking set? All in all, I wouldn’t mind call this release
(very) average, if it wasn’t for the stupid info on the sleeve,
“limited to 666 copies” and “pay no more than $6.66”. If I was playing
in a band and would release such a crappy demo live CD, I’d be ashamed
to even consider selling it.
I guess this band is probably another
bunch of “wannabe true” teenage retards and thus deserve limited
attention if any at all. T.G.
http://www3.point.ne.jp/~bloodbath
COPREMESIS
(Usa) Demonstrating the Fist Demo'03.
Will
you take another piece of pudding or do you prefer to drown in your
moronic pseudo debauchery? You pudding head!
What you are offered
for dessert isn't a bloody part of milk pudding, but a demo of COPROMESIS.
Their style is Brutal death grind in a more or less American way:
the pudding rice sounds influenced by bands like DEVOURMENT, ALIENATION
MENTAL, old SKINLESS... The head in the punching pudding, you've
understood it has a lot of blasts and breaks... lots of blasts and
breaks... and some heavier parts... but unfortunately not much that
turned me on! It might sound quite cool for Brutality devouring
factories, but I need more! And I feel like it's not that tight
by moments! To be tight to the point helps to impress the listener!
The bloodpudding devouring vocals are nice! Quite goregrind like
by moments! And it may sound like DEVOURMENT and the likes... Ok
there are a lot of steak pudding riffs, and the pudding grooves
correctly by moments... but it's only an Ok/ average demo in my
opinion! It might please some maniac bloodpudding fuckers!
http://www.angelfire.com/ny5/pooptastik/entrance.html
CORRUPT
(Swe) Born of greed Demo'04. Tape rerelease. ZOMBIE RITUAL Tapes.
Torn
two juicy cunts in half. Keep an old school half of thrash, an efficient
half of death metal, mix it together, and bang your head motherfucker!
Bang your head with the ripped cunts! Ahr Ahr!
CORRUPT is a cool
Swedish thrash/ death metal band that sounds neat and has some cool
ideas from here and there.
Their music can remind of SEPULTURA
("Beneath the remains"), old KREATOR, with a bit of old
DEATH(early) or CANCER(old) and screaming vocals à la old Mille
Petrozza (Who's that?)... There might also be influences of early
MERCILESS (Swe), REPUGNANT or MERCYFUL FATE From here and there.
A
part of the thrash metal riffs only sounds okey or nice, and some
moments could sound a bit hesitating... what makes the power of
CORRUPT are some double bass ridden moments that could even sounds
like "hymns" in the spiked hears of deadbangers! At least
it's catchy and could remind some old CANCER meets old SEPULTURA,
as the double bass drums are tight and the vicious vocals describe
a livid future being overdiven with nuclear atrocities!
Notice
this tape rerelease contains an ok SLAYER cover ("Kill again")...
(The initial CDr release I got contained a Mercyful fate cover)
All
in all, it's an emotionally average demo. It's quite well built,
neat and there are some good banging riffs from here and there,
but there aren't many guitars to rip it in the guts, abort your
unwanted baby, or to penetrate the hidden little box of timeless
memories. So, it might be a worthy demo for deadbangers who need
more and more metal to bang their heads, but nothing to emerge from
the deep underground yet. I'm quite curious to follow the evolution
of CORRUPT.
http://www.shotgundeath.tk
COLLISION
(Hol) Promo 2003
Always searching for some Blasting Grindcore
bands who have some impact, to put an hear on the Grind'n Thrashcore
stuffs of COLLISION would be a quite clever idea! I had some cool
gut splashing listenings with the 2 MP3s on their site, and I needed
more blood! Ah! They have some fast Grinding blasts that are efficient
and tight as fuck! It reminds me of PÏG DESTROYER's less chaotic
moments as well as bands such as BIRDFLESH, MASTIC SCUM, BLOCKHEADS;
straight to the.
But COLLISION isn't only a fast bastards' band
as they have a bunch of heavier core riffs (I don't like it so much,
some of it sound strange), plus some Thrashcore, Groovy-core and
Crustcore stuffs!
Nothing really deep, but there's your share
of aggression, screams and compressed rebellion to keep you alive!
Skillful drummer, straight to the point! Nice tracks that aren't
too much in the Grindcore classicism.
So you'll ask me: "Is
it a cool Promo?". Yes it's cool! I don't know if their forthcoming
full-length on BIZARRE LEPROUS will be as cool (Maybe too long?),
but this promo will be listened to more than once!
http://listen.to/collision
COMATOSE
(Philippines) Pure evil and blasphemy Demo CDr'04.
Even if
their music isn't deadly successful, COMATOSE is one of the very
few decent extreme metal bands I could find in the rats and Rip
offs infested sewerage systems of this rotting country. I guess
COMATOSE could be one of the very few real Death metal bands creeping
in the deepness of Philipinese putrefaction, swarming between old
styled Death metal and old school Brutal death, with cadaveric reminiscences
of early DEATH, BAPHOMET, early DEICIDE, with some early HYPOCRISY
and some JUDECCA.
the whole isn't that well played, some moments
sound quite weak (Pedaling in the semolina isn't cool), lack of
brutal precision, and there's absolutely nothing new... But I kind
of appreciate their influences and a little old Death metal atmosphere
emerging from the songs.
This will probably be located between
the very average and average underground stuffs for many of the
current pussy-embalmed hears, but I think this band can help to
develop the philipinese scene... With more work! (Ps: They do not
answer emails).
http://www.comatose666.tk
CONTORTED
(Usa) Aftermath Demo’03.
Yes!! Here's the kind of demos I'd
like to order more frequently since it's motivating my webzine activity!
CONTORTED was formed by 4 musicians who were or are currently a
part of BRUTALITY, but also DIABOLIC, EULOGY, EXECRATION and ASTAROTH!
So you know what to expect Death fucking metal for alcoholic fuckers!
Expect a very cool kind of Death metal meets Brutal death in the
90's Tampa vein! Of corpse some BRUTALITY can be found (Epic riffs,
leads, brutal guitars), but one could hear some MONSTROSITY's 2
first Lps (For the riffing and brutal vocals) and some old CANNIBAL
CORPSE/ old MORBID ANGEL. Overall the tracks are built on a fast
and brutal carcass on which are nailed morbid pieces of a more worked
on necroharmonic entertainment.
I noticed raw black metal riffs
reincarnating under the Black mark of early DARK FUNERAL as well
as some melodic death touches (à la mid old DEATH, DECAMERON and
few IN FLAMES for example), but most of the music is 90's Death
in its blasting or heavily brutal way.
"Aftermath"
is a very cool demo in my opinion and I ever see a bunch of Death
metallers rising up their beers in the name of CONTORTED!! But don't
misunderstand my words. This is a very pleasant demo, not a really
killer or innovative one. Just done with enough brutality, know
how and variety to please a Brutal death fan the 90's way! I must
say this Demo is far more impressive than BRUTALITY's last demo
recording that remains weak in my ears! Needles to say I expect
much more from CONTORTED than from BRUTALITY's come back!
CONTORTED
has signed a deal with the polish label STILL DEAD Prods, so expect
their album in few months of time if you are a Death metal fan who
like it brutal and fast, yet with some class and melody!
http://www.contorted.biz.50megs.com
CONTORTION
(Swe) Forever suffer Demo CDr.
This is a neat mixture evolving
between brutal death metal and older death metal influences, with
a bunch of blast beats.
The whole is quite technical, but remains
edible in a matter of basic listening.
The influences vary between
quite modern brutal death (Spawn of possession, Natron), old Brutal
death (Cannibal corpse, a bit of Suffocation, a bit of Sinister
(Hate)), some almost evil or midly old styled Death metal (Morbid
angel, few Hate eternal or stuffs like Koldborn).
It's well packaged,
and the production fits well the criterias of the style (Clear and
powerful). This demo is a cool item to listen, but there's unfortunately
not much haunting the undead or being really particular... It might
not be a problem for fans of the style who need it brutal and kicking
with well built enough songs, but there are many bands working hard
their fingers to kill the death metal fans, so a bit more guts and
particularity could only help.
I hope CONTORTION will improve
some aspects such as a burning atmosphere from hell, or a better
logo (The current one is cheap) because they have good and quite
strong basis.
http://www.myspace.com/contortionswe
CONVENT
(Pol) Blessed among the flock Demo'04.
Brutality castrated.
You fucking die under the angelic light. Tormented by vampirized
angels and highflying frauds. Sterility. Loss of instinctive abilities.
Purity deformed! Dead fukker in heaven!
Brutal death grind à
la MORBID ANGEL/ DEICIDE/ HATE ETERNAL with touches of IMMOLATION!
Impious! Impious! A nice dark mood of tormented ancient entities
and sulfuric pestilence emerges from the morbid notes of this 3
tracks demo. The thing sounds brutal and quite professional, with
a powerful enough and heavy production that has some abrasive guitars.
Unfortunately there's nothing new here, what you hear is strongly
influenced by the 4 bands quoted before, with tight as fuck abilities,
but not much killer memorabilia that will hook your depressed brain
until the final flesh feast!
This demo sounds cool, but if you're
searching for fresh unholy ideas and humanity dominating cynical
genius, this might not be the best choice. I heard a CONVENT track
that sounded more brutally impressive, so I'm a bit disappointed.
This might be a cool demo for underground supporters of the
unholy metal of death and chaos! A nice demo in the average filed
to mourn on hallucinations and drink the black winds of cadaveric
pestilence! Space in your face!
http://www.convent.art.pl
CORPSEFEAST
(New Zealand) Brutal killings Demo'04.
What you have here
is brutal death metal from the other side of this terminal phasis
rotting earth: New Zealand! A country I know few braindeads about...
CORPSE
FEAST's Brutal death metal is raw, not of the most technical kind,
à la old CANNIBAL CORPSE, mid old DERANGED. One could hear few old
school death influences in some leads and some riffs à la early
DEATH. One could find touches of heavy Morbid Angel, few Black metal
influences or possible similarities with SUHRIM, RELENTLESS and
VICTIM (Ger).
While some riffs sound ok, some parts are stagnant
and some heavier riffs aren't cool and even hesitating for some.
(The first track is the best one).
I heard these riffs many times
before, and there are lowers in Brutality, but CORPSEFEADT plays
it decently Brutal enough to please those who like it as brutal
as a big cock smash in their cheesy face!
Beware: raw and noisy
underground production from the guts of the rotting earth! Average,
with lowers, but brutally in the right way.
http://www.geocities.com/corpsefeast13
CORPSECUM (Usa)/ INTESTINAL DISGORGE (Usa) Split CDr'07. MENTAL ABUSE Recs.
You're in an hopeless case of asshole warming emergency? Your rectum is so cold that you're frightened by the attack of Norwegian zombies straight from the inside of the Water closets? I have a little something for you: This little split CDr might be of some pustular help.
Not especially for the part of CORPSECUM, since I'm not too much into usual goregrind and too be honest it sounds like another band in the middle of the gowwwgwind scene of last days that sounds too putridly sleeping in its own vomit... It's not the worst project I heard, but musically sleeping I hear nothing particular: Riffs à la GUT (Or eventually some old MORTICIAN with maybe a little of old IMPETIGO), or PLASMA (And boring stuffs like that)... It could be convenient to listen once you're swimming into the waves of many hot beers, but it's just a project like so many others... They need to inject something to become "MORE": More gore, more stress, more urge, more rape... Because convenience and "keeping it cool" never helped, unless you're a big cat ensured of his daily dinners. http://www.myspace.com/corpsecums
But according to what follows on this little CDr, the voracious worm could easier penetrate your little asshole, and feed, grow, climb along your bowels to finally face the most exquisite virtue of entrails terrorism: INTESTINAL DIGORGE! (Up the razors?). Contrary to what you could expect, this isn't particularly gore, but rather GRIND and energetic with freshness and craziness inside... It's shooting the liquid acid and screaming all over, with the help of few lower grunts or saturated liquid emanators. The music lies somewhere between grind, technical grind, brutawl death metal, and some funny (But not stupid) things. I appreciate the fact the musicians aren't wankers who discovered the blast few months ago, and so some riffs are kinda well packed, the song structures sound compressed and some fast blasts sound quite destructive. Well this isn't the new grinding revelation, I didn't feel an urge to turn my bedroom inside out and some things don't fit my ugly needs, but it sounds fresh and quite entertaining. According to some sites, it seems IxDx plays noise/grind, but it isn't the case here... I Hope this split isn't the little good release from a big shit of vaguely vomited discography! http://www.myspace.com/intestinaldisgorge
CRAWLING
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As
you can see, I currently lack of putrid funds, and I have to insert
advertisements in the reviews... How nice is it? Ah Ah.
This promo
was sent to me a fat while ago, but job changes had reason of my
promo-dissecting motivations... Finally the review is here, re-chewed
and re-puked.
What you could hear is something between fast (2/3)
and slower (1/3) Death metal, in my mind it sounds quite close to
MORBID ANGEL ("Domination"), YATTERING, some LUCIFERION
(Due to the sound?), HATE ETERNAL (Less complex and noise fucking,
so not the latest albums), NILE (Minus egyptianism), with some slower
parts that could remind of mid old LOUDBLAST, mid old DEATH, few
BENEDICTION (Not the old stuffs) or eventually GOREFEST ("Erase").
The drumming would sound closer to what Dave Culross did in MALEVOLENT
CREATION and so gives an "impact" side to the whole.
Eventhough
the first approach seems like it will be an all brutal recording,
it is finally quite varied and contains various influences from
the Death metal spectrum... This explains why my pile of soundalike
quotes doesn't give a so clear idea of what you can hear...
The
music sounds quite solid, and it's all tight or correctly composed...
But I'm not so thrilled about it... I miss something really catchy,
fucking emotional or uterus punching (Yes, I changed sex to earn
more money... Apparently transsexuals are better paid!). So big
fans of the style could like this record, but it's not an exceptional
release, just a quite solid one in the middle of quite solid ones...
But it could be worse, huh?
http://www.myspace.com/crawlingdeath
CREATIVE
WASTE (Saudi arabia) Colonies Demo CDr'05.
Saudi arabia
isn't only about praising Allah or beers without alcohol... There
occurs to be a little something of extreme music, trying to exist
between the heavy weights of the crushing mosques... And one of
the hardly surviving bands is CREATIVE WASTE who practices Grindcore/
Death grind reminding me of BRUTAL TRUTH ("Kill trend suicide"
for the production and music (But not as "epileptic"))
or some ATROCITY (Usa) for a thrashy and almost grind punk aspect.
I
don't like too much the vocals, because too much core in the corpse
makes it too rigid and so harder to masticate!
The production
is raw, the playing not the best but it could be worse.
I wasn't
emotionally impressed by C.W., things still needs to be improved
and masticated, until perfect regurgitation! But due to the poor
health of their scene and difficulties to make something "Heretic"
in there, it might be great to see them live for local bangers...
Wish them good luck.
http://www.myspace.com/creativewaste
CREMASTER
(Pol) Mineta Uhr Demo'03.
Eventhough I didn't notice that
at the first listenings, because of the attractive big tits woman
on the cover (if one can call these falling pieces of bread 'tits'),
CREMASTER's music is inspired by NAPALM DEATH for the quite modern
musical spirit this English band had few years ago. If you didn't
pay too much attention to the big tits woman, you have probably
understood CREMASTER plays somekind of melting between Crustcore,
Grindcore, brutal death and some core stuffs emerging from lands
unknown. The way the tracks are structured and the breaks could
remind of our Napalm brothers, eventhough some other influences
are there. All in all, this is varied stuffs too varied for me,
coz sometimes we aren't far from Metal core or almost fusion jokes!).
I can play the demo of CREMASTER eventhough it lacks of aggression,
power, seriousness and explosive energy in my hears. I think it
rather sounds like some convenient/ confortable stuffs, and you'd
better agree with me or I'll have to personally rape your mother
and kill your dog. This demo might turn on some guys, but I think
it's too 'surfacial' as it was done with the brain and not much
with the guts or deeper feelings. They probably had fun with it,
I guess, but the big tits woman haven't taken control of their bodies
to let them play convulsive hymns of castrated torture and other
kinds of rancid assripping necroharmonies. (And it has too much
funny moments for my tastes. Remember: Sex isn't only fun!). Between
the average and very average in my opinion. Try it if you are very
open minded, enjoy NAPALM DEATH ("Diatribes"), and need
more underground bands... and don't dislike big tits of bread women
;-)
http://www.cremaster.prv.pl
CRETIN
(Usa) Extreme cretanic grindcore Demo'03.
CRETIN is the new
project of some previous EXHUMED musicians, and what else could
they play than Grindcore?? So you can hear blasting old school Grindcore
à la old EXHUMED/ REPULSION/ NAPALM DEATH (F.E.T.O). Right to the
point blasting raw Grindcore. Surprisingly there's not much Crust,
and the vocals keep a clear edge à la REPULSION (No fucking gore
for your babe!).
Finally there's nothing really killer, just
correct blasting Grindcore the old way with correct and cool riffs.
This demo sounds better than the average demos, if might be cool
for old school Grindcore maniacs, but they could at least change
their stupid sounding name, and at best inject the brutal power
of early EXHUMED's destructive riffs! An average band with a large
possibility of brutal evolution!
http://www.cretanic.com
CRUCIFIRE
(Australia) Unblessed unto hatred Demo'03.
Hellstorms war
plague and damnation! ENCABULOS are back under a new name and with
a new singer! The style of the band is still damn old school and
fucking obscure but I can feel the appearance of even older influences
of the 80's Death/ Thrash! Sulfur souls fume in gorgonish rejoice!
Understand the style in here sounds as a mix of the "Abandoning
the flesh" MCD of ENCABULOS (Obscure Brutal death with old
DEICIDE, old BOLT THROWER, old INCANTATION vibes and heavy obscure
riffs), but there are also few riffings emerging from the sulfurous
past of the very first Death metal bands such as POSSESSED! A tremolo
riff could make think of KRISIUN or SARCOFAGO.
The new singer
(who is also a part of RANDOM VIOLENCE) has got a rawer voice than
the previous one, he kinda sounds more like old INCANTATION.
Knelling
before the chopped in half cunt, my conclusion will be I like this
demo since it has a bunch of really heavy parts à la ENCABULOS/
old DEICIDE and epic Death metal riffs the ancient way, but to be
honest I prefer the "Abandoning the flesh" MCD of ENCABULOS
that sounded more deeply and sulfurously inspired, and more precise!
But this is a quite good Demo the maniacs of old school obscure
Death metal shouldn't neglect!
http://www.crucifire.fr.st
CRYPTUS
(Ireland) Dawn of ages Demo CDr'07.
Simple and raw sounding
Death metal that purges the skull with old influences from the 90's.
There's a clear old GRAVE influence at various levels (Vocals, sound,
drums in heavy moments) but also a quite present HYPOCRISY mark
("Osculum obscenum") for the brutality and the "half
melodic" guitars in the blasts.
I noticed some nice touches
of early PARADISE LOST's epic guitars that briefly open doors to
nostalgia. Also heard some ROTTING (Can) (Between the last demo
and the "Crushed" CD) or a bit of ASPHYX's "Last
one on earth".
The drum machine is simple, but it's ok or
the style, it especially works well in double kicks à la GRAVE.
After
two songs the production changes and gets less powerful, it's a
shame... After a few more songs the style gets a bit less brutal
and a bit more melodic, maybe somewhere between "later"
HYPOCRISY (?) and old PARASIDE LOST with touches of early AMORPHIS...
It's ok, but less cool.
It's just a demo from a solo project,
no brutal revelation, and after some songs the entertainment tends
to decrease, but I found it cool. Nice influences, nice brutality,
some cool atmospheres... If he keeps on making the sound more powerful
and songs more intense (But not too blasts ridden, ok?) CRYPTUS
might become a quite damn cool entity in the world of demos and
naturally simple Death metal solo projects.
http://www.myspace.com/cryptus101
