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GAMA
BOMB (Uk) Promo 2004.
Thrash also revives in England!
Motherfuckers! This nice two tracks promo consists of a mid placed
thrash metal along the lines of old KREATOR, early DARK ANGEL (1st
album), ONSLAUGHT (2nd Lp) with a good touch of old DESTRUCTION
for the early German thrash metal touch! Surprisingly, these 2 tracks
entitled "The survival option" and "Mutually absurd
destruction" aren't so fast but rather mid placed, yet with
some crazy motorbike's accelerations.
Contrary to a bunch of
Thrash/ Black bands, GAMA BOMB's vocals aren't screamed, it's some
vocals the old way between those of ONSLAUGHT (2nd Lp), DARK ANGEL's
1st Lp...
I kinda regret it's not an ultra fast ripping thrash
assault... with ripping riffs à la MERCILESS (1st Lp) and some real
turbo stress compression of hell! It even sounds too convenient
by moments: correctly played, well constructed... but what about
the maximum urge of a massive beer ingurgitation that gives you
the early power of ancient thrash metal and is still able to severely
kick the ass of the most Brutal death metal infected junky? Yeah!
The really killer music has no limit, especially when it's so full
or urge and and raw enthusiasm than early Thrash metal! The scene
needs raw and simple music to kick its fat ass and raise hundreds
of beerpacks up the sky to infest heaven with our might liquid of
death! But no, in this case it's only convenient and quite cool
sounding, so I guess fans of pure brutality, harsh death metal and
Aggressive grind won't find much evil shoes for their ugly feets
in here.
This is a nice promo to listen into beer injected tranquility...
A cool band for those who need an old nostalgic feeling in their
thrash metal. GAMA BOMB will release a split Ep quite soon, so keep
updated if you're interested.
http://www.gamabomb.tk
GARGOUYLLAS
(Fra) Gargouyllas Demo CDr'09.
Gargouyllas, what a strange
name, in my mind it sounds like some "Ragout de gargouilles"
(Gargoyle stew in english)... Seems to be your local underground
stuff done an amateurish manner... But the music is better than
the odor of the moniker.
It's some kind of thrash death, with
a quite technical (Yet not very technical) side. It evolves between
the fast and mid-tempo. Vocals are kind of regular death vocals.
When
it's closer to Death metal I find it quite cool, when it's thrashier
(Or even closer to melodic thrash, yet not uber gay) it's less of
my pleasure. I wouldn't say it's old school, maybe just a little
"out dated" because more bands used to cook this kind
of stew only few years ago.
The first song is quite cool, and
I have the feeling quality decreases a bit with each new songs (The
last one is quite boring to me).
This could please those who
like quite controlled thrash death and dig underground demos, it's
not the most emotional or impressive stew pot I tasted, but it's
not so bad. I think with just a few more catchy parts and a little
focus it could taste much better for the enjoyers of the style.
(When
the 4 songs are over, it repeats again the same 4 songs without
vocals... A bit strange... Maybe they want you to join the gargoyle
karaoke? So where are the lyrics? Huh!)
http://www.myspace.com/gargouyllas
GASMASK
TERROR (Fra) Ruins... and then? Rehearsal demo tape 2004.
Cool
band name, cool influences, but nothing special or groundbreaking.
GASMASK
TERROR seems to be a young crustcore band who chose to play it simple
and old school à la DIRSUPT, DOOM and early EXTREME NOISE TERROR.
This
demo in itself sounds decent (Some riffs could have a good place
in killer compositions while some are average or too ever heard!).
The
production is garage, rehearsal like. I'd advice them to work a
bit more on their tracks and bring more energy in da house of pain!
(Drink more beer!) and to inject some few drumming breaks.
Their
future doesn't seem so darkened by Napalm clouds, but more intensity
is needed to impress me!
Cool band name, cool influences, but
nothing special or ground breaking.
http://ratbone.free.fr/gasmaskterror.html
GENITAL
GRINDER (Ita) Genital grinder Demo'03.
Abstract putrefaction
and triplefuck! The mucous deepness of the Underground still happens
to vomit refermented vicious toxic giblets! Here is some kind of
old school Brutal death (if I could say so), blasting stuffs reminding
of early EXHUMED, early MORGUE (Fra), with chaotic old INCANTATION
and touches of old CANNIBAL CORPSE, DISINFECT and old INHUMATE.
A
shame the whole isn't that tight (and the drummer has problems in
blasting parts), the vocals are average (Deeper or sicker would
be better) because GENITAL GRINDER sounds more energetic than the
average! The production is quite raw and boxerful, but the whole
sounds a bit too chaotic.
Nothing new or original, but I guess
with more rehearsals they might do something as pleasant as a purulent
vaginal caress! Good luck and keep courage! At least they sound
more energetic and impressive than the French GENITAL GRINDER that
displays flat Death grind and stupid lyrics! Ah!
Email: mailabe@virgilio.it
GEVOTAIS
BORKEN (Jap) Murdering your guts open demo CDr'05.
Very
underground brutal death metal that doesn’t sound too technical
(understand no wanking) and could rather remind of early SUFFOCATION,
early PYREXIA and old BROKEN HOPE (The quite raw first releases).
The raw production, and half vomited fuck off vocals gives it a
gore-grind touch.
They have a too strong tendancy to penetrate
the mid-placed or heavy abdominal patterns for my putrid tastes…
And they doesn’t sound so tight, nor like splashing the green pus
from the obese pustular intruder.
All in all, even if some riffs
doesn’t seem bad, it sounds like average brutal death (Yes, more
urges of blasting adrenaline and vicious crushing heaviness are
lacking!).
The band might improve into something more impressive
with more rehearsals, when they’ll reach the perfect tightness of
executing autopsy. Until then, this band is only for very big underground-freaks.
Wish
them good luck.
http://www.geocities.jp/gevotaisborken
GLOSSECTOMY
(Jap) Test recording Demo'03.
Morbid erection through
your speakers! Bang bang bang your face! Insane impalement of sanity!
GLOSSECTOMY
finally happens to have a recording with a good production, even
if it's not an official one (yet?). Most of the tracks sound short
(too short for the style) making me wonder if it wasn't shortened
for this test recording.
What you have is US molded and focused
brutal Death metal sounding professional and heavy enough. GLOSSECTOMY
sound very much like their American brothers in brutality (No quotes
for your metal babe, she'll forget metal in 6 months!), but what
helps them to distinguish from the pile of rotting corpses and offer
cooler tracks are some quite strange ideas and few bass lines. Apart
from the quite too few, you have your share of blasts, groovy TXDM
and heavy SKINLESS alike drippings, the whole melted in many tempo-changes.
I
think GLOSSECTOMY could have developed much deeper some of the strange
ideas nailed before, it sounds unusual for US styled brutal death
and could turn into very catchy obscure moments of cerebral escape
and ghoulish self-mutilation.
To conclude, I'll say GLOSSECTOMY
might sound boring, cool or brutal as fucking, depending on if you
dig the ossuaries of US Brutal death. It's a very expressive conclusion,
isn't it? Ah! Send me samples of your semen collections and I'll
open my filthy mouth! Ah Ah!
http://www.ff.iij4u.or.jp/~oka-p/glo/new
GOAT
MOLESTÖR (Uk) Ancient barbaric assault Demo’03.
This
demo begins in an obscure vein with a cryptic and fear-burning riff
being totally in the style of INCANTATION. Fast and heavy with real
obscure deepness.
GOAT MOLESÖR performs some kind of obscure
and old school death metal meets some old raw black metal that could
evoke the likes of INCANTATION ("Blasphemy"), ENCABULOS,
while some simple raw black riffs could remind some old IMPIETY
(1st album) or ARCHGOAT.
The tracks of GOAT MOLESTÖR are composed
of as much cool sounding riffs than average and quite flat ones.
The main problems are the fact the band is a bit slow/ blurred in
the fast parts, the drums are a bit lost in the mix (Can't hear
the blast clearly) and some of the riffs in furnace are too average
or were ever bestially fornicated before! To simple or "easy"
to unfrigidify the lordgoat, mother of the vilest human affliction.
But some of the riffs and obscure necroharmonies let me think GOAT
MOLESTÖR can go farest (In hell!!) with some intense and sulfuric
rehearsals!
Not the promising, but average with both real weaknesses,
the right atmospheres and cools ideas. I might keep a putrid perverted
on them! Blasphemic goatsaw graveraiders!
C/o G.M, 8 highfiled
Avenue, Wembley, Middlesex, HA9 8LE, UK.
Email: Goatmolestor@yahoo.com
GOATSODOMY
(Fin) Demo tape 2005.
Massive assault of the kamixxxaze orks!
Dixxxusting
deglutition of beer filled vomixxx!
Goats, fear our sodomizing
spiked hammers of retalliation!!
GOATSODOMY = Blast as fuck
bestial black death metal sounding like a tighter old BLASPHEMY,
meets a bit of BEHERIT, with some almost grindcore influences in
some fast riffs and heavier moments... with fukked up vocals! This
throat of spiked nightmare happens to sound dehumanized but also
bestial, despotist and obscure à la VON! Ahr! Satanic blood!! GOATSODOMY
sounds more efficient than many current war black metal metaaawl
bands, because the drummer knows how to blast as fukkk, and the
whole sounds more sexxxkompressed... Sexxxistik Spiritual Sexxxsodomy!
Notice
there's a BLASPHEMY cover ("Atomic nuclear desolation")
and GOATSODOMY seems to be the project of guys from other Finnish
metal bands.
Some hard to satisfy deniers of the spikesukk kvlt
will notice the riffs aren't katchy or something sexxxualy special,
it only sounds sexxxbrutal and lackkks of sexxxekuting riffing axxxes
from the deepexxx pits of hellish sexxx! So, konklude in the mighty
sixxxsixxxsixxx konklave sexxxtorture chamber: this ixxx average
musixxx with a bestiaxxx blastixxx power and kool bestiaxxx fukk
fukk fukk vokals! Only for Fukkterranean maniaxxx of the bestialataxxxing
vomixxx style! But not bad if you axxxe me! Ahr! The Rotatixxxe
Axxxe keeps on Sexxxmolesting!
Email: paganfinland71@yahoo.com
GOAT
THROTTLER (Uk) Das goat Demo’04.
GOAT THROTTLER doesn't
totally sound like death, it doesn't sound much like black metal...
but it doesn't sound modern! That's for sure! On this first self
recorded demo, GOAT THROTTLER plays a convenient mix of good old
Death metal in the old vein (old AUTOPSY, some early DEATH), some
mid placed black metal that could remind of the earliest works of
ABSU (less worked and not as Death metallic), ARCKAN OBSCURA's 1st
Demo (A once cool band from my suburb), and some old VOÏVOD influenced
stuffs. Most of the music is mid placed, which sounds quite boring
after a while since explosive moments of stressed pig accelerations
à la AUTOPSY would be really welcome! Hopefully the band happens
to be faster, such as on the 2nd track that has it heavily fast
like early DEATH meets AUTOPSY! Some morbid riffs are cool and remindable...
but of corpse there's nothing new or that shredding. This might
sound like some kind of Black metal because of the production being
underground and quite raw.
I enjoy the vocals: most of it being
composed of screams (a bit like early DEATH or CARCASS), with decent
appearance of growls.
All in all, it's an average Demo with both
nice moments (such as the doomed AUTOPSY influence, the fast 2nd
track or the quite sick vocals) and 'nothing special' riffs... But
the band plays it too much mid-placed to entertain me! As ever said
before, some stressful alcoholic accelerations would diversify and
improve their songs.... and more rehearsals are needed for a better
tightness.
This demo rather sounds like the old demos of the
past, when the bands were recording it themselves on a 4 tracker
to let their friends hear their music, and I like that! No overproduced
demo nor an unrealistic will to promote, nor an often crossed imaginary
superstars behaviour! Only underground the underground way!
Between
the average and the almost very average, but with nice enough moments
for me to say "Cool!" and want to hear their second demo!
For old school underground death metal maniacs who don't need it
too fast or full of revenge, and don't demand too many beers in
the demos they actually listen to!
All Mp3s are for free on their
website.
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/throttler/index.html
GOAT
TYRANT (Pol) Necromantical curse Demo tape'06.
Black
thrash metal that sounds a lot like early BATHORY (Demo days) on
a first approach, during the first seconds... Which sounds promising,
with the same nice 4-tracker sound, and so I imagined a thrashing
speed metal fury... But in fact the style is a bit different: The
simple drumming and some riffs makes them sound more like some old
VENOM, mid placed BATHORY (Songs like "Raise the dead"),
some blasts give it a NIFELHEIM taste, and the very loud-in-the-mix
vocals would be somewhere between dead (Mayhem... Less tortured)
and maybe some old Burzum (?). So it's a mixture of mid-placed old
ugly black metal, thrash metal riffs and fast black metal the 90's
way. I expected something a bit more energetic (The thrashing speed
metal way) and I'm not as interested in the other influences or
the Abaddon alike drumming... But it remains okey and convenient
if you like to rest with the slow riffs and quite dumb rhythms of
old VENOM...
So the conclusion for me will be: It's only Ok underground
stuff that might anyway please some quite fucked drunk bangers.
c/o
Micahl Dolinski, Ul. Krakinskiego 18 B, 83110 TCZEW, POLAND
Email:
Complete_necro@vp.pl
GOAT
TYRANT (Pol) Untitled Demo tape'08.
It's globally the
same style than the demo'06, except the mid placed VENOM/ BATHORY
moments have decreased and the band apparently takes a more black/
thrash approach (Yet it remains old school and quite "putrid"...
It might be less "nostalgic" though, but more violent
and ugly).
Sounds like some early MERCILESS (Less controlled
and more fucked) with some BATHORY spirit, old AURA NOIR, and NIFELHEIM
crap-fuck state of mind... Some thrash, some black, some really
old spirit... Crush the tape recorder, we're death and drunk...
The
last song of the 2 ones (Yes, this demo is short, only 2 tracks
and an intro) reminds me of VICTIMIZER for some riffing style reason
and raw necro sound to fuck your bottom... I guess they are alcoholics
and proud of it.
This might please the needs of bangers who like
it raw, necro, quite ugly and violent, and spend their lives in
underground caves of some sorts...
I prefer the "Necromantical
curse" demo because of the convenient VENOMous laziness that
helps me to rest, and maybe the band needs to develop and improve
more to reach an impressive level in the (more "technical")
style they seem to target... I still hoped this tape would be the
same raw speed metal BATHORY did when copying MOTORHEAD on their
demos, but the band doesn't seem to evolve towards this style...
Once again my cock is trapped! Argh...
c/o Micahl Dolinski,
Ul. Krakinskiego 18 B, 83110 TCZEW, POLAND
Email: Complete_necro@vp.pl
GOREPHILIA
(Fin) In Death Demo MCD. 2010. Self-released.
I reviewed
the previous demo of this band a few years ago, when they were called
GORETEXX. They probably changed their moniker to avoid misunderstanding
with the Gore-tex clothes provider... And perhaps because of a forthcoming
musical evolution: This demo isn't really in the same genre, the
music is more dynamic and (maybe) more old styled in a way (I
should replunge in the previous demo...).
I have read some reviewers
write how this recording sounded so Finnish and close to the old
Finnish Death metal bands, but I partly disagree (Maybe some peoples
shouldn't receive any biography or any other information than music
itself? Who knows Ah Ah) since I would see a mixture with some fast
(And sometimes quite evil) Death metal taking from old MORBID ANGEL
(Tremolo hatred) or old INCANTATION (Obscure blasting punishment),
with some old Finnish sounding Death containing quite strange melodies
or quite grotesque heavy guitars, and some regular slow Death metal
(Let's quote CONVULSE and other "cult" stuffs like that).
Sometimes I could also point the old recordings of ENCABULOS (Rather
the "Abandoning the flesh" MCD) when it's double kicks
ridden and sounds quite dark.
This recording contains nice moments,
some fast parts should be quite rageful during a gig, an atmosphere
is quite present from here and there and the «mysterious» Finnish
touch should be developed for example... But I feel like I miss
something; Some arrangements could be more efficient, some riffs
could contain a bit more (Of more) and I sometimes feel a bit of
stagnancy(?)...Maybe this genre has became a bit too conservatively
self-phagocytosing for me?
Anyway this demo could please big
fans of underground Death metal, coffin swallowers and macerators
of rancid craziness... I think if this band will do something great,
then it would be for the next release, when they have put everything
in the right order and the planets are all aligned... Check your
morbid puzzle!
http://www.myspace.com/gorephilia
GORETEXX
(Fin) Rotting Demo CDr'07.
GORETEXX is a cool Finnish Death
metal band that plays it old school, but in a not so Finnish way
to die.
I'd rather think about old AUTOPSY (First album) mixed
with some early DEATH, a doomy death touch (Sometimes OBITUARY),
some faster patterns with a taste of INCANTATION (But the drumming
skills don't really follow this blasting case).
I found zests
of early VIOGRESSION (Call it old OBITUARY if you wish, anyway I
wish you hell!) while they sound quite close to the first demos
of TOMBTHROAT (Ger), and it seems we aren't so far from PUTRENANCE
sometimes (Some Finnish ways to die a morbid way might be there,
after all).
There's nothing new at all in their riffs and it's
often more based on a quite "tranquility" atmosphere,
but the songs are built an okey way and a nice atmosphere emerges
from the pores of the rotting cadaver.
The production is quite
deaf and doesn't follow nowadays' standards of pseudo virility,
but this is pleasant in my hears (It sounds quite natural).
So,
GORETEXX has released a cool first demo, with its positive and negative
aspects. For most it might be only another average demo, but those
who dig the embalming atmosphere of early AUTOPSY (And especially
big fans of the style) might have found a livid enough place to
rest under the graves.
I wonder what the band moniker means,
but in my hears GORETEXX strangely sounds like some label of sportsmen’s
clothes.
http://www.myspace.com/goretexxband
GORGASM
(Usa) Promo 2003.
Not
being so familiar to GORGASM's music, I can't compare this new release
to their previous stuffs. This nicely rounded new promo is composed
of two Brutal death grind tracks entitled "Corpse fiend"
and "Seminal embalment"! Expect Brutal stuff in the American
vein! I mean Brutal death metal à la SUFFOCATION with 'melodies'
à la DEEDS OF FLESH (last releases) but it's not your overabusive
hyper-technical crap! Rather right in your face Brutal death with
enough complex touches to make it easily understandable and face
punching!
The band also have some darkened riffs à la MORBID
ANGEL ("Domination") while some riffs remind me of MALEVOLENT
CREATION's last releases or old DEICIDE, but the main influence
is really SUFFOCATION! Old school tremolo Death metal riffings,
technical guitar attacks and heavier crushing grooves! It sounds
pro!
Even if I didn't find this promo exceptional nor original
(it's Brutal death), it's more Brutal than most of the bands who
merely try to sound Brutal! GORGASM stands above the countless bands
trying to rip-off the American style but forget the guts! Brutal
enough for all fans of Brutal death who need a minimum of quality
to get their slips inside out!
http://www.violatedrot.com/gorgasm
GORO
(Fra) Demo'05.
The beginning of this demo could let you wonder
what you have here, coz it's not that efficient, but the following
is cooler.
GORO is apparently a quite young band that chose to
play its brutal death quite technical and varied, both influenced
by old brutal death (Deeds of flesh, old Cannibal corpse), quite
modern brutality (Intervalle bizarre, old Yattering... or Malignancy?)
and old blasting death (Old Morbid angel).
I kinda enjoy some
of their fast death grind parts with quite infernal riffs, on the
other hand some US Brutality is too cerebral to impress and comrpess
me in bile dejecting dementia! Even though I attentively listened
to their 4 tracks, I didn't detect a lot to grip me on the mighty
meat hook sodomy.
Even if the band does it correctly, I'd advice
them to deeper explore the inner metallic realm to search for catchy
riffs and more interesting "melodies". It might also be
a matter of tracks' structures: half of the riffs doesn't sound
bad, so deleting the unnecessary and retargeting the brutal goal
of each song might improve the impact!
All in all, GORO is a
band with a quite good technical level, and some quite good potential
to putrefy the brains of brutal death fans, but it lacks of catchiness
and personality. It might be a cool live band! With them good luck!
Email:
TourneurGORO@aol.com
GORYPTIC
(Fra) Promo 2005 CDr.
If the GORYPTIC moniker probably sounds
unfamiliar to most of you, this is because the creation of the band
under this name dates back to few months (September 2005). In fact
they were previously known as HERESY, a band from the north of France
that was active since the end of the 90's in a more or less death
or thrash register, depending on the epoch. The change of moniker
opens the gates to a musical radicalization in the style of the
band, that nowadays uses the Brutal death sticker.
This promo CD lasts less than 7 minutes and contains 2 tracks, we have to deal with a death meant to be efficient and showing a quite complex side. 1st point, the structures are both developed and condensed, to me that seems the essential element for each band claiming to belong to brutal death. The influences are purely north American, with both fast and heavy riffs of which origin can be tracked down to New York, to the exception of the vocals, maybe, that seems to be inherited from an older thrash/death tradition, rather than the currently common 'gurgle-blast' style. The production is also clearer and less monolithic than what the style generally « requires », this isn't necessarily bad because it gives more thickness to the drums that don't sound too much 'taca-taca-tac', if you see what I mean.
In terms of
composition, the first song is the most interesting because it includes
well placed variations on tempos and breaks, as well as few discarding
harmonies that diversifies the whole. On the other hand, the second
song is more linear in its structure, and drowns a bit in its search
for pure brutality that do not bring much anymore nowadays, regarding
the overdose of the scene. Few unwanted clichés also subsist in
few riffs (see the screaming harmonics between heavy power chords.)
and this is what leads me to say Goryptic is a good student, but
needs a lot of work before being the master. Their music lacks a
bit of personality in my opinion. But it's a 2 songs demo, not an
album, so it's a bit short to have a definite opinion. Obviously,
this band already have good basis and a solid background, hope they'll
uses these opportunities to settle and find their own musical identity.
http://www.goryptic.com
T.G.
GRAVEHAMMER (Swe) Morbid obscurity Demo CDr'07.
GRAVEHAMMER
is a new Death metal band formed by younger metallers who choose
a way of torturing the cadaver that do not sound especially Swedish...
but rather American and evil! I got a copy of their previous Demo,
"Rehearsal of death", that suffered from a too raw rehearsal
sound. With this new short recording, they hopefully improved the
recording (That sounds more edible) and the music (That sounds more
energetic).
The songs are built on a basis of early thrashy Death
metal à la POSSESSED, with an addition of blast beats à la ABHORER/
early MORBID ANGEL, and few black metal touches for the necro (Like
old NIFELHEIM?). One could draw comparisons with some old SARCOFAGO
("Inri"), very old SODOM or early RIGOR MORTIS (Usa)...
There's
a nice energy and the songs are structured a quite strict way, which
is unfortunately a bit wattered down by the not-so-tight playing,
but it remains okey for a demo. (Remember 80's Death metal self-releases
weren't produced in plastic surgery hospitals, but in the caves
with rotten tape players!).
This is obviously demo-stuff that
won't please the plastic silicon metal business, but even if it's
not really killer or putrid, they evolve in the right way and begin
to procreate something that could please Evil death metal fanatics!
I appreciate the style they choose and a nice early evil death metal
atmosphere is touchable. Good luck in the future, keep the cross
inverted and burning!
http://www.myspace.com/gravehammerswe
GRIND
PAD (Hol) Grave matter MCD'09. Self released.
I'm not
sure what their moniker could mean, but in my computerized mind
it sounds like "Grindcore joystick" or something like
that... Grindcore joystick? Joycore grindstick? Are we talking about
sexual tools and blasting vagina-teasing matters? Hmm, not really
you pervert dude, because this Dutch band has no porno influence
and their music sticks in the brutality.
As a whole, I could
say their stronger influences reside somewhere between what MALEVOLENT
CREATION did few years ago ("Eternal", "The will
to kill" or a little of "The fine art of murder"),
SUFFOCATION (Rather "Despise the sun" for the impact approach)
or PYREXIA ("Age of the wicked"), then with few touches
of more thrashy stuffs (RITUAL CARNAGE?), more "conventional"
brutality (I thought about some mid old DERANGED), a little Hardcore,
few melodic touches (Between old GOD DETHRONED, or almost later
DEATH), while almost grindcore guitars could remind of LOCK UP or
some later NAPALM DEATH.
So you guess right when you imagine
most is into the blasting world. There are some slow-downs and usual
Death (Or crusty) beats, but most is blasting a way or another.
The
band has a nice sense of the brutal riff, and some parts are quite
strongly kicking! I think some riffings wouldn't brutalize a displaced
way on the last PYREXIA album for example.
On the other hand,
few structures sounded a little strange in my hears (Kind of debrutallized
the impact of a brutal riffure, hu?), few blasts weren't of my liking
(Kick and snare at the same time), few slower HC parts aren't for
me... And, yes, you will read again the "Lowest-common-reviewer-denominator".
Are you ready? One, two, three... "Their music isn't very original"...
Ok, but what should one do? Insert Polka or waltz influences a Mexican
way, or Peruvian xylophone to play post classical music from New
Zealand? Not sure if it would be good...
The production is good
for the style, nothing to say at this level.
All in all, I think
it's an honest brutal MCD that might turn on those who like brutality
in a not too mind-shaking, almost "grind", manner.
Some
parts are great, some parts are more common, but all in all I think
big fans of the style would kinda crunch it.
http://www.myspace.com/grindpad
GRINNING
GHOUL (Bel) Coming of war Demo'03.
What a brutal production!
The sound of guitars shreds and molests the speakers as rusted razorblades
while the bass guitar is distorted the way I like it! And the music
of GRINNING GHOUL doesn't displease the listener in need for Thrashing
Brutality! Yes, here's one more thrashing metal band who chose to
play it brutal in a way that could remind of the early Thrash metal
godz SODOM and KREATOR (early). I've to add these Belgian beer drinkers
play their thrash/ death in a way that sounds quite "modern"
but remains free from any boooring new shool thrash metal influences:
no gay melodic trash or too much THE HAUNTED whoreship and trendy
craps like that! Only good old thrashing mania, with old school
death influences, constructed in a right way with cool influences
quoted before, plus some old SLAYER and some Death metal influences
that could remind of early DEATH and other morbid pleasures. The
vocals follow a quite black-thrashing way that could remind of Mille
Petrozza's early screams of anger, or many current Black-thrashing
bands who keep it scorched in the guts of agony. There are few mid-placed
Brutal death touches that sound ok in the whole.
On the other
hand, after you read these lines of apparently endlessly flowing
positive golden beer, some mistakes need to be quoted: the tracks
of GRINNING GHOUL aren't always structured the best way as some
riffs kinda waste the whole energy, and there's nothing bloody new
or surprising: finally we aren't talking about a classic demo in
the style, but rather of a demo performed by fans of the style who
do it fine and brutal enough to please the bangers who like it with
a powerful sound. Not outstanding, but quite worth the listening
for underground thrash/ death fans.
http://users.pandora.be/gg
