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WARCRY
(Usa) Warcry Demo’03.
Decent crustcore played the old way
à la DISRUPT/ STATE OF FEAR/ DOOM with many simple yet punching
enough riffs, as well as typical beats à la early EXTREME NOISE
TERROR. (This could also sound like some DISFEAR).
This is very
reminiscent of the early days of the style: full of dust, aggressively
urban and as friendly as a grandmas sodomizing gang! The whole sounds
ok and punching enough in the style, but few surprises would have
been a boost! For example some shot slow old school HC breaks would
have increased their power. Sounds quite repetitive after a while.
The drums are quite too linear though, and I prefer angrier vocals.
There are high-pitched rock'n roll chaos guitars ENTOMBED also usually
uses. One of their tracks sounds like the DISCHARGE track NAILBOMB
covered.
WARCRY doesn't offer something new, or really memorable,
but they sound fucked up, disgusted and energetic enough!
All
in all, a decent crustcore demo that might be worth an hear for
big UG fans of old school crust like DISRUPT! WARCRY fucking must
be a fucking cool fucked up live band! fucking shit! Beer fucked
up!
WARMONGER
(Ita) Marching on the warpath Demo CD’03.
Yes! It reminds
me the old school thrashing speed metal bands I was listening with
over-flowing beer in my youth: But I was to young for this in 85/86!
Eh Eh...
Anyway the style of WARMONGER is totally old school
Thrash metal around the thrashing warlines of old KREATOR, old SODOM
and old DESTRUCTION. I could compare them to "Pleasure to kill"
for the rebellious and quite harsh side, while some old SODOM ("Agent
orange" and "Persecution mania") can be necro detected
in some tremolo thrash pukes and vocals! They remind me also of
ASSASSIN and old DESTRUCTION! Even if there are some few approximations
on guitars, that's ok, that's a first demo! And there are quite
catchy thrashin' choruses. The tracks are done in a quite cool way
and the nice thing with WARMONGER is they doesn't sound like old
thrash metal bands' ripp offs (remember the "revival"
thrash bands who stole riffs to DESTRUCTION and KREATOR? Uh!) they
sound like a band influenced by the old Thrash metal masters. Cool
drum playing, nice riffs, screamed and harsh enough vocals! The
sound ain't bad, clear and thrashing enough. WARMONGER can be a
cool band for bangers who still hail the old school speed metal
war! Drink beer and rise up your spiked fist!
http://www.warmonger.cjb.net
WEAPON
(Bgd) Within the flesh of the satanist Demo tape'04. IN COFFIN.
If you like
it well played, well produced, pussy-appealing and enjewelled with
milky melodies, it's high time for you to go away!
WEAPON plays
black death metal, raw and crude à la old ABHORER (demo days), BEHERIT
and BLAPSHEMY! And the band sounds like an old demo from the 90's!
Both in terms of production, music and skills. So you understood
it's chaotic in many senses of the word, BUT somekind of truly deep
underground atmosphere emerges from these songs, and the vocals
sounds good with this real FUCK OFF attitude of old BLASPHEMY! There's
also an old HELLHAMMER touch in some slow riffs while some thrashing
stuffs can remind of very early SODOM. Some guys will say the music
is poor and sucking their beer-sack, but if you keep in mind Bangladesh
is a poor country, and the guys probably have to work hard just
to be able to rehearse, and their metal scene is under-developped,
you'll realize WEAPON might sound more authentic than many "Life
is easy, just form an "hate metaaawl" band" leisure-projects
from the old continent.
Anyway, I prefer when WEAPON blasts,
gets it faster and quite bestial, because some slower or mid-placed
songs do nothing for me, it's just very average! And I would have
prefered all the songs to be fast and blasting like the first one!
Ahr!
It might be an interesting demo if you are a big maniac
of ancient satanic raw black death metal, but I don't see many peoples
getting into this one! That's for sure! Ah Ah!
Email: weaponchakra@yahoo.com
WHORETORN
(Fra) Demo'04.
Here's a new Grindgore/ Grindcore band from
the North of France with an ex SERGENT SLAUGHTER musician. I recently
bought this demo for the ultra cheap price of 3 euros in an underground
shop. This isn't my kind of grind and gore, but it sounds underground
so why not reviewing it?
What you hear is chaotic grindcore/
grindgore that could remind of old LAST DAYS OF HUMANITY with some
GUT, some old SQUASH BOWEKS and few early EXHUMED! Moments of blasting
grind and heavy gore are assorted with screams and some gore emanations
à la early EXHUMED. Seems like some crust and hardcorish influences
are used.
This isn't my kind of Grind coz the heavy gore putridity
doesn't turn me on most of the time, and some grinding moments aren't
far from noise. All the more some passages sound like confusion.
Not very tight and rather chaotic, but it's a first demo. I think
it's an average/ very average demo with decent vocals and few cool
riffs. Some tracks & riffs really waste the intensity. Boring.
But
those who enjoy the perverse crass emanating from the chaotic production
of a raw Grindgore demo might get into this! While I know these
chaotic stuffs would be annoying for some those who need it straight
to the point and catchy as hell, some underground noise junkies
might get into WHORETORN...
http://whoretorn.free.f
WORLD
OF SHIT (Usa) World of shit Demo'05.
What happens in
there?
This is quite ultra brutal sounding stuff, between brutal
death, power violence, grindcore; all mixed with a lot of screams
and many riffs changes.
The riffing is both technical, powerchorded,
or sometimes discarding (DISCORDANCE AXIS and some NAPALM DEATH)
and sounds quite chaotic coz of the overdosed on overdrive production
and accumulation of many riffs.
I can't say some riffs branded
my brain, since it didn't, and and it's quite too much things at
the same time for me, but it sounds more extreme than most of current
demos!
Nothing for the anal masqueraiders queering for the comeback
of glam in the emopop! Ah Ah! Beware if you love it mellowdick,
because WORLD OF SHIT will probably fist-fuck your lazy consciousness!
Ah!
Nothing special enough in my hears, but some fans of modern
extremity might get a grip.
http://worldofshit.org
WORMRIDDEN
(Can/ Jap) Infesting the grave Demo tape. 2012. EXTREMELY ROTTEN
Recs.
Once you have swallowed too many coffins, you have
to brutally vomit it back (And generally it occurs a morbid way).
But
you're not always able to belch the tomb, and sometimes it's needed
to stitch the lying members resulting from a brutal cadaveric implosion...
So
the WORMRIDDEN corpse was recomposed from the decrepiting fingers
of UNDERGANG, the trembling legs and the gore throat of ANATOMIA...
(This might remind you our old friend Mr Fankenstein, but in this
case the "Frankenstench" moniker sounds more adequately
putrid)
The music is an underground and quite fucked mixture
between old Death metal and Doom (The monolithic way). The doomy
parts are super heavy, almost drifting in nothingness, something
like WINTER but less boring. The Death metal parts are simple: Sometimes
fast, sometimes mid-paced, most of it reeks somewhere in the lands
of (Simpler) old AUTOPSY and early GRAVE (First two albums). One
could also hear a bit of ROTTREVORE ("Iniquitous"), few
downtuned riffs à la CREMATORY (Swe), a few doomy mysterious
riffs in the old finnish way, or a little of ABSCESS (In their
most Death metal days). The production is tremendously downtuned
and there are low pitched vocals of gore and morbid anger...
But
wait a morbid minute, there are things that would need improvement:
The drums could be more appealing (Rather in some fast parts), some
riffs are a bit too simple... And this is a short demo (Only 2 songs).
Last
line: Even thought it's a subproject, and it can be felt in the
way songs are composed for exemple, WORMRIDDEN contains more undead
body parts than some professional bands who released some albums...
Not bad for a project. Pay a bit more attention to the composition,
give us a few more songs, and with the second demo we would be able
to say "The undead will feast".
http://wormridden.bandcamp.com
WRITHING
(Usa) Indomitable Demo 2012.
The wombotomy keeps on going.
Your creativity is reduced to concrete, sucked to dry, and what
you need is a cool Death metal recording to resurrect what remains
of the living.
After some searches on the blogs, and eating quite
an amount of dryness and suckness increasing recordings, I found
this demo of WRITHING which is quite worth a review.
What you
hear is decent American Death metal located between the fast and
heavier tendencies of the genre... Since this is very short to describe
the content, I will say the sounds remind me of mid old MALEVOLENT
CREATION ("Eternal" or the fast songs from "The fine
art of murder") and later MORTA SKULD (For the heaviness and
quite big sound (For the time)).
There's an obvious MORBID ANGEL
influence from here and there (Gateways/ Domination), in double
kicks parts and for some guitar arrangements. Some peoples could
hear a little of BRUTALITY (2nd and third albums) by moments even
if the style is less technical and colored... The first and last
song has black metal influences à la old DARK FUNERAL
Some riffs
are cool and fit the morissounding death-metallisation of once,
there are quite good sounding fast or heavy parts, while some guitars
would need a little more of work to please me.
I also regret
the drums sound a bit too clean in the playing, I'm not talking
about the production which fits the criterias of the genre, I would
have liked few playing surprises à la Dave Culross.
It seems
to me WRITHING is on the right way to record some quite morissoundingly
cool songs, I think they would need to inject a bit more of life
or "style" in the playing from here and there.
This
demo is a decent recording and could please fans of mid old
American Death metal with both blasting and heavier parts.
http://www.reverbnation.com/writhingdetroit
