DEADLOCK
- ''I'll wake you, when spring awakes'' MCD
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When
I first saw lay-out of this digipack CD I was totally entraced and
of course I couldn't leave without bought it. It's amazing how much
can lay-out like this one influence on some people. Well, Deadlock
seems to be a new band from Germany coming out on a label that I
never herd of it before. They play pretty fast technical metallic
hc ala Morning again or Arkangel. Music is in my opinion very psychodelical
and chaotic and it's not a good thing to listen if you have a headache.
I don't know where this guys so hurry? All this crazy riffs would
sound much better if they would have played just a little more slowlier.
Their lyrics are pretty cool - mysterious, emotional and dark. |
CHISPA
- ''Obstinator'' 7''
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This
7'' gives you a few minutes of totally insane craziness. But you have
to see this kids playing live. I must say they are the most crazy
live band I have even saw. Really awesome! Their music is some kind
of mixture between German emocore and San Diego style hardcore. It's
pretty cool actually because I like this much more than any other
San Diego styled band. There is a lot of hard hits and plenty of super
fast and messy riffs in every song and than of a sudden they come
out with a cool beautiful ''emocore'' part. Really diverse and original
stuff! Lyrics are something special too. They fit perfectly with their
music! Short, political and written in a kind of strange way. I'm
wondering if they stole title of the song ''Iskra'' from Slovenian
dictionary? PER KORO RECORDS, FEHRFELD 26, 28203 BREMEN, GERMANY perkoro@aol.com http://www.perkoro.de/ |
RED SKY - ''mpfw'' CD
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This
is second full-length by this American metal/hc band. In the most
parts are second albums more mature and especially better than the
first one. This release is no exception. The music is faster, more
metal and even more brutal... fuck there is almost no easy riffs!
Otherwise, like I wasn't listening to their first album I'm not listening
to this one that often. I Don't know - they have this style of playing
which is not really my thing. I'm pointing at guitar riffs here! But
on the other side this is probably the main key for the scary atmosphere
in their music. Their lyrisc either don't seem nothing special to
me. Ow yeah...and I have to mention that they have two singers - one
is screaming and the other has this low vocal, like we meet in German
bands. Well, this is their best stuff, but still not that good to
drag my attention! ALVERAN RECORDS, PO BOX 10 01 52, 44701 BOCHUM, GERMANY king@alveranrecords.com http://www.alveranrecords.com/ www.redskymetal.com |
TO DIE FOR/ ENGRAVE - ''All the passion to keep you moving'' 10''
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I
think this two young European bands To die for from Italy and Engrave
from Germany are great couple for sharing this album. Both bands play
metallic new school HC and both bands have great, smart and educational
lyrics! For example Engrave lyrics talks about media, capitalism and
consecutions of both, love as a sense of life and ideas like try to
find yourself. There are also explanations for every song, which are
of course extra points for this band. Great live band! To die for
are not as fast as Engrave but they have more break downs and distorted
parts. Their lyrics are very good written but it's kind of hard for
me to define them on the appointed subjects, so it would be a good
think if they would have wrote explanations as their dudes did. I
like this record! DEFIANCE REC., RITTERSTRASSE 50, 50668 KOLN, GERMANY defiancerecords@aol.com http://surf.to/engrave |
SHORA - ''Shaping the random'' MCD
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I
foreseeing this is pretty young band coming from Switzerland to level
everything with the ground. Very heavy, aggressive, chaotic and noisy
HC with high doze of metal + some grind outbursts. If you put together
Coalesce, Acme and Soar you get something reflecting with Shora sound.
Lyrics are short and pretty hard to understand. Emotional thing! Heavy,
heavy, heavy... GRAVE ROMANCE RECORDS, MARIE - CURIE - HOEHE 24 - 26, 66740 SAARLOUIS, GERMANY xpatromancex@nikocity.de www.graveromance.de www.shora.com |
FRAGMENT - ''Answers'' MCD
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This
it second CD by this American metallic oriented HC band. I must say
that I expected much more than this album can give me. Musically it's
somewhere between Overcast and Fault. Especially their grove monstrous
singer voice reminds me on Fault. And since this two bands are both
average to me, also Fragment can't escape. Otherwise they have some
really good technically metallic peaces, some acoustic parts and sometimes
good singing parts. But there are lots of things that could be done
better. They have also a musical song with violin and piano which
reminds me on Richard Clyderman. Themes in lyrics are pretty monotonous
and I think I had met that kind of lyrics in old school bands - distrust,
lost friendship and stuff. But if you look at the bright side this
lyrics probably give you more than all this evil style lyrics so often
encountered these days by metal/HC bands. Nice packaging! VOICE OF LIFE RECORDS, P.O. BOX 1137, 04701 LEISNIG, GERMANY voiceoflife@bigfoot.com www.voiceoflife.de http://xxxfragment.tripod.com http://fragmentmetal.com |
WALLS OF JERICHO - ''The bound feed the gagged'' CD
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First
I have to mention extremely beautiful lay-out, but you are probably
more interested in anything else except this so let's go on. The music
is fast, intense, metallic, new schoolish HC. Music is actually nothing
special, except the enraged and screamed female vocals which totally
kick ass! I'm sure I would love this CD if I had it about 2 years
ago, but now hmm... As I said - nothing special. But there are also
lyrics which are the best thing here. There is a lot of anger and
blood in this lyrics which are mainly emotional but they also deal
with issues like equality, disappointments in life, anti-sexism...
TRUSTKILL RECORDS, 23 FARM EDGE LANE, TINTON FALLS, N.J. 07724, USA www.trustkill.com |
UNDYING - ''This day all gods die'' MCD
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Somewhere
I caught the information that there are some ex-members of Catharsis
in this band! Well, musically it doesn't fit with any song Catharsis
ever did or maybe just a little with their first full-length. I dont
know? This is almost pure metal! Technical and complicate guitar ruffs,
double bass, hellish vocal, black metal pieces and lots of other metal
tricks. Some parts reminds me on Day of suffering, but still much
more complicated. Although there is a text in the booklet which try
to explain us what kind of gods they are talking about, their lyrics
still seems very atheistic to me. Well, they are not singing about
gods we found in Bible, but they using this gods as a symbol to beliefs
and traditions. Very dark writing style and pretty similar themes
in all lyrics! But anyway, this is still a great record which I put
it often in into my CD - player! FIFTH COLUMN CONSPIRACY, PO BOX 10461, GREENSBORO, NC 27404, USA http://members.tripod.com/veganpower/ |
LASH OUT/ BURST. - split-7''
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In
front of me I'm holding a 7'' with two pretty unknown European bands.
Lash Out are from Norway and they play some kind of metallic new school
HC with rock n roll influences which it seems to be popular this days.
The music is pretty cool actually, but their singer voice really disturb
me. It reminds me on voice by Max Cavaliera. On the other side are
Burst. which musically I like much more. Burst. are from Sweden and
it seems that they have quite many stuff released out there. Strange
that I didn't heard of them before?! Their music is somewhere between
swedish style and Shai Hulud. Especially their singer voice sounds
just like as the guy in Shai Hulud. Both bands have emotional lyrics,
except that the Burst. one are written more in metal style, but I
still prefer the Lash Out one. IMPRESSION REC., PO BOX 938, 09009 CHEMNITZ, GERMANY xxximpressionxxx@bigfoot.de www.impressionrec.com |
ENGRAVE - ''s/t'' 7''
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This
is not bad at all! When I bought this 7'' I had no idea how will this
sounds like. Friend told me that this is some kind of German powerviolence
so I decided to take a few copys for the distro. Hmm... I don't see
any connection. The music is fast but definitely not powerviolence!
It's actually metallic new school HC with screaming vocal. There are
also slower parts with nice melodies that sometimes sounds like Serene!
I can't remember any name, but all together really reminds me on Swedish
new school bands. What I like the most on this 7'' are their great,
long and very well written lyrics. They are written in emotional/metal
way and they deal with personal and political problems. I like it!
DEFIANCE REC., RITTERSTRASSE 50, 50668 KOLN, GERMANY defiancerecords@aol.com http://surf.to/engrave |
