out now: Neorhythm -- Mudvayne-loving groove extreme metal from Russia

You know it when you hear it. That thick guitar tone, the chugga-chug-chug grooves, and those down rhythms that have made generations of American fans jump into mosh pits and sometimes do martial arts moves. Neorhythm uses those sounds effectively, practically daring the listener to move, jump, and punch the air, and do everything that is sparked in the brain by the simple, fat low-string plucking. Imagine the grooves of nu-metal/rap rock, 90s groove Pantera/Fear Factory/Sepultura/Machine Head, put it all together with a bit of the death metal elements, and you got yourself a nice little party in a bottle. Neorhythm seems to know what they are doing. Therefore, you can bet all your Super Bowl tortilla chips on the fact that Neorhythm did not just accidentally begin their song "Lies" with a very Mudvayne vibe. The beginning of the song must be a big tribute to Mudvayne's 20-year-old song "Dig," which apparently has more than 40 million views on YouTube. Neorhythm's vocals are in Russian, but that does not matter because it's not like we would be able to understand the growling and screaming if it were in English or Martian or Vulcan anyway. Below is the official propaganda about the music. -Metal Bulletin Zine

ABOUT Neorhythm: Prolific duo NEORHYTHM are set to release new EP Evils. As a conceptual link between Terrastory and the next full-length album, the band pesents new EP Evils, sung completely in Russian language. Having studied the history of Planet Earth and all mankind in large stages, it became interesting for the duo to consider poetically and musically the vile animal features of a particular human society, which entailed much of the terror that our whole history has undergone, highlighting in this work the main mortal sins of people, precisely in the band's own interpretation of this concept. “Evils” are the duo's tablets. Evils is about our common vices, internal and external, each of us individually and of society, as a whole, haunting all civilizations from the beginning of time and, probably, never erasable, because such is our dual nature. Musically, NEORHYTHM can be described as a mixture of metal genres such as Groove, Death, Math, Thrash and Progressive Metal, which may resemble in various ways bands like Gojira, Pantera, Death, Mudvayne, Meshuggah, and Mnemic.The band uses different languages of Planet Earth in their lyrics (English, Russian, Latin, Volapuk, Ancient Greek).

Duo NEORHYTHM originates in 2017 in Lapland. Two researchers begin their creative narration in June 2018 with the album Zetetic, containing cosmological and futuristic themes, as well as the themes of general galactic values of a philosophical plan. A continuation of this work in November of the same year was the mini-album Meteoric Thoughts, which musically and lyrically completed the theme of the debut album. Subsequently, the band decided to continue and develop with each next release their own ontological concept of studying the World and Man. The next album Terrastory, released in March 2020, completely dedicated to the Planet Earth and in stages tells the entire history of the Earth and mankind, reflecting different eras and civilizations, lyrically and musically. Man and the study of sociology and psychology of human society became the subject of the next releases.

Язы​/​Evils by Neorhythm