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Maldisdeun

Anti-Access World Denial

November 3rd, 2023

During documentaries about animals in the wild, when the action kicks into high gear, and the chase is on, and your blood boils in anticipation (you sicko) of the battle for survival in the merciless chaos of the jungle, there may be suspenseful classical music that evokes fright and tension, and the blood pressure increases (you sicko). What if the filmmakers chose music that itself sounded savage, just like the moving images that you are watching-contemplating fantasizing?

I submit to you, dear reader, Maldisdeun: Rotten compositions from the vermin-infested malodorous streets of Bellingham, a decaying postapocalyptic metropolis, also known as the Windy City, overrun by wild packs of hyenas and cancerous thermonuclear squirrels that poison the city's already contaminated water supply. Maldisdeun, according to Metal Archives’ ministry of propaganda, consists of Walker Eberdt (ex-Melancholia) on drums, Dan Fitzgerald on guitar and Drake (Draghkar, Kömmand, Overwrought, Serpent Rider) on bass and vocals. The album is seven songs in 48 minutes of primal death doom to represent the ruins of Bellingham, a sprawling megalopolis with skyscrapers of six, nay, seven, nay, nay, sometimes even eight stories high, and otherwise known as the Big Apple.

After hearing this album, its toxic fumes of a severed survival and of rancorous gnashing of teeth, you should make sure to stay away from the homeless raging buffaloes that flagellate Bellingham, or as some people like to call it, the City of Angels. Going for a rawer, minimalist heaviness, Maldisdeun promises to make you howl in delight, as you sit in front of your television, savoring the brutality of nature documentaries, you will growl and scream, play air guitar and air drums to the ghastly rhythms emanating from Bellingham, also known as the Mile High City. Sometimes the songs chug along, only to speed up to headbanging rhythms. The drums sound good (Let’s hope it’s the real drums of their drummer; fans don’t need another album with plastic, computerized, fake drumming). Don’t expect sugary melodies, expect unrobotized heaviness, expect quite a bit of uptempo rhythms, and here and there, you might hear a tiny bit of melodies. Know, this is not snail’s pace doom. This band does want you to bang your head and they give you plenty of reasons for doing it. Then, if you dare to enter the charred walls that surround the hills of Bellingham, a city commonly known as Azkaban, you must make your way to the town's taverns, filled with unsavory characters, located near the prison complex, in the chamber of secrets, and find your way to witness Maldisdeun with your own eyes and ears. After the show, be sure to quickly depart Bellingham, for if not, you will have to dwell forever there, incarcerated in the city walls, a prisoner in Azkaban.

Anti-Access World Denial by Maldisdeun

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Receiver - hear ye, oh brethren, the call of odysseys from Cyprus

Receiver

Whispers of Lore

Gates of Hell Records

10 November 2023

After initially hearing this album I had a good feeling about it because the music sounded real. The band says that they do not use autotune on the singing. Therefore, what we hear on the recording is meant to be the real voice of Nikoletta Kyprianou. That's the sensation I got, that she is singing naturally with her own voice, and I like the sound of it. In fact, the music sounds like the band wants to be able to perform these songs live in a faithful way. For instance, listeners will notice that the rhythm section is vibrant, the bass lines are clear and the drums do all sorts of interesting details, when a drummer employs all four extremities for the craft. Metal Archives lists Loizos Koukoumas on bass and Yiannis Xanthou on drums (the band says that these are real drums, too), a rhythm team that provides the anchor for guitarists Charalambos Vassiliou and Andreas Kyriacou.

On the topic of riffs and leads, while there are lots of riffs for headbanging, there is also a specific melodic strain in the guitars, melodies that Thin Lizzy/Iron Maiden/classic rock fans will enjoy. In other words, while there is a crunch to the riffs, it is not all crunch and muscle, a song like "Arrow" is so smooth in its melodies, which the band calls folk melodies. Thus, Receiver uses "folk" melodies in the sense that the smooth melodies of Thin Lizzy, UFO, Boston, 80s Omen (U.S.; Metal Blade Records), some Manilla Road or some Iron Maiden are "folk." Lyrically, they work with concepts that read like stories or poems of personal or collective struggles, while keeping the IQ level good for all audiences, regardless of age, which metal parents with children will appreciate, as they are able to play this music as general entertainment. To conclude, in the eastern Mediterranean Sea there is the island nation of Cyprus, there in the city of Nicosia, you will find Receiver. If you, like Odysseus a long time ago, find that sailing to Cyprus is a difficult endeavor right now from where you live in boondocks of Walla Walla, this album is a fantastic alternative to witnessing Receiver rocking out in the bars of Nicosia.

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Voided Reality - metalcore from the U.S.

Voided Reality is a metalcore band from from Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. So far, Metal Archives shows a song from 2019 and an EP from 2021 called Hate Culture. Their sound is between metalcore and deathcore, probably a bit heavier than metalcore, but they focus more on some headbanging parts, like the sounds of thrash and death, and do not go for the all-out breakdown of deathcore. For instance, while it is true some metalcore fans may like this sound, some Pantera fans might like the attitude and groove of this music. The vocals and instrumentation certainly have that U.S. groove sound, especially the "angry-man" style of heavy sound. Anyway, it is not clear from Metal Archives, Bandcamp or Facebook if there is newer music, but this 2021 EP provides a pretty good demonstration of their characterics in the six songs in 24 minutes.

Hate Culture: Reloaded by Voided Reality

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Elegy of Madness - Broken Soul (official music video)

Below is the video for the Elegy of Madness song "Broken Soul" from the October 20th, 2023 album XI. Active since 2006, XI is their fifth album and it marks the debut of their new singer Kyrah Aylin (Chiara Di Mare). The video below is a pretty good representation of the band's neosymphonic sound with gothic elements and operatic singing. Some of the songs lean more in the direction of neosymphonic elements, while others showcase the singing, demonstrating that they are happy to convince the longtime fans who have been wondering about the future of the Italian band. There are other interesting details to notice on the album: a bit of blasting speed, some lush passages, and a tiny bit of growled vocals in some spots, and other small spices sprinkled throughout the album. The lyrics, coupled with the music, read like gothic poetry. Amazon Music does not register that there are explicit or curse words, and I have read the lyrics, and they deal with a type of fantasy/sinister setting that fits the music. There is only word that is a curse word on the album: "I don't give a damn." Overall, this is an album that you can play in your car while driving the little ones to basketball practice and games and let them hear some metal music.

Elegy of Madness

XI

Scarlet Records

20 October 2023

ELEGY OF MADNESS - Broken Soul (official music video)

XI by Elegy Of Madness

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Xoth - the final countdown to the fourth mission has begun

Xoth

Exogalactic

Dawnbreed Records

3 November 2023

After their third mission some four years ago, it was not clear that they would procure more fuel for future exploratory voyages, given the amount of energy and resources necessary to power up Xoth missions. Somehow they located a new source of fuel, at great expense, of course, but the spacecraft has launched its fourth mission. The velocities achieved on this new mission are quite fast, often blasting through, enough to reach warp speed, a range that they like to engage as a modus operandi, but not exclusively, considering the number of stops that they need to make on their way to their destination. Xoth originates from the planet Deathrash, and of which they are proud. Nevertheless, on their journeys they have discovered some new interesting sources of fuel that these explorers have found useful. For instance, the planet Shred has provided them a constant source of boosters that make segments of their journey a lot smoother. They speak the language of the inhabitants of Shred, and at times they would be able to communicate with tribes like the Dragonforcians or the Vanhalians, if Xoth needed to. Xoth functions at a few different dimensions from other Deathrasians because they use the low frequencies at considerably larger quantities than life forms are accustomed to, especially from this particular race, the Deathrasians, often known for other traits like the ability to blast and a forceful approach to their missions but who are often not very capable with other traits. Perhaps it is this characteristic about Xoth that makes them so indefatigable: their adaptability to thrive in a wide variety of planets on their way to their destination on their fourth mission, their most successful yet.

Exogalactic by Xoth

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