Thursday, February 26, 2015
new issue of Metal Bulletin Zine: number 51
Metal Bulletin Zine is a metal music zine that you can read online and download for free as a PDF. The newest issue is available here:
www.fuglymaniacs.com
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Sunday, February 22, 2015
free album: Anarchadia: anarchist metal from Syria
Anarchadia
anarchist metal from Syria
free album
www.anarchadiaband.bandcamp.com
Saturday, February 21, 2015
free EP of black metal from Argentina: CAPGRASS
Capgrass (Argentina) black metal
This EP sounds very good, and sounds perfect for when you want black metal. They way they play those riffs, they sound positively unhappy and cold. The shrieking sounds great, too. Listen today!
www.capgrass.bandcamp.com/releases
www.facebook.com/Capgrass
free album of black metal Brudywr (Russia) black metal
Brudywr (Russia) black metal
It just so happens that the drummer from Heresiarkhes, has a one-person black metal project that has some eight albums and some five EPs! The first album is from 2010 and some years he has released two albums. For instance, in 2014 he released two albums, and this one right here, “Melancholia,” is a 43-minute, nine-track album. Brudywr is a bit more symphonic black metal. I tell you one thing, though: from the beginning it is quite clear that the album is good. The shrieking-snarl sounds great, the melodies sare melancholic/sad, the music is uptempo, the grimness is inevitable. The black metal audience must investigate who is Brudywr. Good album!
www.brudywr.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/Brudywr
free black metal Heresiarkhes
Heresiarkhes (Russia) black metal
“Unholy Heresies” is the name of this 25-minute, five-song demo. Overall, this is traditional black metal, of grimness. The band is not a one-speed band, and can go fast or slow down, depending on the context of the song. If you want to hear a new band and you like black metal, this is worth looking into.
www.heresiarkhes.bandcamp.com/releases
www.facebook.com/pages/Heresiarkhes/304721093063921
free metal: Freedomination (Finland) heavy/thrash metal
Freedomination (Finland) heavy/thrash metal
This 3-song, 18-minute EP shows a good ability to write a song that you can understand quickly, if you like traditional heavy metal and thrash. The band is closer to heavy metal than thrash, but they use some thrashy riffs. The use of big-chorus, fists-in-the-air, sing-along songs demonstrates that they want the songs to connect with the listener quickly. The singer has a cool midrange voice that just about anyone will like. It’s just good singing, and with no funny/strange traits; good shredding/soloing, too. Very nice EP, indeed. Bang your head.
www.freedomination.bandcamp.com/releases
www.facebook.com/Freedominationband
the fantasy metal of WIND ROSE
Wind Rose (Italy): Wardens of the West Wind (Scarlet Records)
Rhapsody (both of them!) and Blind Guardian better watch out because there is a monster that is lurking behind them, it is a new monster, awaiting the right time to usurp the throne, and this new monster means business. Fanatics into epic-majestic heavy metal are about to get it right in the face: Wind Rose!
Wind Rose’s album sounds like a metal opera, in the sense that it is meant to be big: perfect for movies like Lord of the Rings: metal music to conquer the hearts of the summer festivals all over Europe. Whether it is Oktoberfest or not, Wind Rose makes the metal to celebrate the fantasy of the past and the myths. The background choruses sound like it is a thousand men singing film score metal, the mission of Wind Rose: solid production, big-time fantasy metal.
Those videos that you see of thousands and thousands of Germans singing along to power metal songs at festivals is the crowds that Wind Rose seeks to favor. Will Germany notice this band? Then, the rest of Europe, and then Japan and maybe Brazil will follow. If the words epic, battle, fantasy metal mean something important to you, then I recommend giving your attention to this band. I think you will agree that this album is very good for this particular style of metal music.
www.bakerteamrecords.com
www.facebook.com/windroseofficial
www.windroseofficial.com
WIND ROSE - 'Rebel And Free' Official Video
the primal death metal of EXOTO
Exoto (Belgium): Beyond the Depths of Hate (Vic Records)
Vic Records recently has been releasing some interesting death metal bands that have been ignored by the metal press. Exoto is a death metal band from Belgium that was reactivated in 2013. Exoto’s origins are from the late 80s, and the band recorded demos in 1990, 1991 and 1992, which were followed by an album in 1994 and another album in 1995. They seem to have broken up sometime after that second album.
This album here is called “Beyond the Depths of Hate” and Exoto has re-recorded the old songs from the 90s. Overall, Exoto plays primal classic-style death metal that comes from the old and early days of the genre, a sound that speaks directly to those that recognize the feel and sound of the old times. It is in the sound and song arrangements that you can hear the difference of this band, which sounds more mature, confident and experienced, traits that come from having been around the block a time or two.
This album provides such a good introduction, or a new introduction of Exoto, to the death metal audience. Never having heard Exoto before, nor even remembering ever seeing the name in print anywhere, I was curious about how these songs would sound. At times, it seems like late 80s death metal, such as bands from Florida, is found in these songs, but one could just as easily point out that classic death metal from Holland is a good point of reference, too. Whatever the specifics of the case may be, one thing is for sure: Exoto has returned to complete unfinished business from the 90s, and they sound ready-made for the crowds that support death metal, the old and original way. Exoto is for you if you are into old Death, Obituary, Massacre, Master, Sinister, Pestilence, Pentacle, so on and so forth. Or, if you like a band like Gravehill, you should find lots to like about Exoto, too.
The band is calling this recording a “farewell album,” so maybe this is it for real this time. No more Exoto after this?
www.facebook.com/pages/Exoto/415058545194901
www.vicrecords.com
Exoto - Beyond the Depths of Hate
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
new TRAUMA - When I Die (PURE STEEL RECORDS)
"The American Power Metal-band TRAUMA should be known to quite a few Heavy Metal-enthusiasts out there through their contribution to the “Metal Massacre”-sampler and the release of their 1984 debut album “Scratch And Scream”. By the way, the late, great Cliff Burton played bass on their first demo recording... Now, after three decades, the band from California have decided to give it another go! TRAUMA has returned to deliver more face-melting Heavy Metal unto the hungry masses! Ladies and gentlemen, we from Pure Steel are proud to present you “Rapture And Wrath”, their first album in thirty years!"
free album: EMPEROR OF MYSELF (Greece)
Emperor Of Myself
melodic death/gothic metal
full album free/name your price
wwww.emperorofmyself.bandcamp.com
Monday, February 16, 2015
SAMARA: doom from Seattle
SAMARA
doom from Seattle says:
"AT LONG LAST! Our long-awaited demo is being unleashed. www.samaraband.bandcamp.com/releases "
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