https://www.facebook.com/pages/Grind-Chachacha/160323300810050
http://www.reverbnation.com/grindchachacha
Friday, December 26, 2014
free downloads: grind from Indonesia: Grind Chachacha - Green Zone (Official Video)
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http://www.reverbnation.com/grindchachacha
Thursday, December 25, 2014
NEWS: Euro power metal: Nocturna (U.K.): Lucidity EP
Nocturna (U.K.): Lucidity EP
Nocturna’s debut EP called “Lucidity” will be released on February 17, 2015.
Nocturna is melodic Euro upbeat, sing-along symphonic power metal. Things are looking positive for the band and they hope that the melodic power metal audience gives them a chance. People into a band like Stratovarius would be the logical target audience. They have a video for the song “Revelations” on YouTube.
www.facebook.com/nocturnametal
www.soundcloud.com/nocturnametal
Nocturna - Revelations (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO 2014)
new issue Metal Bulletin Zine: number 48
new Metal Bulletin Zine
number 48
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metal music zine: Decibel, Vanguard!, Valhalla, TNT, Encoffination, Giant of the Mountain, Nivlhel, Murderline, Scourge, In Aevum Agere, Malpractice, Skinflint,Johnny Touch, Convent Guilt, Osmium Guillotine, Mausoleum Gate, Brimstone Coven, Void Ritual, Decay Crawler, Negativvm, Faeton, Bolzer, Chainbreaker, Predatory Light, Castle Freak, Yellow Eyes
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
the death metal of Valhalla (Brazil)
Valhalla (Brazil): Evil Fills Me
Valhalla is blasting, guttural death metal from Brazil whose origins date back to 1988. Currently the band is made up three sisters and their most recent work is the 2014 EP “Evil Fills Me.” Valhalla believes in playing direct death metal, the same way that a band like Cannibal Corpse is not trying to fool anyone by pretending to be anything other than death metal. You can tell Valhalla takes pride in their music. They sound like professionals. When can we get this band to play in the U.S.? People like death metal in the U.S., right? I think Cannibal Corpse, Deicide, Suffocation and Malevolent Creation aficionados would love to get injured in a mosh pit during songs by Valhalla.
www.facebook.com/pages/Valhalla-Female-Death-Metal/194092070603675
Valhalla-Evil Fills Me
the death metal of Murderline (Mexico)
Murderline (Mexico)
Murderline has three songs of straightforward, no-nonsense death metal on its Facebook page. They appear to have only a demo so far, but it’s promising, serious death metal. The current members of the band are Alejandra, Pishi and Skwisgaar. Look this band up if you like upfront, proud death metal.
www.facebook.com/pages/MURDERLINE/504059236389372
prog death metal from Argentina: DEVIUS
If you are looking for a bit of prog and death metal combination, here is Devius from Argentina.
www.devius.bandcamp.com/album/devius-the-absents-presence
www.facebook.com/DeviusDeathMetal
high quality power metal from Argentina: DEUS X MACHINA
If you are looking for professional, skilled, talented and serious power metal, then do not pass this band up.
Get ready for some high singing, power metal style!
www.facebook.com/DXMetal/app_2405167945
free grind from Argentina: Destroy The Humans
It's blasting fast and it's against the human race.
Grind with hatred from Argentina.
www.destroythehumans.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/pages/DestroyTheHumans/336860296398979
mutant metal punks from Washington state: Vanguard!
Vanguard!
Metal Bulletin Zine is late to the party of these barbarian heavy metal punks who stalk the gutters, backstreets and sewers of the post-apocalyptic desert mountain forests of the city of Olympia, Washington. Vanguard! sounds like it was recorded with a tape deck in a garage no later than 1987, although it is actually from 2012, it seems. This band hates the modern robot metal music and wants to return to the ages of the mutant motorcycle gang rock n’ roll metal punk of the future epoch.
www.realvanguard.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/pages/Vanguard-Olympia/145002718938658
stoner doom from Washington state: Decibel
Decibel
Metal Archives says that Decibel is a one-person project from the state of Washington, but there is not much information yet. Trevor Brown apparently has three albums in 2014 and this music is available for free/name your price. The album “Plague,” for instance, sounds like really heavy stoner doom with growled vocals. If you like the heavy, plodding sounds of one-person projects, look into this Castle Rock, Washington band.
www.trevorbrown.bandcamp.com
Email: decibelsludge@gmail.com
Monday, December 22, 2014
heavy metal: SKINFLINT (Botswana): Nyemba (Pure Steel Records)
Skinflint (Botswana): Nyemba (Pure Steel Records)
Skinflint is a traditional heavy metal band from Botswana, a band that records its music in such a way that, as much as possible, what the listener hears, is what the band recorded. The band’s philosophy, more or less, is to play the music so that the listener can hear the drums, the bass, the guitar and vocals clearly. It is a type of rebellion against the perfectionist/clicky sounds of so much metal music. Skinflint is critical of drummers that do not actually play the parts heard on the recording, critical of programmed/modified/repaired drums with sampled drums; critical of bands with highly processed vocals, vocal effects, vocal corrections, so on and so forth. Skinflint does not want to be like those bands that sound perfect on the recording, then you see them live and you feel disappointed because it sounds like a different band altogether due to “the studio magic.”
Skinflint’s approach has not been understood well in some quarters. Some people have said some condescending things about Skinflint, that this African band needs to be educated in a so-called proper studio in Europe or the U.S.; some people have also made racist comments about the band, so the level of ignorance can go rather high in some cases. Yet, Skinflint is not some young or insecure or confused band. Skinflint was formed about 2006. Including this 2014 album called “Nyemba,” the band now has at least four full-length albums, plus a couple of EPs, and some singles, and possibly other recordings that have not yet been published. I have not heard all of Skinflint’s recorded output, but I do have the 2010 album “Iklwa,” the 2011 EP “Gauna,” the 2012 album “Dipoko,” and this new one. The band has consistently followed its principles about recording metal music. Each album sounds fresh, genuine, transparent, and clear in sound, with certain values that at times recall the direct, less-tricks production of “No Prayer for the Dying”-era Iron Maiden (but, for instance, not the more glossy “Somewhere in Time”/“Seventh Son of a Seventh Son”); at other times, you might think of late 70s/early 80s heavy metal recordings; still, at some moments, you might detect early Led Zeppelin/Deep Purple/Black Sabbath aesthetic values of not overcrowding the song with outside distractions, a bit more upfront, and that don’t-overdo-it-in-the-studio sound.
Unfortunately for Skinflint, some people have strongly disliked the band’s traditional recording values for heavy metal and have gone out of their way to insult the band, but the band makes highly interesting music. Every time a new album is published I am reminded of what a gem the band is. It seems to me that the band’s songwriting has expanded a bit, like the band is letting the songs breathe even more now. They sound further along into the Skinflint style of metal, of recording and of writing songs. The vocalist/guitarist Giuseppe “Juice” has semi-growled vocals but in an intelligible way, while the guitars explore melody, upbeat riffs, a bit of doom, even tiny bits of the Zep/Purple/Sabbath blues in selected spots. The bassist Kebonye “Raskebo” always finds creative ways to make himself heard, working in unison with Sandra “Fire” and her steady, heartbeat-of-the-band sound and her feel for keeping a song in vibe. In short, Skinflint has done it again. Remember that the first time listening to the band might require you to adjust your mind to a band playing metal that sounds more honest. Who knows, you might start to hear metal in a new way, too, maybe.
www.puresteel-records.com
www.facebook.com/SKINFLINTMETAL
www.skinflintmetal.com
Skinflint - Veya
FREE black metal albums: NEGATIVVM (Germany)
Negativvm (Germany)
Negativvm is a red-leaning, anti-consumer society, anti-sexism/racism German-language black metal band from Germany that has its music available for free. They have three albums at the link below. The first album is from 2011, the second one is a live album from 2012 and the third one is called “Hvngerkvnst” from 2013, an album that’s about 50 minutes of rather serious black metal that’s looking for listeners of an intellectual mind.
www.negativvm.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/Negativvm
FREE black metal album: DECAY CRAWLER (Missouri, U.S.)
Decay Crawler (U.S): Black Dream
This album is actually from 2013, but it is worthwhile looking into, if you like black metal because this band has strong opinions about modern metal. The band says that they play “rock n’ roll for the dark ear. Features real drums, real amps, vocals without effects. What we played is what you’re hearing. No gimmicks or robot instruments.” If you hate dishonesty in metal music, you probably will find Decay Crawler to be your kind of black metal, raw black metal. Decay Crawler is from Missouri, U.S., and has been active since 2011.
www.decaycrawler.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/decaycrawler
Saturday, December 20, 2014
the "horror metal" of CADAVERIA
Cadaveria (Italy): Silence (Scarlet Records)Cadaveria the band started in 2001, after Cadaveria the vocalist and Flegias the drummer departed the gothic/melodic black metal band Opera IX (Flegias is also since 1998 the vocalist for veteran thrashers Necrodeath). “Silence” is Cadaveria’s fifth album, and this 2014 album follows 2012’s “Horror Metal,” which is also the self-assigned term that Cadaveria uses to describe its music. As to this album, the band has taken a major step towards a sound that seems more identifiable as its own. Part groove metal, part uptempo gothic metal, and part melodic metal, “Silence” coherently holds together a bit of variety of songs. The band shows a sensitivity to writing memorable songs, and a song like “Carnival of Doom” is a probably a song that this band could close concerts with. I would think that this track would be a favorite amongst followers of the band, given the catchy nature of the tune. However, it’s not just one song that is that way; the complete album flows well and it looks like the band has found its way towards establishing an atmosphere for the album and for the band’s own sound of groove-focused “horror metal.” Cadaveria the vocalist has become very capable, going from dark metal screaming snarls to melancholic/melodic gothic metal vocals, which takes the band’s sounds into various areas rather smoothly, not to mention that the musicianship itself transitions easily from one segment to the next. Overall, “Silence” is one savvy album that seems primed for success in the European market for modern, catchy “extreme metal” from Dimmu Borgir to Arch Enemy to gothic metal. www.scarletrecords.it www.facebook.com/cadaveria Cadaveria: Carnival of Doom
Friday, December 19, 2014
the excellence of: Einherjer (Norway): Av oss, for oss (Indie Recordings)
Einherjer (Norway): Av oss, for oss (Indie Recordings)
Einherjer’s excellent melodic, midtempo “pagan”/“viking”/folk metal causes diametrically opposed reactions in some circles. Now, the negative views on this album, as well as past albums, focus on some recurring themes. Perhaps the biggest one is that some listeners do not like that Einherjer does no blasting; the music stays midtempo/uptempo throughout, and at no time does the band launch into fast music. Related to this issue, Einherjer is seen as not “extreme” enough because the band insists on sticking with the midtempo/uptempo style.
In some ways, it is necessary to call this Einherjer MKII, the Einherjer of 2008-present. The 1993-2004 version of the band was known for changing styles from album to album, which also caused frustration for some listeners. Nowadays the band has settled into a midtempo/uptempo style with growled vocals that emphasizes big riffs and melodies.
To the point: this is one of the best albums that I have heard in 2014 for its creativity and its difference. It is refreshing to hear Einherjer stay the course of their style and hear them grow as songwriters through the art of making memorable music that is rather devoid of formulaic expectations, like speed to please some short-attention-span public. Einherjer is digging deeper, cultivating the post-2008 musical direction of somber-yet-memorable “viking metal,” which is folk metal with prog elements.
It is plain to see that some people cannot get it out of their heads that Einherjer is its own sound, its own band, and that to compare Einherjer to Enslaved, Bathory, Moonsorrow or some other band is asinine. It is as if some people are upset that Einherjer has not called up Moonsorrow or Enslaved on the phone and consulted with those bands. “I don’t like Einherjer because it is different from Moonsorrow” is not an observant way to assess this album, yet it is an “accusation” thrown at the band. Supposedly, there is much better “viking metal” out there. It does not enter some people’s heads that the members of Einherjer know what they want. This is what they do, and they happen to be very good at it.
Einherjer has become more confident in its style and more consistent in the projection of the desired atmosphere. Nowadays the band sounds very experienced, skilled and knowledgeable about how the music should be. The band does not lean on any crutches, like playing fast, and it appears that any sense of trying to be more successful-popular through being more aware of the times-trends is gone for good, and what remains is grown, adult men with realistic expectations about the eventual popularity of their somber/prog/folk Norwegian-language music for intelligent listeners that know that some metal takes time to understand, and takes even longer for the band to make.
www.facebook.com/einherjermusic
www.einherjer.com
www.indierecordings.no
EINHERJER - NIDSTONG (Official music video)
FREE EP of heavy metal in Russian: FAETON (Russia): На небе и на земле
Faeton (Russia): На небе и на земле (2014)
This is upbeat, rocking heavy metal EP in Russian, played in an old school way.
1. Фаэтон 04:13
2. Ты была солнцем 04:01
3. Сто дорог 05:16
4. Царица льдов 04:20
5. Легенда о Фаэтоне 04:48
6. Ангел 04:01
TOTAL TIME 26:39
www.faeton.bandcamp.com/releases
FREE EP of doom rock heavy metal: VIOLENZIA (Austria): Krampusspiel
VIOLENZIA wants you to hear their do-it-yourself take of doom rock metal in German. This is the info about the EP and you can stream and download it for free/name your price.
VIOLENZIA: Krampusspiel
1. Einzug 02:57
2. Der Schmied 03:57
3. Der Tod 02:25
4. Lügenteufel 03:35
5. Eheteufel 03:37
6. Habgierteufel 02:58
7. Luzifer 02:36
8. Freilauf
TOTAL TIME 22:05
www.violenzia.bandcamp.com/releases
www.facebook.com/Violenzia512
the neo-NWOBHM sounds of: Mausoleum Gate (Finland): Mausoleum Gate
Mausoleum Gate (Finland): Mausoleum Gate
This 40-minute album is from 2014, but don’t be surprised if it sounds perfect to go with all those New Wave of British Heavy Metal albums in your collection. Obscure, cult traditional heavy metal that will go straight to your memory is what Mausoleum Gate practices and preaches. What band influences you hear will depend on your frame of reference for late 70s and early 80s metal. At times Mausoleum Gate might recall the faster riffing of Raven, at other times the obscurantist feel of Witchfynde, and other times the band’s sound goes back even further with the Hammond organ to Uriah Heep and Deep Purple and similar organ sounds.
If you want to debate which NWOBHM band is a more direct influence, sure, that would be fun, but not today though, because the year is about to end and Metal Bulletin Zine must get this review out today or the new year will come and I will be debating with you.
By far and away the most important information to note is that this album sounds great, the songs are memorable from the first listen, the band’s hard work is readily obvious, the skill is undeniable, and the album is tons, tons of fun. The neo-NWOBHM sounds in 2014 seem to be getting better and better. Considering the style and the vibe the band wants, this is a very good album, and I can’t think of a single thing that is not enjoyable about it. If you are old and old at heart, old in the sense of late 70s and early 80s metal and you have more than a passing interest in this music, you should consider this band. They sound like veterans of their style, way beyond good beginners. They have been doing this since 2009, and a huge reason why this band sounds like pros is their love and dedication to this heavy metal. For instance, the bass player named Wicked Ischanius is credited with bass, Hammond organ, Mellotron and synthesizer. Or for example, the singer V-P Parpula sings in this melodic-obscurantist old-time heavy metal that instantly sounds classic. This result can only happen with practice and more practice.
www.facebook.com/MausoleumGate
www.cruzdelsurmusic.com
Demon Droid
Thursday, December 18, 2014
the necro black metal of: Draconis Infernum (Singapore): The Sacrilegious Eradication (Ketzer Records)
Draconis Infernum (Singapore): The Sacrilegious Eradication (Ketzer Records)
In the forbidden underground sewer cities of ancient Singapura or Lion City in the year 3666 before the times of modernity there existed a mighty clan of necro black metal invocators who lived apart from the masses, always suspicious of the authorities and their desire to change the ways of antiquity’s guardians, with names such as Donatello and Raphael. The authorities would send messengers to the underground sewer cities and told them: Change your music so that the people respect you! The necro black metal clan and its representatives would respond: We follow the black metal ways, and not you! In time the respectable society decayed and the time was ripe for black metal to find the followers of the cult. Splinter, the master of the black metal cult predicted that the day would come.
Now, millennia later the dunes of the Lion City have for a decade been invisibly ruled by the necro black metal alliance of Draconis Infernum. In 2008 they launched “Death in My Veins,” and followed with “Rites of Desecration and Demise” in 2011. Now, in the year 2014 the new incursion is called “The Sacrilegious Eradication.” With the newest signal, Draconis Infernum pledges to maintain their allegiance to blasphemous, fast, tremolo, necro black metal. For 37 minutes Draconis Infernum wields the black metal calling out to the four points of horizon in search of the sibling souls of dedication to Thornspawn, Impiety, Sarcófago and the other ones that understand such language as invitations to enter this recondite world of metal.
www.ketzer-records.de
www.draconisinfernum.com www.draconisinfernum.com/facebook
Draconis Infernum - The Blasphemous Wrath (2014)
Sweet Nightmares the metal music show has started right now
listen live right now
Sweet Nightmares metal show has started now.
Listen live right now.
www.kpft.org
free download black metal: Ngemithan Mayith (Indonesia)- pengabdi sesat ( live )
The free dowload songs are at the link here below:
http://www.reverbnation.com/ngemithanmayith666
https://www.facebook.com/pages/NGEMITHAN-MAYITH/273446652694369
the masterful, the one and only: EDEN WEINT IM GRAB (Germany)
Eden Weint Im Grab (Germany): Geysterstunde II: Ein jenseitiges Kuriositätenkabinett (Einheit Produktionen)
It is likely that listeners into gothic/folk metal and horror metal are already aware of the excellence and elegance of Eden Weint Im Grab (“Eden Weeps In Its Grave”; also abbreviated as “EWIG”, which means “eternal”), given that the German-language band has been active since 2000, and this 2014 album makes it a total of six albums and one EP. EWIG is known for high-end works and it is along the lines of elegantly mad Bohemian metal runs the gamut of carnival, circus, folk compositions joined to violin, with components of classical music, dark metal, horror soundtracks, with themes of the night, madness, ghosts, poetry and dark romanticism.
Metal Bulletin Zine has in the past published an interview with this band’s songwriter Alexander Paul Blake’s other band Aethernaeum, a black metal band. This zine has also reviewed Aethernaeum’s forerunner, when the band was simply named Alexander Paul Blake. Therefore, it is quite a pleasure to report about the album by EWIG. Of course, the lyrics are in German and if you understand no German, really, don’t let that prejudice you against this wonderful band. This album lasts about an hour and ten minutes, which gives an idea of the mentality of the band about its own art and the work that goes into it.
EWIG prides itself in high quality songwriting and creating an art that sounds beyond the pressures of crass commercialism. To listen to the album is to embark upon a wondrous travel back to an imagined time, to imagined places where the night, madness and the spirits reside. It’s not the type of music about one song, but about the album as a complete work that demands time, and discourages “casual” listeners with short-attention spans who are not cut out to be witnesses to EWIG. As highly recommended as possible in 2014. If you are new to the band, this will be a new, exciting experience for you.
www.edenweintimgrab.de
www.facebook.com/edenweintimgrab
www.einheit-produktionen.de
Eden Weint Im Grab „Die Jenseitsflugmaschine" (Album out: 29.08.2014)
Mein geysterhaftes Grammophon
Eden Weint Im Grab"Die Sage von der weißen Frau"@BfK Magdeburg 2014
interview in German.
Nightshade - Interview mit Eden weint im Grab in Mülheim, 04.07.2014
music beyond the humans: Omnihility (U.S.): Deathscapes of the Subconcious
Omnihility (U.S.): Deathscapes of the Subconcious
The state of Oregon, U.S. has been getting the reputation for lots of stoner and doom music, as well as bands that do much to sustain the reputation of weirdness by jacking up punk rock with grind with drone with space rock with whale lunar waves rock and many other things. Those bands certainly enjoy mixing genres and confusing everyone while entertaining their audiences. Is there room in Oregon for Omnihility? Does high-speed blasting tech-metal that blinds with precision and dexterity, does that count as part of the Oregon weirdness? Back in 2010 Omnihility was just getting its name out there as a brand new entry into the world of Origin-style tech-metal. In 2012 the band had the album “Biogenesis” and in 2014 they have this new one “Deathscapes of the Subconscious.”
Omnihility is not so much tech-metal as it is music made for the future cyborgs that will rule the planet. The cyborgs will think of Omnihility as classic music when a few humans were starting to sharpen up the music to the level of speed and technicality that the machines consider “normal.” Most humans cannot keep up with these sounds because it sounds like a blur to them, but to the cyborg these songs are comprehensible: inhuman speed in drumming; wrist-breaking finger work on the guitar and monster vocals that no one can understand (when the vocalist forgets his/its lines, he/it just goes: “waarrghhhroarrrr” and it’s all good). Omnihility itself is a bunch of cyborg disguised as humans. Omnihility could be the ambassadors preparing the territory for the upcoming cyborg takeover.
This is what you listen to when you are tired of human music and all of its nonsense: play melodies because the humans like melodies; play slow because the humans are not too smart. Well, you know what, humans? Your time is finished and the cyborgs don’t care about your low standards. Keep up with the blazing speed or make way for the future. You are not needed here. Omnihility has arrived. Get down with the future or get out of the present.
www.uniqueleader.com
www.facebook.com/omnihility
Omnihility - Disseminate (Lyrics)
Watch a cyborg from Omnihility demonstrate to the futile humans how to exercise the dexterity.
Omnihility -"Disseminate" Guitar play through
scientific findings on INANIMATE EXISTENCE
Inanimate Existence (U.S.): A Never-Ending Cycle of Atonement
Inanimate Existence = 1/3 tech-metal + 1/3 prog + 1/3 unknown factors (x).
1/3 tech-metal = frenzied, laboratory perfectionism in blasting + low-growl + guitar dynamics in <, >, or = quantities to Origin, Decrepit Birth et al.
1/3 prog = bursts of prog/melodic guitar segments. This report recommends that the prog is not = tech-metal, but not incompatible here, either, through the use of smooth transitions, a commendable trait.
1/3 unknown factors = exotic (exotic to tech-metal) instrumentation; it might be guest vocals, bongos and other instruments. This report points out that it is here where the unexpected takes place in the greatest amounts.
Findings.
Inanimate Existence requires sharp listening skills. An experiment-minded listener will find compatibility here. Certain intelligence is required. Music for musicians might be too much of a generalization, although it is also not completely untrue at least for some listeners inclined to higher learning in fast, skilled music. Higher standards and less restrictions are also found to be necessary elements for comprehension of Inanimate Existence. No IQ test will be required to be administered for each listener at this particular time, although such an element should at least not be totally discarded for future events.
www.uniqueleader.com
www.soundcloud.com/inanimateexistence
www.facebook.com/TheInanimateExistence
Inanimate Existence "The Rune of Destruction" Official Video
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