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Scepter of Eligos, Without Mercy, These Colors Fade, Jonatan Piña Duluc, Maudiir reviews (2020/2021)

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Feb 7, 2021
3 min

Scepter of Eligos, Without Mercy, These Colors Fade, Jonatan Piña Duluc, Maudiir reviews (2020/2021)

The selections for this week are more diverse than usual. Despite the fact that the majority of promos arriving at my mailbox are (extreme) metal related, I would never refuse a listen to a good quality release. Scepter of Eligos - Inverted Illusions Scepter of Eligos are a trio coming from Denver, Colorado who took the inspiration for their name from their frontman´s occultist endeavours. Eligos, according to Aleister Crowley, is a Goetic demon that is said to appear on a wi

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Plague Weaver, Psychoneurosis/Herida Profounda/Suffering Quota, Dead Exaltation reviews (2020/2021)

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Jan 23, 2021
1 min

Plague Weaver, Psychoneurosis/Herida Profounda/Suffering Quota, Dead Exaltation reviews (2020/2021)

Times are (still) very busy but I am still trying my best to reserve some moments for writing and post some overdue reviews. Three, but nevertheless noteworthy albums are what we present this week. Et voilà... Plague Weaver - Ascendant Blasphemy Plague Weaver is a Black/Doom metal band from Canada created back in 2018. They had released their debut EP in 2019 which was followed in early 2020 by another EP named ‘Through the Sulphur Eyes’. In 2020, after adding a new vocalist,

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Throwing Bricks, Crawling Chaos, Evangelist, Infiltration, Oceana reviews (2020/2021)

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Jan 16, 2021
2 min

Throwing Bricks, Crawling Chaos, Evangelist, Infiltration, Oceana reviews (2020/2021)

The first review post for this year includes albums that were released both in 2021 and 2020. I still have on my desk (and my hard drive) a significant "backlog" from last year which is consisting of albums that I had neither the time nor (and most important) the funds to purchase and listen on time. As I do each year, I will continue during the first quarter of 2021 to present and review albums that were still released in 2020. Throwing Bricks - What Will Be Lost This review

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Ablaze my Sorrow, Evisorax, Farer, Sufism, Profanity, Intolerant, Uthullun reviews (2020/2021)

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Dec 30, 2020
2 min

Ablaze my Sorrow, Evisorax, Farer, Sufism, Profanity, Intolerant, Uthullun reviews (2020/2021)

2020 may be soon coming to its end but apparently still has to offer some noteworthy albums. Promos of upcoming releases, most of them due for the first quarter of 2021 are already arriving in my mailbox. For the last blog post of 2020, I have selected 7 of them. Enjoy! Ablaze My Sorrow can be considered as scene veterans as they have been active since 1993. After a disbandment in 2006 and a reformation in 2012, February 2021 will see them releasing their new record Among Ash

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Hifiklub + Roddy Bottum - Things That Were Lost in the Fire review (2020)

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Dec 24, 2020
2 min

Hifiklub + Roddy Bottum - Things That Were Lost in the Fire review (2020)

Hifiklub are undoubtedly one of the most productive groups that I have come to known. In the short lifespan of this humble blog, they are the first act that has been featured twice with a new release within the same year! Having a look at their vast and undoubtedly impressive catalogue, one can find no less than 150 collaborations with artists as different and diverse like : Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Alain Johannes (Queens of the Stone Age, Them Crooked Vultures, Eleven), Ma

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Eximperitus, Ominous Ruin, Disintegration, Kaligula, Undergang review (2020/2021)

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Dec 19, 2020
2 min

Eximperitus, Ominous Ruin, Disintegration, Kaligula, Undergang review (2020/2021)

I believe that 2020 has been a very good year when it comes to Death Metal releases and this judging both from an arithmetic but also from a quality standpoint. A look back at the number of respective promos that this blog has received but also at my top-25 list for this year, provides sufficient evidence and enough arguments to support this statement. In this blog post (which will most probably be one of the last for 2020) I have selected 5 newly released or upcoming (in ear

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Dec 12, 2020
4 min

2020, My Albums of the Year...

2020, will definitely be a year to remember. The inevitable changes and transformations that have been already triggered on global level in sectors like science, technology, society, politics, workplaces etc. will be seen in the years to come. Arts and music is yet another area were this global transformation wave has already taken its toll. The lockdown and the global quarantine measures "forced" many musicians to find new ways to express their art and at the same moment be

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Simina Oprescu - KI (not exactly a) review (2020)

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Nov 27, 2020
2 min

Simina Oprescu - KI (not exactly a) review (2020)

I wouldn't call this post exactly a review. And the reason for that is because I lack the background (in terms of knowledge and "exposure" to the specific genre of music) that would allow me to do this in an acceptable way. However, ever since I came into contact with Simina Oprescu's music after listening one of her tracks in the CD that came together with the latest issue (December 2020) of WIRE Magazine, I felt the urge to write something about it in my blog... Simina Opre

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Nov 16, 2020
1 min

Black Fate - Ithaca review (2020)

After having listened to the first "single" from the album (Savior Machine), the promo of the new Black Fate release became one of the most anticipated arrivals in my mailbox for this year. Black Fate are one of these bands that I strongly remember from my adolescent years when I started to explore the Greek Heavy Metal scene. I had listened to their first demo but (to be very honest) not having been very much impressed (If I remember correctly I had listened to it at the sam

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Kratzer - Alles Liegt In Scherben / Undertakers - Dictatorial Democracy review (2020)

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Nov 14, 2020
1 min

Kratzer - Alles Liegt In Scherben / Undertakers - Dictatorial Democracy review (2020)

"Everything Lies In Pieces", this quite dramatic and pessimistic title pretty much describes the music content of the debut full-length (they have also released two split-albums) by the German band Kratzer. D-Beat Hardcore with the melodies being their strong point making songs like Staub, Error, Dreck, ...Und Alles Liegt In Scherben the highlights of the album. The "polished" production and the strong metal influences may estrange Crust Punk aficionados and purists however f

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Demonstealer - And This Too Shall Pass review (2020)

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Nov 7, 2020
2 min

Demonstealer - And This Too Shall Pass review (2020)

The increasing number of promos that I have been receiving from India in the last 4 years that I am running this blog (in all its web incarnations), makes me believe that the beautiful and vast country is becoming one of the emerging powers in the Asian extreme rock scene. Long overdue I would say though inevitable, given the global appeal of the Heavy Metal sound. Mumbai-based death metal multi-instrumentalist, Sahil Makhija aka Demonstealer, will release his next solo EP t

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Oct 31, 2020
1 min

Arsebreed - BUTOH review (2020)

Despite their (rather tasteless) name, Arsebreed play NOT Goregrind and I would very honestly appeal to any potential listener not to let that name put them off from listening to the band's second album BUTOH which was released this year, 15 entire years after their debut! And if my words are not enough, the fact that Arsebreed is a collaboration between current and ex-members of Disavowed (whose latest album Revocation of the Fallen has been one of my favourite Technical Dea

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Invincible Force - Decomposed Sacramentum review (2020)

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Oct 25, 2020
1 min

Invincible Force - Decomposed Sacramentum review (2020)

As their name suggests (anyone remember Teutonic Thrash legends Destruction?), Invincible Force have started in 2008 as a Thrash Metal outfit however their new release Decomposed Sacramentum finds them playing more extremely and aggressively, crossing the boundaries to the Death Metal territory. Following the direct and uncompromising sound that distinguishes Southern American extreme metal groups and incorporating the best elements from bands like (early) Morbid Angel and Sl

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Oct 23, 2020
1 min

Begräbnis - IZANAENA review (2020)

Begräbnis translates from German as "Funeral" in English and I must admit that the Japanese trio could not have made a better choice for a band name than that, as it designates precisely the musical content of their debut LP IZANAENA. Containing 4 tracks which span in over 40 minutes, and staying "faithful" to the Japanese "inclination" to the most extreme and bizarre forms of artistic expression, IZANAENA is for sure not an "easy" listening. Despite the usage of drum machine

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Oct 18, 2020
1 min

Netherblade - Reborn review (2020)

Netherblade come from Italy, they exist as band since 2016 and after an EP and some individual single releases, they have released this week their debut album Reborn! As you may have already understood from the band logo and the overall album cover aesthetics they play old school Thrash metal a fact which biased me positively to prioritise their promo for listening and reviewing. To start with the strong points of the album I must say that the overall work in the compositions

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Oct 17, 2020
1 min

Böndbreakr - Böndbreakr review (2020)

BÖNDBREAKR are a hardcore punk/metal quartet from Austin,Texas featuring members from various groups from the local punk/metal scene. After a year of playing lives extensively in Austin area, BÖNDBREAKR are ready to release their first EP which was recorded within a single weekend! The EP contains 6 songs (actually 5, as "bonus" track number 6 is a repetition of all the previous 5...) which sound 80's thrashcore in the vein of bands such as S.O.D., D.R.I., Gothic Slam, Mucky

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Fuck the Facts - Pleine Noirceur review (2020)

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Oct 10, 2020
1 min

Fuck the Facts - Pleine Noirceur review (2020)

I had heard the name Fuck the Facts as a band before but I had never had the chance to listen to any of their material until now. Their name and the head title: Canadian Bastardized Grindcore which is prominently displayed in their Bandcamp page were enough to make me think that they are just one more of those Grindcore/Goregrind bands where incoherent noises originating from an underproduced mixture of instruments and growls, is "sold" as music. I don't want to sound conserv

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Gorephilia - In the Eye of Nothing review (2020)

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Oct 9, 2020
1 min

Gorephilia - In the Eye of Nothing review (2020)

To be completely honest, the band name in combination with the utter-simplistic front cover (with THIS specific selection of fonts for the title...) had me initially put off from listening to the album. After reading the press release and considering that an album produced by a Finnish band cannot be THAT awful, I decided to give it another chance... ...and as it turned out I couldn't have done better as In the Eye of Nothing is another one of the great Death Metal albums tha

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Oct 8, 2020
1 min

Citizen Rage - Black EP review (2020)

Citizen Rage are a hardcore band from Calgary and their latest release Black, is the sixth (If I am not mistaken) EP in a series which are all named after a colour. Not having the opportunity to listen to any of their previous releases I am not sure if there is a logical connection or a relevancy between the colour after which each EP is named of and the song/lyric themes themselves. Coming to the music, the EP contains 4 hardcore songs, all played in less than 10 minutes, wh

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Madrost - Charring the Rotting Earth review (2020)

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Oct 4, 2020
1 min

Madrost - Charring the Rotting Earth review (2020)

Established in 2007 in South California, Madrost return with their fourth album Charring the Rotting Earth. Their music is Thrash Metal which manages to balance very well modernity, progressiveness (I just love how the keyboards are used to enrich various parts of the album songs without prevailing on them) but without losing anything in aggressivenes. To be honest, I think that their proposal of how Thrash Metal should sound nowadays is my preferred one over the boring retro

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