Reviews : Search Results for WWIII Music
19 reviews for WWIII Music:
|
Allegiance Hymns of Blod WWIII Music 2003 |
"Hymns of Blod" is a special North American 'best-of' release for the Swedish Viking metal band, Allegiance. Featuring current and ex-members of Marduk, Allegiance put out three albums - "Blodornsoffer", "Hymn 'til Hangagud", and "Vrede" - in Europe only during the late '90s, and "Hymns of Blod" culls tracks from all three albums for a stateside release. Musically, Allegiance... Read More » |
|
Astral Filicetum Lunare WWIII Music 2001 |
This is a rather eclectic release from the Czech Republic. Judging from the opening track, I thought that Filicetum Lunare would offer some folk-inspired black metal. However, the style Astral plays could be described as dark metal, somewhat similar to Russia's Rakoth. While it took me several spins to get into Filicetum Lunare, I must say that it was time... Read More » |
|
Avulsed Stabwound Orgasm WWIII Music 2001 |
If ever there has been a time when you have used my reviews as a guideline for what to buy, then pay close attention to this one. Spain's Avulsed has created one nasty fucking album with Stabwound Orgasm that is even better than it is sick. Adorning the cover are two busty, naked women... Read More » |
|
Belfegor Kingdom of Glacial Palaces WWIII Music 2001 |
This Polish black metal outfit's album The Kingdom of Glacial Palaces reminded me at first of Immortal's Blizzard Beasts. Unfortunately, Belfegor is not as interesting a band as Immortal, and their blindingly fast songs bleed together fairly quickly. The tracks on this disc are all fast, though some of them tease the listener by... Read More » |
|
Diabolical A Thousand Deaths WWIII Music 2002 |
Sweden's Diabolical have returned with a vengeance on their second full effort A Thousand Deaths. Whereas on the previous album Synergy, the band toyed with more melody and technical arrangements, on this piece of brimstone we get fiery, evil, blackened thrash executed in slick, lethal fashion. This disc is exactly what Sacramentum wished it... Read More » |
|
Entety Cadaveric Necrogrind WWIII Music 2002 |
Little-known California death/grind pioneers Entety are given a new lease on life with this re-issue of their early 90's material. Cadaveric Necrogrind is comprised of two demos [I think they're demos, anyways...the accompanying information is sketchy, at best, and there's no info about Entety online that I can find], the four song Necrogrind, and three songs from a unreleased session... Read More » |
|
Excommunion Superion WWIII Music 2002 |
Excommunion play fast, evil, technical death metal with very few groove portions and an uncountable number of blast beats. On their full length album Superion there are only six songs, yet the average length is about six minutes, meaning that each track is a trial of endurance. The music, though advertised as blackened death... Read More » |
|
Fog Through the Eyes of Night... WWIII Music 2001 |
I was really looking forward to hearing Fog's Through the Eyes of Night? after all the praise I heard about it. When I finally got a chance to spin it, however, I was far less than impressed. The music is generic mid/late 90's Norwegian style black metal with good production and obnoxiously long songs.... Read More » |
|
Hate Cain's Way WWIII Music 2002 |
More Polish death metal from one of their heavyweight contenders. This, their second full-length, starts off with "Apocalypse", which features some nice 5/4 to 6/8 technicality. The 6/8 time reappears in "Shame of the Creator", a devastating old-school death metal anthem. The drumming contains one of the few snare sounds left that isn't the highly tuned rimshot most seem to... Read More » |
|
Hate Holy Dead Trinity WWIII Music 2001 |
Poland's Hate plays brutal death metal (and nobody gives a shit). On Holy Dead Trinity this group shows its musical proficiency by copycatting Deicide in almost every way. Though where Glenn Benton and crew manage to change things up and let their songs sound different from each other, Hate does not. This band... Read More » |
|
Hate Theory Hate Theory WWIII Music 2002 |
Personally, I prefer to put my hate into practice, rather than theory, but I have to say that for the metal'd out moshcore that this album reminds me of, most of it's pretty good. I really do not like metalcore on the whole, except for Burnt By the Sun/Dillnger Escape Plan kind of stuff, so Hate Theory's self-titled debut caught... Read More » |
|
Infamy The Blood Shall Flow WWIII Music 2002 |
It's a good thing the cover artwork is cool, because if it weren't there'd be nothing good to say about Infamy. On the band's first full-length The Blood Shall Flow (originally released only in Europe in 1997) we get a rather large dose (62+ minutes) of brutal, yet uninspired death metal. Infamy sounds like... Read More » |
|
Keep of Kalessin Agnen : A Journey Through the Dark WWIII Music 2002 |
Agnen : A Journey Through the Dark basically picks up where Through Times of War left off for this Norwegian black metal band. The music is the same raw, mid-to-quick tempo, black metal typical of the whole Scandinavian scene. If anything, the tracks are faster and harsher sounding than their previous, first album and the first track especially is really... Read More » |
|
Keep of Kalessin Through Times of War WWIII Music 2002 |
This Norweigan band material [formally called Ildskjaer] keep floating around on the periphery of the material I got a chance to listen to. Now that I have heard them, I would say, "Think typical Scandanvian black metal and you won't go far wrong." I have read that the band are influenced by the Ursula la Guin "Earthsea" series, well if... Read More » |
|
Prototype Trinity WWIII Music 2002 |
Los Angeles' Prototype delivers an interesting mix of progressive, power and thrash on their full-length album Trinity. The musicianship and production on this slab o' metal is quite laudable. All instruments are presented clearly and vibrantly, and the arrangements are engaging and challenging. The band obviously has a clear idea of what... Read More » |
|
|
Prototype Trinity WWIII Music 2002 |
Los Angeles' Prototype delivers an interesting mix of progressive, power and thrash on their full-length album Trinity. The musicianship and production on this slab o' metal is quite laudable. All instruments are presented clearly and vibrantly, and the arrangements are engaging and challenging. The band obviously has a clear idea of what they want with this release. The guitars are... Read More » |
|
Severance What Lies Ahead WWIII Music 2001 |
With Severance's, What Lies Ahead..., I find myself thinking two things: "There's nothing really wrong with this," and, "There's nothing really right with this." If you're interested in brutal death metal, place yourself at these virtual crossroads: Carry on straight to the end of this review if you eat, breath, eat, shit and piss death metal. Turn left and away... Read More » |
|
Throes of Dawn Binding of the Spirit WWIII Music 2002 |
Throes of Dawn is definitely not a new name to the fans of dark metal. The band has two excellent full-length releases behind its belt, The Dreams of the Black Earth being my favorite. Songs like The Weeper and Of Scarlet Skies Made helped create the band's trademark sound of mid-paced, dark metal anthems of misanthropy and hopelessness. Yet, while... Read More » |
|
Totten Korps Tharnhein : Athi-Lan-Nhi : Ciclopean Crypts of Citadels WWIII Music 2001 |
At first blush, Totten Korps is just another death band; heavy as hell but not special. On repeated listens though, this Chilean horde will sink it's hooks deep into your flesh. Though WWIII labels them gore-grind, they're not. This is pure old-school death worship, a'la Bolt Thrower and Incantation, with heavy, pounding grooves that weigh like sonic lead... Read More » |