Blight House/Self Titled/2014 EP Review

  Blight  House  are  a  band  from  Rhode  Island  that  plays  a  mixture  of  black  metal,  death  metal,  deathcore  and  grind  and  this  is  a  review  of  their  self  released  and  self  titled  2014  ep.

  Spoken  word  samples  start  off  the  ep  before  going  into  a  more  blackened  death  metal  direction  along  with  a  mixture  of  growls  and  screams  and  after  awhile  blast  beats  and  melody  are  added  into  the  music  along  with  a  mixture  of  slow,  mid  paced  and  fast  parts  and  the  solos  and  leads  the  band  uses  are  very  distorted  sounding.

  After  awhile  the  band  starts  adding  more  deathcore  and  grindcore  elements  into  their  musical  sound  along  with  a  great  amount  of  brutal  slam  death  metal  traces  being  added  into  the  music  and  there  is  a  great  amount  of  raw  aggression  being  displayed  in  all  of  the  tracks  that  are  present  on  the  ep.

  Blight  House  combine  a  variety  of  many  extreme  metal  genres  together  on  these  tracks  to  create  a  sound  that  is  very  raw,  brutal  and  original  all  at  the  same  time,  the  production  sounds  very  raw  and  heavy  while  the  lyrics  cover  violence  and  gore  themes.

  In  my  opinion  Blight  House  are  a  very  great  sounding   mixture  of  black  metal,  death  metal,  deathcore  and  grind  and  if  you  are  a  fan  of  those  musical  genres,  you  should  check  out  this  band.  RECOMMENDED  TRACKS  INCLUDE  "Stump  Stench"  and  "Let  Them  Burn".  8  out  of  10.

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Shalrath/The Ebon Fortress/2013 Full Length Review

  Shalrath  are  a  band  from  the  United  States  that  plays  a  blackened  form  of   funeral  doom  metal  and  this  is  a  review  of  their  self  released  2013  album  "The  Ebon  Fortress".

  A  very  dark  and  heavy  sound  starts  off  the  album  along  with  some  guttural  growls  which  are  mostly  in  the  background  and  the  music  goes  for  more  of  a  slow  doom  metal  direction  and  all  of  the  tracks  are  very  long  and  epic  in  length  and  the  music  also  gets  more  atmospheric  as  time  goes  on  by.

  Synths  can  be  heard  in  certain  sections  of  the  recording  and  they  also  bring  elements  of  dark  ambient  into  the  music  and  the  album  sticks  to  a  slow,  dark  and  heavy  sound  from  beginning  to  end  of  the  album  with  no  fast  playing  or  blast  beats  ever  being  utilized  and  the  music  evokes  a  very  evil  sounding  atmosphere.

  Shalrath  creates  a  very  interesting  style  of  blackened  funeral  doom  metal  with  their  sound  and  mixing  it  with  guttural  death/grind  vocals  which  enhances  the heavy  and  dark  feeling  of  the  album,  the  production  sounds  very  dark  and  heavy  while  the  lyrics  cover  dark  and  occult  themes.

  In  my  opinion  Shalrath  are  a  very  great  sounding  blackened  funeral  doom  metal  band  and  if  you  are  a  fan  of  this  musical  genre,  you  should c heck  out  this  album.  RECOMMENDED  TRACKS  INCLUDE  "Mother  of  Spiders"  and  "Lessons  In  Darkness".  8  out  of  10.

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La Bicicleta Del Diablo Interview

For those that have never heard of you before, can you tell us a little bit about the band?

We are la bicicleta del Diablo (the devil`s bicycle) and we are from Guayaquil, Ecuador, it all started around 2008 at the university, when one  day damian arias (guitar player) came to (pucho flores, vocalist) and ask him if he was interested in making a band, his answer was literally ‘hell yeah’ , damian gave me ‘pucho’one track with some guitar riffs, so ‘’pucho’ began to put some lyrics to that shit and suddenly we had something that we can play. After that we had to many fucking  people in and out the band,until we finally meet Daniel Torres “don dod” (bass player) on 2010 who was also a student from the university(it  was his very first year at the campus around that time) were damian and pucho also attended. As with every possible candidate for the band, we ask him if he want to join in, and he said yes .  Our biggest problem was always the drummer because here in Guayaquil we don´t have too many  options to find the right drummer, but ‘pucho’ knew someone a long time ago from the metal scene  that would fit perfectly to our style and that was mota alvear (drummer). Together the 4 of us began this metal journey of becoming A METAL BAND IN ECUADOR


In December you have released in ep, can you tell us a little bit more about your musical sound?

Yeah that’s right we released our first ep called “Entrañas negras” (black guts), about the sound if we have to put ourselves into one category, it will be metal only metal, we describe this album like some hybrid kind of metal because we were trying to explore different genres of metal such as death metal, deathcore, groove, metalcore, trash, black and even nu metal, with piss off and high pitch screams and gutturals. But we definitely like to play brutal and aggressive

What are some of the lyrical topics and subjects the band explores with the music?

About the lyrics, at the beginning we came out with the idea of creating horros stories monster inspired  songs like the song V de psicopata ( V PSYCO) that is about a demon vampire that is obsessed with raping and murdered people, but in the other hand we also had topics that links the use of drugs and the deepest dark side of ourselves, like entrañas negras (black guts), which is about how the crack abuse links you with pure hell in your thoughts, also the song monomania which is about how the worlds end and fall into a maze of insanity.




What is the meaning and inspiration behind the name 'La Bicicleta del Diablo?

After a rehearsal we started to throw different names for the band, until ‘don dod’(bass player) became with the idea of some kind of demon riding a bicycle and in Spanish it sounded so bad ass ,so we became LA BICICLETA DEL DIABLO


What are some of the best shows that the band has played so far and also how would you describe your stage performance?

we remember 3  great shows one was the ‘Huankavilca raimy’ in 2012, and also ‘la semana del rock’(ROCK WEEK) in 2011,both in Guayaquil our hometown.
Both shows were insane, people went crazy and was kind of cool because at the time we were so ‘newbies’ at the metal scene. Another show that we played fucking great, was for the 10 years of DESCOMUNAL (local band). we try to give it all in our stage performance and we definitely loose our minds when we are playing live and we always trying to make that connection with each head mother fucker banger


Do you have any touring or show plans for the future?

At this moment we don` t have any plans on touring or even a live performance, we are so focus in writing new material for the next album, in fact if everything went right we will have a new cd for the end of this year or the beginning of the next.

Currently you are unsigned, are you looking for a label or have received any interest?

Yeah like every band that is our biggest dream to get signed so we can live and pay debts thanks to metal music, but we all realize that dream is so damn difficult and even more if we live on a third world country such as Ecuador, but still we hope that with the new album we can reach that fucking desire and make this shit happen, so no, we don`t had receive any deal yet.






How would you describe the metal scene in your home country of Ecuador?

Here in Guayaquil our home city the situation is very poor the people preferred other kind of music like salsa, regeton, and romantics shits, so we can say that here we are fucked, but in quito (Ecuador capital) the situation is very different, the metal scene is very big and even all the monsters of metal that were visit our land like metallica, lamb of god and korn had played is in quito so our plan is as soon we had the new album we are going to move to quito to promote the new album a few months.

On a worldwide level how has the feedback been to your music by fans of extreme metal?

We are not  aware of that situation how the people of other countries react with us, but if we are having this interview that is definitely  a good sign.

When can we expect a full length album and also where do you see the band heading into musically during the future?

Like i said before we hope that we can complete the goal of recording this album for the end of this year or the beginning of the next. But we are so excited with this process because the band definitely had evolved into a evil and darker sound we are playing in a lower tune and also we feel that our music is getting more mature so we are hoping to produce the best fucking extreme metal album in Ecuador.


11. What are some of the bands or musical styles that have had an influence on your music and also what are you listening to nowadays?

 UFF to many influences to tell, but naming a few bunch of them, they’ll be meshuggah, lamb of god, Cannibal corpse, metallica, korn, pantera, megadeth, the black dahlia murder, sepultura, obituary, death, whitechapel, slip0knot and more.


12. What are some of your non musical interests?

Damian: stencil painting
Don dod: masturbation and roadie, sound tech, guitar tech stuff
Pucho: soccer
Mota: martial arts



13. Before we wrap up this interview, do you have any final words or thoughts?
Just To wait and prepare to how the new album of LA BICICLETA DEL DIABLO is going to blow your fucking heads off

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Inexorable/Morte Sola/2013 EP Review

 

  Inexorable  are  a  band  from  Germany  that  plays  a  very  technical  form  of  blackened  death  metal   and  this  is  a  review  of  their  self  released  2013  ep  "Morte  Sola".

  A  very  dark  sound  starts  off  the  ep  and  you  few  seconds  alter  you  can  hear  some  vocals  that h ave  a  grim  black  metal  feeling  to  them  and  after  the  intro  the  music  starts  going  for  a  more  brutal  and  technical  blackened  death  metal  direction  along  with  a  mixture  of  screams  and  growls  along  with  a  mixture  of  slow,  mid  paced  and  fast  parts.

  The  blast  beats  that  the  band  use  are  very  brutal  sounding  and  you  can  hear  some  spoken  word  parts  and  clean  singing  in  certain  sections  of  the  recording  while  the  black  and  death  metal  vocals  still  dominate  the  recording  and  on  the  third  track  guitar  leads  are  added  into  the  music  and  they  bring  more  chaotic  elements  into  the  bands  musical  style  and  they  also  bring  in  a  brief  use  of  horror  movie  samples  along  with  a  brief  use  of  acoustic  guitars  on  a  couple  of  later  tracks  before  returning  back  to  a  more  brutal  direction.

  Inexorable  play  a  very  technical  brutal  form  of  death  metal  that  is  heavily  influenced  by  newer  newer  Mayhem  and  uses  black  metal  style  vocals  to  create  their  own  sound,  the  production  sounds  very  professional  for  being  a  self  released  recording  while  the  lyrics  cover  dark  and  philosophical  themes.  

  In  my  opinion  Inexorable  are  a  very  great  sounding  technical  and  brutal  blackened  death  metal  band  and  if  you  are  a  fan  of  this  musical  genre,  you  should  check  out  this  ep.  RECOMMENDED  TRACKS  INCLUDE  "Pantheon's  Demise"  and  "Futility".  8  out  of  10.

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AthanaTheos/Alpha Theistic/2012 CD Review

  AthanaTheos  are  a  band  from  France  that  plays  a  blackened  form  of  death  metal  and  this  is  a  review  of  their  self  released  2012  album  "Alpha  Theistic".

  Sound  effects  and  spoken  word  samples  start  off  the  album  before  going  into  a  more  heavy  and  brutal  death metal  direction  along  with  some  death  growls  along  with  some  high  pitched  black  metal  screams  a  few  seconds  later  which  mix  in  with  the  growls  and  the  band  starts  adding  blast  beats  into  their  music.

  After  awhile  there  is  a  good  mixture  of  slow,  mid  paced  and  fast  parts  throughout  the  recording  and  the  guitar  solos  and  leads  they  use  are  in  a  more  melodic  black/death  metal  direction  and  the guitar  riffing  also  uses  some  melody  at  times  while  the  main  focus  remains  more  on  a  brutal  sound  and  some  of  the  later  tracks  see  the  band  adding  in  a  brief  use  of  rain  noises  in  between  songs.

  As  the  album  progresses  there  are  some  melodic  Gregorian  chants  and  Swedish  black  metal  influences  being  added  into  their  musical  style  as  well  as  a  small  amount  of  atmospheric  elements  and  the  music  really  starts  going  for  more  of  a  blackened  death  metal  direction  and  on  a  couple  of  the  later  tracks  sees  a  brief  use  of  spoken  word  parts  and  clean  playing  being  added  into  the  music  and  all  of  the  musical  instruments  have  a  very  powerful  sound  to  them.

  AthanaTheos  plays  a  very  brutal  dark  form  of  death  metal  which  they  mix  in  with  a  great  amount  of  black  metal  influences  to  create  their  own  sound,  the  production  sounds  very  heavy  and  powerful  for  being  a  self  released  recording  while  the  lyrics  cover  religions,  beliefs  and  humanities.

  In  my  opinion  AthanaTheos  are  a  very  great  sounding  brutal  blackened  death  metal  band  and  if  you  are  a  fan  of  this  musical  genre,  you  should  check  out  this  album.  RECOMMENDED  TRACKS  INCLUDE  "Dawn  Of  Genesis"  "Purification  by  Primordial  Waters"  and  "As  Your  Lord  Was  In  the  Storm"  and  "Ghost  And  Chimera".   8  out  of  10.

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A.c.o.D/Another Path/Doweet Records/2014 EP Review

  A.c.o.D  are  a  band  from  France  that  plays  a  mixture  of  heavy,  thrash,  death  and  black  metal  with  a  musical  style  they  call  'blended  metal'  and  this  is  a  review  of  their  2014  ep  "Another  Path"  which  was  released  by  Doweet  Records.

  A  very  heavy  and  dark  death  metal  sound  starts  off  the  ep  and  after  a  few  seconds  the  music  gets  more up  beat and  vocals  which  use  growls,  screams,  and  shouts  are  added  into  the  music  and  after  a  few  seconds  you  can  hear  atmospheric  sound s in  the  background  along  with  a  small  amount  of  clean  singing.

  Blast  beats  can  be  heard  throughout  the  recording  along  with  a  good  mixture  of  slow,  mid  paced  and  fast  parts  and  the  riffs  and  solos  also  bring  a  great  amount  of  melody  into  the  bands  musical  style  and  as  the  ep  progresses  a  brief  use  of  acoustic  guitars  find  their  way  onto  one  of  the  tracks  along  with  the  following  tracks  having  a  more  modern  day  metal  feeling  to  them.

  A.c.o.D  combine  a  variety  of  many  different   styles  together  black, death  and  thrash  together  to  create  a  sound  of  their  own  as  well  as  adding  in  a  good  amount  of  melody,  atmosphere  and  a  modern  feeling  to  their  music,  the  production  sounds  very  professional  sound  to  it  while  the  lyrics  cover  dark,  violent  and  war  themes.

  In  my  opinion  A.c.o.D  are  a  very  great  sounding  mixture  of  black,  death  and  thrash  metal  and  if  you  are  a  fan  of  those  musical  genres,  you  should  check  out  this  band.  RECOMMENDED  TRACKS  INCLUDE  "Another  Path"  and  "Words  Of  War".  8  out  of  10.

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De Profundis/Frequencies/Terrorizer/2014 EP Review

  De  Profundis  are  a  band  from  England  that had  their  previous  album  reviewed  in  this  zine  and  plays  a  blackened  and  progressive  mixture  of  doom  and  death  metal  and  this  is  a  review  of  their  2014  ep  "Frequencies"  which  was  released  by  Terrorizer  magazine.

  A  very  heavy,  dark  and  melodic  sound  starts  off  the  ep  before  adding  in  brutal  death  blast  beats  along  with  some  growls,  screams  and  technical  guitar  riffing  which  also  leads  up  to  a  more  progressive  death  metal  direction  and  after  a  couple  of  minutes  melodic  guitar  solos  and  leads  are  added  into  the  music  along  with  some  powerful  bass  lines.

  A  More  progressive,  melodic  and  technical  musical  direction  is  present  on  this  recording  while  the  black  metal  influences  of  the  previous  recording  are  still  a  very  strong  part  of  the  bands  musical  style  and  they  also  bring  in  a  good  mixture  of  slow,  mid  paced  and  fast  parts  and  the  last  song  is  a  cover  of  Death's  "Crystal  Mountain".

  De  Profundis  concentrate  less  on  the  black  and  doom  metal  element s of  previous  recordings  and  go  for  a  more  progressive  and  technical  style  of  death  metal  this  time  around  while  still  having  a  small  amount  of  their  past  in  their  newer  material,  the  production  sounds  very  professional  while  the  lyrics  cover  negativity,  solitude,  despondency,  and  contemplation.

  In  my  opinion  this  is  another  great  sounding  recording  from  De  Profundis  and  if  you  are  a  fan  of  technical  and  progressive  death  metal,  you  should  check  out  this  ep,.  RECOMMENDED  TRACKS  INCLUDE  "A  Strange  Awakening"  and  "Crystal  Mountain".  8  out  of  10.

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