Meliah Rage - Masquerade (2009)

At the moment I have not so much time so I'll make it short! Mascarade is the 8th album released by MR and dude here's a solid album with a good production! all the songs are good and creative, and the tone is pretty neat as well ...with cool vox! I dunno if they can be pigeonholed as a power metal band and don't really give a sh** actually! ^^ but that's just to give you an idea of what they sound like...enjoy it's good music!

Meliah Rage - Masquerade (2009)
Genre:(Power) Metal
Tracklist
1. Lost or Found
2. Chosen
3. History Will Tell
4. Dreamer
5. Seeker
6. Hour Glass
7. Masquerade
8. Last Rites
9. Whatever It Takes

Meliah Rage - Masquerade

A Backward Glance On A Travel Road - A Backward Glance On A Travel Road

Here is a French band which is rather interesting..the music is somewhat atmospheric and a bit melancholic, but the ambiances are really enjoyable! We are miles away from BDM or BM as what they play is rather quiet...acoustic guitars, soft, lyrical, operatic vox, synth...a kind of medieval feel as well... let's pack up and let them carry us away on that forlorn road of theirs...until, as we give a glance backward, only a few of our faint and vanishing footsteps linger on the dusty path, waiting to be withered away into nothingness.

A Backward Glance On A Travel Road - A Backward Glance On A Travel Road
Genre:Dark Ambiant
Tracklist:
1. Regular Barbary
2. Falling
3. Johnny Got His Gun
4. In Absentia part I
5. In Absentia part II
6. Hier Re'gnant De'sert
7. Approximativement Moi

A Backward Glance On A Travel Road

Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious [2009]

here is another band that we came across a while ago...well they didn't recover much of their sanity since their last release and are still pretty f**ked up in the head! ah ah =D but here as you know it already, it's for the best, as their music gather about everything together in an explosive bundle of contrastive influences...at the moment Diablo swing Orchestra still remains a one of the kind band ..a bit like Nuclear Rabbit a few years ago...who has since then spawned a few followers,... only a few cause the diversity of style encompassed requires a certain proficiency that is not so common down here..DSO might bring about the same outcome! wait and see...meanwhile enjoy their unbridled performance! \m/

Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious [2009]
Genre:Metal, Experimental, Avant-Garde
Tracklist:
1. A Tapdancer's Dilemma
2. A Rancid Romance
3. Lucy Fears The Morning Star
4. Bedlam Sticks
5. New World Widows
6. Siberian Love Affairs
7. Vodka Inferno
8. Memoirs Of A Roadkill
9. Ricerca Dell’anima
10. Stratosphere Serenade

Diablo Swing Orchestra

Junius - The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist

Junius is band i already played, but this time they have released a full album =) the music is still in the same vein...which is great as those guys are brilliant! their style is a crossbreed between rock, metal, and postrock with a somewhat 80's feel to it...so there is plenty to get for everybody! if you like my previous plays about them you'll enjoy that one as well for sure! don't be shy, help yourself! =D

Junius - The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist [2009]
Genre: Progressive Rock, Alternative Rock
Tracklist:
1.Birth Rites By Torchlight
2.The Antediluvian Fire
3.(turning to the spirits of the hours...)
4.A Dramatist Plays Catastrophist
5.Ten Year Librarian
6.Stargazers And Gravediggers
7.(...he fell before her)
8.Elisheva, I Love You
9.Letters From Saint Angelica
10.The Mourning Eulogy

Junius - The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist

Vomepotro - Liturgy Of Dissection

Let's begin the day with some BDM to wake our sleepy heads up! Vomepotro comes for Brazil and they'll kick ..or even trample actually.. your shiny @$$ pretty bad! the music is of course rather brutal and agressive, but these guys are definitely great masters...depsite the thick and distorted sound they have, everything remains clear and there's no instrument overlapping on any other and messing all up! ....a great brutal album by great musicians! enjoy!

Vomepotro - Liturgy Of Dissection (2009)
Genre:BDM
Tracklist:
01. Incorruption
02. Cephalic Fast Food
03. Defaced by Pestilence
04. Buried in Collective Grave
05. Assassin Psycopath
06. Liturgy of Dissection
07. Horror Humanufactor
08. Carnivore Necropsy
09. Posmortiis Rectaliation
10. Mass Hypnosis
11. Dominate

Vomepotro - Liturgy Of Dissection

Exxasens - Beyond The Universe (2009)

As winter is finally on it's way to China, let's move to Spain to bag some extra rays and riffs! ^^ This band walks a fine line between metal and more atmospheric stuff like post rock...the melodies they use might remind you a bit of Septic Flesh at times or even A Perfect Circle or even Te...just to give you an idea...a pretty interesting band with cool songs (most of which are instrumental)! hope you enjoy! \m/

[ps= i've tried to post this since this morning without being able to!! the great wall drives me crazy!!]

Exxasens - Beyond The Universe (2009)
Genre: Metal, Experimental
Tracklist:
Tracklist:
01. Sky In Red
02. Signals From The Outer Space
03. Lost In Space
04. ¿Por Que Me Llamas A Estas Horas?
05. Polaris
06. Stars In The Desert
07. Gray
08. Absolute Infinite
09. A Singular Deploy
10. Copernicus
11. Spiders On The Moon
12. Boolean
13. Stellar

Exxasens - Beyond The Universe

Taras Bul`ba - Secrets Chimiques (2008)

We are now in Italy with a bunch of crazy guys! Taras Bul`ba is not that famous and yet they should be! I don't know how to describe their music but maybe saying that it is always on the move might give a inkling of what it's like... my fav tracks ...Khiber Pass...and Providence...check 'em out!

Taras Bul`ba - Secrets Chimiques (2008)
Genre: Progressive Rock / Psychedelique
Tracklist:
1. Cranioterapia
2. Traumdeutung
3. Khyber Pass
4. Padiglione Zonda
5. Disformofobico
6. Al Mahdi
7. Providence
8. Toktamis
9. Auersberger
10. Les Chambres Des Enfants
11. Six Feet Underground

Taras Bul`ba - Secrets Chimiques

Wrath of Despot - Black Tomb

Here we go with a band from Beijing =) they play a sort of melodical and yet quite aggressive form of black metal with interesting passages for headbanging and also a bit of speed metal..., if all this isnt enough to turn this band into an outstanding outsider, it is enough make it an enjoyable performer of the Black Art. This is just an EP, but the production is good and also it's interesting to see how black metal develops and thrives on the mainland...a rather unfavourable land IMHO...Chinese BM has its own flavour and I quite like it, as it's indulging in heavy metal rather than in a so called shitsound supposed to create an eerie atmosphere ...though sometimes this works as well! lol

Wrath of Despot - Black Tomb
Genre:BM
Tracklist:
1. Black Tomb / 黑色的墓地
2. Despicable Life / 卑污的生命
3. To Wildness Which Wins / 至胜的狂怒

Wrath of Despot - Black Tomb

Cankered Corpse Pleasure of Mania

Chinese metal seems to blossom so maybe we can have a look at some of its most brutal representatives! Cankered Corpse is actually a band i quite enjoy as they somehow remind me of Brutal Truth ...more in spirit than in tone!...I mean, they play DM but they have that punk "momentum"/attitude in their songs which i find very enjoyable! otherwise it boils down to guttural vox (not overdone), low tuned guitars and blast beats...yummie! (track two has a problem..like skipping a wee bit!)

Cankered Corpse Pleasure of Mania
Genre: Brutal DM/ Grindcore
Tracklist
1. Limbs Grinding
2. Lust of Butcher
3. Who Possess the Dead
4. Mood to Kill
5. Face of Immoral Conduct
6. Final Solution of Morbid Scum
7. Canerous Organ of Sex
8.Rain of Blood Falling From Sky
9. Cutting Throat
10. Grume Bredder
11. Quick Asphyxia
12. Mayhem
13. (Blank)
14. Bloody Festa (Demo)
15. Annihilation (Demo)
16. Deathly Stillness (Demo)
17. Mayhem (Demo)
18. Bloody Corpse (Demo)
19. Quick Asphyxia (Demo)

Cankered Corpse Pleasure of Mania

Astra - The Weirding

This is an American band that will bring you 30 years backward! so what's interesting here for us? well first off, those guys are great songwriters, and proficient musicians...then, they really have a knack for creating melancholic/ethereal spaced out atmospheres..and finally they know how to rock! they don't sing that much and lots of tracks are actually instrumental. Finally i'd say that they are somewhat the counterpart of Pink Floyd in their early days...and would probably be as famous, had they been born a few decades earlier! ^^

Astra - The Weirding
Genre: Psychedelic Rock
Tracklist:
01. The Rising Of The Black Sun
02. The Weirding
03. Silent Sleep
04. The River Under
05. Ouroboros
06. Broken Glass
07. The Dawning Of Ophiuchus
08. Beyond To Slight The Maze

Astra - The Weirding

Henker - Henker [EP] (2005)

Henker plays some extreme hardcore or deathcore as some might call it...they come from france and are pretty violent..maybe the present dwarfish French "king" should be wary! ah ah ^^ the music pace is rather fast and the vox are either growled or guttural..this is just a demo or MCD but those guys are defenitely worth a shot! the guitar work is good (as it often tends to be boring in this genre) and agressive ...all in all a very good start! check it out! \m/

Henker - Henker [EP] (2005)
Genre:Extreme Hardcore
Tracklist:
01. Intro
02. Joy to kill
03. Life is pain
04. Equal face to death
05. Henker

Henker - Henker

Sacrifice - The Ones I Condemn (2009)

here we go with a very good thrash band and a solid album! they come from Canada and will cause so much headbanging that your little neck will go *snap*! I know there is the last Megadeth out there ...but if you like thrash then dig that one...hectic rhythm, squealing leads...all songs are great...well i guess you get the picture! \m/

Sacrifice - The Ones I Condemn (2009)
Genre:Thrash Metal
Tracklist:
1. We Will Prevail
2. The Ones I Condemn
3. Give Me Justice
4. The Great Wall
5. Tetragrammaton
6. Atrocity
7. Hiroshima
8. The Devil's Martyr
9. Ultimate Power Corrupts
10. Desolation Alive

Sacrifice - The Ones I Condemn

Infester - To the Depths... In Degradation (1994)

Well many bands claim to play Satanic DM but actually most of them are just laughable failures with shit songwriting and a shit sound...however, once and a while the left hand path allows one of those bunches of pretenders to be successful! Infester was the name chosen to destroy the armies of the light and their feable waning spirit! the guitar sound is really thick (as the overall sound is actually!) the atmosphere is really dark and the vox utterly guttural with the occasional burzum-esque scream here and there .. all this done in a properly and timely fashion of course...a true celebration, like a black mass creeping up the unfathomable pits of hell to ravish unspoiled and tender eardrums!! ^^

Infester - To the Depths... In Degradation (1994)
Genre: DM (Satanic)
Tracklist:
1. To the Depths (In Degradation)
2. Chamber of Reunion
3. Braded into Palsy
4. Epicurean Entrails
5. A Viscidy Slippery Secretion
6. A Higher Art of Immutable Beauty
7. Clouding of Consciousness
8. Excoriation Killz the Bliss
9. Mephetic Exhumation
10. Outro

Infester - To the Depths... In Degradation

Have a look at the lyrics they are definitely twisted and violent! ^^

A Viscidy Slippery Secretion

A devious affliction of pain...
Mutilated beyond belief, no hope for resurrection.
There shall be no polluting of blood, our enemies are low animals.
Program to burn their offspring,
Lapadation to turn them away
... When the cross begins to burn,
Remove the cerecloth...
Reveal to all the soulless carcass,
His body was his cage.
Scraping off the rancid crust... Mortalized face and skin,
That which will never fucking die.

Cold sweat and fear sets in...
This scalpel that I grasp in fear,
Acidic compounds injested by mouth...
Self infliction is my intention.

Punish Yourself - Feuer Tanz System (1998)

Here we go into the world of digital aggression! Punish Yourself comes from the south of France, Toulouse, also known as the Pink City because of it's red walls! I met those guys in pubs as their guitar player was producing the album of my friends, ...a pretty cool and funny bunch of guys indeed, almost as crazy as their music! to make it short Punish Yourself is all about depravity, SM & Bondage, Pornography,Drugs and Cyberpunk culture...well at least now you have an inkling of the kind of hobbies they might be indulging in! ah ah On stage their have fluorescent zombie outfit and are on the rampage... a looney crossbreed between Ministry and KMFDM... enjoy and of course ....wallow in filth! ^^

Punish Yourself - Feuer Tanz System (1998)
Genre: Industrial Metal
Tracklist:
1. Dispossessed
2. Flower
3. Air Tribe
4. I Like It
5. Eye Sex Dance
6. Nothingness Station
7. Death By Water
8. Slow Motion Demonstration

Punish Yourself - Feuer Tanz System

Аясын Салхи - Coffin Town Under The Moon 2008

Let me bring you to ... Mongolia!! The other day I was watching a movie from that country (pretty cool one entitled Mongol, about the Genghis Khan)...but it would never have occured to me that in this untouched and pristine countryside a DM combo was to be found! Аясын Салхи plays an old style of DM in the line of Krabathor for intance or maybe The Crown / Crown of Thorns...pretty technical with awesome riffage! I don't know if Mongolia has other DM band but this one is well worth a shot believe me! \m/

Ayasiin Salhi - Coffin Town Under The Moon (2008)
Genre:DM
Tracklist:
01. Hummer
02. Ticket to a Death
03. Stab in the Back
04. Torture or Perdition
05. I'd Sooner Die
06. Flame and Flesh
07. Bleeding Heads
08. Coffin Town Under the Moon
09. Blood Sort
10. Brain Growth
11. I Make Space for You
12. Dead Silence
13. Putrefaction
14. Critical Condition
15. Alphabet of Death

Аясын Салхи - Coffin Town Under The Moon

Those Who Bring The Torture - Those Who Bring The Torture [2007]

here's some pretty cool album...old school DM from Sweden..rather rare nowadays to find a good band in that genre! don't look for anything new or original here ..first you'll be really disappointed and second you'd be completely missing the point...old school IS what it means...you know it by heart but still.. it just puts a big grin on your face whenever you hear it! the songs are all rather short, they don't try to overdo it, it's just for fun, to keep the primal spirit alive! =D bearing that in mind, you are ready to ride with them! i dont know much about this band but i really enjoy them...they just play their sh$t and don't give a fu&k! yeah!! \m/ ah ah hey you!! yeah you!!..gimme sum beeers boneheadfuck$r!!!! ^^

Those Who Bring The Torture - Those Who Bring The Torture [2007]
Genre:Old School DM
Tracklist:
# 01. An Affair Of Entrails
# 02. Murdered Thrice
# 03. Filth Bag
# 04. Drudgery At The Graveyard
# 05. Chains And Saws And Chainsaws
# 06. Death Came As A Friend To Them
# 07. Professionally Curing The Disease
# 08. Defiling The Carcass
# 09. Skeletal Cage
# 10. Prone To Penetrate Pus
# 11. Distaste For Odernary Scum
# 12. Never Too Cold For Carnage
# 13. Drilled With A Jackhammer
# 14. Banquet Of The Grotesque
# 15. Shriek
# 16. Sickened Skin Infestation
# 17. Inducing Abomination Residing In Dirt

Those Who Bring The Torture

Manyfingers - Our Worn Shadow 2006

Manyfingers, despite the name is actually a one man band by Chris Cole. I think this guy has an interesting approach to music, he plays every instruments of course but what chiefly drew my attention is not that, it's the way he adds them on top of each other, so many layers of sound! actually i dont know how he does it to keep the overall sound so loose and tight at the same time! of course the obvious drawback to this approach is that by using loops one cannot develop or maybe unfold his ideas thouroughly, unless you use very long loops of course! ^^...but that's also to make do with the limits imposed by a framework ..and i think he handles it pretty well whatsoever! enjoy!

Manyfingers - Our Worn Shadow
Genre:Electronic, Ambiant
Tracklist:
1. Some Sheild
2. For Measured Shores
3. This Tar Won't Hold
4. 3 Forms
5. No Opera
6. Our Worn Shadow
7. Remark, A
8. Tsunami

Manyfingers - Our Worn Shadow

Vuvr - Pilgrimage (2001)

Welcome to the Czech Republic! not so often that we go there! as you know nowadays metal including jazz/fusion is "quite" common...but here you have to look at this album the other way around...it's jazz including metal...which is far less common, especially when the kind of metal we're dealing with is DM! what's the difference you might wonder? ^^ the difference is that even though it can be really heavy and loud, and a mixture of both genre, some songs are just plain jazz, which might seem a little bit out of step to some listeners! anyway, the guitar work is really impressive with incredible ambiances and intricate melodies...well, enough said i leave you here and let those proficient musicians do the talking! =]

Vuvr - Pilgrimage (2001)
Genre: DM/Fusion/Jazz
Tracklist:
01 Fear
02 Back in Myself
03 Autumn
04 Garden of Consciousness
05 Longing
06 Passion
07 Waves
08 Pilgrim I
09 Surprised by Pleasure
10 Pilgrim II

Vuvr - Pilgrimage

睡蓮 - ひたひた(2008)

This time we leave France to go back to the country of the rising sun! 睡蓮 which is a name of a flower is here a duo making some sort of electronic music...sometimes it makes me think about the soundtrack of FF7 ...though it's not really the same I guess!lol anyway, a very relaxing kind of music, with interesting arrangements and melodies...perhaps a bit like Every Little Thing at times but with more traditional influences and ambiances, and also a more Trip-Hop kind of sound....check'em out!


睡蓮 - ひたひた(2008)
Genre:?? trip hop....electronic
Tracklist:
1. 序
2. 杳として
3. 春の國
4. 葉蔭行進曲
5. すきま
6. 葉桜の頃
7. 月ノシュク
睡蓮 - ひたひた

29/09 - La Violence Thérapeutique

Welcome to France again, in the city of Nantes to meet 3 crazy guys! ^^ apparently French like numbers...after 37500... it's now 29/09! a very short album but very interesting IMHO, of course pretty brutal! ^^ packed with loads of energy and a raw sound..a bit like punk actually, 29/09 will not leave you a minute to breathe...the pace of the album is not that quick (there are some pauses here and there!) it's not really a typical grindcore band ...but the songwriting is rather gripping to me!...fells a bit like on a rollercoaster when you cling to the handle with all your strength cause you're afraid of getting chucked out of the car! ah ah....don't forget to snatch and axe as you fall down...they'll be waiting for you down there! =D

29/09 - La Violence Thérapeutique
Genre: Death Metal / Grindcore
Tracklist:
01. Introduction à la violence thérapeutique (introduction to therapeutic violence)
02. Baisez-moi (fuck me)
03. 50205
04. Brûle (burn)
05. Mon ami (my friend)
06. Deux ans (2 years ..or maybe 2 years old)
07. Je te préviens (i warn you)
08. Suicide-toi (commit suicide / kill yourself)
09. La poutre (the beam / the girder)
10. Quand la mer monte (when the sea level rises)

29/09

check out their myspace there is a 1/2 hour video of a gig + visual art performance performed at an art school.

http://www.myspace.com/29thseptember

37500 YENS - Astero

Here we go with 2 guys from France who like to indulge in experiemental music...overall it's like free jazz i would say but it can be quite agressive and violent ...and psychedelic! =) If you remember Cheval de Frise, then it's in the same line, though they use more instruments ...like a saxophone ...and they also have a brass section or some stuff sounding somewhat like that! ^^...also a bit like Microfilm, if you know that one, they have some ambiances with samples at times...well to make a long story short lotta things in it...i let you dig that one by yourself, don't get lost! \m/

37500 YENS - Astero
Genre: Free Jazz, Instrumental, Experimental
Tracklist:
01. 37507
02. Astero
03. Mierophomic
04. Chapatres
05. Canard Boitouix
06. Interieur 1
07. Interieur 2
08. The Sullivan'S Quartet


37500 YENS