Aabsinthe - In Search Of Light 2007

Aabsinthe, a famous drink that intoxicate and enthrall your spirit...yummmmm, one of my fav! ^^ but here, we are dealing with French Progressive Death Metal and i must say that these guys are quite captivating! if you remember Gojira, then it is as heavy but we are millions years ahead in terms of intricacy, actually you will need to listen to the album quite a few times before you can get everything they have to offer, it's not pop music (no offense intended)! ^^ it's brutal, quite original (IMHO) and flawlessly executed! these guys knows how to handle an axe ...so wanna get the chop..or would you prefer to have a go at the guillotine, they know it all!?? ah ah! \m/

Aabsinthe - In Search Of Light 2007
Genre: Progressive Death Metal
Tracklist:
1 A darkened sky
2 Dead Leaves
3 Fragments
4 Gravity leads to dark places
5 Bitterwrath
6 In search of light
7 A long walk to touch the sun

Abuse your health!

(WAR2)Murder Delirium - T.B.O.I.A.H.M. (2002)

Play: F7

I heard some have been wounded during last battle, then this is what they should now or very shortly feel like! Each of our blow is infected with a Russian disease called Murder Delirium! as the first song already tells you that is what led to "The Birth Of Intellect And Human Malice",... why we have fallen! as i speak your senses shall begin to alter and the nice and quiet melodies sent to destroy us will now sound ominous and much more brutal, enthralling hellish symphonies!! as for the delicate voices of flourishing virgins singing which you're used to, well, that is the better part, they will turn into deep demonly growl!! ah ah!! welcome to our Dream of Insanity! Great isn't it? lol

Murder Delirium - T.B.O.I.A.H.M. (2002)
Genre: Technical Dark Thrash, Progressive Death Metal
Tracklist:
01 The Birth Of Intellect And Human Malice
02 Lethal
03 Black Cloud's Dance
04 Last War
05 Murder Delirium
06 Prisoner Of The Northern Jail
07 Prophecy
08 Infidel Kingdom
09 Stigmata - Therion Variations

Alternative Vision!

五人一首 - 五人一首(2000)

This band isn't known that much and really deserve all your attention cause they are simple OUTSTANDING! to me they sound as if Nuclear Rabbit (that stupendous band of crazy lunatics!) took on an even more violent form!

here's the explaination of the name they give on their website:
The name of Gonin-ish is named from referring to the Japanese classical literature “Hyakunin-ish”. Hyakunin-ish is the literature which contains hundred of poems. The poems are constructed by divided characters, and the dividing rule is 5, 7, 5, 7 and 7 characters. “Hyakunin” means people of one hundred, and “Ish”means one poem. A man at A.D.800 selected 100 excellent poems from a lot of poems. For this reason, the literature was called “Hyakunin-Ish”, and these poems were inherited in the card game. The rule of this game is very simple. when introduction of poem was read aloud, players are to scramble for cards. In the new year, a championship of Japan is held for this game.
Refer to the above. A word "Gonin" (means five people) and "ish" (means one poem) were selected for a name of Gonin-Ish. We decided the name of “Gonin-Ish” which is a coined word, meaning to unite songs by five members.

music wise here the opinion of the band members about their music (and i quite agree with their descrition):
Gonin-ish is progressive metal band, the music futures "silence" and "chaos". To express these, we are careful about to manage beautiful melody, death voice, a delicate piano, a percussive piano, irregular time, tension chords and the techniques. When audience experience our shows, everybody expresses our sound as "Progressive Rock", "Death Metal", "Gothic Metal", "Punk?", etc. However, a division of a genre does not have a meaning.Songs of Gonin-Ish are bond to Japan, with lyrics, melodys and artworks. On lyrics, Anoji chooses words from Japanese classic literature which never use modern-day , and it is difficult for modern Japanese to understand the lyrics. This point is not handicap, because Japanese language contains “kanji” characters (They attain to Tens of thousands!). The “kanji” has many meanings by only one character, then Japanese are able to image something easy from lyrics.

五人一首 - 五人一首 (2000)
Genre: Avant-Garde Progressive Death Metal with a somewhat traditionnal Japanese ambience!
Tracklist:
1 狂骨の夢
2 経文刻印身体
3 二人遊び
4 月と半魚人
5 楼の主
6 経文刻印身体Demo1999

Let my ears bleed!

Nightfall - Athenian Echoes (1995)

This is a pretty old album which i bought quite a while ago, 11 years already! it sounds now a bit old...but the production is somehow better than some actual BM bands so there nothing to be ashamed of i reckon...lol. The music sounds like "classical" deathmetal but it was pretty avant garde at the time and there are still elements (like a subtle keyboard) which are pretty uncommon in death bands... i guess they were a bit ahead of time then! There is one funny thing about that band, which might be explained by the fact they come from Greece!...actually even with the booklet right under my eyes i have NEVER EVER been able, no matter how hard and earnestly i tried, to follow the lyrics as they were grunted and growled, i usually got lost after the first two lines!lol....so if you get the trick, just tell me!lol you'll get my everlasting respect!

Nightfall - Athenian Echoes (1995)
Genre: Death metal
Tracklist:
01 Aye Azure
02 Armada
03 Ishtar (Celebrate Your Beauty)
04 The Vineyard
05 I'm A Daemond
06 Iris (And The Burning Aureole)
07 My Red, Red Moon (Emma O)
08 Monuments Of It's Own Magnificence

Let my ears bleed!