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New blood spreads his wings – Recipient13

Posted by Rimmon on Feb 20, 2012 in Now Playing, Video | 0 comments

I must warn You in the beginning. This is technical deathcore stuff. They proved themselves worthy of listening because of not overdosed ‘core matter. They’re used the equipment very wisely with a nice touch of progressive part (“This Time” for example). Beside this, Recipient13 tries to go beyond this modern genre. Guitars can be disturbingly arrhythmic but it gives them some kind of new look. I’ve ran into this band randomly on Youtube and must admit it’s a well done start into scene. The weakest element are the vocals since they’re try to be more emotive than they really are (sounding flat at the same time). The other bad thing is the lenght of this EP – only 7.38 minutes not giving us the proper amount of data to rate band’s possibilities for the future releases.

The good thing that this “ISIS” EP is completely free for download on Recipient13 official website: LINK

Russian swarm in and out – Scrambled Defuncts

Posted by Rimmon on Jan 29, 2012 in Now Playing | 0 comments

The CD starts with long and disturbing intro serving us some tool work around human (child) body, terryfing narration, eerie sound and finally – atmospheric music. Then we’re being slapped in the face by the exquisite guitar work. They’re like narrow path of consciousness – slamming technical death metal directly into Your brain. You take no damage when You obey they rules. The solos are big thing to mention on “Hackled In Gore”. Sometimes very Death alike and sometimes progressive to the core. Either way, they’re surely a blast in the eyes. Scrambled Defuncts cultivate the idea of grindcore bands about intros / outros being served all the way down through the 51 minutes. It should make them more “gore” or “brutal” but it doesn’t. It’s a nice addition but thats all. Drumming is worth mentioning as well. It’s very strict, precise and extreme above all. Like roaming in the thick fog. Makes You helpless and fearful. Russians did a great job with this album. It’s like Suffocation met old Atheist… power music for the technical people. I recommend!

Scrambled Defuncts – Hackled In Gore (2005)
Russia, Monsters Corp., Brutal Technical Death Metal

Omnihility – these fellas sure love Origin!

Posted by Goshuggist on Jan 23, 2012 in Now Playing | 0 comments

The Metal Archives is a very hit and miss website; what they do extremely well in publicizing unknown bands and creating a wonderful database of new outfits to discover they ruin with reactionary elitists and close minded trolls. Regardless, while looking for new bands to review and/or enjoy, I stumbled across this Eugene, Oregon based group called Omnihility.

“Sounds quite brutal,” I surmised from the name of the group.

“They’d have to be with a name meaning ‘Absolute belief in nothingness’.”

A quick Youtube search brought up none of their material save for grainy live footage. It was on Reverbnation that I finally got a taste of Omnihility’s material. As I put on the song ‘Abcess Of Oblivion’, I had a sudden, unmistakable feeling that I knew couldn’t be true. After the song played in its entirety, I played ‘Biogenesis’ and ‘Unsummoned’ in an attempt to quell the feeling, but it only continued to grow. After listening to all of the material they had put up, I was forced to acknowledge my initial feeling was correct.

Spawn of Possession strikes. First track from incoming “Incurso” album!

Posted by Rimmon on Jan 18, 2012 in Now Playing | 1 comment

5 long years they kept us waiting for the new album and finally it will be out 13 of march 2012 (Relapse Records). In the meantime, here’s the first track from this album which is called “Where Angels Go Demons Follow”.

Relapse Records comment:

The wait is over. ‘Incurso’, Spawn Of Possession’s Relapse debut and first new record in over five years is a headspinning masterpiece of technically brutal death metal. Featuring current and former members of tech-titans Necrophagist and Obscura, Spawn Of Possession absolutely annihilate with ‘Incurso’. Devastating riffs, jaw-dropping time-signatures and improbably complex and sophisticated songwriting all combine to create an opus of next level death metal. Spawn Of Possession’s ‘Incurso’ is simultaneously fresh and instantly classic, an immediate landmark in the death metal canon.

SPAWN OF POSSESSION – Where Angels Go Demons Follow by RelapseRecords

Some Cold Metal for Cold Days: “Of Winter Born” by Ignominious Incarceration

Posted by Witness to the Void on Jan 18, 2012 in Now Playing | 0 comments

Metal is an extremely seasonal genre of music. In winter the frozen forests of Norwegian black metal reign supreme. In spring the progressive melodies bud with the returning greenery. We trudge though the swampy thickness of sludge in summer, or windmill along in Florida. We contemplate death and mortality in the sorrows of doom during fall. And then we return to winter.

“But when is the season for technical death metal?!” you cry. “All of them!” I say, “You just need the right albums!” Ignominious Incarceration’s Of Winter Born is just one of those coldly calculated technical albums for winter, but adds a steamy cup of melodic flourish to warm you up during the coldest days. Take this one on that long ski trip deep into the mountains.

A Technical Death/Thrash Onslaught – Gnostic’s “Engineering the Rule”

Posted by Witness to the Void on Jan 18, 2012 in Now Playing | 0 comments

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a housefly? Buzzing around, changing directions constantly with no loss in momentum - zip, around a corner! Zip, under the table! There! Here! WOAH, someone tried to swat me! Too slow!

This is how I would imagine it would be, anyway. Now, instead imagine that you, as a fly, have the density and momentum of a freight train. A very angry freight train. Covered in broken glass. That is how Engineering the Rule by Gnostic sounds, and I mean all of that in the best way possible.

Beneath The Massacre’s Latest Single ‘Left Hand’: Jog on.

Posted by Goshuggist on Jan 16, 2012 in Now Playing | 0 comments

Well, well, well; twice in one week I’ve mentioned Beneath The Massacre. Beginning to be a tic.

In any case, while browsing Facebook the latest single from Beneath The Massacre’s soon to be released third LP popped up on ‘Rings Of Saturn’s page. My expectations remained at their trademark level of snark and cynicism before opening a new tab to Youtube. The song started, the music blasted aaaaaand…

It was thoroughly mediocre.

Obscura covers a classic… “The Flesh And The Power It Holds” by Death

Posted by Rimmon on Jan 7, 2012 in Now Playing | 0 comments

Obscura‘s great cover of the death metal classic “The Flesh And The Power It Holds” by Death.

Prepare to die fast with Entrails Eradicated – Viralocity

Posted by Rimmon on Jan 7, 2012 in Now Playing, Video | 1 comment

This is by far sickest release I’ve heard this year, though it was released in 2010. This is one big arpeggio masturbation with crunchy, brutal – two way – vocals that any grindcore band would be proud of. Rhythm and speed fiend with lot of blasting and stop&go play. You will find some heavy breakdown or two but this is not a ‘core music by any means. It is heavy, cruel and will try to kill You! Must be prepared for this amount of intensity. You must speak to Your brain directly and warn him… there is a storm coming! It’s like Visceral Bleeding mixed with Necrophagist with some addition of Avulsed brutality. Sick EP – I want more! Check the video below!

ENTRAILS ERADICATED
Viralocity (2010) EP

Australia, Self-released, Technical Death Metal

The bigger experience – Achokarlos 3rd album

Posted by Rimmon on Dec 21, 2011 in Now Playing | 0 comments

“Mind Landscapes” is the first “commercial” album from Achokarlos – the band formed and administered by Carlos Garcia. I didn’t heard the two albums released before but if they have 50% of inquisitiveness of “Mind Landscapes”, then You should check them for sure! This is the conglomerate of some wicked eerie sounds, disturbing, various vocals and complex music. For the first time, You will be overwhelmed by the differentiation which Achokarlos has in his pocket. You will experience clean woman singing and almost doom metal slowdowns. Then You will crush into the wall called progression supported by jazzy improvisations. The background will be filled with some wicked ambiences and long-shaped guitars with deep reverb. I won’t tell You more… this is simply artistic, complex album worth checking by all means. By the way – all the music is done by Carlos alone.

PS. The saxophone is great!

ACHOKARLOS
Mind Landscapes (2010)

Spain, Self-released, Progressive / Technical Death Metal / Fusion