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Written by Philip
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Thursday, 23 July 2009 22:24 |
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Candlelight Records In a just and fair world one would
not be forced to wait eight whole years for legendary bands to release
substantial new material. This, my friends, is not a just and fair
world. 2001's Tara was, and still remains, a masterpiece
monument of metal. It showed us Absu reaching a level that only the
greats ever reach, consistently reminding us of their greatness and
amazing accomplishment through out the duration of the album. This is
not to imply that Absu had not achieved greatness before this release,
because they very clearly had. But Tara felt like the realization of all possibilities within the band up to that point. After the tidal wave of awesome that was Tara finally
subsided and gave people room to breath again and recover from whiplash
and broken necks, we awaited the next masterpiece. And we waited some
more. And then some obscure and hard to find mini releases were let
out, as well as a best-of compilation as a sort of teaser, to remind us
that Absu still existed and withheld its powers from our sight. But a
new full length album of all new Absu material was not appearing on the
horizon for quite a while.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 23 July 2009 23:07 |
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Impiety - 18 Atomic Years Satanniversary |
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Written by Philip
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Saturday, 18 July 2009 22:12 |
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Pulverised Records Impiety assault us with this compilation of their sickening black thrash death attack from releases between 1990 and 2008, when this was released last year. To make this a necessity for all Impiety freaks out there they have included one exclusive song, Dominion 18. It is a 7 and a half + minute opus of thrash metal drenched in black metal and death metal, standard fare from this Singapore death machine. |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 23 July 2009 11:10 |
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Written by Bukkake
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Friday, 17 July 2009 07:56 |
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Season of Mist
The Australian and Anti-christ Deströyer 666 now based in the Netherlands released its last album back in 2002. The unfortunate expiration of visas of two of the band members put the band in difficult times, and required some new recruitments. The Terror Abraxas EP was released in 2003 and that was the last many of us had heard from these wolves of war. Six years of waiting have seemed like six decades. A year and a half ago the legions of unholy devotees heard the good news of the D666 guys working on new material and the recording of a new album. Finally, the sounds of sin have been given back to us.
It has been a long time. A new Deströyer 666 album has been one of my most anticipated delights in the last six years, and I was beginning to think it would not happen. But with the recent bequeathment of the new Absu album, another treasure I had been anticipating for something approaching a decade, I thought all was not lost. I was correct, because only days ago Defiance was released in the states and I picked it up within a few hours of the record store opening. The entire album had been leaked over the internet over a month ago, and I couldn't help but listen through it all once. But I did my best to refrain from listening any more than that, to not ruin the impact of the brilliance I was hearing.
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Last Updated on Friday, 17 July 2009 08:07 |
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Ayat - Six Years of Dormant Hatred |
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Written by Philip (formerly Bukkake)
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Friday, 17 July 2009 15:23 |
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Moribund Records
To my knowledge there's not a whole lot of metal going on in the Middle East. As far as I know, most bands don't tour to play in the Middle East, so living there would not seem to be conducive to playing metal. But now my limited knowledge on Lebanon's metal activity tells me that they at least sure as hell get a lot of metal distributed to the people in some form or fashion, because a band like Ayat does not pop up out of the absence of metal, punk, crust and total aural fury... unless it comes into existence for this very reason. However, a band like Ayat could only exist in a place like the Middle East, bred by the rampant hatred and hostilities of conflicting nations. War is in their blood, and this blood is all over their back yard.
Having released nothing but two EP's and a string of demos over the last 9 years, Ayat is a relative no-name in modern metal. One could not expect anything more, considering the land the band calls home. How they have managed to record and release ANYTHING without being found, arrested, and sentenced to a bizarre Muslim punishment is a mystery to me. You've got to hand it to these guys - they are truly dedicated to their hateful, anti-religious stance more so than you can say for any other metal band of note. Metal bands in America, Germany, Canada, Scandinavia, France, England, Mexico, etc... will not be hunted down, stripped of rights and thrown into prison for what they say and write about religion, or Allah or Islam. Ayat will. With Six Years of Dormant Hatred Ayat have unleashed what sounds more like six centuries of dormant hatred, misanthropy and disgust.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 23 July 2009 22:26 |
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Dream Theater - Black Clouds And Silver Linings |
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Written by Liu
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Wednesday, 15 July 2009 12:09 |
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Roadrunner
The overly-prolific Dream Theater is back once again with their tenth studio album, Black Clouds And Silver Linings. There are few bands that maintain a love/hate relationship with its fans like Dream Theater does. Their willingness to experiment in unexplored territory tends to create controversy among their fanbase, but for the first time in many years, the band has decided to reel it all in and focus on creating a solid album front-to-back and with Black Clouds And Silver Linings, they have succeeded in spades.
After an ominous intro, A Nightmare To Remember opens up the album. It is a 16 minute track that exemplifies everything great about Dream Theater. The first 4 minutes has the band rocking out with a determined heaviness, churning out mammoth riffs and pounding beats. The song takes a turn to the melodic in the middle, creating some of the most genuinely beautiful music they have ever done. James LaBrie is in top form here. After excellent solos by Petrucci and Rudess, the song starts building up back to the heaviness of the earlier part of the song, containing vocals by Portnoy and eventually features him blast beating for the first time in his career. |
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