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Archive for October, 2006
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SOUL OBSOLETE
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VRYKOLAKAS
Formed in July 1991. It has been 14 years of fucking relentless brutality !!! Still brutalizing the masses …
This is our disgorgraphy so far:
1992 Demo "VRYKOLAKAS"
1999 Promo "NUTHFAH"
2000 Demo "BURID IN FILTHY VOMITS" ( Mangled Maggot Stew Productions )
2000 Cassette Ep "BURID IN FILTHY VOMITS" ( Maelstrom666 Productions )
2000 MCD "VRYKOLAKAS 2000"
2001 Cassette Split EP "AFTERMATH" ( Muzik Box Productions ) w/ KOMA
2002 5 Way Split CD SUPREME BRUTAL LEGIONS ( Vrykoblast Productions ) w/ CARDIAC NECROPSY / INSISION / KOMA / LACERATE
2004 CD "SPAWNED FROM HELLFIRE AND BRIMSTONES" ( Vrykoblast Productions )
2007 CD "UNLEASHING VRYKOLAKAS UPON MANKIND" (SOON TO BE RELEASE)
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SUBVERTOR - Transgreso-Evolucion CD
Monkey people unite, here's the CD you've been all waiting. Bolivian HC/Rap/Grind quintet, Subvertor is delivering some of the most monkey form of Metal ever heard. The intro of the CD starts a monkey being served to dish, and that speaks about the band like being monkey themselves. The vocals sounds like a Gorilla(I'm telling you, that's a big monkey) doing some rap in Spanish accent that in some sense, not doing any kind of sense really. Low end growls mixed with high pitched screams that sings along with other members. The music is literally, like a monkey combo with feets handling the instruments. That is because, the band is like playing a wiggle-ziggle style of Metal that sounds really ridiculous. The band maybe want themselves that way. The lyrix deals with politics and showing the band that they hate this society coz it's full of capitalist and whatever they are trying to point out. That's better. But if you want to write lyrix of that kind, please do some thing also for the music to make both of them work. The music is horribly un-synchronized. The mixing is ok. The sound is great. It's just that the band is not playing well. 2/10 -
Equipment
Audio-Technica : Microphones
B.C. Rich Guitars : Really Bad Ass Guitars
Behringer : Amplifiers
Carvin : Guitars
Dean Markley : Guitar Strings
DW Drums : The Drummer's Choice
Marshall : Amplifiers
Moser Custom Shop : Fucken' Evil Guitar Shapes!
Pro-Mark : Drum Sticks
Zildjian : Cymbals
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Impaled Nazarene
Impaled Nazarene was originally formed in November 1990 with the band soon starting to rehearse on their own material. In February 1991 they recorded their first rehearsal demo called "Shemhamforash" on a two-track deck with a resulting horrible sound. Antti Pihkala was at this time replaced by Harri Halonen on bass.
In April 1991 they played their first show as the opening act for Beherit in Kempele, Finland. In August same year they entered the well-known Tico Tico studio in Kemi to record their first official studio demo called "Taog Eht Fo Htao Eht". The band now started to become known in the underground scene and they also took part in the "Day Of Darkness" festival in Oulu with bands like Amorphis and Belial.
In October 1991 they recorded their "Goat Perversion" 7" EP for an Italian label. In the winter/spring time of 91/92 Holappa and Halonen both left the band due to lack of interest. The band performed some shows in Finland as a threesome. They now signed a deal with the French black/death metal label Osmose Productions.
In the summer of 1992 Taneli Jarva joined the band as a session bass player while Jarno Anttila replaced the leaving Pääkkö for the upcoming recording of their debut album. In October they started recording "Tol Cormpt Norz Norz Norz" and the 7" EP "Sadogoat" at Tico Tico. Anttila and Jarva now joined in as full time members. In the winter their debut album was released and went straight up to number 40 in the Finnish charts.
The band started writing new material quickly and in July 1993 they entered Tico Tico again to record their second album "Ugra-Karma" and the "Satanic Masowhore" 7" EP. They were both released in December with even better response than the first album. In January 1994 they went on their first European tour with Ancient Rites from Belgium.
In July 1994 they entered Tico Tico yet again to record opus number three which was at first meant to be called "Hail To Finland". The band decided to change the name in the last minute and the new and official title became "Suomi Finland Perkele". In December the album was released with mixed reactions from media and fans. In April 1995 they went on their second European tour with label mates Absu and Sadistik Exekution.
In August 1995 the band was supposed to record the MCD "Hamnasnas" at - guess where… - Tico Tico. However this was never achieved since Jarva and K. Luttinen ended up in a fight during the first night of work. The band went back home and K. Luttinen was replaced with Reima Kellokoski as the new drummer. In October it was time for a third tour through Europe with Krabathor and Ministry Of Terror. The band also got the chance to headline a Halloween fest at Astoria in London.
In February 1996 it was time to record again at Tico Tico with the cd "Latex Cult" and the mcd "Motörpenis" (where do they get these titles from…?) as the final result. After recording these two Taneli Jarva decided to leave the band and in came Jani Lehtosaari. In Marh they recorded two videos in London which resulted in the "1999: Karmageddon Warriors" video.
The two new recordings were released in April 1996 and were followed by the band's longest European tour so far. Bands like Grave, Krabathor, Rotting Christ, Immolation, Cannibal Corpse, Vader and Dark Tranquillity were some of the show companions. In October they recorded an exclusive track called "I Am The Killer Of Trolls" for the label sampler "World Domination II". In November they played two festival shows in France and in December it was time to hit the rest of Europe again with Angel Corpse and Gehennah.
In 1997 the band recorded two instrumental demo tapes to analyse their new material and played two Finnish rock festivals in the summer. In September the band and their label Osmose Productions were sued by a group of Hare-Krishna members because of the cover of "Ugra-Karma" and a long legal battle was born.
In January 1998 "Rapture" was recorded at Tico Tico with a release in April. In February they played four very successful shows in Mexico. In July they shot a promo video for "Penis and Circes" at the Tuska Festival. The band also played in Dublin, Philadelphia, New York, the Montreal Metal fest (as headliners) and the Milwaukee Metal Fest in the US. In September they went to St. Petersburg to play a show with fellow countrymen Children Of Bodom. The hotel party afterwards resulted in Alexi Laiho joining Impaled Nazarene on lead guitars.
In November and December 1998 they went out to haunt Europe again together with Ritual Carnage and Driller Killer. Laiho was however unable to join the rest of the band since he had to be with his other band Sinergy (with his girlfriend Kimberly Goss in charge). In January 1999 the legal battle with Hare Krishna was settled outside the court and Osmose released a new version with another cover.
In February the band returned to Mexico to play another four shows. This time Laiho could go with them and he did his first live appearances with Impaled Nazarene. They also played San Francisco and Los Angeles as a four piece outfit since Laiho had to go back to Finland. Again without Laiho they left for Japan in March to play four shows. In April they played the third No Mercy Festivals in Europe with Morbid Angel, Emperor, The Crown, Limbonic Art and Peccatum, again without Laiho.
In June the band settled down to write new material and played at the Nummirock Summer Solstice Rock Festival for the first time, again without Laiho. Without the absent one they also headed down to Australia and New Zealand to play some shows in July and August. A show in Wollongong, Australia, was however cancelled due to pressure from local press and parents.
In August 1999 the band entered Astia Studio in Lappeenranta (now there's a surprise!) to record the next album "Nihil" as well as two tracks for a split picture 7" EP with Driller Killer. "Nihil" was mastered in late September at Finnvox Studio. In October Fournier, the artist behind the new "Ugra-Karma" cover started working on the cover art.
In December 1999 the split EP with Driller Killer was released by Solardisk, the label of the band's bass player Lehtosaari. "Nihil" was released worldwide on February 14th, 2000 and in March they played some shows in Finland with Finntroll and Throne Of Chaos, this time actually with Laiho. After these they went to New Jersey for the March Metal Meltdown.
In April they went on a French tour named "Assault The Weak". This time Laiho was replaced by Tomi Ullgren (Thy Serpent, Shape Of Despair). Some problems did occur on this tour and the French secret police follows them all the way through the tour. In Montauban the band was forced to perform their songs without announcing any titles including the word Satan. The police also forbids them selling any merchandise because of its nature.
In May 2000 Impaled Nazarene joined Children Of Bodom on a trip to Greece for the first time and on these shows Laiho performed with both bands every night. In June the band played two festivals in Finland (Valhalla Metal Fest and Provinssi Rock Festival), again with Tomi Ullgren instead of Laiho. In July the band played at the Tuska Festival in Helsinki where Jani Lehtosaari informs his friends that he has decided to leave the band to concentrate on his label Solardisk.
In July 2000 they also played their first Swedish show at the Dist 2000 Festival, the last one with Jani on stage. Luttinen now moved back to Finland from his temporary home in Belgium. In August Luttinen re-entered Astia Studio to compile the ten year anniversary album "Decade Of Decadence" which was later mastered at Finnvox.
In the autumn of 2000 Impaled Nazarene found their new bass player Teemu Raimoranta of Finntroll. It also became clear that Laiho could not do any live appearances with the band in the future and he was therefore forced to leave the band. Teemu was then chosen to play lead guitars instead of bass and Mikael Arnkil (x-Antidote drummer) was chosen as the new bass player.
In November 2000 the anniversary album was released and in December they played their first sold out show in Finland at Nosturi, Helsinki. More than 900 fans had gathered to see the band. At this show Ullgren played since Arnkil hadn't had the time to learn the songs yet. In January and February 2001 they started rehearsing on new songs with the new line-up. In March they signed a new two album deal with Osmose Productions.
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Twisted Tower Dire
TWISTED TOWER DIRE formed in 1995 for the sole purpose of resurrecting True Heavy Metal. Influences were drawn from Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Candlemass, and others. After releasing two legendary demos, several split EPs and contributing to various sampler CD's to critical acclaim, the band began working with long time fan and Solstice guitarist Rich Walker. He had recently formed a new label called The Miskatonic Foundation and offered to support the recording and distribution of the first TWISTED TOWER DIRE album.
The band unleashed their self produced, full-length debut in 1999. Despite a modest budget, "The Curse of Twisted Tower" won over many dedicated fans that appreciated TWISTED TOWER DIRE's traditional yet unique sound. From 1999 to 2000, the band embarked on a relentless, self-financed world tour in support of "Curse". This tour included U.S. appearances at the Milwaukee Metal Fest (Wisconsin), March Metal Meltdown (New Jersey), The Powermad Fest (Maryland), Phantasmagoria Metal Fest (Maryland), and The North Carolina Metal Fest. A European stretch of the tour followed with fellow metal heathens Slough Feg and Solstice including several club dates and appearances at the Wacken Open Air Festival (Germany) and the Bradford Metal Inquisition (England).
In 2001 TWISTED TOWER DIRE released the critically acclaimed "Isle of Hydra" on The Miskatonic Foundation and Hellion Records. The album featured mature song writing abilities and improved production, but retained a certain underground grit. In support they played several shows in the Mid Atlantic Region and beyond, including an appearance at the Classic Metal Festival (Michigan) and a second appearance at the Milwaukee Metal Festival (Wisconsin). In July 2002 TWISTED TOWER DIRE returned to Deutschland to continue their relentless assault on small clubs and festivals abroad with a headlining appearance at The Headbanger's Open Air Festival.
In September of that year TWISTED TOWER DIRE signed to Germany's Remedy Records. Their third release "Crest Of The Martyrs" was unleashed upon the masses on May 26th, 2003. The song "Axes & Honour" was released as a limited vinyl single and picture vinyl single. The release of "Crest" was accompanied by a European tour including festival gigs at the Metal Bash Open Air Fest and the Wacken Open Air Fest.
TWISTED TOWER DIRE has gone through countless trials and changes through its 10 year history but the seminal vision has remained the same from early basement practices to today. The "Tower Brethren" continue to fight for the legacy of Classic Heavy Metal with their strongest line-up and forthcoming 4th album “Netherworlds” in 2006. The band appreciates the support of its dedicated fans and hopes to soon see you in the audience banging your head!
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Vomitory
Vomitory was formed in 1989 by original guitarist Urban Gustafsson and bass player Ronnie Olson. Under influence of the growing underground scene and bands such as Sodom, Napalm Death, Slayer and Venom, their sound developed quite soon into pure death metal. During the early '90's they spread their name in the worldwide underground scene by releasing some demos and a vinyl 7".
In the mid-'90's when the death metal scene began to stagnate, and while all "brutal" bands split up or changed their style drastically, Vomitory released their debut full-length death metal explosion, "Raped In Their Own Blood", in November 1996 on the Dutch indie label Fadeless records. It was greeted with great respect within the underground scene.
Album number two, "Redemption" (1999), showed a certain musical progress, but Vomitory also showed that they still stick to their brutal style of death metal and never follow any trends. In October 1999, Vomitory had been grinding death metal for a decade, and celebrated that by releasing a limited 10" picture mini-LP, featuring songs that represented different periods of the ten-year existence of the band.
After two albums on Fadeless records and some smaller European tours, contact between Vomitory and Metal Blade records were successfully established. Now the band was reduced to four members - bass player Erik Rundqvist started taking care of the vocal duties as well. A successful European tour as support to Cannibal Corpse and the No Mercy festivals in 2000 passed and in November the same year Vomitory released their third album, entitled "Revelation Nausea". The new four-piece line-up proved to be a good formula since the reviews were amazingly good!
Their fourth album, "Blood Rapture" (2002), was a step forward in the same direction of death metal Vomitory has always marched. Once again the brilliant production beared the mark of Henrik Larsson and Berno Studio. A full European tour was done together with label-mates Amon Amarth and Callenish Circle, and later on Vomitory played at Wacken Open Air for the first time.2003 was a pretty calm year for the band, which mostly focused on writing new material instead of playing live. So in December they entered Studio Kuling in Örebro/Sweden together with long-time companion Henrik Larsson to record their fifth (and most present) album, "Primal Massacre", which was released in April 2004. That same month the band embarked on the No Mercy festivals in Europe with bands such as Cannibal Corpse, Hypocrisy, Exhumed and Kataklysm.
In September 2005, guitarist Ulf Dalegren unfortunately decided to leave Vomitory after nearly 15 years in the band. Peter Östlund (also in The Law) was recently recruited as a new permanent guitarist.
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Varathron
Varathron was one of the first black metal bands from Greece and formed in the late 80's by Stephan Necroabyssious (vocals), John (guitars), Mutilator (bass) and Captain Death (drums). In 1989 they released their first demo tape but then Captain Death went to Belgium for work. The band has gone through lots of line-up changes in their long career with Stephan Necroabyssious as the only remaining member from the original four. They were said to record a new album called "Crowsreign" but it seems as if the band has broken up since then. The band leader Stephan Necroabyssious also played water polo and was a martial arts teacher. He also managed a couple of bands from his home town Ioannina, wrote for several metal magazines and had his own metal radio show. In late July 2004 it was announced that the band had returned and signed a contract with the Greek label Black Lotus Records for the release of a new studio album. -
INTHYFLESH - Black Metal from Portugal
Portugal's INTHYFLESH, manifested in 2000, debuted with a 2001 'Black Metal Rehearsal Tape' demo. The band then issued the November 2002 demos 'Ode Nacional' and 'Onslaught Against Slavery', both restricted to 300 copies and both released on the same day. A further demo, 'United By Blood And Sword', would be issued as a split demo in collaboration with Germany's NAVJA. INTHYFLESH's line-up would be quoted as singer Satære, a veteran of UNFLESHED and DESPONDENT, guitarists Inferi Dii and Adon Chrysaor, bassist Arawn with former UNFLESHED man Njiord on drums. However, Adon Chrysaor departed to join FLAGELLUM DEI, GREYSCALES then LUX FERRE.
The Australian GoatowaRex label put out the August 2004 album 'Crawl Beneath Our Shadow'. Sessioning on bass guitar would be Nocturnus Horrendus, scene veteran of CORPUS CHRISTII, GENOCIDE KOMMANDO, MORTE INCANDESCENTE, STORM LEGION and COLDNESS. In Brazil the album was distributed in limited edition cassette format through Alastor Rex Productions. In December of 2004 Wyvern enrolled on bass. Recordings in March of 2005 saw the band entering the studio to lay down two new tracks, 'Arrested By Grief' for use on the compilation album 'Lusitania Dark Horde II' and 'Devoted To Misfortune' for a proposed split 7" single shared with KULT OV AZAZEL.
The 2005 version of INTHYFLESH saw Satære joined by the guitar team of Tarannis, of ACCEPTUS NOCTIFER, EXUL and DESPONDENT repute, and Desecrator, VAPULAH and URZE bassist Sephirus and drummer Alastor R., the latter holding credits with GOLDENPYRE, TENEBRAE and DECREPIDEMIC. The band signed to Drakkar Productions for further product.
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Print/Webzines
Ad Noctum Zine : Home of the HAMMERHEART and STREETCLEANER Fanzine!
Ancient Spirit : German webzine for METAL!!! and way more; est.1996
Blackfuel : Dutch metal & hardcore e-zine
Blastbeat Webzine : Dutch and Belgian Metal Webzine
BornInBlood : Helping Unsigned Metal Talent
Bright Eyes Germany : Interviews, Reviews and More
Brutalism : Zine and radiostation with huge databsae and links
Burning Misery Promotions/Zine : Promotions and webzine for Deathmetal - Grindcore - Blackmetal
Carnage Death Metal : German Print + Webzine with an sure old school part
Crypt of Dr. Gore : Extreme Metal Support
Deadwebzine : Extreme Metal Guide Since 1999
DeathMetal.be : Support site for Belgian Metal
Decibels Storm : One of the most ancient 'zine in Europe, founded in 1989 and now available on the web. Written in French.
Diabolical Conquest Webzine : Underground Extreme Metal Webzine
Enslain Magazine : Metal reviews / photos / exclusives since '97!
Eternal Night Zine : Interviews to Thrash/Death/Black Metal
Face Your Underground Magazine : E-magazine for metal bands all genres
Grindcore Dot Com : Grindcore Messageboard and Webzine
Heavy Metal Universe : International webzine from AOR to Grind Death
Herriko Burdina : The Metal Scene Of The Basque Country
