Gloryful is a band from Gelsenkirchen, Germany, formed in 2010 playing an epic type of heavy Metal. The current members are Johnny La Bomba – Vocals, Jens "Shredmaster JB" Basten – Guitar, Vito Papotto – Guitar, Oliver Karasch – Bass and Hartmut Stoof – Drums.
Eyes Wide Open is a Swedish metal band. Since their beginnings in Karlstad back in 2011, the band has more than just made themselves a name.
Hailing from Keyport, New Jersey, Instrumental Prog-Technical Aggro-Metal act El Drugstore was formed in 2008 as a side-project of guitarist Kevin Conway drummer Seth Rheam of East Of The Wall (Prog-Technical Metal band of the same town, of whom I recently reviewed the latest album Redaction Artefacts – you can find it posted somewhere around Christmas 2013, I guess), alongside bassist Rolando Alvarado.
Although the math stoner rock influenced wave, especially the French, that has been growing lately does not particularly interest me, because lack of originality, this band does show some skill on this CD enough to keep me focussed on, as 8 songs flow reasonably well. Plenty of catchy riffs, well done groove sections and angry, but not particularly interesting, vocals thrown in for the Mastodon, Torche and Baroness sludge feel. It's not the most varied or demanding style, but these guys rip it up with power and conviction.
Very little is known about this Paris, France based quartet of Alternative Rock/ Metal youngsters, but from little bits and pieces in different sources on the Internet, I was able to gather together the following.
Dot Legacy is a fairly young band. It’s made up of four young French rockers witch use elements such as stoner, noise and even post-rock. But apparently that’s basically all the info you kind find about them.
And I see why. Now I don’t want to break down their album to the ground, because fair is fair and this record has some good riffs/lyrics….but it is just average at best. Nothing special, no goose bumps, no “let me listen to that again” moment. So yeah, I wouldn’t put to much info about myself online if I would release an album like this.
Greek act Dodsferd are very productive (more than a hand full of full lengths, besides some other stuff; you can, for example, find the short but clear review undersigned did on Spitting With Hatred The Insignificance Of Life within the Archives’ update on May 22nd 2011), and without any doubt I do appreciate everything they ever did. Signing to Moribund, for example, is something I do appreciate a lot, for the collaboration of a great act and a great label results in nothing but superlatives.
One of the advantages of the growing use of Internet, include the fact that smaller labels, which before would never have had the financial means (mailing costs simply being too high, alongside to the fact that the copies sent would be lost for sales) to send you promotional copies of their releases. Nowadays, the music journalist is invited to make his/her acquaintance with bands which (s)he may otherwize only have come across by chance.
This Providence, Rhode Island based band is was, or rather, is once again...one of the somewhat aberrant acts in the New England Hardcore and Noise scenes from the latter decade. Intro sounding a bit weird? Well, that's in character with the band's music and vocal approach then!
Okay...so the story of the formation of this band is somewhat peculiar, but also not unthinkable in these days of Internet communications. You know, the four members of Culted have never actually been together in one room, but is that actually such an amazing feat? I mean, if musicians from different sides of the globe can contribute to songs written by others, why could they not switch ideas back an forth in order to write music together? I mean, it's been done before, you know!
