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After four years, and after bass player Viper (better known as Vicotnik from e.g.

Good to know,  “Evil unleashed  / give’ em war” is a  rerelease  of the first 2  albums of this Spanish band,   the info sheet tells me that we’re talking thrash, but  in my opinion Angelus Apatrida  are just as  much a power metal band as they are  thrash.   This  review also only refers to  “Evil unleashed”  for the simple  reason that  that’s  all the promo package proved to me contained….   Anyway Angelus Apatrida    come as a nice surprise to me as  even today  good quality  metal bands from Spain are  a rare breed.

Andi Deris , for who we know of being the lead singer of one of the greatest and most popular heavy metal bands worldwide, Helloween. So basically you could have a fair idea of who he is and what he has done already. Now, the man returns with another solo album, witch hasn’t happened since 1999.

Wrong are a Spanish duo, i.e.

Primo, before starting: this stuff was initially released at the very end of 2012 on vinyl via France’s Extreme Metal-label Bones Brigade. …now re-issued on CD via Selfmadegod. This said…

This split-album brings material from two extremely crazy acts from respectively Holland (Blood I Bleed) and Czech Republic (Lycanthrophy). And with ‘crazy’ I do mean ‘CRAZY’!

Oranssi Pazuzu were formed in 2007 by Juho ‘Jun-His’ Vanhanen, who wanted to do something in the vein of his band Kuolleet Intiaanit, but much heavier, bleaker, more extreme. The band recorded two full lengths (Muukalainen Puhuu and Kosmonument) and a split (with another weird Finnish band, Candy Cane) before, and this new material goes on in the very same weird vein. So if you’re trusted with any former stuff, you might expect the usual, i.e. the unusual!

I have a confession to make : until recently I didn't think much of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds...and you can take that dubious statement in both its ways. In fact I felt more of an aversion than anything else, and so when the editor-in-chief shoved this CD into my to-do box, my reaction was rather one of “What...why...dó I have to do this?!”...but on the other hand the better feelings of curiosity took over. Because, after all, with growing age one's musical tastes change and broaden, you know!

You know, I've always been convinced that the place where people grow up can be a major defining element in how they look at life in general, and their relations in particular. Those growing up in barren conditions will usually develop feelings of jealousy and envy, and petty disagreements may grow into insurmountable breaking apart and even warfare. Of course, the more people live together per square mile, the swifter inequalities will arise, along with all those bad feelings!

I only knew this Czech band from their collaboration on last year’s split with Germany’s Vindorn and Sator Marte; the latter is a band that shares Triumph, Genus’s instrumentalist Svar, by the way. Triumph, Genus consists of this multi-instrumentalist, as well as vocalist / lyricist Jaroslav, and this first full length comes on both CD and vinyl (the latter, however, limited to 300 copies only).

In almost fifteen years of raison d’être, Portland, Oregon-based project Toxic Holocaust released a handful of studio releases that undersigned does appreciate enormously.