Goes based Dutch Hard Rock/ Heavy Metal band Harbour Of Souls was founded some 2 years ago by now singer (then drummer) Martin de Jong and lead guitarist Jesper van Hoften, who'd by then already been playing in bands (together or apart) for ten years.
With this new album, the original Prog Metal masters make a close to a near-decade hiatus in studio recordings.
For two decades, in mean time, Deeds Of Flesh are standard for massive, brain-splattering Death madness, and this through eight full lengths that all of them have been received with open arms (and banging heads!): Gradually Melted (re-released in 1998 via Repulse Records, the very same label that released both next albums too), Trading Pieces, Inbreeding The Anthropophagi (with guest vocals by Disgorge’s Matti Way), (and from now on via the band’s own record label Unique Leade
Finland's Pshychedelic Rock act Death Hawks was founded in 2010's Spring by vocalist Teemu Markkula of the band Seremonia (who are signed to the Svart Records imprint) as a project to arrange and record some songs which he had written, but soon enough the interaction with the other musicians made him want to come out with the music through live performances.
I guess the easiest way to describe this band is to tag them with the sludge metal label. Their thick rhythms, distorted riffs, fat grooves, growling/throaty vocals and heavy as shit drumming is a trademark of the genre, so I guess that's what they are. It's very hard not to be drawn onto bands like Dukes of Nothing, Harvey Milk, 16, Amebix, Ken Mode, Weedeater, Sourvein and more when listening to this.
With Orlando, Florida as its basis, this ElectroPop band was started in late 2007 as a joke trio (including also Rebecca Fugate and Christopher Mongillo) by David Jesus Torres (henceforth known as Davhie Vanity) under the original monicker of Love The Fashion, but the joke soon grew into the more serious BotDF!
Avenged Sevenfold is an American hard rock/metal band from California U.S.A. and was formed in 1999. The band consists of vocalist M. Shadows, guitar players Zacky Vengeance and Synister Gates, and bassist Johnny Christ. Their drummer (the Rev) unfortunately died a some time ago and was replaced by the drummer from dream theater: Mike Portnoy. But now the band has found a drummer in Arin Ilejay.
Artillery Legions their seventh album… This will also be the first album to feature Josua on drums and Michael Bastholm Dahl on vocals. These guy making thrash like nobody else. The ten songs are well written for a trash record. What a clean-throated Voice from Michael Bastholm! My favorites are the powerful, punshig “God Feater” and slow Global Flatline”. At all not a bad album from this Danish trashmetal band. Well done!
In a series of anthologic compilations (there’s also the one from Sweden’s pre-Tiamat-formation Treblinka, for example; review to come up soon), Century Media come with Transgressing The Afterlife - The Complete Recordings 1988-2002. As the title of the compilation suggests, this release deals with the whole sonic history of any material ever (officially) done by Abramelin, one of Australia’s greatest, and oldest, Death Metal bands.
I first came across this Sheffield based British band thanks to the release of their 4th full-length album We Were Exploding Anyway (for which a review, including a lengthy history-of-the-band, by yours truly was posted on 17/05/2010 – find it in the website's “Archive” section to satisfy your detail-seeking curiosity), bombarded the album into my year-lists, and even went out to the local record store to get a vinyl copy of the album (which has remained un-opened in its cellophane wrapping to date), and vowed a solemn oath to follow up on the band, even get myself its o
