I must admit that I have never heard of Frayle prior to listening to this record. They recently released their new e.p.via Seeing Red Records and Lay Bare Recordings and I listened to the record and reviewed it for this webzine.
Frayle are hailing from Cleveland, USA area and are playing doom metal with dreamy and sometimes nightmarish soundscapes that repeat in your ear while listening almost ritualistic and rolling over you and afterwards you feel exhausted but somehow sad and also happy in a depressive sort of way. The record contains four songs with the title track being more sludgy excursion into more greasy and dirtier riffing and for me the best song of the record is for sure “Wandering Star” which left me dreamy and hazy after listening and I don´t use any of the spiritual pipe dream shit to enhance my feelings while listening to the music that I like. The vocals add to the atmosphere and it is not dark it is rather like when you dream something and you know that something horrible is about to happen and you can´t do shit about it. Good record even for me, who don˙t like doom so much.
First Brawl is another representative of the mighty Italian hardcore scene from Bologna/Modena area and the guys have been around for a while. This is their new record for Indelirium Records and I listened it and reviewed it for this webzine.
The record contains intro plus five songs of modern aggressive hardcore. Although this is modern hardcore with breaks, fast aggressive drumming and some metalish hooks in the song structures, the guys also give respect to the old school and punkrock influences so for me this band sounds like a crossbreed between Madball, SOIA and modern bands like Terror and Hatebreed, but they managed to remain fresh and energetic without losing the hardcore force and touch that flows through me while listening to this record. Of course there are a lot gang back vocals just made for singalong at the gigs and I am sure that these guys sound awesome live. This is good hardcore record! The best song on the record in my opinion is “New Page”.
Hollowed Idols released their new e.p. via Rotted Life and I listened to it and reviewed it for this webzine.
The quartet is hailing from Mississippi area and the guys play foul and dirty technical death metal but don´t be mistaken, this is not some amateur stuff, this is high class pumping U.S. death metal underground star that shines its dark light upon the scene. The record contains 4 songs from the e.p. and three demo version of that songs. The production is raw, murky but aggressive with blast beats, guttural vocals, some almost thrash metal guitar solo work and if I must compare this record to some bands, it would be early Incantation and similar U.S. death metal behemoths. I am not really fan of such metal, I prefer more melody and more drama and more style, but this is good record for the fans of underground death metal.
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