Daily Archives: April 13, 2022

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(review) BillyBio – Leaders And Liars (AFM Records)

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Billy Graziadei is a NYHC legend and mastermind behind Biohazard. This was my first hardcore band when I was a kid growing up and Urban Discipline came out and Bio is still one of my favorite hardcore bands which introduced me deeper into the NYHC scene and all the legendary bands there. Bio is on hold and they did not release a record for ten years and Billy needed to express himself with something new, thus his second full length with a new band. I somehow think that Billy somehow had more ways and more freedom for artistic expression when creating music in BillyBio than he had in his former or band which is pausing right now. NYHC influences and roots are here and they will always remain, as well as all those punk rock and street punk influences, but there is also metal, even some electronics and industrial samples thrown here and there. Billy´s vocal is more interesting these days, instead of only hardcore shouting, growling and screaming, which is here along with gang backing vocals, there is also melodic side of his voice and it sounds so perfectly with the songs. Of course I will go with more hardcore punk side of songs, but I think BillyBio managed to encompass perfectly old school and more modern side of hardcore and this sophomore album is even better than the debut. My personal favorites: Fallen Empires, Leaders And Liars, Our Scene. Great hardcore album!

10/10

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Extreme Norwegian metal vikings :BOLVERK: announce ‘Uaar’ album!

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Hailing from the cold North, Extreme Norwegian Metal Vikings :BOLVERK: will release their debut album “Uaar” on May the 27th , 2022 via Wormholedeath worldwide.

:BOLVERK: is the latest musical adventure from brothers in arms:

 Christopher “Rammr” Rakkestad (Elvarhøi, Jordskip, ex. Ragnarok)

 Lucass Edquist (Gnida, ex. Mork)

 Bjørn “Narrenschiff” Holter (Images at Twilight, ex. Illnath, ex. Aasmegin)

 Thomas Bolverk (Under the Oak, Welcome to Hell, ex. Ragnarok, ex. Images at Twilight, ex. Darkness, ex. Black Currant etc…)

:BOLVERK: is EXTREME NORWEGIAN METAL aiming to be as sad and melodic as Solstafir in one end and as brutal as Marduk in the other. We are exploring the borders of the Extreme Metal genre and are actively working with the contrasts that all our inspirations have embedded in us. Our music is about melody as well as brutality. We want you to sing along as well as wanting to furiously bang your head. Good music makes you want to move, and that is one of the goals we aim to achieve with :BOLVERK:
The name “Bolverk” is originally one of Odin’s personas. He used the name Bolverk when he went out to steal the mead of poetry, and there was a lot of blood-splatter and killing in the process. Later adaptations see the word used as a description for something solid and impenetrable. We even have it in our local dialect as “bælværk” where it means something like a big, sturdy unformly mass. Anyway, all this, maybe apart from the unformly mass, are things that comply with our music. Melody, poetry, brutality, tightness and a sturdy and down-to-earth attitude.
The title of the album, “Uaar”, means a bad year in older Norwegian language. This was usually used when the crops failed and people starved. It fits well with the state of the world for the last two years, we think.
Release date for the album is the 27th of May 2022. A lot of material is already written for its successor which will be unleashed as early as late spring 2023. The release of “Uaar” will be accompanied by a release-party the 11th of June, where we will treat you to free music that will challenge your listening skills and everything will be filmed and recorded for a live video.
:BOLVERK: “Uaar”Side A:Death the Whore 05:58Uaar 05:27Time for Chaos 04:38Svovelpredikant 05:36
Side BSecterian Bloodshed 06:57Prevail in Silence 06:23Bride of Christ 06:47
Bonus song CD only:From the Depths 06:12
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DYMBUR release official music video for socially charged single, ‘Rape Culture’!

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Shillong, India based, Khasi Thraat Folk Metal band DYMBUR has released the official music video for “Rape Culture”. Recorded. Mixed & mastered by founder and guitarist CORNELIUS KHARSYNTIEWat Legato Recording Studio, the video for “Rape Culture” was produced by ANDREAS NATHANIAL WAR and edited by KHARSYNTIEW.

DYMBUR is a Folk Metal band, formed in Shillong, Meghalaya in February 2012.

“DYMBUR” is a word of KHASI origin that translates into English as “Fig Tree”.

The KHASI people are an indigenous tribe, who live in the State of Meghalaya which is in the north eastern part of India.
‘DYMBUR’ – The fig tree symbolizing rebirth, progression and evolution, of victory after struggle, Fresh leaves from old branches forming new shapes defining one of nature’s basic laws, the ability to regenerate and grow anew after a dry spell.
On November 2021, Dymbur announced the band’s shift towards folk metal, which we termed as ‘KHASI THRAAT FOLK METAL