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Active member of alternative underground scene and culture since early 1990-ies. Underground is a way of life!

(band of the week) Dungeon synth from Ecuador – URKU LLANTHU

URKU LLANTHU is a solo musical project originating from the city of Quito-Ecuador, which was born in 2018 and in turn formally comes to light with audio and video material for the year 2020, full disc in physical format that is available since November 2020. Album contains 8 unreleased tracks (1 intro + 7 songs) and bears the name of the musical project URKU LLANTHU accompanied by its official video-clip.

The musical trajectory of the only multi-instrumentalist member of the URKU LLANTHU project (Pablo Mesías) dates back to 1998 when he was part of the band ACRACIA, a period that lasted until 2004.

After this project from 2005 to 2010 he was a member of NEKROPSIA also from Ecuadorian capital.

After a few years in the period from 2013 to 2016 he sang in BLASFEMO shortly after forming ALKITRAN project also originally from Quito-Ecuador; from 2016 to 2018.

2018 was the year when an idea that existed for a long time was born and came to light in 2020 in a totally independent and DIY way under the name of URKU LLANTHU – darkened music adding string instruments, percussion, harmonics such as piano, wind instruments etc. … and thus getting to musically capture the ideas and compositions of its only member Pablo Mesías (Atuk Urku Llanthu – pseudonym) trying to capture the atmosphere of attachment to the Andean worldview and the rescue of the ancestral language Quechua, typical of many indigenous peoples, it resides within the genre Dark Ambient/Dungeon Synth/ Folk Metal in an instrumental way expressing feelings and thoughts of the person who creates this musical framework and the project, under the proprietary seal by the same composer and author named TAKIRI PRODUCCIONES INDEPENDIENTE.

At the moment, audio-visual production in video format is available on YouTube platform official channel URKU LLANTHU:

(https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ5HqA5amf8qYE0LkQ-3IjcVQB0SorjkD)

(review) Causam – Doomsday Rapture

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Causam are hailing from Switzerland and this is their first full length album. This record contains eight songs, one being intro. Music of Causam can be described as fast yet melodic black metal. Their music creates atmosphere of aggression, sorrow, despair, yet at the same time melancholy with excellent melodies and guitar work. Drumming is mainly blast beats, yet turning at times into beautiful atmospheric passages just reminding me why I love black metal so much, being best music for expressing all of your emotions. My personal favorites are Beauty of Decay and Eternal, although all of the songs are just excellent. Vocals are black metal screeching but being perfect and fitting fantastic to the song structures. The lyrical themes are more deep and personal than in your face Satanic verses and the mixture of epic music and great lyrics make this one of the best black metal records that came out this year until now.

Dead Shape Figure’s new single is a critical statement about picking the easy solutions to difficult problems

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Finnish melodic death/thrash metal band Dead Shape Figure has kept themselves busy lately creating new material. They are preparing a series of three EP releases that start with EP ”Refinement Of Hatred” to be released in May 2021. Now DSF has released song called “Stupidity Breeds False Idols” from the upcoming EP.

Listen to the single:
Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3dm3iJJ
Bandcamp: https://deadshapefigure.bandcamp.com/
Apple Music: https://apple.co/3m14tlM
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3u4ouKX
Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/us/album/215428802
Tidal: https://listen.tidal.com/album/177418417

Vocalist Galzi backgrounds the song:“Stupidity Breeds False Idols is a critical statement. Before the strangle grip of difficult question and impossible choises people tend to hold on to the easy solutions that serve nobody. This a starting point for thoughts of a lonely thinker.”  

Dead Shape Figure:

Galzi – Vocals
Ville Sahakangas – Drums
Neissu – Bass
Seppo Nummela – Guitar
Juhani Flinck – Guitar 

https://deadshapefigure.bandcamp.com

https://www.facebook.com/deadshapefigure

https://www.instagram.com/deadshapefigure