Belgian thrashers Primal Creation have been in the scene since 2007 and this is their second full length album. There are nine songs on this opus and first one called Extremely Dangerous serves as kind of intro to the thrash mayhem that awaits us when it starts for real. The music of Primal Creation can be described as brutal thrash metal, bordering somewhere between old school of European thrash metal and American more modern version of groove and street smart thrash. Lyrics deal with failures of us as humans, injustice, sarcastic yet in your face and smart at the same time. Vocals are angry and shouted but there are enough death metal influenced growls to satisfy brutal fiends like in excellent Vial Play. Dual guitars deliver groovy and brutal riffs, but there are lots of catchy hooks and melodies underneath all the brutality. Rhythm section does its work impeccable destroying everything in their path. This is a lesson in thrash metal.
Since I was a kid growing up like twenty five or thirty years ago, I have always loved hard and extreme music, metal and hardcore was my choice. You know, when you are a defiant outlaw kid, all other music and listening to other music is considered poser and treason. But, now when I am closer to forty five years than forty, I learned to enjoy other dark music and one of the genres is also dark folk. Dark Wooden Cell are hailing from Tours area, France. This entity is comprised of two individuals, namely Mike Gory (guitar-vocals) and Bruno Marmiroli (sax/trombone). This is their sophomore album containing nine songs. The music is dark folk with neo folk and even blues influences in the song structures with rich and darkened Mike´s voice carrying us listeners through the apocalypse and ghosts that roam our surroundings and other soundscapes bringing us kind of catharsis of a darkened heart after listening to the record as a whole. Songs are orchestrated in pairs offering a unique concept and aural journey. Acoustic guitar and sax in some songs, trombone in some add to the overall melancholic feeling prevailing through the whole album. My personal favorites are: The radio, The night. If you are a fan of such music, go grab this one.
Today´s featured band is Texas based melodic black death metal entity called Sinira. It has been active in the scene since 2016 and is a brainchild of one Knell who handles all the instruments and vocals. Northern Silence Productions released debut full length album and it contains eight songs in just about less than one hour duration. I love melodic black death metal in the vein of Gothenburg styled bands like Dissection, Gates of Ishtar, Dawn and similar European acts meaning aggressive and fast paced black death metal with superb guitar melodies and hooks, dark and melancholic, also epic vibe to the songs and lyrics that are personal yet also in your face in a way if you read between the lines. This album was pure energy bomb when I first listened to it and I gladly return to music of Sinira ever so often because it is a lesson how to write and play perfect album with no fillers, only dark energy, cold yet warming to your old blackened metal heart. My personal favorites are: Gardens of Pestilence, Tear Ladened Skies and Our Final Nightfall. Epic album.
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