I already talked about how great Russian underground scene is, and for me is always great to find some new bands from that scene and become a fan. This time I listened to the record by WOMBRIPPER and reviewed it for this webzine.
I must admit that I have never heard of this band prior to this record. It contains 12 songs of utter destruction and rolling old school death metal. The song guitar structures are dirty but have some nice hidden melodies underneath like in “Rest…” and you can also feel nod to the thrash metal influences in many songs. The music is aggressive but it also has some emotion behind it, it awoke spirit of depression and despair, but also anger and willingness to fight back. You can´t go wrong with songs like “Immolation rites” and “The suicidal recreation” with all the raw and primordial magic behind the songs. This is a great old school death metal album for all the fans and an impressive debut.
Urze De Lume just released their new, third album and I am really glad that I was able to listen to the album and reviewed it for this webzine.
Hailing from Portugal, Urze De Lume creates their music as a tribute to the past, days gone by and the cultural and musical tradition of Iberian peninsula. On this album, they created the second and final chapter in band´s ode to Autumn as a dark and rainy but also beautiful season when nature dies and the cycle of life starts once again. Although the song structures are mainly based on guitar work the band also heavily uses Iberian ethnic instruments such as bagpipes, war drums, horns and various ancient stringed instruments like for example rebec. The songs are mainly instrumental with vocals being scarce and mainly spoken or whispered and in my opinion not being really important to the music itself. Since the formation of the band in 2009. they became one of the best kept secrets of the Portuguese and European dark folk and the underground scene in general. Each of the 12 songs is the beautiful and darkened soundtrack to the walk in the woods and exploring and becoming one with nature in these times of fast living and living only to create money, spiritual pipe dreams and fast enjoyment. These guys prove with their music that there is the other side to the living. Each of the song titles is in the Portugese language so I can´t really understand the meaning of the song titles, but the music on this beautiful album speaks for itself!
I already mentioned that Finland has one of the best European underground scenes in my humble opinion. The mighty Inverse Records never ceases to amaze me with their releases and this time I listened and reviewed for this webzine the new album by Callidice.
Hailing from Jyväskylä town area, this band plays melodic death metal and they do it with vigorous style. After one demo in 2015.and one e.p. in 2016. this is their debut album. This record contains 8 songs of melodic and sometimes brutal death metal done with heart and soul. The album is a concept lyrical story about friendship, fear of losing, sibling bonds and it all evolves around a tale of two brothers. The song structures sometimes reminded me of early Amorphis circa “Black Winter Day” era and it is not a bad thing at all to sound a bit like that. Besides growling vocals the clean and melodic vocals fit very nice into songs like for example in “Scarred” which is my personal favorite song on this record. As album highlights I must also mention “Brotherhood of bastards” and the title track being excellent songs that stand out somehow for me above the rest of the material. This is a great melodic death metal album.
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