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(review) Kanonenfieber – Yankee Division e.p.

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After their stunning and crushing debut full length opus, Kanonenfieber released this nice two song e.p. with continuation of their war melodic black death metal, thematizing the entrance of USA into WWI and all the hardships and horrors of war. I love how The Yankee Division March starts with a short sample from WWI song, I think it is Over There but I may be wrong. Then it delves into fast melodic blast beats coupled with black metal screaming vocals and growling death metal voice, breaking into slower apocalyptic atmospheric parts only to blast again like Maxim machine gun mowing the charging infantry from the trenches. Guest performance on this one belongs to Trevor Strnad known from The Black Dahlia Murder. Die Fastnacht der Holle is a bit better song in my opinion and it brings me back to poison gas attacks, stench of corpses, futile charges and offensives, snipers, mortars and death over all. Great e.p. by great band!

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HERUKA unveiled and new album details and first single!

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Album cover

New album “Memorie” by Italian Black Metal band HERUKA will be out on 24th May, 2022. Once again, band’s third full length will be published by Rude Awakening Records, which already took care of the most recent Heruka’s releases.


“Memorie” sees a full return to Italian language lyrics with a tracklist of ten songs exploring death themes. The cover is an homage to the painter Salvator Rosa, with a detail of one of his works, “La Fragilità Umana” (17th century).

The first available single is “Presagi”, including a lyric video by Sandro Di Girolamo:

Complete “Memorie” tracklist:

1. Intro

2. Presagi

3. Ad un Passo

4. Memorie

5. Indarno

6. Vegetale

7. Inutile Attesa

8. Anossia

9. Criogenesi

10. Passacaglia

Heruka is:

Nekrom: vocals

Adranor: guitar

Moha: guitar

Nemuri Shi: drums

Cruz: bass

You can find Heruka on:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Herukaproject/

Bandcamp: https://herukaproject.bandcamp.com/

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/herukaproject

ReverbNation: https://www.reverbnation.com/herukaproject

Rude Awakening Records:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rudeawakeningrecs/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0w7FXlsO_uyvnI1gdUxU-A

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/rudeawakening_records

Website: http://www.rudeawakening-records.blogspot.com/

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(review) SLAEGT – GODDESS (Century Media)

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Danes SLAEGT are back with their new, full length opus number four. These guys have been around more than a decade and this new one represents the current state of the band playing a rather progressive version of black death metal with some thrash metal guitar solos here and there that sound fantastic. Blast beats are smartly thrown in, the whole songwriting capabilities of Slaegt are impressive, because although guitar work may sound a bit chaotic and dissonant upon first listening, as you delve deeper into the songs of this opus, you realize the greatness you are witnessing. I love stop and go aggression of Kiss from a Knife, but one can not mistake old school metal influences in my personal favorite Hunt Again. I also love above all the title song being so epic that I listened to it over and over again. Vocals tell another story, from death metal growls to some black metal screaming, those vary depending on song atmosphere and need. This album has a perfect might to enter your mind and make you hungry bloodthirsty beasts, but also to satisfy your emotions and calm your blackened old metal heart. Good one indeed.

8/10