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(record review)NABERUS-“Hollow”(Eclipse Records)

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Australian underground scene never ceases to amaze me, so NABERUS was a prime choice with their new album on Eclipse Records. I was lucky to give it a listen and review it for this webzine.

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Hailing from Melbourne, this five piece band plays modern metal, meaning a mix of thrash metal, melodic death metal and metalcore. Usually I am very sceptical and very reserved towards metalcore bands because I don´t like their style of music very much. Naberus are fortunately different than those generic deathcore and metalcore bands. They have a lot of melodic guitar hooks in the song structures making their songs more anthemic and more energetic. Also, the clever use of harsh and clean melodic vocals makes this record very fluent and not boring. The guys have their hearts in the right places, their lyrics being a fine tuned mix between political and personal thematics. The only thing I didn´t like on this record are the vocals. In most of the songs they reminded me too much of James Hetfield and I never liked his voice for some reason. For me, the personal highlights of this album are definitely “Hollow”, “I disappear” and “The End”. Nice album.

7/10

Links: Band Faceboook  https://www.facebook.com/naberusband/

Eclipse Records Facebook https://www.facebook.com/eclipserecords/

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(record review)MATALOBOS-“Until time has lost all meaning”(Concreto Records)

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Matalobos are hailing from Mexico, this is their second studio opus out on Concreto Records. I listened and reviewed the record for this webzine, so here are my impressions.

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Formed in 2014., Matalobos play an interesting mix of doom and melodic death metal. This is an interesting record to listen to. Why? Because when I saw that there are only three songs on, I thought that it´s going to be again one of those long and pretty boring funeral doom records. Now I am glad that I was wrong. “Of ghosts and yearning” starts as a typical doom song but evolves into excellent melodic death metal song, not unlike some European bands of that genre, which is no wonder since legendary Dan Swanö at Unisound did the mastering for this record. This is the longest song on the record but with three or four interesting parts in the song structure never gets boring. “In flesh engraved” is a beautiful, almost whole melodic death metal song with faster parts and energy that fills your body while listening. “La luz de dia muerte” is an atmospheric instrumental with trumpet adding to the atmosphere of some film noire in this song and it is awesome. Great record!

8,5/10

Follow the band on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/matalobosofficial/

The label: https://www.facebook.com/concretorecs/

 

 

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(new video)NABERUS reveal ‘Space to Breathe’ music video, new album out June 29

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Aussie melodic death-thrashers Naberus have revealed a new music video and single for the song ‘Space to Breathe’. The video was directed by James Ash and Cat Argiriou. This is the second music video and single from their upcoming sophomore full-length album entitled Hollow, which will see a worldwide release via Eclipse Records on June 29, 2018. Watch the video at this location.

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“With any group creative process there is eventually going to be a clash of creative visions. This track is about feeling the pressure and tension of those differences,” says lead singer James Ash. “We wanted to highlight some types of different struggles the band has gone through over the years” says guitarist Dan Ralph, “such as constantly being late, quitting for more illustrious opportunities, dealing with creative differences, and most importantly… the proper technique for body-checking a bandmate through the wall.”

The album was produced by James Ash at Kremation Studios, mixed by Henrik Udd (Bring Me the Horizon, Architects, A Breach of Silence) and mastered by Ermin Hamidovic (Periphery, Devin Townsend Project) at Systematic Productions.

Pre-order the full album on iTunes, Amazon, or Google Play, and stream the singles via Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Pandora, iHeartRadio, with more options available here.

For more information on Naberus, please visit them on Facebook, Twitter, or Eclipse Records.

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Naberus Discography
Hollow (LP) – 2018
The Lost Reveries (LP) – 2016

Naberus Lineup
James Ash (vocals), Dan Ralph (guitar), Jordan Mitchell (bass), Chris Sheppard (drums), Dante Thomson (guitar)