Mexico´s Acidez are back with a new blasting record. For those who don´t know, Acidez play hardcore punk that is fast, angry and furious to all of the poverty, injustice and believes in freedom and do what you want attitude, real punk as fuck band. The music is basically hardcore punk but there are much more thrash metal influences and d beat than for example in Exploited or The Casualties´ songs. There are 13 songs on this one with first one being kinda instrumental intro to all the mayhem and carnage that follows. Spanish language in some songs only adds to the energy, anger and make you wanna pump your fist in the air and go battle all of the governments and plagues that trouble this lovely planet. Musicianship is impressive, so is production of this record, in my personal opinion this is the best Acidez record yet. My personal favorites: Hasta La Muerte, In Punk We Thrash, Nightmare, El Punk Salvo Mi Vida.
ILEAN Is a heavy metal band from Mexico, formed in February 2019. The band was signed by Curtain Call Records in 2020. Their first album “RUNAS” was released in June 2021 ! ILEAN has it’s sights set on touring in 2021 and hitting the US in 2022. The main influences of the band are: Slipknot, Pantera, Here Comes The Kraken, Arcadia Libre, Thell Barrio, Nimfalic, to name a few. The Sub-Genre is uncertain, some will say Metalcore, Black metal , others would say “Nu metal” or “Deathcore” however we just simply call it METAL, Why we should follow a line of selection, and pigeonholing – Let’s just make music!
The band has an EP entitled RUNAS which was released Jun 18th 2021 with 6 songs that can be listened to on all digital platforms.
ILEAN is Erick Castillo (Vocals) Emmanuel Gutiérrez (Guitar) José Luis Castillo (Drums) Tona Beltrán (Bass)
Alpheratz are hailing from Mexico and this is their latest opus. These guys have been in the scene for a long time and they play a mixture of symphonic black metal and avantgarde black metal reminding me a lot of Arcturus with their song structures, although less bombastic than mentioned Norwegians. This opus contains intro, outro and eight songs in between. Songs are not fast, there is no blast beat on this one, Alpheratz lean more on slower, doomy atmospheric side of things, coldness, synths which emphasize almost eerie dreamlike atmosphere of horror and despair. Vocals are neither too screechy, nor too raspy, fit perfectly to the music. My personal favorites are As Burning Fire and Infinite Sad with almost gothic song structures in the latter. This is a good release.
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