Exiled on Earth are hailing from Italy, after three full lengths this is their new e.p. containing five songs, one being cover of Death´s Zombie Ritual. The history of these guys reaches to 2000 so they have been around in the scene for more than two decades now with this band. Music of this band can be described as progressive thrash metal, with some power metal influences here and there that go more into USA power metal territory than European melodic speed power metal, meaning more thrashy aggressive guitar work with some catchy hook here and there and great solos, thundering bass and superb drum work. The musicianship of this band is on the higher level than many, also another plus is that the songs are not too long and they do not get boring or pretentious as some bands do with this kind of metal. Vocals are snarled, shouted, but sometimes also melodic and this band was a pleasure to discover and listen to this e.p. Now I am gonna check out the full lengths too. Personal favorites: Psychic Retaliator, The Onyx Path.
Time for newcomers to the scene here on the pages of my zine. Deceaded are hailing from Poland. They have been around since 2017 and this is their debut full length opus. Deceaded play a clever mixture of thrash metal, groove more urban style of street metal and crossover with hardcore influences. This opus contains intro plus nine songs, Lyrics deal with deprivation of humanity, disaster, hypocrisy, human stupidity and are in fact pretty clever and in your face, somehow making you think besides only listening to the music. One of my personal favorites is Barren Land, being a mixture of hardcore/crossover, screaming fast thrash metal and having that wicked solo. Vocals are angry, varying from screaming to almost hardcore shouting, back to being more sinister with the song structures. Musicianship is impressive, also songwriting, so we can safely say this is a pretty strong debut opus and I will eagerly await what this band will do in the future.
Wow! That is only thing I can say after listening to this sophomore opus of French trio called Mind Imperium. There are eight songs on this one, first being kind of synth atmospheric eerie intro to the maelstorm that follows afterwards. Mind Imperium play a mixture of melodic doom metal, atmospheric death metal with some post metal and thrash metal influences in guitar riffs and song structures. Vocals are growling and anguished sounding, but you can understand what they are singing about and that is always a plus in my eyes. Lyrics are so superb, personal and speak about depression, hopelessness, anger, resentment, death and being able to survive through the day, also loss. Besides growling, there are clean melodic vocal lines, spoken words and I love how all that fit perfectly in the picture. I am so glad that underground provides the way to have a listen to bands like this one. Superb. My personal favorites: Screaming out your name, Burning Embers.
KRAYKULLA-WEBZINE 