Author Archives: Guido
Video of the Week: Kataklysm
You can view this post as an answer to this post. Kataklysm are one of my favorite Death Metal bands, even though their latest output is average at best. Shadows & Dust is a great album and the video above proves that Kataklysm sure as fuck know how to play songs off that album live.
‘Illuminati’ is easily my favorite Kataklysm tune, especially the drumming on this song simply blows me away. A true banger.
Review: Split Roast
Today I’m going to review a sampler called Split Roast by Condate Records, that includes songs by Colonel Blast (pictured on the upper left), Cancerous Womb (upper middle), Diascorium (upper right), Magpyes (lower left) and Dyscaphia (lower right).
Five Death Metal bands from the UK, twenty songs, almost 60 minutes of music and the CD only costs five British pounds. Sounds like a good deal to me but first, let’s listen to the album to see if it’s worth these five pounds. Make the jump for my review of Split Roast and take your time, it’s going to be a long one.
Melodic pieces by not so melodic bands
Isn’t it great when you’re listening to an ultra-brutal Death Metal band and suddenly a catchy melody kicks in? Personally, I’m a sucker for these melodic parts and many Death Metal bands did just that and incorporated parts like that into really heavy songs.
There’s just something about the contrasting sounds of really heavy riffs and catchy, melodic guitar playing that gets to me. Hell, Melodic Death Metal is based on that very concept but that’s not really what I’m talking about.
I’m talking about bands who are really heavy, classic Death Metal and the melodic parts I’m talking about are really rare within this band’s catalogue. It’s just great when a melody catches you off-guard because you simply didn’t expect something like that.
Now, make the jump for 5 examples of what I’m talking about.
17 years ago seems so far away
17 years ago, Pantera’s Far Beyond Driven went to #1 on the US Billboard 200 charts. Currently on #1 on said charts is Adele and I have absolutely no idea who that is but I think it’s safe to say, they (or she?) aren’t metal (it’s worth noticing that the Foo Fighters are on #2 and I absolutely view that as a great thing).
17 years ago, even Kurt Cobain was blown away by the sheer amount of quality metal albums that were released that year. In the year of 1994, many great (and now legendary) albums were released. Make the jump to see the highlights of 1994.
New The Soulless video
I’ve reviewed The Soulless’ debut album Isolated a month ago and even though I wasn’t blown away by the album, I can enjoy them in small doses. With that being said, ‘Unaltered’ really just isn’t my cup of tea. It just reeks of desperately trying to sound up-to-date.
Why am I reporting about it then? Well, I strongly believe that we need to support up-and-coming artists. Even if they’re not my favorite band, some visitors on this site might enjoy them and I wish them a lot of fun viewing the music video above.
