Category Archives: Dose
Weekly Dose of Metal: Hatesphere
Hatesphere started in 2001 and since then had numerous line-up changes. My favorite line-up was that of the third album ‘Ballet of the Brute,’ that was released in 2004. It featured one of my favorite singers in the Death Thrash genre, Jacob Bredahl, who went on to front Allhelluja and The Kandidate.
Bredahl was with Hatesphere from 2001 until 2007, when guitarist Peter Lyse Hansen fired everyone in the band and started the band from scratch.
This next song, called ‘500 Dead People,’ is from the album mentioned above. Death Thrash at its’ best.
Weekly Dose of Metal: Old Man’s Child
Everyone knows that Dimmu Borgir fucking suck, right? I don’t have to go into detail here. There’s one member in that band who’s very talented though and that’s guitarist Galder. Galder joined Dimmu Burger in 2000 but started his own band in 1993, called Old Man’s Child.
What does the name stand for? The Old Man is supposed to represent the Devil, so it’s The Devil’s Child.
In this on-and-off project, Galder plays all instruments, except the drums, himself. Old Man’s Child released seven albums so far, the latest, ‘Slaves of the World,’ being from 2009. Here’s a song of that album, called ‘The Crimson Meadows’.
Weekly Dose of Metal: Artas
Artas is a modern Thrash/Death Metal band from Austria. While their first album ‘The Healing’ was a Death Thrash Metal album, the new album ‘Riotology,’ which was released this year, goes a way more melodic path. Artas’ lyrics are mostly in English, but they also feature songs in Spanish, French and German.
The following song, called ‘Rassenhass’ (eng. ‘Racial Hatred’), is a song about something that we, at Dose of Metal, wholeheartly support. It’s a song against racism and fascism, that’s sadly still way too common all around the world.
I’ll now translate the chorus for those who don’t speak German: “Because the masses hate races, you hate them too and because you hate, love is lost for you. Selected to hate races.”.
Weekly Dose of Metal: Be’lakor
Melodic Death Metal from Australia. If that doesn’t get you interested, I don’t know what will. Be’lakor play a very melodic and at times depressive style of Melodic Death Metal, taking obvious influences from Amon Amarth, among others.
The band started in 2004 and released two albums so far, ‘The Frail Tide’ in 2007 and ‘Stone’s Reach’ in 2009. Both albums follow a similar formula without the band repeating themselves. When I’m thinking about Melodic Death Metal, Be’lakor are one of the first bands that pop into my mind and knowing that there’s a huge list of Melo-Death bands out there, that’s a great thing.
‘Venator’ is the first song on the second album and gives you a nice introduction into Be’lakor’s style of Metal.
Weekly Dose of Metal: King of Asgard
Who doesn’t love songs about vikings? Vikings are awesome and that’s why there’s an entire genre dedicated to them: Viking Metal.
One of the biggest Viking Metal bands of its’ time was Mithotyn who split up after their third album in 1999 and Mithotyn guitarist Kalle Beckmann formed King of Asgard in 2008 with fellow former Mithotyn member Karsten Larsson sitting behind the drums.
Here’s a song off their debut album, which was released in 2010, called ‘Einhaerjar’.
