THE ENIGMA, BOUNDLESS – SADISTIC RITUAL
Desde a formação em 2009 em Atlanta Georgia, Sadistic Ritual lançou dois álbuns completos, dos quais “The Enigma, Boundless” é o segundo. Agora, o que você obtém quando pressiona play são nove faixas carregadas de riffs extremamente afiados e abrasadores, vocais enegrecidos agitados e agressão sem limites com uma abordagem maliciosa que deixará seu espírito se sentindo maltratado e machucado. É um Thrash brutal e direto com um toque de preto, tocado no seu melhor.
Most ardent fans of extreme metal have at least a passing impression of the sub-genre known as “goregrind”, and others have been eating it up ever since Carcass released Reek of Putrefaction, reveling in the disgustingly distorted gutturals, the frenzied tempos and thuggish breakdowns, the down-tuned riffage, the blasting percussion, and the lyrical devotion to splattered viscera and forensic pathology. But however much you think you know about goregrind, the Roman trio Guineapig are about to open your eyes wide all over again.
They made their first mark with the 2014 debut album Bacteria, and yes, it displayed a fascination with splatter movies, medical experiments, and rare diseases, while inflicting traumatic levels of musical punishment. But that was 8 years ago, and the band’s new album Parasite, which will be released next month by Spikerot Records, is definitely a step up.
Guineapig are: Fra – Guitar/ vocals Alessio – Bass/vocals Giancarlo – Drums
The album was recorded, mixed and mastered by Marco Mastrobuono at Kick Recording Studio in Rome (Fleshgod Apocalypse, Hour Of Penance, Shores Of Null), and it features artwork by Fabio Timpanaro.
It’s set for release by Spikerot on June 10th (LP/CD/Digital/Merch/Bundles), and pre-orders can be placed now..
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The new Oktas album is named The Finite and The Infinite. It again features the work of Bob Stokes (bass, vocals), Carl Whitlock (bass), and Ron Macauleyy (drums), but with cellist Jason Barren having moved to New Mexico the band found local cellist Agnes Kline to take his place. As Bob Stokes tells us, “We wrote this album with her during the lockdown. She brings a whole new level of depth and sorrow to our sound”.No Guitars in This Band!
The debut EP in 2019 of Philadelphia-based Oktas, a fascinating record about which we spilled a flood of words and attempted to sum up as one that embraced a wide range of influences, “from ambient minimalism to atmospheric black metal and epic doom metal and maybe a bit of gloomy post-punk in the mix, too,woven together with a cinematic edge”.
Hundreds of books have already been written, and thousands more will be written, about what has happened to the world in just the two years and eight months since that EP was released, a time filled with traumatic upheavals, many of them unforeseen and others foreseen but blindly ignored. Certainly not the easiest time for the making of new music, among all the other traumas. But it’s good to see that this band persevered, as others have, and now they have a new album on the way and we have another premiere to support it.
Recorded and mixed at Permanent Hearing Damage in Philadelphia by Steve Roache
Mastering by Alan Douches
Album cover and design by Bob Stokes
Logo design by Stephen Wilson
BLOOD HARVEST RECORDS is proud to present the highly anticipated second album of America's OBSCENE, From Dead Horizon...to Dead Horizon, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.
The CD and tape versions will be released on May 27th - in time for the band's upcoming U.S. tour with Morta Skuld - while the vinyl version will follow on August 5th.
It takes a weirdo, a person with natural placement outside of the thrum of populism, to pick up on the vitality of a slowly drying craft beyond the tunnel vision of trend and trampled core ethos and break the droll spell of the motions with something vivifying, inspired. Within the unsure din of 2020 and the storm of stress it’d pressed upon entertainment as a whole we’d found important presence beyond the usual faux ‘old school’ death metal crowd in the greater United States by way of Obscene‘s debut album, a different yet familiar style from a crew of folks who were just as much, or more ingrained with the ‘true’ death metal spiritus than usual for the sake of their experience broadened worldview. In meditating upon the successes of their lauded first album the Indianapolis, Indiana-based quartet follow that moment with further insight, rightfully focused on taking their already well-refined sound and energetic diction into a theatric, battery-charging conversation with their fellow guitar music enjoyers on ‘…From Dead Horizon to Dead Horizon‘ — A step taken into professional mastery rather than bored iteration which presents solid argument enough that you don’t have to dumb it down to have a bit of “fun” with death metal and reach the right ears.
Between the incomplete melodic phrases and guitar progression fascinated nods of ‘Terminal Spirit Disease‘ and the pit-ready churning blueprint provided by Asphyx‘ ‘The Rack‘ we find the basal conversational elements that’d driven Obscene‘s riffing early on, a feat akin to Horrendous‘ underground breakthrough in view of the expanse ‘Ecdysis‘ in spirit but without the progressive metal intent or any interest in absolute consonance or dramatism. In this sense ‘The Inhabitable Dark‘ (2020) [see: review] was yet kin to nearby records from Coffin Rot and Molder, a great appreciation for the classics informing their ideal aesthetic and guitar riff obsessed, still-thrashing ‘old school’ death metal aspect.
Hail horrors! After six years in deathlike repose, Predatory Light returns. From beneath churchyard stones, the bare, ruined choir sets forth to drape the world in its nocturnal lightings. Once again established in the spiritual desert of the southwest, the devil’s quartet has been reanimated by the same infernal regents that compose the deadly Superstition. As a result, the four musicians that conceived ‘The Anatomy of Unholy Transformation’, in Predatory Light, delve into far bleaker corners of their dark twisting subconscious.“Death And The Twilight Hours”, the second album from Predatory Light is comprised of four towering mazes of infernal technicality, ancient evil, and eerie church nightmare Black Metal of the South European and South American style. These four hymns conceptually meditate on the triumph of death during times of plague, focusing on the psychological terror and rapture of humanity’s impending doom. Borrowing imagery from Boccaccio’s account of the plague in his native Florence and inspired by Lucretius’ record of the Athenian Plague, Predatory Light explores the historical mindset of human sin and torment- evoking the archetypal personification of death as it tethers human consciousness to the realm of earthly suffering.
Los Angeles, California’s Nekrogoblikon are Melodic Hard Rock pranksters who deploy gnarly Death Metal earworms filled with crafty hooks, claw-pumping choruses, lightning-fast riffs, and over the top, EDM-style keyboard flourishes.With their ostentatious goblin hypeman John Goblikon, the band takes cues from hyperbolic Horror-Metal enthusiasts like GWAR, Finntroll, and Dethklok, while maintaining an affable, self-referential sense of humour.
The group’s early outings, like 2007’s “Goblin Island”, were largely low-fidelity affairs, but by the early 2010s, Nekrogoblikon were operating at a far higher technical level, and employing a rotating cast of talented players.Founded in 2006, Nekrogoblikon self-produced their debut album, the relatively lo-fi “Goblin Island”, in a basement. The LP was released in 2007, and an expanded line-up was quickly assembled to help flesh out the fledgling group’s audacious live shows.The more technically proficient “Stench” arrived in 2011, and included the single “No One Survives” — the video written and directed by Brandon Dermer (Panic At The Disco, Every Time I Die, Diplo, Dillon Francis) became a viral hit, and landed the band festival slots at Download Festival in the UK and Rock Im Park / Rock Am Ring in Germany.
The “Power” EP was issued the following year, and in 2014 the band joined Limp Bizkit on the Kerrang! Tour. In 2015 they released the concept LP “Heavy Meta” via their own Mystery Box label, and in 2018, Nekrogoblikon issued their fourth studio long-player, “Welcome to Bonkers”, which was followed by extensive touring including performing on the entirety of the final cross-country Vans Warped Tour and Summer Slaughter.
In between touring stints, the band (along with Brandon Dermer and writer/actor Dave Rispoli) released three seasons of “RIGHT NOW”, a comedic talk show starring band mascot John Goblikon.
Nekrogoblikon is:
Nicky Calonne - Vocals, Keyboards, Programming, Samples
Alex Alereza - Guitars
Aaron Minich - Keyboards
Joe Nelson - Guitars
Aaron VanZutphen - Bass
Eric W. Brown - Drums
All music and lyrics written by Nicky Calonne
All music performed by Nekrogoblikon except:
Ending guitar leads in “This Is It”, “Fancy Wind”, and “Carousels” performed by Jason Suecof
Whammy guitar lead in “Going to Die” performed by Jason Suecof
Additional background/gang vocals on “Bones”, “Supernovas”, and “No Such Thing as a Key” performed by Jason Suecof
Flute intro in “This Is It” performed by Matt Appleton of Reel Big Fish
Artwork by Nicholas Knudson
CD and Vinyl Album Layout by Daniel McBride
The origin of Numento dates back to 2004. That year a few schoolmates from eastern Helsinki decided to start playing instruments. And of course before anyone had learned a single chord it felt mandatory to also form a band.
A Metal band. During the following years, the band changed its name a couple of times. It wasn’t until late 2010 when the band decided to change its name for the last time. The name Numento was chosen after a long night. The lineup has had few changes after that, but it was that time that the band started to find its own sound that you can still recognize in their music.
Listen to “Scarlet Haze” on music services: https://push.fm/fl/ofpcspns.
Line-up: Katri – vocals Atte – guitars / backing vocals Aleksi – guitars Simo – bass Mikko – drums
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