AFFLICTION GATE „Shattered Ante Mortem Illusions”
I recognize that kind of slaying riffs from my early youth when the heaviest thing I listened to was Seattle scene sounds and that kind of playing was too much then. Now it soothes my ears in a gentle way, if you can say something like that about band that you can place between Decide, Asphyx, Grave or Morgoth.
IDENSITY „Chronicles”
Third band from the French label Send The Wood Music, which album fell into my hands is a quintet Idensity, creating their sounds somewhere at the middle of death metal madness and progression. Parisian metalheads starts adventure with music in 2005, so far dropping two albums LPs – “Serenity” from 2011 and just-reviewed by me the latest production under the title “Chronicles.” I admit that Idensity firstly didn't fit to my taste, but after several hearings I verified my standpoint.
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HORD „The Book of Eliot”
Hord is another band from the French label Send The Wood Music, which came to me to listen and review it. After a fruitful meeting with their label mates from Breed Machine, I thought that once again it will be positive music trip and I wasn't wrong.
BREED MACHINE „A laube du huitičme jour”
Band called Breed Machine exists on the French metal scene since 2003, recording to date four LPs, coping quite well they have established their positions in the music market, with a rather small number but loyal and constantly growing group of fans. The band took its name from the song “Future Breed Machine” of math metal legends – Meshuggah and somewhere you can feel the inspiration of Swedish extremists, but musicians have to present a lot more and are not just another copy of this outstanding and even the legendary band.
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FALLEN JOY „Inner Supremacy”
France metal music are strong and generally becoming stronger. The local scene is growing at a tremendous rate, plenty of the fantastic black metal bands, the classic and the avant-garde penetrating threads, lots of good hard core and punk crews, excellent progressive metal group Gojira and amazing death metal stuff by Svart Crown.
BLOCKHEADS „This World Is Dead”
Long time I have not heard such a good grindcore act, without unnecessary frills, sterile manufacturing and brazen promotion, just pure grindcore, filthy, uncompromising, without metal influences, racial, growing out from punk tradition. This music offers for us French crew named Blockheads.
SVART CROWN „Profane”
About five years ago, fell into my hands first album of band – Svart Crown – “Ages Of Decay”, so it was my maiden meeting with this French crew. I admit that the first release did not make a colossal impression on me, typically black / death metal music at a decent level, but still wihout big fireworks, I thought to myself.
PENSEES NOCTURNES „Nom d`une Pipe”
Pensees Nocturnes is the third and last band I've reviewed from the French label – Ladlo productions. “Nom d'une Pipe” is currently four album of this one-man project, conducted since 2008 by the nickname – Vaerohn.
WAY TO END „Various Shade Of Black”
Way To End is another proposition from Ladlo productions record label catalog for year 2013, when I recently described a promising debut – Regarde Les Hommes Tomber. Band was formed in year 2006, serving us three years later their first full album – “Desecrated Internal Journey” moreover, very well accepted in metal music society, collecting lots of favorable opinions and reviews.
REGARDE LES HOMMES TOMBER „Regarde Les Hommes Tomber”
Regarde Les Hommes Tomber is the first of a three bands reviewed by me from French label Ladlo Productions. The band is new, but there play experienced musicians that performs on stage in groups of that country, it means in hardcore, death and black metal crews.
FORGOTTEN TOMB Announces Headlining European Tour
Rock influenced black/doom metal masters FORGOTTEN TOMB are due to kick off a headlining European tour on the 24th of April (Wednesday) at United Club in Torino (Italy). The tour…
DEAD MOUNTAIN MOUTH „Crystalline”
Dead Mountain Mouth is one man project from France, created by vocalist and multiinstrumentalist Lundi Galilao. He strated writing music for this band in 2008, and for this day he released one demo and two long play albums.
ERYN NON DAE „Meliora”
Good titles: Chrysalis, Scarlet Rising, Hidden Lotus, Ignitus, The Great Downfall
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L'ESPRIT DU CLAN „Chapitre V: Drama”
Parisian L'ESPRIT DU CLAN is frightening us over 15 years. During this time the band recorded five albums, played in the 17 countries for 127 concerts …
MANIGANCE „Recidive”
MANIGANCE plays over 15 years. Gentlemen recorded the four full albums …
ZUUL FX „The Torture Never Stops”
French ZUUL FX came in to Metal World with huge aggression… I will add an interesting fact that vocalist Zuul was the member of legendary band NO RETURN.
OPPOSITE SELF „Almost Over”
These, which step out against themselves are the representatives of new wave of Grunge with strong influences of Hardcore. At present Hardcore belongs to very varied musical sort, because it assembles many traces of different species wide comprehended of Rock.
LOUDBLAST „Frozen Moments Between Life And Death”
I never expected, that I will be have opportunity to describe the newest album of legend French scene of Death Metal – LOUDBLAST. The band treads in Metal World about 26 years (!!!).
DAGOBA „Poseidon”
When I saw the cover-art of “Poseidon” then I expected some Heavy/Power Metal. However the sounds which I heard entirely destroyed my presumption
DAGOBA presented very aggressive and intense sounds inspired by many species of extreme music that is Death Metal, Hardcore and Industrial.
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SVART CROWN „Witnessing The Fall”
From the beginning the first association has hit to MORBID ANGEL but and to BEHEMOTH or VESANIA
Crushing, technical and furious serves as well as brutal and demoniacal polyphonic growl
Heaviness, aggression and deadly paces interlacing by temporary psychedelic-dark calmness
Mad solos and melodious accents
This is the weapon of SVART CROWN!
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MEMORIES OF A DEAD MAN „Beyond The Legend”
I noticed recently, that Metalcore are blooming. At present the many bands connect two predatory sorts of music – Metal with Hardcore.
BLASPHEME „Briser le silence”
BLASPHEME has existed from 1981 year supposedly! This is the large piece of time! But in 1986 year the break-up of band has happened and they just returned in 1997 year for one concert. The band again hung up the activity and they appeared just in 2008 year in Paris at France Metal Festival.
THE BORING / ONE DAY RISE „What Yesterday Brought”
I had not split-cd in hands from long time and surely with punk-hardcore music. Though Punk Rock never belonged to my music (with some excepts) but Hardcore from 80/90th years (mainly from the USA) sharply has stirred my mind.
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LYZANXIA „Locust”
In next year will be fifteen-years of LYZANXIA existence. And therefore the band experienced many years of activity and several tours in the Europe as well as in the USA.
PENSEES NOCTURNES „Grotesque”
I have received the promise and I got the second album of French avant-garde metaller. “Vacuum” – the previous release appeared year ago and now Vaerohn (very controversial artist) gives album “Grotesque”.
ECLECTIKA „Dazzling Dawn”
This eclectic material was created by French ECLECTIKA which gave the second album under the sign of Asylum Ruins Records! Saying the truth I expected the very variable music outright experimental but I thought more about something from style progressive rock/metal… and I was surprised very favorably.
ECLECTIKA „Dazzling Dawn”
This eclectic material was created by French ECLECTIKA which gave the second album under the sign of Asylum Ruins Records! Saying the truth I expected the very variable music outright experimental but I thought more about something from style progressive rock/metal… and I was surprised very favorably.
HEADCHARGER „The End Starts Here”
This is already the third album of this band, which compares own music to old sped up Mustang
I think this comparison is good, because the machine dynamically rolls further with loud whirr of engine. This machine has pretty strong kick and drives by a road with sharp and dirty sound of motor
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DIE ON MONDAY „Black Cat”
The French label XIII Bis Records sent me the debut album of DIE ON MONDAY called “Black Cat”. Biography tells that the musicians earlier played in different bands but I do not know these bands.
MINDLAG PROJECT „Mindlag Project”
After 3 EPs and ten years of existence, these Frenchmen have released their homonymous debut album, influenced, in their own words, by earlier thrash and death metal works. To me, this is quite in the mood of the recent French Extreme Metal Wave (I just thought up that thing right now), which includes acts such as Gojira and Eryn Non Dae.
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