YOB „The Unreal Never Lived”
There are conventional doom metal bands and then there is YOB. As much as you can identify classic Doom with the likes of Black Sabbath and Candlemass, this three piece act from Eugene, Oregon seem to want to play their own brand of oppressive heaviness.
A LIFE ONCE LOST „Hunter”
When Philadelphia quintet A Life Once Lost released their 2003 album A Great Artist I alluded to the fact that a couple of other like-minded bands had cause to pursue a court preceding based on plagiarism. Of course, A Life Once Lost are not the only band to base their core sound on extremely well established template (Swedish Melodic Death bands especially), but gee, did they pushed the envelope.
FEAR FACTORY „Transgression”
Cool Songs: 540,000 Degrees Fahrenheit, Contagion, I Will Follow, Millennium, Transgression.
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MUNICIPAL WASTE „Hazardous Mutation”
Cool Songs: Intro / Death Ripper, Unleash The Bastards, Thrashin Of The Christ, Terror Shark, Black Ice, Hazardous Mutation, Blood Drive
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NOVEMBERS DOOM „The Pale Haunt Departure”
Cool Songs: Autumn Reflection, Dark World Burden, In The Absence Of Grace, The Pale Haunt Departure, Swallowed By The Moon
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ANIMOSITY „Empires”
There was an obscure late 80s Thrash act called Animosity. And if you werent up to speed, you could be forgiven for thinking that Empires was a case of another reunion effort being thrown our way.
PROJECT1 „Refuse to Compromise”
On the Ep are include the four tracks. The songs are realize by three men from South California.
HAZERFAN „Lost Nowhere”
These which visit our side regularly (and read my reviews obviously) they will not be surprised that again I dug out some odd band, the band is not necessarily clean metal. This time East met West .
EXISTENTIAL DILEMMA „Consume”
Music of EXISTENTIAL DILEMMA is very hard to classify. Three men from the USA defines his music as mixture of ambient, post rock, metal and noise.
CONGLOMERATORZ „Conglomeratorz”
CONGLOMERATORZ is trio created by expert musicians from Chicago – BNO, MIKE and JC (if I understood well they have behind the rich musical past, e.g. in ZYKLON-B, OBLITERATION, VEHEMENT).