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XTOM
HANX (Usa) Posers from space Demo tape. 2014. Self-released.
These
cinderblocks were made of gingerbread,
and inside of the dreamy
house, something awful was hiding...
A terribly appealing and
attractive looking babe, whose body was made of cement.
This
is quite great sounding Grindcore/ Crust / Hardcore... They call
it "Post powerviolence", I'm cursed. But even if the word
"Post" was used, there's no (ho)modernity : Think about
a mix of fresh old styled grind (With nice blasts, shorts grinding
drums), a couple of crust parts à la DISRUPT, some fast HC à la
GANG GREEN (Perhaps), some "slower" HC à la SICK OF IT
ALL (Perhaps... Sorry I'm not a core expert: Here, only grind is
real) and touches of sludge.
Every songs are short (18 in 11:30
minutes, but it isn't noisecore) so you can avoid boredom if a riff
lacks of semen particles (For (s)example).
But I have to say
it: This is a bit too hardcore for me... Yes, it's too core, but
there's a good energy of youth (I'm an old cougar who went through
transsexual surgery, and I looove the energy of youth SO MUCH!),
and the good style of the drummer makes it more alive.
The blasting
parts are great, you can feel the intensity rises.
Now, this
is not perfect... Beware, the hammer is slowly coming... Slooow...
Slooow... Slowly coming: The music is not original, not really personal,
neither transsexual, nor interplanetarial... But it's a quite great
reekording and the cement sentimentals will probably say "Yes".
https://xtomhanx.bandcamp.com
YOG
(?) Satan's child Promo CDr'07.
This isn't the usual promo:
It contains 3 test recordings of 3 variations on the same song ("Satan's
child").
Even if I can hear influences of old KING DIAMOND
or some early CANDLEMASS for vocals and themes, there's not much
really metal: Most of these test recordings are based on arpeggios,
keys, pianos... Even if the vocals sound good and music is quite
coherent, there's not a lot to say or analyze... What a strange
idea to release a promo with so few substance... Maybe they lack
of ideas?
No contact adress given...
ZOLDIER NOIZ (Fra)/ BESTIAL NIHILISM (Fra) “What life... What work?”
Split tape. 2017. MALIGNANT OVERTHROW Recs.
ZOLDIER NOIZ:
SOLDIERS OF SATANIC NOISE DEFLAGRATION? BOOM BOOM BEER EXPLODE.
I heard a demo of this French band a long time ago, the music was located
between thrash metal and war metal (Or something). It seems their style has
changed, I don't know if it's only for this release, the music is now much more
influenced by punk/ hardcore in the old dbeat crust style.
The 3 songs can sound like early MASTER, EXTREME NOISE TERROR, a bit of NUCLEAR
ASSAULT or regular thrash metal. There are some violence and some kicking
moments, some stuffs can sound quite catchy in the dbeat motivated style. This
should be quite energetically crushing the brain when you're under the
influence of tons of liquid and your head is vibrating the stress of the whole
world!
BESTIAL NIHILISM:
The other side also contains a French band. Their style is located between
quite brutal black metal and crust punk. A part of the songs could sound like a
mix of early MARDUK (Brutal moments, not the melodies) or early/ old IMPALED
NAZARENE, with some dbeat/ crust parts here and there.
Other songs sound a bit different in the black metal style, but I’m not
informed/ remembering enough to quite some band names.
The music doesn't seem to be bad in the style, and some parts seem to be quite
kicking, but the content spoke to me less than the side of ZOLDIER NOIZ (I'm
not a black metal fan anyway, so perhaps my opinion doesn't count for a satanic
bit?).
Zoldier noiz: https://zoiz.bandcamp.com
Bestial n: https://bestialnihilism.bandcamp.com
Label: http://malignantoverthrowrecords.blogspot.fr
ZOMBIES EAT MY
NEIGHBOURS (Ukraine) Nameless/ Alive Tape. 2017. SURROGATE Recs. Zombies eat my
neighbours, while I'm raping their green livid asses! AhAh.
This Ukrainian outfit isn't really a new band, but it's the first time I hear
about them... Perhaps the scenes from the east and west of Europe don't
communicate too well?
Their style is some kind of death grind in an end 90's/ beginning 00's manner,
mixed with a few other genres... It reminds me of NAPALM DEATH, some early
MISERY INDEX or some ROTTEN COLD for the most extreme parts. At the beginning I
thought the name of Napalm Death would have been enough to describe the
hardcore influences, but those Hc riffs and vocals are too numerous for that.
There is also a little "experimental" touch here & there which
appears in some little more strange guitars. (Sometimes I also thought about mid
old Extreme noise terror when the English band got more metal, but this isn’t a
very precise quote at all, so you might not take it in account).
This sounds quite compact, some riffs are quite kicking, and the production is
quite powerful.
Now I'm not a big fan of everything they play... It's too hardcore for me by
moments (For the riffs and some vocals), and perhaps there's a light sense of
humor in some structures (It remains soft though).
Even if this release sounds a bit like a "strange" recording by
moments, this tape could please fans of extreme music who would like it to be
solid sounding and located in the middle between death grind and hardcore, in a
not too old fashioned manner.
And now the white liquid is flowing from the zombie's exhaust pipe Huhu
https://zombieseatmyneighbours.bandcamp.com
ZOOFAGUS
(Ukraine) Cerebra dentata. Album. Digital. 2022. Self-released.
Zoofagus?
Do you eat elephants? Do you drink acid hippopotamus liquor in a
jungle of flashy green and yellow colors?
I found this pretty
strange album in the middle of a brutal blogspot blog were you can
download mp3s (Yes, this still exists).
The style of the band
is a bit strange, it globally sounds like 90's technical "death
grind", the one when bands used to smoke a lot of green stuffs
(And sometimes called their music "hydrogrind")... But
there aren't THAT many blast beats to be found here.
In the spirit,
we're not so far from old CEPHALIC CARNAGE, SKELETON OF GOD (Old
& new), some mid old BRUTAL TRUTH... Maybe with a zest of YATTERING
and touches of old Czech death grind...
I am kinda tired of all
the current so "professional" ultra perfect or ultra brutal
recordings that often sound the same... Well, here the production
isn't perfect (It even lacks of power... Or powder?), and the playing
of instruments sounds a bit messy by moments... It somewhat feels
like listening to an old recording from the 80's or 90's... But
this isn't a big problem, ZOOFAGUS are more interesting to listen
to than the current "Brutal tech normality" and they even
have cool smoke/ psychedelic strange sounding guitars (Like newer
Skeleton of god). I can also say some brutal/ death grind parts
are a bit average/ usual... But the more psychedelic moments make
it for me, it sounds quite different from many newer recordings.
I'm not sure what the band will become with all that's happening
in Ukraine these years, but this is a pretty cool album. UNDERGROUND
MUSIC FOR UNDERGROUND SMOKERS.
(After finishing this review,
I noticed these 9 songs were recorded between 2013 and 2015).
https://zoofagus.bandcamp.com
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