Goreaphobia - Mortal Repulsion

Genre: Death Metal

Year Released: 2009

Label: Ibex Moon Records

Tracklisting/Song Length:

1. Ordeal of The Abyss (3:30)

2. Amulet Of Damnation (4:07)

3. Negative Screams (Passage) (3:36)

4. Grave Plagued Planet (4:07)

5. Primal Nothingness (2:32)

6. Faded Into Ends (Part 1) (1:13)

7. Despised And Ruined (5:07)

8. Black Ash Eyes (4:04)

9. A Grievous Curse (3:49)

10. Ascending Into Vices (3:52)

11. The Inevitable Punishment - Faded Into End (Part 2) (8:23)

12. Mortal Repulsion (4:04)

Review:

This is a pretty badass band featuring members of Absu, Incantation and Master! Thats a insane combination right there dude, and you get exactly what you had planned, some badass death metal with some really sweet Black Metal moments, killer vocals, drums and solos! It's all an albumin good fun, these guys know they're not trying to make anything new or original and just have a lot of fun doing what their doing!

The guitars are some really cool shit! The riffs are very well done, you can really hear the black metal influence in there as well as some crushing death metal riffs in there! The solos are great, they're pulled off masterfully with skill and ease! You can tell that these guys were around long before this release and the momentous guitar tones/riffs/solos are amazing examples of truly heartstopping metal!

The drums are pretty awesome. With fills being placed in weird and odd places, being pulled off with insane talent and ease and just overall being a very nice addition to the music, definitely accents the guitars and bass nicely.

The vocals, these are great! Some amazingly well pulled off vocal parts can he heard throughout the album. But one thing really messed with me, and that was the occasional high pitched Power Metal scream, it's cool and I love power metal, but it really doesn't fit the music at all.

All in all i can say that this is a very fun to listen to album from a few really talented musicians, they could try to be a little more original but wheres the fun in that?

Give It A Spin!

Final Rating:

4/5

http://www.myspace.com/goreaphobia

http://www.goreaphobia.com/

http://www.myspace.com/ibexmoonrecords

Assorted Heap - Mindwaves

Genre: Death/Thrash

Year Released: 1992

Label: 1 MF Records

Tracklisting/Song Lengths:

1. Coloured Eyes (5:03)

2. Holy Ground (3:25)

3. What I Confess (8:13)

4. Nice To Beat You (3:59)

5. Mindwaves (4:28)

6. Dealing With Dilemma (4:57)

7. Cardinal Sin (4:00)

8. Hardcore Incorrigible (3:41)

9. Artificial Intelligence (4:57)

Review:

Assorted Heap isn't one of those well known early '90s bands, these guys are very underground and for the most part forgotten and obscure as well. If you pick up this album and give it a listen you'll be asking yourself "Why?" this is something that should not have been forgotten. This right here is very well done, very cool death/thrash with badass production! I mean seriously this sounds like it could've been recorded in fucking Morrisound! This is really some fucking killer metal that NEEDS to be found again!

The guitars are awesome, full of fucking insane riffs! Some of the riffs are very technical and sound quite difficult to pull off. The solos are awesome and sound almost Slayerish, and thats certainly not a bad thing. The soft intro on What I confess is really neat, and the riffs throughout the album and fucking brilliant to say the least. This is some sweet fucking riffing and soloing.

The drums are another great thing about the band, while maybe not as good as the guitars they're still very well and professionally played. A few really neat beats really add to the song structure and it's just overall great fun to listen to. The fills (as little of them as there are) are very well pulled off, if not unoriginal.

The vocals are decent, sometimes a little annoying but for the most part really well pulled off and pretty badass. I don't know what it is about the vocals but every now and then he'll pull some weird thing off that'll momentarily piss me off, but then instantly redeem himself with some Death styled mid-pitched growls.

All in all this is a pretty badass band, a bit on the obscure side, but you should check them out, they're worth the hunt!

Buy it if you can find it!

Final Rating:

4/5

http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=2739

That's all I can find on them.

Garbage Guts - Promo '04

Genre: Goregrind

Year Released: 2004

Label: Self Released

Tracklisting/Song Length:

1. Leprotic Foetal Frenzy (1:58)

2. From The Groins Of A Pained Humanity (1:57)

3. Scrambled Remains (1:30)

4. Addicted To open Graves (1:42)

5. Eat Shit! (1:00)

6. Let it Mature (Live) (3:02)

7. Mining The Arsehole (2:08)

Review:

This is some gory music right here! Straight from the bowels of a dead corpse to your ears comes this tale of gorefilled mayhem. Garbage Guts is a Australian Goregrind band full of rape jokes and necrophilia. They play blasting, gory goregrind in the vein of Rompeprop and Regurgitate.

The guitars are crunchy and downtuned beyond belief. The riffs are almost unspeakably unoriginal but they're still played well! The drums are actually really good, some great blasting, some really nice D-beats and some gruesome ass groovy parts really make this the shit, plain and simple. The fills are there in all their short glory and it's all just badass! The vocals sound great! Like a really low growl gone ass backwards through a pitchshifter, it's just gruesome!

The sound quality isn't very good here and the last song Mining The Arsehole is a really shitty song (maybe it's just because you can't hear a fucking thing thats happening). But overall this is a cool promo from a cool band, if you find it somewhere get it!

Give it a spin!

Final Rating:

3/5

http://garbageguts.com/

Asphyx - Death... The Brutal Way

Genre: Death Metal

Year Released: 2009

Label: Century Media Records

Tracklisting/Song Lengths:

1. Scorbutics (4:26)

2. The Herald (3:33)

3. Bloodswamp (3:56)

4. Death The Brutal Way (3:52)

5. Asphyx II (They Died As They Marched) (6:41)

6. Eisenbahnmörser (5:42)

7. Black Hole Storm (5:35)

8. Riflegun Redeemer (5:04)

9. Cape Horn (6:53)

10. The Saw, The Torture, The Pain (3:10)

Review:

They're back! The almighty Asphyx has returned from the grave with a new album of madmess and hatred! Shit dude, this one's quite a piece of work. We've got a few unforgettable songs, a few great songs, and a few below average tracks. For the most part this album is badass from beginning to end, but we have a few flaws that I just couldn't get over.

The guitars are great, very heavy and downtuned. The riffs are fucking kick ass and chug along to the almost doom styled pace of most of the songs and it just sounds really fucking nifty. But I do have a few things to complain about here. The riffs, as catchy and badass as they are, for themost part are fairly unoriginal and actually times boring! Yeah, for example, the entire Scorbutics is mind blowingly bland and forgettable, but you know what? The good really outweighs the bad here.

The drums are pretty good, for the most part very slow and doomy. The actual drumming is fairly competent if not on the unoriginal side of things. They could be flashier, they could just overall just be played better to be honest. But, in due credit they really shine in the fills and rolls.

The vocals are good. Martin Van Drunen hasn't lost any power to time. The vocals are for the most part mid-pitched scream/growls that only Martin can pull off, they're very well done (of course) and really add to the album.

Overall this is a decent return effort from a godly band, nothing really new here but at least they didn't pull a Pestilence on us.

Give it a split!

Final Rating:

3.5/5

http://www.myspace.com/officialasphyx

http://www.myspace.com/centurymediaeurope

Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

Genre: Funeral Doom

Year Released: 2006

Label: Napalm Records

Tracklisting/Song Length:

1. Below The Sun (11:45)

2. The Pacific (10:07)

3. Old Thunder (9:55)

4. Of The Monsterous Pictures Of Whales (1:52)

5. The Sermon (12:36)

6. The Hunt (11:13)

7. Ahab's Path (10:09)

Review:

This is one epic mofo of an album. 7 songs stretching over an hour long of incredible and just plain out mind blowing Funeral Doom. This is the type of music that makes Black Sabbath look like Regurgitate in comparison, and while that may draw most away from this album what it leaves us with are the insane, extreme metalheads up for anything! This is one behemoth of an album, and the music can literally conjure up images of a dark a brooding ocean. \

The guitars here are GREAT. Very slow, crunchy and very well played. The lead riffs/solos/whatever the fuck they are kick so much ass and are genuinely brimming with dark, twisted emotion. This is music that Moby Dick himself would rock the fuck out to. The soul-wrenching guitars really make this album a historical piece of metal and may god damn us all straight the fuck to hell, this may be the album that puts Funeral Doom as a household name (among metalheads at least). It is really that good, that influential and that mesmerizing.

The drums are fucking brilliant, for something going at the speed that they are (near nil) Ahab's drummer manages to pull off some very nice drum beats. The cymbal work throughout the album is nothing short on unholy in itself. The beats are slow and steady. The cymbals sound akin to giant waves crashing against rock. The very tap of the snare drum sends shivers up my spine as it sucks us into a world of black waters and a mysterious, monstrous behemoth watching and following every move.

The vocals, holy shit. The vocals are mind numbingly deep. They are terrifying and demonic, the mere growl is like a kick in the balls, hard, violent and devastating. They bring the listener into fathomless depths near the ocean floor, in the pitch black. And they leave you there, struggling to understand what just happened to yourself. The chanting, hypnotizing vocals that rear their heads every now and then are slow, haunting and mournful.

This is a MUST have album. I don't care what you have to do to get this album, this fact is, you need it to live. This is one brutally devastating and epicly haunting piece of work that I don't even think I describe this any longer.

A MUST HAVE!

Final Rating:

5/5

(they don't happen very often)

http://www.ahab-doom.de/

http://www.myspace.com/ahabdoom

http://www.myspace.com/napalmrecords

http://www.napalmrecords.com/

The Grotesquery - Tales of The Coffin Born

Genre: Death Metal

Year Released: 2010

Label: Cyclone Empire Records

Tracklisting/Song Lengths:

1. Coffin Born (4:36)

2. This Morbid Child (3:47)

3. That Thing Which Lurks in Shadows (3:42)

4. Necromantic Ways (4:51)

5. The Terrible Old Man (4:12)

6. Sins of His Father (5:04)

7. Spirits of The Dead (3:15)

8. Nightmares Made Flesh (3:40)

9. Sepulcher Macabre (5:54)

10. Fall Of The House of Grotesque (6:59)

Review:

YES!

This is great! This is a concept album by Kam Lee's project and Jesus fucking Christ is it badass! It's full of amazing riffs, crazy vocals, awesome lyrics and intros and it's just an all around headbanging album! never before have I gotten that into a god damn breakdown before, and don't let that turn you away! This is straight up death metal, no fucking slam/deathcore shit. This is badass metal with badass musicians do badass things with their badass instruments.

The guitars are all around great (Thanks to Rogga). The riffs are catchy and very nicely played. They add some amazing atmosphere throughout and really set a dark and creepy mood for the album. I wish there were some cool solos through out but, fuck it, this is too killer for any form of complaining. This is where you sit back, relax, turn this on and prepare to be blown away.

The drums are very nice as well. The double bass is a constant reminder that this drummer "don't need no rest". The cymbal play is pulled off very nicely and the rolls/fills are neat (if not a little underused). All in all, it's shit you can headband to, if not overly technical (which isn't a bad thing by any means).

The vocals, now this is where it shines. Kam Lee sounds DEMENTED! He sounds like he just pulled his own ass out of a coffin and just started roaring. His vocals drip of evil, atmosphere and DEATH. The vocals for the most part are mid pitched growls with a few short higher pitched screams and some raspy backing vocals. Very nicely done. Kam Lee has not aged a fucking day (vocal wise at least, who's to say he hasn't gathered a few battle scars).

Overall this is a badass album, almost perfect to be honest, the few and far between minor flaws are very hard to pick up on and really don't hamper down the album much. For the most part it's insane Lovecraft based death metal the way it should be. Fast, unrelenting and fucking creepy!

BUY IT!

Final Score:

4.5/5

http://www.myspace.com/thegrotesquery

http://www.myspace.com/cycloneempire

Inhume - Moulding The Deformed

Genre: Brutal Deathgrind

Year Released: 2010

Label: War Anthem Records

Tracklisting/Song Length:

1. Deadbeat (2:09)

2. Pandemic (2:15)

3. Virus (2:44)

4. Cure For Life (4:12)

5. Compulsory Infected (3:44)

6. Wretched Worm (3:07)

7. Cadaverous Abortion (2:02)

8. Zombie Grinder (2:42)

9. Prophet (1:43)

10. Moulding The Deformed (2:35)

11. Phobia (1:41)

12. Premeditated (2:52)

13. Sea of Limbs (1:57)

14. Violent Overkill (2:49)

Review:

This is a cool band, i've been listening to their music for a while and I grabbed their new full length with some apprehension, i've heard that they'd lost a lot of their old goregrind roots. And listening to this album, i can safely say that that is not true! These guys are still grinding their asses off and it shows through in flying colors here! The songs might be longer, yes but the music is just a grind filled and disturbing as usual.

The guitars are badass, the riffs are fuzzy, distorted and full of hate. Some awesome things going on at the guitar section here. We got some really nicely placed and cool sounding riffs throughout the album (Cure For Life, Sea Of Limbs). Their hazy, deep, dark and disturbing, every note on the guitar reeks of death, decay and rotting dead bodies. On the downside I wish the guitarist would be a little more flashy, maybe less power chords, eh?

The drums are awesome! The technicality of the drummer is great! The beats stick with you, the fills are cool and it's (dare I say it) a blast! he does some pretty cool sounding cymbal play on the song Wretched Worms and the blasts and double bass throughout the album are just killer to listen to. This is some truly pulverizing drum work here!

The vocals are nice. A little too "brutal" for me at times for really well done none the less. The ultra deep vocals are a bit much, but the regular growls are really nice. Very well done! The high pitched screams are great as well, just full of badass and hatred. I am a little pissed that the ultra deep "brutal" vocals are used a little too open but the good really outweighs the bad here.

Overall this is a very good album from a very well established grind band, pick it up if you haven't already!

Give it a spin!

3.5/5

http://www.myspace.com/inhume

http://www.myspace.com/waranthem