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Band:
Dantalion
Title: Call of the
broken souls
Material: cd
Label: Der Germanske
Folket
Year: 2007
Reviewed by: HssH
Mark:
4/5
Aggressive
yet melancholic black metal is the way of Dantalion. You wouldn’t
know its from something else and it’s another release created
under “Der Germanske Folket” banner. Dantalion knows
its arts because everything is faultless here, the sound as the
play. Guitars reminds me of Mutiilation torments, the vocals could
be compared to Aes Dana’s singing (fr.) and mid tempo parts,
also with acoustic guitars take turns with fast and hammered parts
all over the opus. Besides “Call of the Broken Souls”
based on the “Santa Compana” probably because the
band’s members comes from Galicia. So, they are on the spur
of mythical beliefs and thus they chose to give birth to a conceptual
album. I said everything is ok with this release. But I have to
add that the vocals could enlarge the whole with more variations
in my opinion. That’s too bad but not striking too much.
I only ask for more. I end with this conclusion: Dantalion is
very bewitching because melancholy rises above all and is enough
to convince of their art.
Kontakt:
Band: www.dantalionband.com
Label: www.ureuropa.com
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Band
: Various artists
Title : Darklife
& Interstice sampler 2005
Material : cd
Label : Urgence
Disk Records
Year : 2005.
Reviewed by : Sagoth
Note
: DDDDD
Darklife
& Interstice sampler 2005 . First I have to say that the packaging
of this sampler is pleasing to me very much : mini digipack box
is conform to this kind of production. Then, material inside is
a good deal because there are 18 various tracks from various artists.
A lot of discovering ! The fashion is set at the beginning with
the electro track from The Weathermen vs wrlc. The whole reminds
me of Die Form parts and it takes us into an underground gothic
univers with the addition of samples and the use of a single-string
instruments tone. We feel anguish with this track and so we want
to know more about the band. Then Neon Electronics play an electro
music rather less violent with the use of atmospheric keyboards
and EBM influences. This is not what I could listen to usually
but this track keeps in your mind after listing to it. BakXIII
follow with Suicide Commando influences and add a fetish concept
to their music. This track is ok for your dance floor evenings
: Fuck you and dance…Everything is said ! We are raised
to the pics with this track. Then Grand Chaos come. They chose
vocals reduced to robot-like gestures and mid-tempo. It sounds
like a dehumanized electro music with a lot of breaks into the
rythms and a hypnotic beat into background. Wumpscut influences
for sure ! Herr Liebe open a new gate with their s.e.x. track.
It comes slowly but for sure : repetitive vocals mixed with a
background noise that hangs a quite rythmic over. It makes it
original. Mimetic Fake is dark, very dark with anguishing vocals
from the beginning to the end of the track. They use oriental
influences mixed with slow rythms filled with saturations in the
background. They add background vocals which sound like tears.
It’s glaucous and I like that ! Then, Moulinet. Far from
the electro univers, we’re back into batcave music with
their track : saturated guitars with a singer which reminds of
Corpus Delicty sometimes. It’s short !…too bad ! We’re
living something different with S-Tantale : a mix of medieval
and electronic sonorities. It’s very epic and it’s
over from other bands which play this kind of music. A good point
! We enter a sung gothic univers with Fintology. A lot of piano
and elaborated vocals with a nostalgic tone. It sounds like a
pop gothic track. The following of this sampler sounds different.
It is more organic in the tone. Macada Pale Horses play a rock
music without link with the others bands. No keyboards there but
it’s quite good enough to convince you. And what about Artmode
vs Mark Pistel ? They call it cyber blues and that’s what
it is. A mix of electro and blues music. I never listened to this
kind of music before and I have to say that it’s quite good
enough to convince you again. Steavy Ray Vaughan could be surprised
of it…in another world…but I’m not sure of that
and so I would like to know more about it…if I could know…Zodiak
Project vs Opak is very curious too : a mix of jazz on rythms
with nostalgic melodies on keyboards. Instrumental track that
takes you away into a imaginary univers far from this world. This
is not the end of the sampler : Floting Mind follow with a rythmic
which sounds like a heart beating. It comes slowly with keyboards
such as a ritual. Dissonant and bizarre with vocals reduced to
robot-like gestures. Very experimental ! We want to know more
with this band. Melodie does not look like something sweet. They
give you noises full of nightmares. Whisperings on this track
bring feeling of anguish and nightmare. And what about Diffuse
? Saturated beats with something like an alarm in the background.
Hypnotic, repetitive, martial. It comes in your face such as a
military march. Music For the Space follow this way with apocalyptics
and space sounds mixed with noisy rythmics. This is not easy listening
of course because it’s experimental. Not for everybody !
KK Null has the same approach : experimental and very noisy inside
! We end this sampler with Zeni Geva which take us back to saturated
guitars mixed with heavy rythmics. into a sea of lunar rock metal
that alternates brutal breaks with lull parts without voices.
This composition reminds of various parts of typical metal music
saturations with garage sounds. We let our minds losing on this
end and we have something to say after the Darklife & Interstice
experience : this sampler offer a great diversity and a strong
quality for all the artists inside. So, I recommend you to discover
Urgence Disk Records (Switz.) quickly. Now let’s talk more
about their stuffs into the Diahableries reviews section.
Contact:
http://www.darksite.ch/urgences/urgences/
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Band
: Dario
Title : Avant-scène
Material : cd
Label : Urgence
Disk Records
Year :
2004.
Reviewed by : Hssh
Note
: DDDDD
Dario
: Avant-Scène (Samuel / David / 3 tracks / 2004) by HssH.
Interesting french band of electro rock metal who mix their electronic
variations with vocals influenced by Hubert Felix Thieffaine and
French Song. This mcd contains tracks of their full length opus
Décors. Their music is a mix of Helmet, Indochine, The
Cure, Noir Désir or The Pixies, Dave Clark. So we are back
in the 80 years ! We are far from usual dark atmospheres here
because Dario are very funny in all parts of their music. Feel
free to read the inside cover : they are very proud for their
participation to La Sta’Ac in Arras and they wrote it into
special no thanks to heading. And what about the sound ? High
sound quality and very professional ! They could go a long way
with this kind of music. It’s not extreme at all and they
do things well. I recommend you to listen to Dario with your family.
Your parents will be not frightened : Luxure des années
quatre-vingt je te retrouve enfin, Sur quelques mesures des années
quatre vingt, Sur les murs des lumières de salle de bain
(Dario)
Contact:
http://www.phenomena-prod.com/dario
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Band
: Darvulia
Title : Belladone
Material : cd
Label : Battlesk'rs
Year : 2002.
Reviewed by : Hssh
Note :
/
Darvulia
: Belladone / 3 tracks (Kobal / A.) 2002. ep.This is the limited
ep out under the Battlesk'rs banner and rekorded in july 2002
by Y.Fleurance at Skyr studio. Belladone is a black metal ep and
the most influence I found on this ep is Mutiilation musik, especially
with the underground sound of this stuff and sometimes with the
guitar riffs and vokals parts. I reviewed the last stuff of Mutiilation,
so you kould think I kould appreciate the work of Darvulia on
this ep too. Well, it's an interesting stuff but this is not enough
to make an opinion about the musik of Kobat and I don't know if
this ep is representative of Darvulia's musik. Don't expekt something
else than an underground black metal band with an underground
sound. No kompromise there again ! So people will like it bekause
they know what this kind of bands does play and other people will
hate bekause it's not klean enough. Grim and okkult black metal
anyway ! Darvulia played on stage at the Koslow in the end of
2003 year for their first live experience. Then, it was announced
that they will never play on stage again. So, we don't know what
we kould waiting for with this band in future. So wait and see
and buy this explicit piece of darkness !
Contact:
Battlesk'rs
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Band
: Various artists
Title : dead sun
records Tank Sampler
Material : cd
Label : dead sun
records
Year : .
Reviewed by : Hssh
Note :
Dead
Sun Records Tank Sampler : 16 tracks from unsigned and signed
ug bands from Europe. The list : Anaël, Nehema, Cadavera,
No-Lokost, Enorthed, Benighted, Dungortheb, Necropsy CB 2000,
Broken Edge, Allochesia, Enigmatik, Gurkkhas, Choosen Ones, Aendria,
Recueil Morbide and Organ Harvest. For those who need to discover
different kind of metal. Indus, death, grind, black, gothic, heavy
and melodic metal on a free cd sampler. Kontakt the label to get
this cd or use the following kontakts : Anaël : Djelassi
Oilid - Resid.Pont Carral Bat B2.D10 - Quai Jean Charcot - 83200
Toulon - France. Necrolust ; Nehema : Adipocere ; Cadavera : 43,
faubourg de la Baratte - 58000 Nevers - France. Killtheweb ; No-Lokost
: Vansteenkiste Arnaud - 65, Tonny - 6680 Sainte Ode - Belgium.
No-Lokost ; Enorthed : Sonic Wave ; Benighted : Adipocere ; Dungortheb
: dungortheb ; Necropsy CB 2000 : Guillaume Chabaud - Res.Georges
Fabre - 150 imp. Chaldee - 34070 - Montpellier - France ; Borken
Edge : 13, grande rue - 25640 - Villers Grelot - France. chphot
; Allochesia : David 02.98.57.43.73 or Alex 02.98.54.69.80 ; Enigmatik
: Mysticold Management c/o Loïc Groberty - Rte d'Yverdon
- 19-1470 - Estavayer Le Lac - Switzerland ; Gurkkhas : Morbid
Recs. Postach 3 D-03114 - Drebkau - Germany. Gurkkhas ; Choosen
Ones : Franck Moesis 06.86.51.67.50 ; Aendria : DeadSunRec. ;
Recueil Morbide : DeadSunRec ; Organ Harvest : DeadSunRec.
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Band:
Deep In Hate
Title: Only the
strong survive
Label: self-released
Material: Cd
Year: 2007
Reviewed by: Viod
( from coroner zine)
Mark:
3,5/5
The
French band of technical brutal death finally put in concrete
form its first album. It contains 8 titles of which an introduction.
What make us 7 true titles...After the dark intro which lasts
55 seconds, “Deep in hate” begins the slaughter with
the first title “Payback Time”. Their art dumbfounds
with mix of technicality and brutality. Effective solos are well
controlled, the rhythmics reminds me by moment to Obituary with
the influences of Aborted and Gojira. The style of the band is
not very original, but for France, we can say that “Deep
in Hate” is largely with the top comparatively to the french
death metal scene. Thus, the band proposed us a good stuff in
spite of the sound mixing which doesn’t emphasize the quality
of the compositions…what a pity !… because this new
French band deserves to play with the old ones..
Contact:
http://www.deepinhate.com
Diahableries comment:
Listen to one track live from their gig in Paris with Borgia and
Dawn of Decline (06.21.07)
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Band:
Deflore
Title : Human indu[B]strial
Material : CD
Label : Subsound
Records
Year : 2004
Reviewed by: void
Mark : 5/5
Human
indu[B]strial is the first album of this duet band coming from
Italy. the title of the album indicates, it is without any doubt
: pure indus métal wiout vocals. this album is for people
who likes the instrumental songs because this album exempts to
us of singer which would be likely to waste the music. Deflore
do not need any to express itself there is some mixing voices
but nothing more. The rhythmics ones heavy and robotics plunges
us in a futuristic and chaotic universe. The musical compositions
are not impromptu they are really well worked les chansons s'enchaînent
bien les unes aux autres. This album can listen itself with high
volume, for the powerful sound and and also with low volume in
background music. Deflore will take you along far from the other
with dimensions of the galaxy in an intergalactic voyage for finally
being posed carefully in another world….
Contact:
Band: http://www.deflore.com
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Band
:
Deinos Mastema
Title :. Atavisme
Material : Cd-r
/Pro
Label : Eisiger
mond
Year : 2006
Reviewed by : Voïd
from Coroner zine
Note: DDDDD
Atavisme’s
the first demo of this French black metal band. This one contain
seven songs with melancolics and some instrumental passages. For
this kind of underground music, the sound and quality of this
demo is relatively good even if it seems repetitif. We can also
listen the original depressif vocals of the one man band. Deinos
mastema haven’t finished what he wants to say… In
the meantime of the album, obtain this demo cd-r because it’s
limited to 150 copies.
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Band
:
Depeche Mode
Title : Playing
the Angel
Material : cd
Label : Mute
Year : 2005
Reviewed by : Norsk
Natten
Note :
DDDDD
DEPECHE
MODE « Playing the Angel », 2005 , MUTE. The return
to form of D.M. After 25 years of career, Depeche Mode released
their 11th studio album “Playing the angel” in the
tradition of “Violator” and “Song Faith of Devotion”
and “Black Celebration” which reveals to be darkest
and a little more subversive than usual. Martin Gore remains the
principal writer but for the first time frontman Dave Gahan writes
three songs “Suffer well”, “I want it all”
and “Nothing’s impossible”. The Dave Gahan’s
singing gets richer and sensual. Keyboards flourishes layered
atop catchy riffs and propulsive percussions. The more “rock”
song appears to be “A pain that I’m used to”,
guitar is omnipresent mixed with synthetic cold sound of Mode.
“John the Revelator” song reminds us of “I feel
you” sounds. “Suffer well” and “Lilian”
the most optimistic turns to be darker in the lyrics. And of course
the famous song “Precious” in which Martin Gore refers
to the feelings inspired by his divorce. We are feeling the pain
and suffering of Gore in each song. “The sinner in me”,
“Macro” and “damaged people” the most
enigmatic, introspective songs remembering some apparently discordant
riffs of Black Celebration. “Playing the Angel” is
a great and powerful album with the remarkable artwork and videos
from Anton Corbjin. The promotional tour dates for "Touring
The Angel"2005/2006 began to November till August. The worldwide
stage must to be set for the major Depeche Mode comeback.
Contact: http://www.depechemode.com/
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Band
: Decy Corp_
Title : JigGcr.
Material : cd
Label : Sonar
Year : 2004
Reviewed by : Sagoth
Note : DDDDD
Dexy
Corp_ : JigGcr. By Sagoth Dexy Corp plays metal indus music. In
my opinion this Evil Inside mcd could be describe such as a mix
of Ministry and Marylin Manson when they played on Antechrist
stuff. It’s not pejorative at all because it’s powerful
and sick. And that’s what we are awaiting for this kind
of music because all tracks are good performed enough. You will
be not disappointed at all with this production : It begins with
an progressive instrumental introduction with hammered drums sounds.
When you listen to it you know there will have no chance to change
it until the end of the cd. Then you understand why they are influenced
by Marylin Manson when you listen to vocals and rythms on parts
sometimes. But they add female voices to intensify the whole in
order to create their identity. So they are a quite different
from these influences. Listen to Bloken doll to be sure of that
! Sound and production did with professionalism. I think we are
going to talk about them with this excellent stuff. They come
from France and it’s produced with Sonar association. It
comes with a digipack cover with bonus live tracks video like
Muckrackers did with their cd-r demo.
Contact
: http://www.dexycorp.com
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Band:
Decline of Humanity
Title: Corrosive
Label: Manitou Music
Material: mcd
Year: 2007
Reviewed by HssH
Mark:
2,5/5
Thrash
metal is the way of Decline of Humanity. All songs recorded at
Walnut Studio in 2004 but the final release finally out in 2007.
Death metal, hard-core and above all thrash metal influences inside.
Everything is correct with this opus because all tracks are good
played enough. However, I didn’t find any identity. Decline
of Humanity only plays what other play without original touch.
It reminds me of old Sadus sometimes but without shrewdness. Fast
and hammered drums mixed with typical thrash metal guitars and
vocals which make variations on death metal and thrash metal.
That’s all. But I enjoyed the addition of 20 minutes of
live bonus taken from their participation to the Killer Fest.
Also a video included: “Lethargic Worms”, taken from
“Corrosive”. Thus, listen to this opus if you need
another thrash metal band. In my opinion Decline of Humanity needs
to grow up to persuade of their art and thus to assert themselves.
Kontakt:
Band: www.declineofhumanity.com
Label: www.thundering-records.com
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Artist:
Dierdre
Title: One
Material: cd
Label: 6DegreesRecords/Universal
Year: 2006
Length: 50.28
Reviewed by: HssH.
Mark:
4/5
It is not usual to review
this kind of stuff for Diahableries. Listen ! Dub, trip hop, pop
electro, African, Oriental, metal, baroque, Gospel, EBM and much
more…12 tracks with different kinds of music because the
artist did not choose a mix of all these influences there but
much more a kind of music for each track. Thus, it makes the whole
very eclectic, you know: It is not obvious and so it is disconcerting
sometimes. But feeling and professionalism are there. A bewitching
female voice playing with various registers and compass. Dierdre
Dubois is a US woman that chose Paris for living since 1991. You
maybe know her and much more her work with Ekova because she was
discovered with this band in “Le printemps de Bourges”.
Dierdre played from Moscow to Francisco and gone through Europa
since 15 years. She played with Jean Michel Jarre, also Paul Oakenfold,
Julien Lourau and many more. With this stuff called “One”,
she puts in concrete form a project with Wayne Frost (Cartesian
Lover), Christian Ricau (Anarchic Chic) and Mehdi Haddab (Ekova,
Duoud). The whole is as romantic and dark as it is electronic
and very rhythmical for dance floors sometimes with love themes.
That depends of each track. In other words an open-mindedness
is required to enjoy this opus. All parts push Dierdre’s
vocals forward and make it very sensual with dreamlike quality.
You could compare “One” with Lisa Gerrard, Nina Hagen
or maybe Yma Sumac without saying it is the same. Don’t
forget that Dierdre takes you away in a poetic adventure without
compromise. Therefore, there is no place for usual music.
Kontakt:
Band: www.myspace.com/dierdreonline
Booking: www.lafissureprod.com
; www.myspace.com/lafissureprod
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Band
: Distress
Title : Others
Label : Pervade
Productions / Thundering Records
Material : cd
Year : 2007
Reviewed by : HssH
Mark
:
5/5
Distress
is a French band born in 1996. “Others” is their third
release after “Close to Heaven” (Thundering Records,
2001) and “The Mourning Sign” (Manitou Music, 2004).
A music that takes you away with sounds from death metal to heavy
metal and from dark feelings to doom acoustic parts too. Also
Distress mix the whole with progressive moods and play all instruments
with cleverness. The production is faultless and thus intensifies
their music. Therefore, it makes it as inventive as attractive.
Sometimes lyrics are sorrowful and sometimes there are screamed.
A lot of melodies flood this opus finally without loosing powerful
guitars, tormented lyrics and hammered rhythms. Deep, strong,
gloomy, despairing, doom, death and heavy are the words for “Others”.
You can compare this opus with Opeth or bands of the same stamp,
of course. But you have to know that Distress enforces its identity
with this opus. 71,16 minutes of a new gift and a new masterpiece
anyway. No less, no more !
Contact
:
Band : http://distressmetal.free.fr
Label : www.thundering-records.com
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Band
: Dolmen Sniper
Title : Dead ringers
Material : cd-r
Label : Autoprod
Year : 2003.
Reviewed by : Hssh
Note :
Dolmen
Sniper : Dead ringers / 12 tracks (Dolmen Sniper) 2003. Demo cd-r.73
minutes of kut and paste ! This stuff is the projekt of Cyrill
Duneau from Bourges (France) who played with De Vermis Mysteriis.
Dead Ringers musik is unusual and all tracks are instrumental
versions there. It's a mix of industrial and electronik musik
and it's very experimental sometimes. There is no more kold wave
influences like De Vermis Mysteriis bekause Domlen Sniper is much
more a modern musik than everything else and so, Cyrill Duneau
does not play rock songs with typikal melodies or rythmiks. It's
very different from all extreme musik I ever heard until this
day.
Contact : dolmen
sniper
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Band
:
D.U.F
Title : ?
Material : demo
Label : Self produced
Year : ?
Reviewed by : Huruem
Mark : 2/5 For the
music, 5/5 for the fun
When _ Angst _ sent me the songs he told me that D.U.F. was nothing
but a joke, and that as an anecdote they translated the lyrics
from swedish to German, cause you know, German sounds pretty aggressive.
And you know what? I had really a lot of fun listening to that
E.P. . Not really what you usually expect from an E.P. of an industrial
band, but I smiled all along the 20 minutes. I mean, the overall
structures of the tracks aren’t that good, some of the vocals
are really pathetic, and pretty badly recorded. Which is in some
respect a shame ‘cause I really think that a good singer,
well recorded could have raised the whole thing up dramatically,
now I guess it wasn't their main objective, at least I hope so
! On the instrumental aspect of the band you can hear that they’re
playing with the stereotypes of industrial music, but still, for
some reason, you end up feeling that it works pretty well sometimes,
and you forget the “joke” aspect of the thing, this
is what happened to me with “nette fabrik” for instance...
But then you hear the singer and you’re back into the joke.
So
have fun checking out http://duf.zap.to
and guys, if you go back into doing some serious stuff let me
know, I would definitely like to check it out.
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Band
: Duaël
Title : Que s'ouvrent
les portes du Cythraul..
Material : cd
Label : Autoprod
Year : 2002.
Reviewed by : Hssh
Note :
Duaël
: Que s'ouvrent les portes du Cythraul.../ 1 intro / 4 tracks
/ 1 outro (Necrowarrior/Crystaldust/Denig). 2002.This band from
France were known under the Armageddon patronymic. This material
was composed from 1997 to 2002 and rekorded in the 2002 year.
All the tracks are different because there was a musikal evolution
during these years. I think this band was influenced with bands
like Krieg. There is a lot of breaks in the tracks but it is less
violent than this famous underground band because Duaël plays
here more atmospherik and psykotik dark metal than black metal
really. The sound of the drums machines give a martial industrial
approach sometimes. Also, there is gothic influences with depressive
melodies. No pop gothic of course but excellent gothic which could
kill any gothic trendie ! It alternate with black metal guitars
with tormented and deshumanized voices on typikal black metal
changes. Also, they use noise samples like MZ412 known to add
to their musik.They say they play black metal celtic. I'm waiting
for this because this opus is not celtic at all except with the
lyriks. Nevertheless they have excellent musikal compositions.
The sound is raw but quite. So, it is very interesting for a first
demonstration.
Contact : Necrowarrior
Available ! (go to the Diahableries Association Section)
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Band
: Duaël
Title :
Hadan Drailh
Material : cd
Label : Autoprod
Year : 2002.
Reviewed by : Hssh
Note :
Duaël
/ Hadan Drailh / 6 tracks (Necrowarrior/Mathir) 2003. Self Released.
CD-R (demo)Second release of this band from Brittany (France).
Six tracks of celtik black metal. Be karefull ! When I use celtik
to describe their musik, I mean that the lyriks are an ode to
Brittany men old kulture and to celtes kultures as a rule. But
they does not play as Aes Dana did for example. No additionnal
celtik melodies played with old musikal instruments as bombarde
or bagpipe, even if there is three notes of Bagpipe to end the
opus. Just raw black metal without kompromise with death metal
influences for the guitars parts sometimes and programming drums.
The sound is better than their first produktion and I think they
progressed to be more homogeneous this time. They are going to
find their way little by little and they kould have to be more
surprising in future with a better produktion to put a lot of
ordinary people off. And Hadan Drailh is not for ordinary people
ofkcourse. What do they plot for their next release ? I hope the
best !
Contact :
Duaë
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Band:
Dustbowl
Title: Drops of Chaos
Material: cd
Label: Manitou Music
Year: 2007
Reviewed by: HssH
Mark:
5/5
When
heavy metal meets gothic, progressive metal and other original
feelings you get Dustbowl: a dark and despairing music mixed with
catchy and powerful parts. The use of keyboards sometimes reminds
me of Deep Purple’s sound or Pink Floyd’s experimentations
and other bands which played in the seventy years. Instead of
enlarge these old influences, Dustbowl adds a lot of current elements
such as electronic samples and neo-metal melodies to make a moderne
music. Thus, different feelings run over this opus and make it
as varied as inventive. G.Host’s vocals intensify the whole
through his influences: David Bowie, Nick Holmes, Chris Cornell
and Thom Yorke. No less, no more ! But don’t expect for
an aggressive opus. No black metal or thrash death metal here.
Dustbowl chose another way with progressive and deep feelings
that makes the whole as atmospheric as depressive. You can hold
this opus to a mix of Alice in Chain, Paradise Lost, The Old Dead
Tree and A Perfect Circle. I would end first with a comment for
the production: excellent ! A success ! Then with the musical
compositions and arrangements: perfect ! At last, I recommend
you “Drops of Chaos” for the great work they put inside.
We need more bands with this tone quality.
Kontakt:
Band: www.dustbowl.net
Label: www.gofannon-records.com
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Band
:
DSK
Title : Oppressed/deformed
Label : Thundering
Records
Material : cd
Year : 2006
Reviewed by : Huruem
Mark : DDDDD
DSK
is giving a very sincere, straight to your head, Death metal.
This album is not characterised by a crushing production, but
by a very live atmosphere, and the album is mixed in that sense.
Which means : no trigged drums, no tons of guitar lines, no weird
electronic effects. Just some pure old school Death metal. The
technical aspect is pretty interesting, the structures are pretty
good, the guitar and bass lines are alterning from some very melodic
parts to some heavy groovy parts. The main vocal parts are very
close to the one of Sven from Aborted with some more Hardcore
parts sometimes which is the slightest thing that was necessary
to prevent them from being completely boring and adds to the live
aspect of the thing.
Aborted seems to me as the main influence of the band, but you
will probably recognise the influence of Napalm death, Burnt By
the Sun, The Red Chord, the old school American Death metal and
also some Swedish influence but they far less present than the
American School. To conclude I would say that DSK gave us one
of the most sincere death metal that I’ve heard for years.
I was actually thinking before that you couldn’t do a good
death metal album without a very heavy production anymore, I was
wrong. I was just thrown into a pure atmosphere of rehearsal,
of a gig. The kinds of feelings that you have when you’re
actually PLAYING in a band. In other words : Just Check This Fucking
Out.
Contacts
:
Label : www.thundering-records.com
Band : www.ultradsk.com
; www.myspace.com/ultradsk
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