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Band
: Gerbe of Life
Title : /
Material : cd
Label : Autoprod
Year : 2002.
Reviewed by : HSSH
Note :
Gerbe
of Life : same / 12 tracks. 2002 Gerbe of Life is a french extreme
death metal band. 12 tracks for 20.12 mn rekording only ! Fast
and brutal ! They don't like christiannity and pedophily. Nor
fastfood or organs traffics either. They understood what "the
beauty of the world" is and their musikal brutality is the
expression of this. Direct, straightforwardly with a great sound
rekording ! 3 tracks of the cd are availables on the Nihilistic
Promotions tape reviewed above.
Contact : Gerbe
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Band
: Gerbe of Life +
Repudiate split cd
Title : /
Material : cd
Label : Skulfucked
Year : /
Reviewed by : HSSH
Note :
Gerbe
of Life + Repudiate split cd : 11 tracks by Gerbe of Life (Seb/Mickael/Christophe/Cedric)
/ 6 tracks by Repudiate (Mitch Hell/P.O./Arnaud/Nico/David) Do
you know the meaning of "brutal death gore metal" ?
That's what it is with Gerbe of Life. No less no more ! I reviewed
their earlier "same" opus and you find the same tracks
of the material there. So I have nothing to add because you can
read the review above. You like Inhumate or Nausea...It's for
you in that case. Repudiate is a french band but different. Still
playing brutal death metal but they add guitars solis with an
old school thrash metal touch. So, you can think they are more
technikal with their compositions. The sound is ok but not as
powerful as Gerbe of Life. Repudiate have good ideas anyway and
is more melodik too. So, this stuff is not an original opus really
but it is not a crap recording too. It could have an interest
for any brutal death metal maniak who want to listen to new brutal
metal stuff. You will not be disappointed with bying this french
brutal sickness.
Contact : Skullfucked
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Band
: Gholgoth
Title : Somnus Mortis
Imago
Material : cd
Label : Ordealis
Records
Year : 2003
Reviewed by : HSSH
Note :/
Gholgoth
: Somnus Mortis Imago (9 tracks / Gholgoth) CD 2003. Ordealis
Records. What a funny name for this band ! Gholgoth ! Do they
come from space to conquer the earth ? Well, this is not Gwar
I think, there ! Gholgoth play black death metal with a lot of
influences such as Behemoth, old Immortal, Dark Funeral and Dissection.
They play very fast and it's very agressive. It's efficacious
because the band mix their brutality with a high production level
and with musical technical parts. You will find some typical thrash
metal riffs in this opus too. So, it's not really a new kind of
metal but an excellent stuff of modern black metal. Have a particular
attention to the frontman vocals. It's very dark, powerful and
cold. Do you need malefic mixture ? Do you want to follow your
Lord in hell ? Feel the darkness from Hungary when you are ok
to sell your soul to evil !
Contact : Ordealis
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Band
: Glaukom Synod
Title : Uczulony
Label : autoproduction
Material : cd-r
Year : 2006
Reviewed by :
HssH
Note
: DDDDD
New
material from France “triturated, broken and refragmented
in 2006” by Gabriel S. This is pure industrial tones mixed
with electronic parts, isn’t it ? Well, it reminds me of
Revolting Cocks sickness mixed with Mz412 noises, In Slaughter
Natives samples, also White Dolls extreme violence, Ministry fun,
and punk feelings. It is too much various to say it’s harsh
tech, techno-industrial music or something else. Thus, you will
find a lot of influences inside but don’t expect something
such as an electro-metal hybrid music or rock’n roll parts
hid in a track. You have to understand that Glaukom Synod is completely
“cut and paste” music and so you could believe that
it’s a shaggy dog whole. Well, you have to listen to this
stuff to make your opinion because it is not easy to describe
it thoroughly even if I could add that it’s very oppressive,
depressive, deranged, dark and unusual. I recommend you to discover
Gabriel’s music if you need new sounds, also new musical
experimental experiences. Please, note that there is a remix of
“Abyssal Suffering” called “Dawn of the Miserable”,
a shredded metal version of “Intense Underground Brainstorm”
(Did you know ?), a bizarre remix of “Squeller” called
“Centrifugal Morgh Rigsore” and at least a remix of
Kabutogani called “Apnoia”. So, Gabriel loves remixs
and he does what he does because he grows more and more inventive.
Moreover, the outstanding recording of this material intensify
the whole. A success, really ! I love that kind of stuffs !
Contacts
:
http://glaukomsynod.site.voila.fr
www.myspace.com/glaukomsynod
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Band
: Gloomy
Angel
Title : The Gloomy
Angel
Material : cd-r
Label : Auto Production
Year :2004
Reviewed by :HssH
Note : DDDDD
Dark
electronic music from Belgium, Gloomy Angel formed end of 2002
with this line up. They played live in Belgium with bands such
as Zorglub, Kafka, The Graft…Do you know these bands ? They
come from France…! Gloomy Angel are ex – metal and
doom bands members and you feel it with their music : 12 tracks
of dark electro with strong depressive and oppressive feeling.
Black metal influences are mixed with progressive martial parts
sometimes. Listen to “Under The Black Moon” and you
will understand why. You can use it for dancefloor because rythms
are very repetitive but don’t hope to feel joy with it.
It’s dark and dark again. Male screams mixed with female
vocals which remind of Hanin Elias’s (Atari Teenage Riot)
vocals. So it adds electro punk influences to the whole. Maybe
because J.P.L. (composer – arranger) played with “Buckweeds”
(punk rock band) in the past. Instruments such as church’s
keyboards on “Morticia” add dark feeling to their
recording and so we have a question to answer : does Gloomy Angel
come from darkness definitively ? : Listen to tracks such as “The
Wrath of the Demon”, “Under the Moonlight 1”,
“La chanson des damnés”, “Hell &
Fire” or “Princess of the darkness” to be sure
of that ! Quite good production to make an opinion ! Rythms are
home made and it is strange because it has not the position as
it deserves sometimes. But it’s not a problem when you listen
to the whole. It is convincing enough. I have to add that Gloomy
Angel alternate their dark feeling with more emotional parts on
tracks such as “Death Castle” at the end of this opus.
So, they know how to do without playing the same track again and
again. This stuff is varied enough to get not bored with their
music. Maybe not the best new original stuff I listened to but
an interesting opus for sure.
Contact
: JFK – Stasegemsesteenweg 1H “Casa
Floorpul” – 8500 Kortrijk (Belgium).
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Band
: Gnostic
Title : Evoking
the Demon
Material : cd
Label : Ordealis
Records
Year : 2003
Reviewed by : HSSH
Note :
Gnostic
: Evoking the Demon (11 tracks / Gnostic) CD 2003. Ordealis records.
Raw black metal from the USA with death and grind metal parts
indise. It reminds the chaos of Krieg or Blasphemy demos riffs
sometimes. It's very underground especially with the raw sound
they chose to convince us. You will like it if you are not desappointed
with the sound of stuffs such as Mutiilation releases. No compromise
and no subtety nor subtilization there ! It's a call to war for
those who want to live and to die by the sword. Powerful, violent,
efficacious but not a masterpiece. It comes with a video cd-rom
part that contains more than 47 minutes of the band desecrating
the stage in front of small audience. This is real underground
!
Contact : Ordealis
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Band
:
Grandchaos
Title : Ionize me
Material : promo
cd
Label : Urgence
Disk record
Year : 2005
Reviewed by : Norsk
Natten
Note : DDDDD
GRANDCHAOS
« Ionize me », electro industrial music This latest
EBM EP from Grandchaos is gathering some tracks created between
2003 and 2004 released by Urgence disk record, a label from Switzerland.
This Belgian band, is adding on the so much crowded Belgian electronic
scene. Their music remembers the electronic music from 80’s
with a touch of technoid sounds. The sound is cold and soft, voices
are dark, tortured and robotic on the path of “Klinic”,
“Front 242”, and “Tumor” but more minimalist
and repetitive. Undoubtedly “Ionize me” (138 BPM),
“Dream Factory” “From the outside” tracks
are aiming at dancefloors and reveals to be interesting. “From
the outside”, leading track from the album, bring us in
a dream world, sounds a little bit as in trance music. After several
EPs, their music is unfortunately lacking of diversities because
of so repetitive loops, as in ”Horror” and “Ionize
me” (100 BPM) which remains unimportant and annoying tracks
but we have to pay attention to their music in the future. A last
comment on the astonishing artwork of Jirko, which underlines
the robotic and cold effect of the music.
Contact :http://www.darksite.ch/urgences/urgences/
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Band
: Guerilla Underground
Title : Sampleur
Material :
cd
Label : Guerilla
Underground
Year : /
Reviewed by : HSSH
Note :
This
sampler unite bands of Guerilla Underground catalogue. It begins
with Horrid Flesh. This band plays death metal with black metal
influences. Vocals alternate typical death metal screams with
black metal vocals. 2 tracks taken from their Human Configuration
demo (7 tracks, 2002). It’s powerful and they chose an excellent
sound production to make the whole. Their material is limited
to 500 items. Tracks : 001 – Sword of Sin, 002 – Antithesis
of Conception Then Hymen follow with a concept about Love. Their
music is described as an electro experimental metal. In my opinion
it’s more influenced by bands such as Crematory and they
mix these influences with a funny jazz part with the first track.
Then symphonic keyboards on metal parts are mixed with noises
samples. It make the whole very heterogene. Two tracks taken from
their love demo (9 trakcs, 2003) : 003 – Horizontal, 004
– Love. La Division Mentale appears on this sampler with
1 track taken from their Syndrome material (3 tracks, 1998). The
choosen one is Murder/Mutilation and it’s a mix of fast
black death metal with electro samples. So they play an extreme
electro metal on this track. Listen to their others tracks with
Guerilla Underground and you’ll understand it’s violent
and extreme too. Efficacious but too short really !…Too
bad ! Then DSM comes with a techno gothic core music for tormented
minds. Production is good enough to make an opinion : Hammered
drums and noises alternate with gothic melodies with a lot of
electronic samples and breaks on the first track. The second track
is less original because it’s more a typical gothic track.
Two excellent songs : 006 - Speak to me, 007 – Naked God.
Taken from their Autosuggestion demo (7 tracks, 2001). Guerilla
Underground chose to add remix on this sampler. Here it’s
done by La Division Mentale and Absent : 008 – Domination
(L.D.M.) : Interesting mix of black metal and electro music such
as Forge could perform. 009 – Love (Absent) : Absolutely
sick ! An excellent variation of the original track. Absent is
definitively imaginative with the use of samples. These tracks
should be choosen with the forthcoming Guerilla Remix opus in
2005. Then, two tracks of Absent. It is not new that this project
is really great in my opinion. Please read the full review above.
Don’t miss the train with this band because they know how
to create new felling, melodies and darkness while remaining emotionnal.
And what about their influences : Aphex Twin, FM Einheit, Mogwaï,
Murcof, Nobukazu Takemura, The Third Eye Foundation, To Rococo
Rot… Tracks : 010 – Variations/Expérimentations,
011 – Chronos (from Absent demo : 10 tracks, 2004). The
sampler end with Untel. It’s completely different from the
rest. Less sick, less violent…Well, Untel plays something
else which is described like post rock. 2 tracks taken from their
Etat 1 demo (4 tracks, 2000) : 012 – Tempete, 013 –
Ciné [cypher mix] Their music is more atmospheric than
everything else. Very sweet, slow, slowly…Listen to it before
dreaming ! Not too bad at all because sound is
good enough. So, a good point again for this band.
For more informations about the bands and Guerilla Underground
: http://www.guerillablog.com
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