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Band : I
Title : Between two worlds
Material : cd
Label :Nucleaire Blast
Year :2006
Reviewed by : Sagoth

Note : DDDDD

One of the black metal kings is back with another name and another style which reminds us an old age now past when Immortal reigned as master. Abbath is coming back with “I” (I as Immortal?) It’s with a lot of skepticism I liste nit, and what a surprise!!! Even if we didn’t refind Immortal and hopefully not, “I” distil a metal music between heavy metal and a certain form of music which was what Immortal became. Abbath’s voice, even if she’s different, travels us through a good evolution. Evolution and orientation could be a mix between what was immortal and a metal band of the 80’s. Musically speaking, there is a great control and it’s delightful for the ears. Some solos remind me some good old W.A.S.P solos. We are far away from the virtuosity of guitar heroes and you’ll appreciate the musicality of the project. Songs like “the storm I ride” or “Battalions” show us their influences from Immortal. The band includes some Enslaved members and gives to this project a prestigious mix from the Scandinavian extreme metal scene which marks an extreme metal era.

Band : Infectious MG42
Title : Death Front
Material : cd-r
Label : Skeleton of Society
Year : 2004.
Reviewed by : HSSH

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Infectious MG42 Death Front (2004, Skeletons of Society, Infectious MG42, demo CD-R) by HssH. Sick, sick, and sick project again of a one man band called MG42 ! This is not easy listening really. Don't expect some sweet melodies with MG42. This is war and this war mixed with atomic noises of total destruction. A lot of war movies and war documents samples are used to make the whole. Ten tracks about the Death Front. Do you will survive to the end of MG42 war ?... I dont' know ! You probably will listen to all tracks if you can listen to hard tech parts. Imagine the #4 Muckrackers recording with more minimal [musical] parts and more extreme noise samples and you will discover Infectious MG42. It's not for all people really but you have to buy this stuff when you are searching for extreme noisy technoïdicities of war.

Contact :infectious MG42 /

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Band : Inhepsie
Title : Oracle
Material : cd
Label : Autoprod
Year : 2003.
Reviewed by : HSSH

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Inhepsie / Oracle / 8 tracks (Bontant Cathy/Suire Jean) 2003. H.A.R. This is the first opus of this french band and their kover looks like Cupidon giving love to a dying man. Is Inhepsie a metal band with a message of love ? It's better than it. Inhepsie talk about wind, fire, water, earth, the evil and the Divine. This is very poetik and you kould think it's an heavenly or mystik projekt because of the lyriks. Their musik is not aggressive at all but melodik, melancholik and atmospherik. No skreams, death vokals or what ever reminds it but a melodik voice mastered by Cathy who sings on all the tracks. Her voice is more influenced by Pot-house singers than heavy metal voices and there is a good point bekause it make it original. Jean akkompany her with guitars and bass and Cathy add keyboards, programming and arrangements to the whole. This whole looks like a tale with fairy feeling really. I invite you to diskover Oracle bekause it's different from a lot of kurrent metal bands. It kontains a lot of musikal influences and also, it's very good played, very sensitive and they managed to get a high sound quality. Cathy and Jean have another projekt kalled In Vitae Eternam and had experiences with Maleficentia and Exhauster. It proves that they are not beginners into the cirkle of musik.

Listen to them to : Inhepsie.free.fr

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Band : Inhumate
Title : Life
Material : cd
Label : Autoprod
Year : 2004
Reviewed by : HSSH

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Inhumate : Life / 16 tracks (Fred / Christophe / David / Yannick) 2004. Cd.Fourth opus of this legendary grind death band from the East of France (Alsace rulezzzzzz !!!) and kalled Inhumate. Do you want them to be slower this time ? Well, you will be disappointed in that kase. Inhumate is still brutal. Brutal on rekord, brutal in all fest they participate too. Do you know the meaning of grind ? Do you know the meaning of death ? Do you know the meaning of mix of grind and death ? Well, this mix is Inhumate. And what about the sound of this Grind your soul produktion ? I just have to say that it's very professionnal ! Excellent mix, so excellent sound. Tracks kome so fast in your face that you will never find a quite moment of tranquillity. No sweet melodies with female vokals or keyboards parts but just Christophe sick vokals without effekts (as ever !!!) and without kompromise too and it's helped with blasting guitars and blasting drums parts. Hey, I want some lead guitars now !!! He,he ! Don't hope lead guitars with Inhumate but sick (and sick again...) rythmik guitars played to strike your head on a virtual (virtual, really ?) wall or a nail or a....mikrophone. Yez, Christophe knows how to do that with a mikrophone. Look at them on stage and you will understand it. You will understand it too by bying this stuff bekause they added a cd-rom video clip on this rekord and it's taken at at the Obscene Extreme Festival 2003 : Que ce soit le bordel ici ! and Rejoignez nous dans notre trance ! and Faut que ce soit le souk ! said Christophe. It kompletely illustrate their sickness really ! Hey, I found some riff which sound like old MOD stuffs. But I will not tell you in which tracks it is. Another reason to buy it ? Yes, absolutely ! All my support to this french metal band !

Contact : Inhumate

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Band : INKISITOR
Title : “s/t”
Material : cd-r
Label : Auto Production
Year : 2005
Reviewed by :Iormugand T

Note : DDDDD

INKISITOR “s/t” 2005 . Here we have the untitled promo 2005 by French band located in Le Mans INKISITOR. It displays 4 tracks of rather old-school and straightforward black metal with some brutal parts akin to death metal.Pie 666, the only former member left, has asked two ex-Cantus Bestiae members to help him on bass and drums, as well as two ex-Katarmaz members on vokills and guitars to record this blasphemy into concerto. The music performed by the band makes me think of a copulation between Watain and Impiety, as it presents a very efficient form of brutal black metal with classic antichristian and blasphemic incantations and artwork.The vocals are foregrounded and powerful, and if you listen well with the lyrics in English, you can decipher a typical French accent on some words, nothing disturbing, just a remainder of the location of the band.The sound is quite good especially for a demo recording, the drumming is great,even if the big drums are too much in the background.To put things in a nutshell, this is a good and solid demo recording, despite the fact that the band needs more time and effort to find a personal approach towards his black art,as sometimes the influences are a bit obvious, but this will come with more releases and more experience. However, if all demos could sound like this one, well, nothing shitty would be released, but this will never happen… « Paths to no tomorrow,forsaken ».

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Band : Imperial
Title : De haine et de souffrance
Material : demo
Label : Self produced
Year : 2006
Reviewed by : Huruem

Mark : DDDDD

Imperial is a young true black metal band from Switzerland which are playing on all the stereotypes, ugly artwork, silly national socialist lyrics, a very bad production, done in a studio to try to look like professionals,… Actually it took me weeks to be able to get through the 28 minutes of this demo. They just got rid of ALL the low frequencies to make it sound colder but in fact it just sounds really strident and piercing. Seriously I have never heard anything so painfully strident, and I can assure you that I have lots of badly produced demos. This shit is just unbearable. And it’s silly ‘cause musically they’re not that bad, the songs are well structured, the singer is far from being extraordinary but fits nonetheless quite well to the music. Even the drum machine is used quite efficiently, and I must admit that I tend to be very harsh with bands using a drum machine. So in the end I would say that Imperial has an interresting potential and might to be able to give us some really nice stuff in the future but this demo is definetly not something that I would recommend to anyone.

Contact : misterdakness@hotmail.com

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Band : Inocculta
Title : Fausseté et Démesure
Material : cd
Label : Autoprod
Year : 2003.
Reviewed by : HSSH

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Inocculta : Fausseté et Démesure / 7 tracks (Inocculta) Feb.2003Brutal as melodic as atmospheric black metal without keyboards. Do you know what I mean ? Well, a lot of tempo variations mixed with extreme killing vokals as Burzum did it so well. When tempo is quick, it's brutal and bewitching and when it's slower, it's brutal too with dark and depressive melodies this time. Excellent guitars parts ! Sometimes medieval and classic arppegios milden Inocculta's temperature and bring atmosphere of our european ancestors. I think that these guitars melodies will be really too short for other metal maniaks than extreme black metal afficionados to appreciate the whole. But when you believe in old black metal rules or when you begin to accept them, you will succumb beneath Inocculta musical empire. And it's a quite sound recording, so what are you waiting for to buy this sickness ? This stuff is certainly not for novices but novices could still learn, isn't it ?... Definitively for Burzum adepts anyway !

Contact : Inocculta
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