Review 017: Beckon - Beckon

Genre: Groove Metal
Country Of Origin: U.K
Year: 2013
Label: Self-Released

Beckon is the self-titled  debut ep by the Scottish Groove Metal Band Beckon.

These guys play a good mix of genres,  inspired by Musshuggah, Lamb of God, Amon Amarth, Nuclear Assault, Morbid Saints and other Thrash, Groove and Death metal major bands.

The tracks are an explosive tribute to the best groove, thrash and melodic death metal that we can find around the Metal scene. Explosive, brutal but even melodic.

Good riffs, inspired (as I told before) by the best musicians and bands in these musical genres; good vibrate and growling voices, performing these heavy tracks very good.

In particular I liked very much the “dirty ape” ’s solo that  reminded me Dark tranquility and Amon Amarth’s solos…I love that heavy but also melodic power solo. Very good job indeed to this band.

If you have listened this demo Let's wait for their first full-lenght, if you haven't do it yet, i suggest you to listen to it.

Rate: 80/100

(the e.p is available here https://soundcloud.com/beckonmetal-1)

Review 013: Gravehuffer – Blasphemusic

Genre: Thrash/Death Metal
Country Of Origin: U.S.A
Year: 2012
Label: Reality Impaired



Today I’ll review the new album of the American band GraveHuffer. Though they have some good ideas into the new thrash metal wave of these lastas years, I have to talk something about this album. Among all it is a “good” production, but is infected by some important points: they mix and rush many genres and influences in all 14 tracks, going out with what is “the band’soul itself, his interface, his idea of music and his way to do it”; in particular they mix with Thrash, Sludge, some Blackened influence (with screams and some riffs) and Death. For exemple: “Reacharound Rambo” is most influenced by major bands like IMMORTAL, Bathory and Celtic Frost. “Unthinking unity” is influenced by Opeth and Celtic Frost’s prog death riffs, chorus and verses. “Festering”, “Into the Crypts of Rays”, “Tomb of Hercules” and “God forgot us” are influenced by Mastodon, Periphery and Monstrosity, their Sludge metal and some Brutal Death come out directly when I Listened these tracks. At least, “Dumpster Baby”, “Christ Complex”, “Gutsick” and “Lucifer’s Crown” are influenced by Vio-lence, Artillery, Sacred Reich, Death, Morbid Saint, Exhorder, Obituary and so on. At the end, I say that they could have some good productions if they just stopped and focused only on one genre. By what I listened to, I recommend to keep doing Death Metal, but improving the flat growl they used, maybe re-listening to death and opeth much more times.

Rating: 56/100

Review 009: Skinlepsy - Condemning the Empty Souls (2013)

Genre: Thrash/Death Metal
Country of Origin: Brazil
Year: 2013
Label: Shinigami Records

Skinlepsy are a brazilian band formed in San Paolo in 2001.
Before the album i'll talk you about today, Condemning The Empty Souls, released on April 2013 by Shinigami Records, they only released a self-produced ep Reign of Chaos in 2003, but every member in the band has played in other band from the brazilian underground scene.
The band plays a really aggressive mix of death and thrash metal that they define Brutal Thrash Metal and their biggest influences are Sepultura and Slayer.
Every song is quite good but in my opinion Crucial Words, with its fantastic (in someway also melodic) guitar part(in someway melodic) and is good refrain and Alientation a song that will stay in your mind for a while.

Rating: 72/100

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Review 007: Delirium - Contrast (2013)

Genre: Thrash Metal
Country Of Origin: Finland
Year: 2013
Label: Self-Released
Today I'll talk you about the first ep of a young finnish band, Delirium.
Contrast is a 3 songs demo with some sound problem.
These guys play an interesting mixture of thrash and death metal, indeed the ep has a lot of intersting moments.
The opener, Superiority is a good thrash metal song.
Suffocate the will, is in my opinion the best song because of its interesting vocal parts and it's good lyrics.
End this scene is the more aggressive song in the ep, in here take priority their death metal side.
Finally this album is funny but the not good sound and ruins some moments.
 
Rating: 67/100(because of the sound)

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Review 005: Nihilism Incarnate - Deconstruct the Aeons (2012)

Genre :Death Metal
Country Of Origin: U.K
Year: 2012
Label: Self-Released

There are a lot of way to spend a good quarter of an hour.
One of this way is to listen Deconstruct The Aeons, first ep by the english deathsters Nihilism Incarnate.
The opener Eat,Shit,Die is a really impressive and aggressive death metal song that shows a big technical preparation and that will surprise with his riffs and solos. The song, after a little introduction, starts with a really aggressive vocal part, and in my opinion is one of the hilighlight of this ep.
Dark Matter, the longer song in this ep, and The Lord Prey(er), are more melodic and progressive but not for this reason less interesting, with some really good slowdowns.
The last song is Butcher Bludgeon another good intense death song.
Maybe the songs and the lyrics are not too much original but this ep is a really good point of start for a really good band .
 
Rating:77/100

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