Short List New Reviews 2/5/2011 @ AZM
Ruled By Reason-The Dawning of Dystopia-CD ( The Execution Kollective/ ATMF)
So this is technical Death metal with a heavy does of Modern Thrash elements and some very talented guitar and bass work. The Drummer is a working metronome as well. They are a US band working with a sublabel of the mighty ATMF label. Their Influences are those of bands on the Listenable label with elements of Old Dead Tree, Opeth , Jazzcore and heavy doses of Meshuggah. With Ruled by Reason melody is what plays the major rule almost in the emo or Post Punk way. I know its hard to explain as there are so many elements going on here. This is another example of what I like to call Thinking mans Metal its not Metalcore as it way beyond that with the Prog, Jazz and Punk elements. I really feel you have to listen to understand but it your willing to not be a close minded fuck you will see the advantage a band like this has to open the genres we love wide open to those that have never even given them a change. Damn the guitar work here is so stellar is makes me emotional..The vocals also go from full on Carcass style to clean Opeth vocals if that makes any more sense. I want this band to be huge so the world can see what they have missed out on for 20 -25 yrs now.
http://executionkollective.com/
Human Improvement Process-S.T.A.R.S.-CD (The Execution Kollective/ ATMF)
So Electronic and Death metal are nothing new in this day and age many many bands do it and Its not that Human Improvement Process mixes Industrial, Ethereal, Death Metal and Hardcore into a stew that makes it interesting . Its that they do it in a way that will piss off many different scensters that makes me love them all the more. There are moments here you would think Samael and Kovenant are more metallic then this band now and then there will 30 seconds later sound like the most brutal gore band on this earth. I just love that they will goto into a hardcore groove in the same moment then go to a popish riff with clean melodic vocals then back to cries of torment. I this will not be for all but if you understand what bands like like Voivod 20 + yrs ago were out to try and create bands like this take the touch in 2011 and do it to there own fire. Hell ya I say hell ya to all of you in this band..
http://executionkollective.com/
So this is technical Death metal with a heavy does of Modern Thrash elements and some very talented guitar and bass work. The Drummer is a working metronome as well. They are a US band working with a sublabel of the mighty ATMF label. Their Influences are those of bands on the Listenable label with elements of Old Dead Tree, Opeth , Jazzcore and heavy doses of Meshuggah. With Ruled by Reason melody is what plays the major rule almost in the emo or Post Punk way. I know its hard to explain as there are so many elements going on here. This is another example of what I like to call Thinking mans Metal its not Metalcore as it way beyond that with the Prog, Jazz and Punk elements. I really feel you have to listen to understand but it your willing to not be a close minded fuck you will see the advantage a band like this has to open the genres we love wide open to those that have never even given them a change. Damn the guitar work here is so stellar is makes me emotional..The vocals also go from full on Carcass style to clean Opeth vocals if that makes any more sense. I want this band to be huge so the world can see what they have missed out on for 20 -25 yrs now.
http://executionkollective.com/
Human Improvement Process-S.T.A.R.S.-CD (The Execution Kollective/ ATMF)
So Electronic and Death metal are nothing new in this day and age many many bands do it and Its not that Human Improvement Process mixes Industrial, Ethereal, Death Metal and Hardcore into a stew that makes it interesting . Its that they do it in a way that will piss off many different scensters that makes me love them all the more. There are moments here you would think Samael and Kovenant are more metallic then this band now and then there will 30 seconds later sound like the most brutal gore band on this earth. I just love that they will goto into a hardcore groove in the same moment then go to a popish riff with clean melodic vocals then back to cries of torment. I this will not be for all but if you understand what bands like like Voivod 20 + yrs ago were out to try and create bands like this take the touch in 2011 and do it to there own fire. Hell ya I say hell ya to all of you in this band..
http://executionkollective.com/
ARKHUM-Anno Universum-CD (Vendlus Records)
I will start with the American Northwest over the last 10 yrs has really become a hotbed for experimental Black metal that is steeped in Death metal shrouds and Arkhum is no different as this is what I hear listening to them for the 1st time its a Death metal band that loves Tech, Scifi and Black metal esthetic's .. The vocals which sound like two different vocals are low guitars and that Northern European Black style. Were the music goes from Incantation , Womb and Evoken to Immortal and Marduk sometimes in the same song with touches of Nile and Bolt Thrower in many of the tracks. This is one brutal as fuck and crazy as fuck album. You have signed to label that will clearly give you the openness to make some avant music to say the least. Arkhum I watch you with baited breathe to see what your second release gives us.
http://vendlus.com/
THE BEAST OF THE APOCALYPSE-Henosis-CD ( Transcendental Creations)
I don't know what you expect from a band like this or the label they are on but what he have here is Old World Atmospheric Raw Occult Black metal on the highest of orders. All with the creepy synths that are buried in the back of the production. To the tinny and verbed out guitars, the distorted bass and vocals that sound as they are being torn from the very voice box of the monster that is presenting them. The mid to blast beat tempo of thunder like drumming. Its pretty music love at first listen for those of us that love this sickness we call Black metal. The white noise effect takes you over and all you want to do is let all the negatives around you out on the world and what else can you ask for with a band like this . I say nothing another fantastic release from label and band.
http://transcendentalcreations.com/
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