K.A.S.K/Brutal Abstraction/2011 E.P Review

  K.A.S.K  are  a  band  from  Poland  that  plays  a brutal  mixture  of  death  metal  and  deathcore  and  this  is  a  review  of  their  self  released  2011  EP  "Brutal  Abstraction".

  Drums  range  from  slow,  midpaced  to  fast  drumming  with  some  blast  beats  being  thrown  in  at  times,  while  the  bass  playing  has  a  very  dark  tone  with  riffs  that  follow  the  riffing  that  is  coming  out  of  the  guitars.

  Rhythm  guitars  range  from  slow,  midpaced  to  fast  riffs  that  combine  technical  death  metal  and  deathcore  together  with  some  dark  sounding  melodies  being  utilized  at  times  in  addition  there  is  some  slow  and  soft  playing  being  used  on  the  outro  and  there  are  little  to  no  lead  guitars  or  solos  present  on  the  recording.

  Vocals  are  mostly  deep  death  metal  growls  with  some  shouting  being  thrown  in  at  times,  while  the  lyrics  touch  on  hateful  and  everyday  themes,  as  for  the  production  it  sounds  very  powerful  and  heavy  for  being  self  released.

 In  my  opinion  K.A.S.K  are  a  very  good  deathcore  band  and  if  you  are  a  fan  of  this  style,  you  should  check  out  this  band.  RECEMMONDED  TRACKS  INCLUDE  "Empty  Thoughts"  and  "Falsephobia".  RECEMMONDED  BUY.

Catalepsy/Bleed/Massacre Records/2011 CD Review

 
Catalepsy  are  a  band  from  Florida  that  plays  a  form  of  music  that  I  would  describe  as  being  deathcore  mixed  with  metalcore  and  industrial  and  this  is  a  review  o  their  2011  album  "Bleed"  which  was  released  by  Massacre  Records.

  Drums  range  from  slow  to  midpaced  drumming  with   some  ocassional fast  playing  and  blast  beats  being  used  on  one  song,  while  the  samples  bring  an  industrial  feel  to  the  music  with  some  noisy  sounding  samples,  as  for  the  ass  playing it  has a  dark  tone  that  is  mixed  down  low in  the music  and  seems  to  follow  the  riffing  that  is  coming  out  of  the  guitars.

  Rhythm  uitars  range  from  slow  to  midpaced  riffs  that  are  very  brutal  sounding  and  combine  deathcore  with  metalcure,  death  metal  and  industrial  w ith  a  great  amount  of  distortion in  addition  there  is  some  faster  riffing  being  used  on  one  song  and  there  little  to  no  guitar  solos  or  leads  present  on  this  recording.

  Vocals  are  a  mixture  of  deep  death  growls,  high  pitched  screams,  and  distorted  vocals  and  unlike  most  deathcore  albums  there  are  no  pig  squels  present  on  this  recording,  while  the  lyrics  cover  mythology  with  some  hateful  themes,  as  for  the  production  it  has  a  very  heavy  and  professional  sound  to  it.

  In  my  opinion  Catalepsy  are  a  very  good  deathcore/metalcore/industrial  hybrid  and  if  you  are  looking  for  a  band  that  mixes  these  styles  together,  you  should  check  out  this  band.  RECEMMONDED  TRACKS  INCLUDE  "Faithless"  "Cthonian'  "Medusa"  and  "Consumed".  RECEMMONDED  BUY.

Zombie Inc Interview

 

1. Can you give us an update on what is going on with the band these days?

Hi there! Well, drinking beers, partying and watching horror/gore/zombie/slasher movies!

If we find some minutes between the DVD change, we try to write some dirty Death Metal and looking forward some shows, tours and festivals with Zombie Inc.!

2. How would you describe the musical sound that is presented on the new
album?

Hmm, we tried to embrace our own redux version of 90`s old-school Death Metal! I think we got the atmosphere, the feeling, the brutality and the arrangement of the songs of the early 90`s quite well! Just keep in mind that the earlier stuff wasn`t that high-speed than nowadays...it was far better!

3. What are some of the lyrical topics and subjects the new release explores?

The lyrical themes are about apocalyptic visions of a world, overloaded by infected Zombies. All in all its a concept album filled with guts, blood, cut out eyes, and mutilated organs and...ZOMBIES!

4. What is the meaning and inspiration behind the bands name?

The meaning of Zombie Inc. is the concept of telling stories of Zombies.

This is a whole band-concept!

5. What are some of the best shows that the band has played so far and
how would you describe your stage performance?

“A Dreadful Decease” is our debut album, we didn`t realize any show so far, but we definitely will play some festivals in 2012! In our visions, our stage performance looks really brutal, blood-spilling, gruesome...! sweet models will be hacked to pieces on stage; zombies will eat some lovely flesh!!! So, only people over 18 years will be allowed to enter the show... we will see...if our visions will come true;)

6. Do you have any touring plans for the new release?

Well, for sure, we try to concentrate on tours and festivals. Although, all of us live in Austria, except Tomasz, he lives in Germany, we are spread wide, so, there will be just a few single shows. A delayed release show is planned in November 2011 in Salzburg/Austria!

7. What is going on with the other projects these days?

Well, here are the bands I actually work with:

Disbelief est. 1990 (guitar & songwriter) Sludge-Death-Metal: There are lots of gigs coming next months and a headlining European tour this autumn. We work on a new Disbelief album! The new album will be released in 2012!

Thirdmoon est. 1994 (founder, guitar and vocals, main-songwriter) Melodic-Death-Dark-Metal: All songs are written already! Just need to find time to record the new shit! The new album will be in the typical style of Thirdmoon, combining aggression, melancholy and beautiful atmospheric acoustic guitar parts!

In Slumber est. 2003 (founder, vocals, main-songwriter) Melodic-Death-Metal: All songs are written already! Just need to find time to record the new shit! The new Album will be more aggressive but with more panzer-like groove! Watch out!

Eisblut est. 2000 (co-founder, guitar) Death-Gore-Metal : A new album was planned but reached out of order, I already composed 5 songs but I think Eisblut will be laid down dead! We will see!

GodHateCode est. 2007 (founder, guitar, main-songwriter) Death-Metal-Grind-Core: new album recordings finished already! Really brutal stuff! Watch out for more news coming soon!

8. On a worldwide level how has your music been received by death metal
fans?

Ha, this is individual, but all people who talk to us personally and via facebook and so on, say that they really like this fucking album! It seems like we made something right! Although on the other hand, I am really happy to see, that there are a lot of people outside who love old-school rooted Death Metal as well! Thats cool, because they have a amazing music taste;)

9. What direction do you see the music heading into on future releases?

Well, there are a lot of thoughts concerning your question, but I think we will do the same as we did on this album! Intuitive and instinctive songwriting. But honestly, I think of going more brutal and more fast on the next Zombie Inc. album! But pssssst;)

10. What are some bands or musical styles that have influenced your
music and also what are you listening to nowadays?

The songwriting modus was inspired by Entombed, Carcass, Autopsy, Dismember, Obituary, Deicide, Edge of Sanity and Gorefest. To name just a few. It`s not a big deal, because all musicians of Zombie Inc. grew up with the 90`s Death Metal stuff.

I can only take my part, so, I am definitely don`t listen to any new musical styles nowadays.

I don`t have any new stuff at home!

11. Outside of music what are some of your interests?

Beside music I enjoy sharing time together with my amazing girlfriend Barbara. After this, there is no time left for other activities than music and all the things that comes with it!

12. Any final words or thoughts before we wrap up this interview?

Thank you very much for your interest in Zombie Inc.! Support Death Metal! Support Zombie Inc.!

Cheers

Answered by Wolfgang Rothbauer

Mincing Fury And The Guttural Clamour Of Queer Decay Interview

1.Can you update us with what is going on with the band these days? - Hi! Firstly thank you for your interest in MINCING FURY. We are currently working on some new material (already 4 brand new songs are almost done), drinking tons of beers, play some gigs around and preparing to the highlight of this year – Obscene Extreme Festival where we will play again after long 5 years! Also, in few weeks we will play special gig here in Brno as celebration of 10 years of our existence with some special guest like almost all ex-members of the band, so we will play special sets in different line-ups and play some really old songs there. and preparing to the hihre almost done), drinking tons of beers, play some gigs around and preparing to the hih

2.How would you describe the musical sound of the new album and how does it differ from previous releases? - New CD "Devolution" is different mainly because half of the CD is something like “the best of”, only with new sound and face, played by different members. . On Devolution CD you can find half of the song totally new (including CBT cover from their tribute CD) and second half are "remakes" of our own songs from all previous CD´s - so it’s really something like "best of". New songs from that CD are surely a bit different as MF is still in progress and we enjoy to play in a bit another way nowadays…anyway I’m pretty sure that our old fans will not be disappointed though. New CD have surely the best sound we have ever did during studio recordings.

3.How would you describe the lyrical concepts and topics the new release explores? - We have friend of us who is taking care about the most of the lyrics. The rest is on me and our second singer Milcunt, but do not look for any deep thoughts. We take some lyrics with the humor, esp. on last CD “Devolution” as the title song says – we are the guys of devolution…

( 4.What is the meaning and inspiration behind the bands name? No special meaning at all. 10 years ago (I was not at band that time), original members were not able to agreed to any of 3 titles so at the end all of them were connected together to one long name - stupid, right?

( 5. Your new release has a very powerful sounding production, are you satisfied with the way it turned out? - CD was completely recorded in close studio Davos (Vyskov, Czech Republic) with the big help of sound engineer Otyn (drummer from PIGSTY). We are very happy of the result, sound is really brutal, but still "readable“ (my personal opinion)

. 6.What are some of the best shows that the band has played so far and how would you describe your stage performance? It’s hard to describe as you have to see it. I think this is the strongest side of the band – we have very emphatic and crazy stage show, we love big stages and are able to make a hell there. We run and jump all over there, lay on the floor, etc., I think our fans always enjoy seeing what we are doing on the stage. Our best shows were on Obscene Extreme festival (year 2006), Antitrend open air festival (years 2008, 2009 and 2010) and also couple of gigs in Germany (few years ago) and some local shows here in Czech Republic too (Brno, Olomouc and many others).

7.Do you have any touring plans for the new releases? - No big tour plans for this year. We would like to concentrate on composing of the new material and spreading our crazy show around in Czech Republic and eventually in some close countries too.

8.On a worldwide level how has the feedback been to your new album by death metal and grindcore fans? - Few have received several feedbacks to our new CD, 90% of them were amazing, and the rest were average. None was totally disappointed so we are happy of this. We are looking for more responses and reviews shortly as our label mate Alex from United Guttural Records started promotion of our new CD just couple of months ago.

9.Are there any side projects besides this band, or is this a full time line-up? - All our members have other bands. Besides MF, drummer Zahradnik play in grind band ANAALIA, guitar player Motorak plays guitar in new technical deathcore band C.O.N. and sing in old-school death metal band DISGUSTING. Bass player Had play in rock band JAPKA and second singer is also singing in metal core band D.O.T.S.S.. I play drums in grind/HC band SPINELESS FUCKERS – btw. 2 ex-members of MF play there with me. Current line-up is together only about 3 years till now and I´m only the member who remember debut CD „Lamentations“ released in 2002.

10.What direction do you see the music heading into on future releases? - Hard to say. We will continue on song writing within the style of new songs from Devolution. It means mixing of many different styles together based on death metal, grind core and hard core with some blasting parts. We still would like to play brutal, fast, and catchy and the most important thing – we do not want to sound like copy of any other band and do not get boring any of our fans.

 11.What are some bands or musical styles that have influenced your music and also what are you listening to nowadays? - We have no specific influences so far. We listen tons of bands around, but we do not want to sound like any other band. We have our own face that we like, that’s all. Me personally I nowadays listen to many various stuff, but I can name just a few of my faves during last months – I like last CD´s from bands like CEPHALIC CARNAGE, ION DISSONANCE, IWBO, ZUBROWSKA, EMMURE and many more.

12Outside of music, what are some of your interests? - My girlfriend, our 5 dogs, work, beer, sport (active and passive), sex (active), relaxing and parties with my friends…usual stuff as any other one

( 13. Any final words or thoughts before we wrap up this interview? - Many thanks for your interest in MF and for offering the place here. We really appreciate it. Also, we would like to thanx to all our fans worldwide who have supported us for last 10 years! As already mentioned in next few weeks we will celebrate 10 years of the MF existence and we hope MF will destroy stages some more years in the future. Check for the new CD “Devolution” and come to drink with us to our ANTITREND festival (complete line-up for this year will be shortly announced on: HYPERLINK "http://www.myspace.com/antitrendparties" http://www.myspace.com/antitrendparties ) which will take place near Brno (Czech Republic) on Saturday 18.6.2011. Take care and cheeeeeers!

Zombie Inc/A Dreadful Disease/Massacre Records/2011 CD Review

  Zombie  Inc  are  a  band  from  Austria  that  consists  of  many  veterans  of  the  underground  metal  scene  that  plays  a  very  old  school  form  of   gore/death  metal  and  this  is  a  review  of  their  2011  album  "A  Dreadful  Disease"  which  was  released  by  Massacre  Records.

  Drums  range  from  slow,  midpaced  to  fast  drumming  with  alot  of  brutal  sounding  blast  beats  being  thrown  in,  while  the  bass  playing  has  a  very  dark  tone  with  riffs  that  follow  the  riffing  that  is  coming  out  of  the  guitars.

  Rhythm  guitars  range  from  slow,  midpaced  to   fast  brutal  death  metal  riffs  that  have  a  grindcore  feel  at  times  as  well  as  the  early  90's  death  metal  sound  with  some  melodies  being  thrown  in  at  times  in  addition  there  is  a  brief  use  of  slow  soft  playing  being  used  on  a  couple  of  songs,  while  the  lead  guitars  are  very  chaotic  sounding  death  metal  guitar  solos  and  leads  that  are  very  melodic  at  times.

  Vocals  are  mostly  deep  death  metal  growls  with  some  high  pitched  screams  being  thrown  in  at  times,  while  the  lyrics  cover  gore  and  violence,  as  for  the  production  it  has  a  very  powerful,  heavy  and  professional  sound.

  In my  opinion  Zombie  Inc  are  a  very  good  old  school  sounding  gore/death  metal  band  and  if  you  are  a  fan  of  this  style,  you  should  check  out  this  band.  RECEMMONDED  TRACKS  INCLUDE  "The  Chaosbreed"  "Horde  Unleashed"  "We  Must  Eat"  and  "Planet  Zombie".  RECEMMONDED  BUY.

Mincing Fury And Guttural Clamour Of Queer Decay/Devolution/United Gutteral Records/2010 CD Review

Mincing Fury And Guttural Clamour Of Queer Decay are a band ftom the Chezch Republic that plays a very experimental form of grindcore and this is a review of their 2010 album "Devolution" which was released by United Gutteral Records.

Drums range from midpaced to fast drumming with some brutal blast beats being through in at times, while the violin in the intro has a very tragic feel to it, as for the bass playing has a very powerful tone that comes out sounding really strong at times.

Rhythm guitars range from midpaced to fast riffing that is mostly grindcore but you can hear some deathcore and hardcore punk influences, and there are little to no guitar solos or leads present on this recording, and on a couple of songs is a short use of hip hop tyle record scratching.

Vocals cover many different styles with some deep death metal growls, high pitched grindcore screams mixed in with alot of samples before the songs, pig squels, and some hardcore style yelling, while the lyrics cover weirdness and violence, as for the production it has a very powerful and professional feel to it.

In my opinion Mincing Fury And Guttural Clamour Of Queer Decay are a very original sounding grindcore act that mixes in deathcore inflences, and if you are looking for a band that hybrids the two genres together, you should check out this band. RECEMMONDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Blind" "Drunken Mara" "Doctor From Mountains" and "Seas Of Weakness". RECEMMONDED BUY.

Waking The Cadaver Interview

Don Campan - Vocals: Replying

1. Can you update us with what is going on with the band these days?


- We are touring around the world this year pumping our second release coming out August 10, 2010 (Beyond Cops. Beyond God.) We are seeing a tremendous amount of fans (from all demographics/"scenes") come out to pack our shows, and give us a huge positive response on our new material and our killer live performance.

2. What is the meaning behind the band's name?


- The music is so heavy and so insane, that it can wake up the dead ...is that what ya wanted to hear..lol....



3. How would you describe your musical sound?


- Our sound is very original. Our fans and even the haters, since day one, knew that we were bringing a new innovative sound to metal right away. We have no problem pushing the envelope in what we do and many worldwide know that we have paved the way for many other bands as well. Which is a huge compliment and accomplishment. We invented slamming gore groove, and we will continue to pump out some of the most killer ear candy you have ever herd come from a NJ metal band. Our music is killer and bad ass.



4. How would you describe the lyrical content of the music?


- This epic CD, Beyond Cops. Beyond God., is a themed CD in which Satan is on a killing spree, letting you know how much control he has over everyone and how he displays it upon revenge. I kept the lyrics about punishment, getting away with murder, explaining/describing the power of Satan, how cool it is to get high on death and the results of violence when showing disrespect. The lyrics are almost like describing a video game such as Grand Theft Auto or something like that. It's fun to read the lyrics and listen to the music as you imagine the killings happen.



5. What are some of the best shows that the band has played so far and how would you describe your stage performance?


- Deathfeast Open Air, New England Hardcore-Metal Fest, NJ Death Fest, Hostile City Death Fest (coming up), the list is too long... pretty much EVERY SHOW we play around the world is a blast because we have a blast doing what we do and our fans recognize that and they feed off that. Our stage performance is filled with high intense energy that really shows masculinity, verbal assault and you can feel the music just blast you apart in the pit. Many get injured during our set, its fucking great.

6. What are the touring plans for the future?


- We have a killer tour set up in November 2010 with Napalm Death. This is like dream come true for us. They are one of our biggest influences and damn near our favorite band of all time next to Slayer and Cannibal Corpse of course. We like to tour as much as we can when we can. We are NOT a rich-bitch little 16 year old band that gets the way paved for them with money from mommy daddy to make it big. We really would like to tour in Japan, Australia, Mexico, Indonesia and many other places..we will see what is in store for us once the new CD hits stores worldwide and blows the fuck up.



7. Currently you are signed to Candlelight Records how would you describe the support that the label has giving you so far?


- Wrong. We signed to Siege of Amida Records (UK) and we have Candlelight Records here in the states for distribution. As for support, they both have been putting there best foot forward and I know they are gonna push as hard as we are to make the CD pop off and get all the PR it deserves.


8. What direction do you see the music heading into on future releases?


- Well, if you have herd the latest material, you will hear where we are already headed towards. We have come a long way since 2006. We are always trying to bring in a more influences of all of ours into the writing and then sculpting that into our sound known as slamming gore groove. We have a lot of great surprises for all our fans in the new CD and we know once you pop this CD in your player, you will understand that we are not fuckin' around.



9. How has the newer material been received so far by extreme music fans worldwide?


- Just as we expected. They can't get enough and they always want more. Our fans are some of the most dedicated fans I have ever seen. We have an army of waking the cadaver fans worldwide that know that we are the real deal and that we will always bring the pain.



10. What are some bands or musical styles that have influenced your music and what are you listening to nowadays?


- We are really old school metal heads at heart that are not afraid to rock out to the classic 80's hair-metal bands too.. and we are also really big hardcore fans as well..so we mix it up and bring all that is unholy to the table when writing our shits.


11. What are some of your interests outside of music?


- My interests are running my graphic design business (Boundless Ink LLC.), artwork, surfing, smoking buds, drinking buds, being funny.. we all stay active working our jobs trying to make that almighty dollar to get back on the road and play our insane music.



12. Any final words or thoughts?


- Thank you to all our fans around the world for all their support!! Listen to Waking the Cadaver everyday while getting high on death, visit www.boundlessink.com/inkshop , visit www.myspace.com/wakingthecadaver , the band is currently looking for sponsors from the big dogs, so "...realize there is no God.." and double-blast!