Tsjuder - Demeaning Nordic obscurity

 

The TSJUDER is one of the few Black Metal bands from Norway that still seeks to keep the flame of that sound more raw and old school. Compared to his early works in which prevailed the speed and widespread bankruptcies, with ‘Antiliv’ the trio stepped over the brakes, bringing a sound with darker and charged ambiences. Anyway, in no way it lost the harshness and evil inherent in them, and there, yes, blast -beats, guitars riffs and a cutting off bass guitar masterfully.

The carnage begins with "Kaos" a striking punch in the head, fast, without concessions; "Krater" confers an underground music aspect, big weight with surrounding guitars, little stops, all led by drums, only to backsliding ass kicking at the end of his little more than seven minutes. Striking chorus; the comes "Norge" with hypnotic riffs, DARK FUNERAL references, hateful vocals, and brought reminiscent of the album 'Desert Northern Hell'; The fourth song is one of the album highlights, "Djevelens Mesterverk" is a typical sound to ‘break neck’ so fast; blast beats, nerve and insane guitars; with "Demonic Supremacy" the tempos are slower, foreshadowing parts of Thrash Metal. Almost seven minutes of sound; "Slumber With The Storm" is no exception of predecessors, with speed switches. Remember the last albums of GORGOROTH;.

 

"Ved Ferdens Ende" the brutal sound comes to crash and crush skull, to the extent that drops to atmospheric riffs. It is certainly one of the best moments of  'ntiliv'; finally closes this opus with the title-track, eight minutes song that dominates cadence with the guitar dictating the tempo with precise riffs. As a bonus, covers from also Norwegian Blackmasters MAYHEM that although with some difference from the original in some parts, got a'll break, a blasphemous insanity; and other cover from BEHERIT, satanically was brutal, with that gloomy atmosphere of the original band. There are also three demo versions for "Kaos", "Slumber With The Storm" and "Antiliv".

There are rumors that account that the band can come to Brazil in 2016. I hope this is confirmed, and they can show in Brazil all its impure and unholy art. By far, the album is far superior to its predecessor ‘Legion Helvete ‘(2011). All songs bring a reference to the beginnings of style, either in aspects of composition or production thereof. The content of the letters is still directed to the anti-Christian theme. Therefore, based on the foregoing, you know what you'll find in this great album, lyrical and musically.

Text: Marcello Camargo

Editing: Carlos Garcia

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Release: Season Of Mist

 

Line-Up:

Nag – Vocals/Bass

Draugluin – Guitars/Vocals (backing)

AntiChristian – Drums

Tracklist:

“Kaos”

“Krater”

“Norge”

“Djevelens mesterverk”

“Demonic Supremacy”

“Slumber with the Worm”

“Ved ferdens ende”

“Antiliv”

“Kaos” (Demo)

“Slumber with the Worm” (Demo)

“Antiliv” (Demo)

“Deathcrush” (MAYHEM cover)

“Unholy Pagan Fire” (BEHERIT cover)

Video: Tsjuder - Djevelens Mesterverk (Official Premiere)

Decrepid: A Serviço do Old School Death Metal

O Death Metal é um estilo de Metal calcado na brutalidade extrema, em que todos os integrantes de uma banda devem ter completo domínio de seus instrumentos, como forma de levar sua musicalidade a passagens insanas, técnicas, e de difícil digestão, por vezes. Tornou-se lugar comum praticar o Death com velocidade supersônica, com 520 bpm e 234 riffs por música.

Só que nem sempre isso significa efetividade e bons resultados. Às vezes o sucesso mora na simplicidade, na "antitécnica", na conformidade com o que existe de mais tradicional, uma volta às origens no final dos anos 80 e início dos 90.

 

O quarteto inglês DECREPID formado por Cris Bassan (vocals), Steve Brennan (guitar), Danny Price (drums) e Marnie (bass) dão cabo desta linha de som citada no final do parágrafo acima, ou seja, sem frescura, sem rodeios. ‘Osseous Empire’ é o segundo petardo dos caras e em cerca de trinta minutos tocam sete músicas de irrestrito peso.

Com exceção da última música, “Fear Within”, que tem 7:41, as demais não são muito longas, e tem a missão de passar seu recado de forma sucinta.

Claro que não é nada extremamente ‘simplório’, afinal, há uma bateria que tem suas partes rápidas, os riffs de guitarra são trituradores e ficam zombando na cabeça por algum tempo, um contrabaixo que não se resume a apenas marcar, mas trabalha com afinco nos sons, e os vocais têm partes guturais e outras mais urradas, num contraponto interessante, cavernosamente falando. O que realmente nos leva àquela viagem no tempo talvez seja o fato da produção manter o som com a devida ‘impureza’, tão peculiar ao gênero. Contudo, tudo está em seu lugar, com a altura necessária para a normal audição dos instrumentos. Não há reparos neste sentido. A arte da capa ficou brutal.

Hails old school Death Metal!!!

Texto: Marcello Camargo

Edição: Carlos Garcia

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Cris Bassan – vocals

Steve Brennan – guitar

Danny Price – drums

Marnie – bass

Tracklist:

“Concussion”

“Death Walks Above”

“Indulgence in Self Destruction”

“Ashumaniac”

“Into to the Doom”

“Breeding Anger”

“Fear Within”

Video-music: DECREPID - Death Walks Above [2015]

W.A.S.P.: Golgotha ​​Brings What Fans Expect From the Band

The W.A.S.P., that one from '80s, which drew attention and shocked the purists with their theatrical performances (with the right to nude models, raw meat, reenactments of torture, etc.) and many sexually oriented lyrics, including also becoming one of the favorite target of the PMRC, and several albums have received a label "Parental Advisory", which also becoming in more publicity for some artists, the time was becoming and just like the look more sober, the lyrical content was also changing, and we can put the album "The Headless Children" (89) as a divider, marking this change of sound and attitude, of course, all this according to their mentor, Blackie Lawless (WASP is Lawless, we cannot deny). In the same year the band broke up, and in 1992, what was to be a Lawless' solo album, was released under the name W.A.S.P., making it their masterpiece, the acclaimed conceptual album "Crimson Idol".

 

Since then, between several exchanges of members, Lawless has been releasing albums regularly, and keeping the band relevant with good albums like the two parts of "The Neon God" (2004) and "Babylon" (2009), the last studio album until 2015, which finally sees the light of  the day the new work, "Golgotha," which has been produced since 2011 (in the meantime Lawless also underwent surgery, because a broken leg).

About the writing process, i have to open parentheses for some Blackie Lawless' cool words: "One thing you learn over the years in the song writing process, is that after the songs begin to take shape, they will eventually start to talk back to you and they will tell you where they wanna go.  The trick is learning to listen when they speak." 

Battling anxiety and expectation of hearing a new work after 6 years, time to listen "Golgotha". Well, the first chords of "Scream", the opening track, it is possible to identify that is WASP that is playing, simple like that! the melodies, the voice feature of Lawless, the backing vocals, the hooked chorus and a heavy sound, great choice for opening track. No inventions or complications, is WASP! and it is very good!

"Last Runaway" has a melody "lighter", a well taken Hard Rock, pleasant and catchy, and in its lyrics Lawless talks about the time he spent difficulties in Hollywood, being virtually a homeless for a period; "Shotgun" is also very "commercial", with kind of simple melodies, but very cool, and showing that the old Lawless forged a fine collection of melodies and choruses "sticky" in recent times, something that he is a master.

 

 

"Miss You" is a ballad performed with emotion in that familiar formula of Metal ballads, which grows in the chorus, that longer, melodic and deep guitar solo, in fact, a beautiful solo by Doug Blair.  And Lawless has wrote in WASP's web site that "Miss You" was the first song he has written to the album "Crimson Idol", which along with two others, did not enter the album;

  

"Fallen Under" sounds introspective and is gaining in emotion and power, highlighting a beautiful work of Dupke on drums, well ... the chorus again are great; "Slaves of the New World Order" begins with vocal melodies accompanied by keyboard (it has a well-placed hammonds, which incidentally, appear on several tracks), to then enter "galloping riffs", traditional rhythms and even a choir ("hey hey hey hey!"), surely you've heard something like that, even in some W.A.S.P. albums, but it is done by those who knows about the business!

   

"Eyes of My Maker", brings more good melodies and choruses, and also an air "nostalgic", well, i felt this for all the work, I want to reaffirm what i have said at the beginning, is simply W.A.S.P., with all the features we know. Well, the music follows the pattern of the album, which is more introspective as a whole, with the songs following this more "ballad" way, but never being tiring, as well as "Hero of the World," which follows a similar taken .

"Golgotha", the title track, is pretty much a "power ballad" with structure and melodies in a simple way, as well as other songs on the album, but with a melodic sense made by someone who really knows what are doing! Highlighting the great chorus and striking vocals of Lawless, who has no major variations or features, but has the main one being the personality and feeling.

 

An album in which the W.A.S.P. fan will find everything they'd expect, great choruses and catchy melodies, Heavy/Hard without inventions or without instrumental dazzling, after all, who have said that good music has to be complicated? Quite the opposite! And 33-years of career are not 3! Blackie Lawless, thanks for giving us what we expect, good music of the great W.A.S.P.!

Carlos Garcia 

Text: Carlos Garcia

Band: W.A.S.P.

Album: Golgotha (2015)

Country: EUA

Genre: Heavy/Hard

Label: Napalm Records

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Line-up:

Blackie Lawless - Vocals, Guitarist

Mike Duda - Bass Guitar

 Doug Blair - Lead Guitar

Mike Dupke - Drums

Track listing

Scream

 Last Runaway

 Shotgun

 Miss You

 Fallen Under

 Slaves Of The New World Order

 Eyes Of My Maker

 Hero Of The World

 Golgotha