11/16/14
11/7/14
Hypertension - Distant Thunders Call CD out now!
The CD-edition of Hypertension's second album is available now at the Stormspell Records-shop, 7,5$ only! They still have copies of our first album available as well, for 7$.You'll find lots of other goodies at decent prices as well, so make sure to place an order while you can, the store is just open 'til November 15th!
EDIT: We don't have it for sale yet, I'll update here as soon as our copies arrive!
10/28/14
Review: Nightmare City – Nightmare Tape (Electric Assault 2014 MC)
New band featuring
members of high quality acts such as Antichrist, Nominon, Witchgrave
and Inverted Cross (what happened to that fantastic band?), to
mention a few. Since the vocalist is the same, Witchgrave is
definitely what this reminds most of, but more raw and with less
classic heavy metal influence and melodies, drawing more towards punk
in general. Not much more to say about this really, 4 killers, no
krångel. If you like Venom, early Slayer and G.B.H., you'll surely
love this. Hope to see something new by this band (and by their other
bands as well) being released soon. 7/10 /H
10/21/14
Review: Sex Dwarf – Non Stop Erotic Noise Cabaret (D-takt & Råpunk 2014 LP)
In case that the
band name and the album title aren't enough to catch your attention,
the noise (not music) most certainly will. The first LP of
Stockholm's Sex Dwarf has arrived. I though that last years EP was
basically at the actual limit of how raw it possibly can get, but in
comparison to this it feels like it wasn't even close. On the other
hand though it also feels clearer and the songs distinguish
themselves from each other much better than on the EP. They have
somehow succeeded in making it sound both better and worse at the
same time.
When it comes to
the songs, it's more or less full speed d-beat distortion madness all
the time, but there are also more sides of it to discover if you take
a closer look. Some mid-tempo tracks like Krigslust, Slavery and
Avnazifiering, as well as the surprisingly death metal sounding and
d-beat free Din Gud does a lot to make it more dynamic and diverse. I
also have to mention the last two minutes of the final track Frihet,
sounds like a mental breakdown caught on tape.
A must have for all
the raw punks out there. 8/10 /H
10/15/14
Review: Witchclan – The Dark Binding (Elvester Records 2014)
The name
Witchclan probably doesn't sound familiar to many, but this is in
fact one of the first black metal bands to emerge from the UK.
Nowadays, it's a one man project though, and The Dark Binding is the
second full length album.
Something that
might be disturbing some are the seemingly programmed drums. When it
comes to myself though, if the music just is good enough, I simply
don't mind it. And making music that's good enough is something that
Witchclan partially succeeds in doing. Just partially though, when
too much fast bass drumming is used, like in the opening Worms Of
Hypocrisy, it sounds very artificial. But when regular 2-beat or
simple basic patterns dominates, you barely notice that the drums are
programmed. Also, the tolerance-level gets higher the more you
listen, so the longer into the album I get, the more I enjoy it. So
if you just get past the trembling and kind of misleading start, I
assure you that this album has got more to offer.
Songs like Treading On Angels, Beyond The Seventh Gate and Paths To Immortality contains everything you may wish from a black metal-album, great balance between speed and heaviness, a dark atmosphere and some tasty melodies here and there. So even though they might not be in league with modern black metal masters like Negative Plane or MGLA, this is still definitely worth getting. 6.5/10 /H
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