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Interview with Mortillery

Canadian thrashers Mortillery have unleashed a storming new album in Shapeshifter, providing the listener with 43 minutes of authentic thrash with real aggression. Guitarist Alex Gutierrez touched base with me to give a quick update on the their new album…

Introduce us to Mortillery!

Hey we are a Thrash Metal band from Edmonton Alberta Canada! We like heavy metal and beer!

What are your influences?

They differ per member but mostly: Toxic Holocaust, Détente, Judas Priest, and Broken Bones. Continue reading “Interview with Mortillery”

3rd Machine – Quantified Self (Review)

This is the début album from 3rd Machine, a modern/groove metal band from the Netherlands.

This is rhythmic groove metal with keyboard enhancements that takes influence from the cyber metal scene.

Despite the modern production though, it has somewhat of a 90s metal feel to it to me. This is not meant in any detrimental way. 3rd Machine seem Continue reading “3rd Machine – Quantified Self (Review)”

Nails – You Will Never Be One of Us (Review)

This is the third album from this US grindcore band.

Nails are an intense band. On You Will Never Be One of Us they take a grindcore base and add elements of hardcore and sludge metal into the mix, flawlessly creating a 22 minute album that wipes the floor with most of the competition.

The band’s dense, thick sound is almost physical, and played Continue reading “Nails – You Will Never Be One of Us (Review)”

Demonic Rage – Omen of Doom (Review)

Demonic Rage are a Chilean death metal band.

Omen of Doom is a compilation of a lot of the band’s early hard/impossible to get demos dating back as far as 2001.

Due to the nature of a release like this the sound quality does vary between the various demos, but overall the band have unearthed a surprisingly well-preserved rotten corpse. The recording and production values deteriorate the further back in time you go, but even this doesn’t diminish the essential quality of what the band produce. Continue reading “Demonic Rage – Omen of Doom (Review)”

Red Dawn – Algorithm of Destruction (Review)

This is the début album of these French death metallers.

This is modern technical death metal that will easily find fans in people who like bands such as The Faceless, Gorod, Decapitated, Aborted, Wormed, First Fragment, etc.

Algorithm of Destruction has a clean, precise sound that Continue reading “Red Dawn – Algorithm of Destruction (Review)”

Hollow Bones – Lionheart (Review)

This is the début album from this US hardcore/metal band.

Hollow Bones play modern metalcore, but with a little bit of a twist. Essentially the band take the tried-and-true NWOAHM metalcore template and put their spin on it through force of passion, a heightened emotive melodicism, and captivating female vocals.

The songs are enjoyably heavy slabs of metal with lots of tasty riffs. The guitars have Continue reading “Hollow Bones – Lionheart (Review)”

Deceptionist – Initializing Irreversible Process (Review)

This is the début album from this Italian death metal band.

Here we have 34 minutes of music that combines elements of both technical and brutal death metal into its feral core. Featuring guests from Hideous Divinity, Deceptionist waste no time in establishing themselves as cyborg-enhanced death metal warriors.

Dealing with the type of concepts that Continue reading “Deceptionist – Initializing Irreversible Process (Review)”

Interview with Rorcal

The latest Rorcal full-length Creon (κρέων) is an absolute monster of an album. A churning maelstrom of blackened riffs and grim intensity, it shows the band absolutely on fire and filled to the brim with darkened delights. Let’s delve a little deeper…

For those who are unfamiliar with your band – introduce yourself!

We are a black/doom band from Geneva, Switzerland. We’ve been playing together since 2006 and our 13th release is out this spring 2016. Continue reading “Interview with Rorcal”

Wolfpack 44 – The Scourge (Review)

Wolfpack 44 are an industrial black metal band from the US. This is their début album.

This is a side project between members of Kult of Azazel and The Electric Hellfire Club, featuring guests from such bands as The Electric Hellfire Club, (again), Demonic Christ, Dark Funeral and Coven.

The Scourge is an album with a lot going on, and the band manage to Continue reading “Wolfpack 44 – The Scourge (Review)”

Interview with First Fragment

Tearing out of nowhere like a compressed ball of pure savagery, First Fragment’s début album Dasein managed to completely floor me in one fell swoop. Lead guitarist Philippe Tougas gave me some background to this uncompromisingly impressive band…

For those who are unfamiliar with your band – introduce yourself!

Hi, Phil here. We’re First Fragment from Quebec and we just released our first album “Dasein” on Unique Leader Records. Thank you for the interview.

Give us a bit of background to First Fragment

We started this thing in September 2007. I was 15 and Gabriel was 8 years older than me. We didn’t even listen to the same bands yet somehow we made it work. We were just a bedroom band back then. David joined a bit later. We mostly remained a drummer-less band throughout the next few years. We recorded seven tracks in summer 08′ and we released four of them in October 2008 and re-released them with the 3 other tracks in February 2009. We recorded an EP in fall 2009 and after the recordings, we found Vincent Savary on bass and Phil Boucher on drums. We released the delayed-EP in late 2010 and played several shows. We went through a long show-hiatus after 2012, although we were still working very hard on the album for a very long time. After finding Troy Fullerton of Severed Savior to do session drums for us, we got Unique Leader Records interested in releasing our album. We got our first album Dasein (mostly composed between 2004-2010) released just this last month. We are now rehearsing for upcoming shows with our current drummer Samuel Santiago (ex Gorod) who joined in 2015. Continue reading “Interview with First Fragment”