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Box 1339 Lake Stevens WA 98258 USA Metal Bulletin Zine #1-20: (2006-2009): Wisconsin #21-26: (2009-2010): Texas #27(2010)--now; Washington state All album reviews, news, updates below are by MMB, unless stated otherwise. -— Missa Mortvm (Chile) Et Lux Perpetua Luceat Eis... release: August 22, 2015 Satanath Records This week I have been impressed with this The vocals are not the shrieking type, which Chilean black metal band: the careful means that more people will like them, as the instrumentation and the great effort to give shrieking tends to irritate some people. The the guitar work identity and color, creativity vocals are gruff, with some screams here and and personality, are all traits that stand out. there. It is in this department, if anything, that I The rhythms sound great and all, but above would have liked a bit more mishegas or the rhythms there is another element of unpredictability or more unleashing. melody, tremolo melody, that takes the songs further and higher. Moreover, there are other This band is a bit of a mystery because, aspects of the guitar playing to notice, not just apparently, this album is almost completely one type of melody. More will be discovered the work of a single person, except for the with additional listens. bass. Bandcamp says that Ots does everything, and AJ plays bass. In the live The drummer puts on a veritable clinic on setting Ots does vocals and plays drums, while extreme metal drumming: when to do double AJ plays bass and Marbas plays guitar. bass for more effect; how to time the kicks to Anyway, this is not beginner black metal nor is a particular melody or rhythm; how to vary it shlock black metal. Metal Archives says that the kicks to make them stand out when you this is the first album, so great things are on the are listening; how to do black metal blasting; horizon in the future if this not a one-off album. when to blast, when not to; how to avoid www.satanath.bandcamp.com/album/sat12 monotony; how and when to utilize various 8-missa-mortvm-et-lux-perpetua-luceat-eis- parts of the drum set with imagination, so on 2015 and so forth. www.facebook.com/MissaMortvm When the above guitar and drums skills are joined with a feel for songwriting, that’s when things get really interesting. In this case, the effect is immediate and undeniable, if you are into black metal. As Darkness Dies here because, like previously mentioned, As Darkness Dies there lots of positive aspects that I think the release: October 30, 2015 traditional metal supporter would enjoy. Overall the recording is good quality, no Pure Steel Records problems there at all. I would prefer a more natural drum sound for this band, as the drums This is a traditional-melodic metal band from sound a bit too soft or flat or clicky, in my the U.S. This work is their debut. Metal Archives opinion. However, remember that if you want shows that they have been active since 2011, melodic metal, this album is definitely a and it looks like everyone except the drummer keeper. It certainly is for me, and you should is in another band from Connecticut called hear this music for yourself, above all. Graven Image (on YouTube it says that this band is "ex-Graven Image," actually). www.facebook.com/OfficialAsDarknessDies/? Stylistically, the music is modern melodic fref=ts heavy metal. The band has many strengths www.puresteel- that they show on this 60-minute, 12-song records.com/bands/view/369/As_Darkness_Di album. As a traditional band, one question es that they answer quickly is that, yes, they do have a good singer. That makes a huge Putrevore difference. The singing is a full voice that sounds good, friendly, comfortable to the ear, Tentacles of Horror which encourages the listener to check out release: October 10, 2015 the complete album. Xtreem Music After listening to the full album, it becomes When veteran growler Dave Rotten from the clearer that the band works with a wide long-running death metal Spaniard sickos range, from songs that are more Avulsed teams up with senior zombie multi- headbanging metal to ones that show some project Swede guitarist Rogga “death metal classic rock sounds and some mellower riff machine” Johansson the result is simplistic, moments (power ballad) that contrast well dirty, and fan-wait-for-it-tastic! The vocals are with the higher energy sounds. as low as they go; you won’t understand a single word, not a one; it’s just super low woof- woof from start to finish, forwards and backwards, front to back, back to back. The vocals basically are another form of a rhythm section, beating, pounding, pumping in a way that goes with the jumbled mass of heaviness, as opposed to having vocals that take over the songs. The vocals flow and fit in, and do not seek to dominate the songs. The vocals function like another instrument, a sort of gruff undead worm woof-woof beat box zombie cave put-put boom boom, if you will. In terms of melodic metal, this is the album that has gotten the most rotation this week 3 Keep on making zombie-infested music. www.xtreemmusic.bandcamp.com/album/te ntacles-of-horror www.facebook.com/putrevore NEWS: Embodied Torment Liturgy of Ritual Execution release: May 31, 2015 The ultra brutal death metal aficionado will eat this album up. This band is from California, U.S. and they have an album from this year. It’s possible that this band is totally new to you or maybe you already have heard it. The bottom line is that this is super guttural gravity When you gots to have it all, when you want blast death metal of maximum modern the real, traditional, muddy death metal, then brutality. Listen to this album on Bandcamp this album should be on your list. Not only that, and listen as they open a can of ultra extreme but you can hear the sicko-sicko music at the metal on you. Do it, it will be good for your link below. If you like the first song, and you mental health or you metal health or … or … want more like that, then that’s what you will shut up, just mosh, zombie, mosh! get. There’s nothing complicated going on here: it’s not a trick nor a fancy gimmick, it’s history of the band: not a bird and it’s not a plane, it’s Putrevore! You might laugh, you might bang your head Matt Chaco: gutturals or might run away. Either way it’s going to be Joaquin Chávez: string pain a good time. David Ko: low bumping Cindy Chaco: gravity blasting freak of nature The curious thing is that the album is actually catchy, as long as you know what you are getting yourself into. Sophistication, Embodied Torment was founded in 2011, as innovation, technicality, showmanship and Matt Chaco (vox) and Cindy Chaco (drums) things like that are not found here. Instead, it is joined forces with Casey Ryle (guitars), that old-time death metal that Avulsed and Joaquin Chavez (guitars), and David Ko Rogga’s many projects have been making for (bass). After an initial phase of playing a fairly years and years and years. Mr. Rotten and Mr. traditional form of death metal, represented Jay are back with something new: more of by their early demo, the quintet gradually the same. Bang your head or step aside, the focused on the most brutal and extreme old warriors do not quit. Putrevore has called elements of their sound. Ryle departed in mid- you up again, if you refuse all of this jelly, it’s 2012, which saw the band continue on as a ok, they’ll make their way, like they always do. four-piece and record their 'Kyphonism' promo, which represented their new sonic 4 direction. world as Crypt Infection, Euphoric Defilement, Exhumer, Amputated Genitals, Pessimist, After their first tour in November of 2013, their Abhorration, SICK, Shawn Whitaker, Dying performances gained them the attention of Fetus, Cattle Decapitation, Cerebral Bore, rising death metal label New Standard Elite, Krisiun, Omnihility, Carnal Decay, Arsis, Devour with whom they signed on in June 2014. After The Unborn, Corpsefucking Art, and an intensive period of writing, the band Coprophiliac. emerged in May 2015 with their debut full- length release, "Liturgy of Ritual Execution." www.embodiedtorment.bandcamp.com Built on a traditionalist framework of extreme, www.facebook.com/embodiedtorment blasting death metal, the album weaves hymns of brutality with a dark atmosphere that is uncommon in the genre. Tracks such as interview: Oubliette, Epoch of Suffering and Thrones of Sacrament ov Impurity the Slain display a vision of dismal and brutal music reaching beyond the confines of Brutal Back on October 14th, the black metal band Death Metal without compromising the Goat Torment (Belgium) played in Everett, extremity that characterizes the core of their Washington state.