domingo, 19 de dezembro de 2010

Brutal Orgasmo - Promo Tape 99




Side A:
1.Vingança obscura
2.Insane Morbid Undead

Side B
1.Perdidos na droga
2.Não voltas mocidade

Line Up:
Rui- Guitar
João - Vocals
Luis - Drums
Jorge - Guitar

Recorded and produced by Armando Glória at Digodai studios, 21,22, 23 December 1998.
Distribuited by NemesisPromotion (Torres Novas)

Cool name for a band... although in Portuguese, it's quite understandable.

On this tape we can find more or less the same style than the previous demo from Brutal Whisper. Death Metal and some Grindcore mixed in.
Deep Growling vocals, blastbeats, of course, with some slow/mid-paced parts to balance.
There's one cool thing about this one; Lyrics in Portuguese! At least 3 of the 4 tracks have titles in Portugues, althoug i cannot really distinguish them sinse this doesn´t come with lyrics sheet.
"Vingança Obscura" means "Obscure vengence";
"Perdidos na droga" stands for "Lost in Drugs";
"Não voltas mocidade" goes "No return to youth" or something of that kind.

Only one sentence i can really understand , is the last frase on
"Não voltas mocidade". The guy growls in Portuguese "...que tristeza!" . Don´t know the contex but it the guy is sad and perhaps mad with something.
Either way , this last sentence sticks on you, but it does not describes the tape itself at all.

Also nothing extraordinary, Brutal Death/grind is what you get, pure and simple.

Score: 6.5

Brutal Whisper - Whithin Violence - 1998


1.Agressive discipline
2.Dead in the dark
3.Truth of murder
4.Addicted to blood


Label:
Lustful Records

All music by Brutal Whisper.
Recorded at Multimedia studios.
Produced, engineered and mixed by Brutal Whipar & Luis Mascarenhas.

Line up:
João Luis - Bass, vocals
Nelson Neves - Guitar, vocals
Vicelio Luis - Guitar
João Neves - Drums

Death Metal in it's most brutal way with some Grindcore influences from Faro.
4 tracks of aggression, grunts and growls some blastbeats and some ok riffing and solos.
Here and there some clean vocals but mostly deep growling vocals.
But unfortunatly , nothing out of the common day to day basis.
The band tries hard and you can see the effort, but this isn´t enought. Its a cool brutal tape anyway, just don´t expect anything extraordinary.

Ratting: 6

domingo, 12 de dezembro de 2010

Disfigured Human Mind - Deadly Fragments - 2000




Line up:
Cadáver Panafernalicus (Gutural gore vomits)
Cadáver Pathologicus (Rotten Guitar)
Blazum (Putrid Bass)
Cadáver Putrefactus (Translucid Screams)
Cadáver Macabrus (Carnal Drums)

On to a diferent style...
Grindcore. This is what we have on this one. At least i think it is...

This tape has 30(!!!) tracks on each side. Named First Murder and Second Murder (Hum...original...)
Also this is recorded live in the studio...

Now , this is probably the easiest tape to discribe. What can i say? I even didn't finished listening to the hole "First Murder" yet...
Grindcore? Nops... hum....err... noise, an huge amount of racket! Just dreadfull....Random noises with intruments and voices.
I like Grindcore. And this tape sounds nothing like Grindcore. Some friends got together , picked up intruments and tried to play some notes...
I can´t understand what is "True" and "Underground" about this. I guess i can compare to Anal Cunt and followers but , worse... (lol, can it be? :))
Seriously, i can´t like this. This is utter bullshit to me. Sorry guys , but this fails to deliver.
Perhaps They had good ideas , but failed completely trying...

By 2000 it was, like in our days (and this is very good), too easy to make a recording. And then these kinds of things surface... I guess there's got to be some audiance for this type of entertainment...

Anyway , someday i'll try to listen to the second part of this and then perhaps i'll change my mind, but by the way this looks, i don´t think it will get any better...

these guys hailded from Fundão, and my copy is the nº24/1000 (1000 copies!!!!????).

Got this one in a deal with some other tapes for free... (This was , i guess, the only positive thin about this tape...)
On to the shelf and dust till the end of time...

Score: 1

quarta-feira, 8 de dezembro de 2010

Decayed - Ataque Infernal - 2000


Side Black:
1-From The Catacombs (intro)
2-In Lustful Mayhem ('94)
3-Cannibalistic Devourment / Deliverance (Grog/Sacred Sin covers)
4-The Seven Seals ('98)

Side Metal:
1-Tormentor (Kreator cover)
2-Sign Of Evil (Violent Force cover)
3-Woman Of Dark Desires (Bathory cover)
4-The Conqueror (Sodom cover)

Label: Luci Dist Productions

Line-up:
JM - Vocals & Bass
JA - Gutar & fx
VJ - Guitar

Decayed, the first Black Metal band i've had contact with. This was in 1992 in the double LP "The birth of a tragedy".

Also and to me probably the best around in the genre in these lands. These guys do not get corpse paint and the badass evilook like most B.M. bands get into and with what i really dont like a bit...
They preach the Music for the Music and the rest is bullshit. And here is where they became distant from so many other outfits.

It seems that the band will split in 2011... (i cannot wondering if that is just a bad joke...)

Either way, their legacy is grand. Compilations, 7'', demos, Live albums, etc, etc, etc...

This one; It is a kinda "best of" or covers album.
On the 8 tracks (or 9 if you want to be more precice) only 2 (if you take out the intro) are Decayed tunes. And they are re-recordings. "In Lustful Mayhem" is a diferent version than the one present in the album with the same name from 1995 (Skyfall 85.001). Much rawer and dirty which makes it better.
The other, "The seven seals" is also in the same vein as the previous but in this case i prefer the original (1992, "The seven seals" 7'' on Dark Records).
Either way, i think they're the best tracks here. As for the covers i must underline the Grog/Sacrd Sin cover .
We all know Bathory, Kreator or Sodom, and it's always good to to hear those tracks but to me the Grog/Sacred Sin meddley/covers is the best one and far the most fortunate result (although you end up feelling and wanting more...).

Rate: 6

Antiquus Scriptum - In Pulverem Reverteris - 2000



1-Fleurs Du Mal - Initium
2-Bula Ad Extirpenda (Innocentio IV, 1252 - Thy Saint Office Of Inquisition Of Faith)
3-In Pulverem Reverteris
4-A Nightside Of Eden - Finalis

Line-up:
Sacerdos Magus - Vocals, bass, guitars & programing
Helskir
- Keyboards

Recorded at MoshPit by Paulo Vieira.
Logo by Christophe Szpajdel .
Words by
Sacerdos Magus

"This work was totally conceived by the band without any label support"
(Cover statement)


Black Metal.
As i said in early posts , this is not my favotite dish, although good music is always welcome.
And this tape is with any doubt a good tape. 2 Tracks , one intro and outro.

The demo starts with an keybord instrumental intro . after comes "Bula Ad Extirpenda" ,the high point to this recording. After the intro ends, we are assaulted with an blasting start. This realy kicks ass ...
I must say that what pleases me the most is the vocals. We do not have those grim , raw type of vocals higly present in most Black Metal releases.
Dunno really how to discribe it but, perhaps acute and sounding like an young kid screaming, surely sounds good to me. Also what this track has good is the chorus , very orchestral and environmental.

The title track, is also ok, full with blastbeats, speed and really ends fast.

The last track, an instrumental, based on clean guitars, ambient nature sounds and ending in tribal chants (Hum.. "Roots" anyone?...) . I guess its ok, to ease the ears after the energy discharge of the previous tracks.

This demo (as well as other material) can be downloaded at the band's Myspace page:
http://www.myspace.com/antiquusscriptum/blog

Also , this got proper re-issue recently, both on cd and tape.

Rate: 7