Apopthelema Entry 8 Part 2
by Kyle Nonneman
No Wave Grind/Power Violence with a lot of jazz timings and weird fucked up shit going on. Bizarre insanity that sounds like: a fast Toadliquor with blastbeats doing Zeni Gava /Gasp mash-ups, Crossed Out' breaking edge, Spazz on acid, and Pre-sellout Locust/Melt Banana without the need for electronics to make it sound crazy.The type of fucked up fringe insanity Slap-A-Ham used to put out. This band kills it with this sound. A lot of bands try this type of experiment and end up sounding like another boring Discordance Axis clone or Neurosis worshiping technical hardcore hackwork, and when that album gets bad reviews, they try again and usually endup putting out some NomeansNo with growling mcgrind mathcore shit. But Combat Wounded Veteran kill it with avant grind violence insanity. They also incorporate a couple weird spoken word cutup sound collages that work well with the chaos like how Gasp's Drome Tiller lp was laid out. It works with the music not simply pasted on as a filler intro/interlude. Mapping Unexploded Ordinance is a surrealist nightmare soundscape using minimalist elements to achieve its effect.
[Note: this was composed in prison where proof-reading facilities are notoriously bad. Please don't hold that against the author. You can contact Kyle through the address listed at the end of this entry.]
DEATHHAMMER-EVIL POWER
This Norwegian horde is pure bang your head for satan , true old school satanic metal . Fucking total Show No Mercy /Seven Churches/Endless Pain/Welcome To Hell brand of evil played at a 'Death Side' tempo. This carries on the torch of true metal and uses that torch to set fire to churches and false metal. They don't try to combine it with death or black metal . This is an unholy atavistic revival of the dark ages before all those genre labels existed .There's nothing modern about this. They just shred out some true metal for satan. The speed and energy of this , despite being old school as fucking Venom, shreds most grind bands. A lot of people have forgotten how brutal this type of shit was.This sounds just like it was recorded in 1985 . This is a honorable remembrance of where this abject heresy all started and it shreds and slays in true service to our master Satan.The modern trendy underground try-hards that scorn traditional metal and scoff at old school stuff like Kreator and Destruction, taking everything too serious, needs to have this record shoved up their fucking ass!
Deathhammer is also the name of the lp Asphyx put out a few years ago. That album is also essential
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SUICIDAL ANGELS-ETERNAL DOMINATION
Generic sounding genre album. This sounds like a Kreator cover band branching out into original material. Satanic thrash anthems with titles like 'Slaughtering Christianity:","Quench your thirst with christian souls" and "Vomit on The Cross". It's obviously not as good as Deathhammer's similar work in this vein, but it still slays. And they write unapologetically blunt campy lyrics as bluntly evil as Deicide and NunSlaughter. This would be more impressive if Deathhammer's Evil Power didn't exist. But its still a good genre album thats faithful to the spirit of its obvious influences.
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RWAKE-VOICES OF OMENS
This full length doom ritual is equal parts apocalyptic stoner crust and misanthropic black sludge. Like Electric Wizard experimenting with black metal. Blackened ringing arpeggios transitioning into traditional metal hooks and solos layered on top of crushing down-tuned sludge riffs. Harsh screaming vocals phrasing into rough tormented hardcore vocals. Basically this is what you would get if you got baked and put some old warped Shrapnel records vinyl in a blender with Weekend Nachos, EyeHateGod and early Forgotten Tomb. The guitar work is layered and complex without coming off as extraneous technical jerkoff nonsense.Creating a powerful atmosphere of suicidal despair and hatred for the species. There's a lot of straight false bands out there trying to make records like this, like Twilight and all the christian sympathizer bands on 1859 .
To the point that i tend to avoid anything with the words crust, post or stoner in the description. But this is actually good work. I saw it referenced in a zine alongside Graves At Sea and it was a good purchase. Rwake transgresses the wretched shitheap of boring postmetal progsludge 1859 Records worship. This shit rules and in a lot of ways it goes beyond genre by incorporating a lot of different styles in a meaningful and cohesive way alot of lesser acts cant pull off. Their other album Hell is A Door To the SUn , has the anthem Stoner Tree on it. Get that record also. Stoner Tree is Sweet Leaf for the New Dark Age!
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COMBAT WOUNDED VETERAN-DUCK DOWN FOR THE TORSO
No Wave Grind/Power Violence with a lot of jazz timings and weird fucked up shit going on. Bizarre insanity that sounds like: a fast Toadliquor with blastbeats doing Zeni Gava /Gasp mash-ups, Crossed Out' breaking edge, Spazz on acid, and Pre-sellout Locust/Melt Banana without the need for electronics to make it sound crazy.The type of fucked up fringe insanity Slap-A-Ham used to put out. This band kills it with this sound. A lot of bands try this type of experiment and end up sounding like another boring Discordance Axis clone or Neurosis worshiping technical hardcore hackwork, and when that album gets bad reviews, they try again and usually endup putting out some NomeansNo with growling mcgrind mathcore shit. But Combat Wounded Veteran kill it with avant grind violence insanity. They also incorporate a couple weird spoken word cutup sound collages that work well with the chaos like how Gasp's Drome Tiller lp was laid out. It works with the music not simply pasted on as a filler intro/interlude. Mapping Unexploded Ordinance is a surrealist nightmare soundscape using minimalist elements to achieve its effect.
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