Rwake are a band from Arkansas that plays a southern redneck gorm of progressive doom/sludge metal and this is a review of their 2011 album "Rest" which was released by Relapse Records.
Drums range from slow to midpaced drumming with not much in the way of fast playing or blast beats, while the bas playing has a very dark tone with riffs that follow the riffing that is coming out of the guitars.
Rhythm guitars range from slow to midpaced sludge/doom metal riffs mixed in with alot of distortion and some dark sounding melodies in addition there is some ocassional slow and soft playing, while the lead guitars have a very bluesy southern rock feel with some guitar slides being thrown in as well as some heavy sludge/doom metal leads, as for the acoustic guitars when they are utilized they use finger picking to bring a classic/progressive rock feel to the music.
Vocals range from clean singing, shouting, and some sludge/doom metal screams and growls as well as the ocassional spoken word passage, while the lyrics cover dark themes, a s for the production it has a very dark and heavy sound to it.
In my opinion Rwake are a very good progressive/doom/sludge metal band and if you are a fan of this s tyle, you should check out this band. RECEMMONDED TRACKS INCLUDE "It Was Beatiful but Now It's Sour" and "Was Only A Dream". RECEMMONDED BUY.
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Saturday, September 10, 2011
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Trisitia/Crucidiction/Holy Records/1996 CD Review
Tristitia are a band from Sweden that plays a style of music that I would describe as gothic doom/death metal and this is a review of their 1996 album "Crucidiction' which was released by Holy Records.
Drums are mostly slow with no blast beats while the keyboards have a very dark romantic sound with some ocassional piano parts that have a very dark avante garde feel to them as for the bass playing they use alot of slow riffing techniques.
Rythym guitars are mostly slow and melodic riffs that sound very depressing with some ocassional thrash influenced riffing while the guitar leads are very melodic with alot of classic metal influences as for the accoustic guitars when they are used they use alot of open chords to give the music a more dark feeling and there is also a classical guitar being used on ocassion that gives the dark music a very romantic feel.
Vocals are a mixture between clean sung vocals that have a very gothic feel to them as well as some high pitched black metal screams, while the lyrics are very anti christian with a touch of theology and some depressing themes that contain a dose of evil, as for the production on this album it sounds very professional and you can hear all of the musical instruments on this album.
In my opinion this was a very good album from aband that was very underrated in the 1990's. Any true fan of gothic doom/death metal should enjoy this album. STANDOUT TRACKS INCLUDE "Christianic Resurrection" "Gardenia" and "FInal Lament". RECOMMENDED BUY.
Drums are mostly slow with no blast beats while the keyboards have a very dark romantic sound with some ocassional piano parts that have a very dark avante garde feel to them as for the bass playing they use alot of slow riffing techniques.
Rythym guitars are mostly slow and melodic riffs that sound very depressing with some ocassional thrash influenced riffing while the guitar leads are very melodic with alot of classic metal influences as for the accoustic guitars when they are used they use alot of open chords to give the music a more dark feeling and there is also a classical guitar being used on ocassion that gives the dark music a very romantic feel.
Vocals are a mixture between clean sung vocals that have a very gothic feel to them as well as some high pitched black metal screams, while the lyrics are very anti christian with a touch of theology and some depressing themes that contain a dose of evil, as for the production on this album it sounds very professional and you can hear all of the musical instruments on this album.
In my opinion this was a very good album from aband that was very underrated in the 1990's. Any true fan of gothic doom/death metal should enjoy this album. STANDOUT TRACKS INCLUDE "Christianic Resurrection" "Gardenia" and "FInal Lament". RECOMMENDED BUY.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Nevertanezra Interview
1. Can you tell us a little bit about the band for those that have never heard of you before?
Well, I started the band out of a desire to play Heavy Metal over 10 years ago. After hearing Iron Maiden and Metallica for the first time I knew what I wanted to do with my life. I’ve been the sole member since it started because Utah is a shitty place for Metal.
2.How would you describe your musical sound?
A mixture of more traditional Doom/Death Metal with bits of Thrash and Progressive. That’s the best way I can describe our sound.
3.What is the meaning behind the band's name?
There is no meaning to be completely honest. It’s just something I came up with one day. It sounded cool and no one else was using it so I went for it.
4.How would you describe the lyrical content of the music?
Anything and everything really. I’ve written volumes of lyrics about death, depression, mental problems and suicide (you know, the typical Doom fare, lol) but I’ve also written an even larger amount about fantasy & mythology (the other typical Doom fare). The only thing I’m not really keen on writing about is politics. I cannot stand politics in music!
5.According to your myspace page you have been around for ten years, how would you describe your musical progress over the years and what direction do you see the music heading into on future releases?
When I started playing guitar I wanted sound like my heroes, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Judas Priest, etc… I started playing Thrash then I went to a more traditional Metal sound. Then I went to a Gothic style of Metal to Death to Grind. I got really tired of fast music after awhile however. I was never that into Doom Metal of any kind until I accidentally stumbled across ‘Icon’ by Paradise Lost. That was my musical rebirth and that’s when I started writing/playing Doom, Doom/Death Metal. As far as the future of the bands style goes, I plan on keeping this band/project a Doom project. We’ve been discussing doing EP’s in other styles of Metal, but the albums will be Doom. We’re all very big Heavy Metal fans. It’s a genera with a plethora of styles and we love and follow them all.
6.How have fans of doom metal reacted to your musical style so far?
So far the response has been very good, the one hindrance that we have is that we haven’t played live. If we did we’d probably have a better response.
7.What are some bands or music styles that have influenced your music and what are you listening to nowadays?
Heavy Metal is the influence. Period. The bands that directly influence the my bands sound as it stands now are as follows: Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, Anathema, Avernus, Cathedral, Novembers Doom, Iron Maiden, Mar de Grises, Evoken, Type-O-Negative & Mistress of the Dead. As stated above, our influences are vast but as far as this project goes it’s very specific.
Currently I’ve been listening to more old school Thrash and NWOBHM. NWOBHM has always been my favorite style of Heavy Metal and in more recent years its become easier to get. I’m more or less feeding my ever growing CD collection with good Heavy Metal.
8.Are you satisfied with the results of your newer material and what are some things that you would like to accomplish with your music that you have not been able to do yet?
I am very please with the progress that’s taken place. The new material sounds very different from the EP. It wasn’t an intentional thing it’s just the evolutionary process. It’s heavier, slower and more experimental. What I’d love to accomplish more than anything would be to make a living off of this hobby. I’d also love to play some live shows. My heads not so big as to care if we were opening or headlining but just playing and possibly with our heroes that would be an accomplishment.
9.You have some big names that have contributed to your new material, how did you get in contact with those musicians?
Funny you ask, I hate myspace with every fiber of my being, not so much for what it started as but what it has become. In a nut shell I secretly created an account in order to contact Rick McCoy (Avernus) on how to get my hands on their out of print material. We became friends after a series of emails. I had been recording the EP and needed a vocalist since I can’t for the life of me do Death vox. I asked him, assuming that he’d say no, but he instead said yes and sent me his phone number. I did my best not to fanboy out, you’d have to ask him how I did however, lol. I was living with my sister at the time and she agreed that he could come out. The weekend came we hung out, did the recording and then he went home. I’m sure he was bored to tears since my friends and I are very dull people.
As far as getting Aaron Stainthorpe (My Dying Bride) to do the artwork I just emailed him. After a few emails we made a deal and shortly thereafter I was more than pleasantly surprised with his work. We plan on using him again in the future. I had thought about using him prior to establishing communication, but then just brushed aside the thought thinking that he would be too big or to busy to respond. I contacted him at the instance of another friend Ryan Henry. Ryan was part of the Doom/Death duo Necare and the mastermind behind Funeral Doom titan Reclusiam. I met him through Jayke my other guitarist (a humorous and long story in itself.)
10. How would you describe the metal scene in your home state of Utah?
How do you describe something that isn’t there? Lol! Utah is a great place for punks, hicks and indie fans. If a big act like Poison, Scorpions or Ozzy comes through the long hairs come out of the wood work but none of the people seem to be into the underground or “extreme” bands. There have been a few failed attempts to create or sustain a scene but they’ve been futile at best. Too many elitists and fractured cliques and perhaps generation gaps to give it an honest try. Thankfully the REAL Metal scene has always been international.
11.What are some of your interests outside of music?
My wife and I just bought a house so that keeps us busy. We also got a black lab named Mr. Grimm who’s been a lot of fun. I also like to go shooting, hunting and playing video games. I suppose I’m not too dissimilar from most people.
12. Any final words or thoughts?
Thank you for the interview first of all! Check out our myspace ( HYPERLINK "http://www.myspace.com/nevertanezra" www.myspace.com/nevertanezra ) & if you enjoy what you hear buy a copy.
Well, I started the band out of a desire to play Heavy Metal over 10 years ago. After hearing Iron Maiden and Metallica for the first time I knew what I wanted to do with my life. I’ve been the sole member since it started because Utah is a shitty place for Metal.
2.How would you describe your musical sound?
A mixture of more traditional Doom/Death Metal with bits of Thrash and Progressive. That’s the best way I can describe our sound.
3.What is the meaning behind the band's name?
There is no meaning to be completely honest. It’s just something I came up with one day. It sounded cool and no one else was using it so I went for it.
4.How would you describe the lyrical content of the music?
Anything and everything really. I’ve written volumes of lyrics about death, depression, mental problems and suicide (you know, the typical Doom fare, lol) but I’ve also written an even larger amount about fantasy & mythology (the other typical Doom fare). The only thing I’m not really keen on writing about is politics. I cannot stand politics in music!
5.According to your myspace page you have been around for ten years, how would you describe your musical progress over the years and what direction do you see the music heading into on future releases?
When I started playing guitar I wanted sound like my heroes, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Judas Priest, etc… I started playing Thrash then I went to a more traditional Metal sound. Then I went to a Gothic style of Metal to Death to Grind. I got really tired of fast music after awhile however. I was never that into Doom Metal of any kind until I accidentally stumbled across ‘Icon’ by Paradise Lost. That was my musical rebirth and that’s when I started writing/playing Doom, Doom/Death Metal. As far as the future of the bands style goes, I plan on keeping this band/project a Doom project. We’ve been discussing doing EP’s in other styles of Metal, but the albums will be Doom. We’re all very big Heavy Metal fans. It’s a genera with a plethora of styles and we love and follow them all.
6.How have fans of doom metal reacted to your musical style so far?
So far the response has been very good, the one hindrance that we have is that we haven’t played live. If we did we’d probably have a better response.
7.What are some bands or music styles that have influenced your music and what are you listening to nowadays?
Heavy Metal is the influence. Period. The bands that directly influence the my bands sound as it stands now are as follows: Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, Anathema, Avernus, Cathedral, Novembers Doom, Iron Maiden, Mar de Grises, Evoken, Type-O-Negative & Mistress of the Dead. As stated above, our influences are vast but as far as this project goes it’s very specific.
Currently I’ve been listening to more old school Thrash and NWOBHM. NWOBHM has always been my favorite style of Heavy Metal and in more recent years its become easier to get. I’m more or less feeding my ever growing CD collection with good Heavy Metal.
8.Are you satisfied with the results of your newer material and what are some things that you would like to accomplish with your music that you have not been able to do yet?
I am very please with the progress that’s taken place. The new material sounds very different from the EP. It wasn’t an intentional thing it’s just the evolutionary process. It’s heavier, slower and more experimental. What I’d love to accomplish more than anything would be to make a living off of this hobby. I’d also love to play some live shows. My heads not so big as to care if we were opening or headlining but just playing and possibly with our heroes that would be an accomplishment.
9.You have some big names that have contributed to your new material, how did you get in contact with those musicians?
Funny you ask, I hate myspace with every fiber of my being, not so much for what it started as but what it has become. In a nut shell I secretly created an account in order to contact Rick McCoy (Avernus) on how to get my hands on their out of print material. We became friends after a series of emails. I had been recording the EP and needed a vocalist since I can’t for the life of me do Death vox. I asked him, assuming that he’d say no, but he instead said yes and sent me his phone number. I did my best not to fanboy out, you’d have to ask him how I did however, lol. I was living with my sister at the time and she agreed that he could come out. The weekend came we hung out, did the recording and then he went home. I’m sure he was bored to tears since my friends and I are very dull people.
As far as getting Aaron Stainthorpe (My Dying Bride) to do the artwork I just emailed him. After a few emails we made a deal and shortly thereafter I was more than pleasantly surprised with his work. We plan on using him again in the future. I had thought about using him prior to establishing communication, but then just brushed aside the thought thinking that he would be too big or to busy to respond. I contacted him at the instance of another friend Ryan Henry. Ryan was part of the Doom/Death duo Necare and the mastermind behind Funeral Doom titan Reclusiam. I met him through Jayke my other guitarist (a humorous and long story in itself.)
10. How would you describe the metal scene in your home state of Utah?
How do you describe something that isn’t there? Lol! Utah is a great place for punks, hicks and indie fans. If a big act like Poison, Scorpions or Ozzy comes through the long hairs come out of the wood work but none of the people seem to be into the underground or “extreme” bands. There have been a few failed attempts to create or sustain a scene but they’ve been futile at best. Too many elitists and fractured cliques and perhaps generation gaps to give it an honest try. Thankfully the REAL Metal scene has always been international.
11.What are some of your interests outside of music?
My wife and I just bought a house so that keeps us busy. We also got a black lab named Mr. Grimm who’s been a lot of fun. I also like to go shooting, hunting and playing video games. I suppose I’m not too dissimilar from most people.
12. Any final words or thoughts?
Thank you for the interview first of all! Check out our myspace ( HYPERLINK "http://www.myspace.com/nevertanezra" www.myspace.com/nevertanezra ) & if you enjoy what you hear buy a copy.
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Septic Flesh/Sumerian Daemons/Hammerheart Records/2004 CD Review
Septic Flesh are a band from Greece that has been around for more than 20 years and this is a review of their classic 2004 album "Sumerian Daemons" which was released by Hammerheart Records.
Drums are very fast with alot of blast beats being utilized while the bass playing which is mixed down low in the mix has a very dark tone that follows the riffs that are coming out off the guitars, as for the keyboards they have a dark sound that remind me of a classic horror movie soundtrack with some industrial style sounds that have a slight gothic influence.
Rythym guitars contain alot of variety with some very fast death metal riffing that contain a little bit of a thrash influence mixed with some more slow melodic riffs while the guitar leads sound very melodic with alot of talent being utilized.
Vocals are mostly low pitched death metal growls with some clean male and female vocals that have a very symphonic opereatic feel and at times gothic sounding while the lyrics cover the mythologies of Summer, Greece as well as some Faustian, Luciferian, Left Hand Path and other esoteric/occult philosophies, as for the production on this albumwhich was recorded and mixed at Studio Freeman in Sweden during the months of May and June of 2002 sounds very professional and all of the instruments come out sounding good.
In my opinion this is a very good album from Septic Flesh and while I prefered the albums they did before this one, I still feel this is a good album from the band and it seemed like they were going back to their heavier roots on this album, if you are a fan of Septic Flesh you would not be disapointed and you probably already have this cd since it come out a long time ago.
STANDOUT TRACKS INCLUDE "Unbeliever" "when All Is None" "dark River" "Magic Loves Infinity" "Infernal Sun" and "Shapeshifter". RECOMMENDED BUY
Drums are very fast with alot of blast beats being utilized while the bass playing which is mixed down low in the mix has a very dark tone that follows the riffs that are coming out off the guitars, as for the keyboards they have a dark sound that remind me of a classic horror movie soundtrack with some industrial style sounds that have a slight gothic influence.
Rythym guitars contain alot of variety with some very fast death metal riffing that contain a little bit of a thrash influence mixed with some more slow melodic riffs while the guitar leads sound very melodic with alot of talent being utilized.
Vocals are mostly low pitched death metal growls with some clean male and female vocals that have a very symphonic opereatic feel and at times gothic sounding while the lyrics cover the mythologies of Summer, Greece as well as some Faustian, Luciferian, Left Hand Path and other esoteric/occult philosophies, as for the production on this albumwhich was recorded and mixed at Studio Freeman in Sweden during the months of May and June of 2002 sounds very professional and all of the instruments come out sounding good.
In my opinion this is a very good album from Septic Flesh and while I prefered the albums they did before this one, I still feel this is a good album from the band and it seemed like they were going back to their heavier roots on this album, if you are a fan of Septic Flesh you would not be disapointed and you probably already have this cd since it come out a long time ago.
STANDOUT TRACKS INCLUDE "Unbeliever" "when All Is None" "dark River" "Magic Loves Infinity" "Infernal Sun" and "Shapeshifter". RECOMMENDED BUY
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
The Body/Braveyong/Nothing Passes/At A Loss Records/2011 Split Review
This is a review of a split between The Body from North Carolina That had their previous album reviewed in th zine and Braveyoung from Rhode Land , ths split is called "Nothing Passes" which was released by At A Loss Recordings in 2011 and we will start of the review with The Body that mixes doom/sludge metal with noise.
Noise Effects bring a very dark and avant grde feel to the music with alot of reverb and distortion with some synths and choirs being thrown in.
Drums are all slow beats, while the guitars are mostly very slow and primitive sludege/doom riffs, as for the vocals they are very distorted sounding screams.
In my opinion the 2 songs The Body put on this recording are very good, experimental and different but still should appeal to fans of their music.
Next up is Braveyoung that plays a very psychedelic and noisy form of drone/sludge.
Distortion effects give the music a dark and primitive sound while the synths give the music a very dark, avant garde and demented sound.
Accoustic guitars use full chords to give the music a very dark and psychedelic feel mixed in with distorted parts, while the female vocals are all clean singing that talk alot about religion.
In my opinion this is a good split and very original sounding. RECEMMONDED BUY.
Noise Effects bring a very dark and avant grde feel to the music with alot of reverb and distortion with some synths and choirs being thrown in.
Drums are all slow beats, while the guitars are mostly very slow and primitive sludege/doom riffs, as for the vocals they are very distorted sounding screams.
In my opinion the 2 songs The Body put on this recording are very good, experimental and different but still should appeal to fans of their music.
Next up is Braveyoung that plays a very psychedelic and noisy form of drone/sludge.
Distortion effects give the music a dark and primitive sound while the synths give the music a very dark, avant garde and demented sound.
Accoustic guitars use full chords to give the music a very dark and psychedelic feel mixed in with distorted parts, while the female vocals are all clean singing that talk alot about religion.
In my opinion this is a good split and very original sounding. RECEMMONDED BUY.
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Ever-Frost Interview
1. Can you give us a brief history of the band for those that have never heard of you before?
1) Hi everyone,I'm Francesco,the singer of Ever-Frost,a progressive death metal band from Italy.
The project, as you know it now, started in 2008, even if we played together for many years doing some covers. We've been a Sentenced cover band for a couple
of years. Some of us played in other local bands,always doing some cover stuff..you know,all the bands start this way.
2. How would you describe your musical sound?
2) Our sound is a mix of all the different influences brought in by the members of the band. It's hard for me to give a specific definition of "our sound". It could be described as "progressive death metal" with melody as a principal aim. However we do not define ourselves as a melodic death metal band as the
original meaning of the term.
3. What is the meaning behind the band's name?
3) As it is easy deducible our band name comes from a Sentenced song, due to our past as a cover band. We decided not to change the name because we felt that it very well expresses what we perceive of the world around us.
4. What are some of the best shows that you have played so far, and how would you describe your life performance?
4) We participated to a good number of gigs here, with great and celebrated italian bands like "The Modern Age Slavery" and "Murder Therapy". Unfortunately we haven't been able to get out of Italy yet. Here the "live scene" for underground bands is understimated.
Whoever came to one of our gigs always got impressed by our energy, the passion and aggressiveness of our songs, without forgetting the executive technique that we put in our music.
5. Do you have any touring plans?
5) Right now we are dealing with some people in order to bring Ever-Frost outside Italy and maybe outside Europe. However there's nothing sure yet, so I can't get through it specifically
6. How would you describe your musical progress over the years and what direction do you see the band heading into on future releases?
6) Well, I can say that we've done a good work since we were only a simple cover band among all the others. Our first original songs are the ones you can hear on our EP, which everyone can listen to on our myspace page. I can easily tell you that we've got new songs that are going to be recorded on our first full-lenght and that on these songs we put more progressive parts as a natural evolution of our sound. Obviously we never lost the typical aggressiveness of death metal. You'll judge yourselves when you'll hear the new record.
7. How would you describe the lyrical content of the music?
7) My lyrics mainly are about what's happening to the modern-society man of today. I am one among many that thinks that there cannot be an happy ending for human kind if we keep on thinking and acting the way we've done til now. In my words you can find my wish to a change in human mentality, which is currently not happening and that surely will lead us to a nasty future. Anyway I did not lose my hope yet and I'm hoping in some kind of evolution that could bring us to the turning-point that we're waiting for since ever.
8. What are some bands or music styles that have influenced your sound and what are you listening to nowadays?
8)Our musical influences are very heterogeneous as,like said before, all the members of the band constantly bring in their way of perceving music and metal. However I can tell that the most important are surely Dream Theater, Opeth, Dark Tranquillity, At The Gates,etc... In this last period some of us are listening to extremely valid bands like Textures, Lamb Of God, Meshuggah, Alter Bridge, Amorphis, and many others coming from many different kind of metal and rock. As you can imagine, you'll find a lot of different things in our sound.
9. How has the reception been towards your music so far from the metal community?
9)For the moment we are satisfied of the many positive reactions that we got from various Magazines and Webzines, which gave us good impressions, from good to excellent! Moreover the good attendance to our gigs is a sign of love and respect for what we do, and we want to thank all of our fans from the bottom of our hearts for their strong support.
10.When can we expect new material?
10)If everything goes as it is expected to go, we should enter the studio in order to record the full-lenght towards the end of March. Then we'll do our best in order to find a label that helps us distrubuting and promoting the new material all over the world. Unfortunately nowadays is really hard to find a label that offers a decent deal for emerging bands.
11. What are some of your interests outside of music?
11)I'm a good reader, I love history, I really like to have a beer with friends and also going to the cinema. Just simple and normal things.
12. Any final words or thoughts?
12)I would like to thank you and Extreme Underground Music Zine for giving us a chance. Getting some visibility as a band is hard and there are few people
interested in the underground scene. I want to remind to the readers that our EP "The Awakening" can be listened to on our space at www.myspace.com/everfrostband. Come check it out and leave a comment, we always answer to everyone. Thanks everybody!Stay metal!
1) Hi everyone,I'm Francesco,the singer of Ever-Frost,a progressive death metal band from Italy.
The project, as you know it now, started in 2008, even if we played together for many years doing some covers. We've been a Sentenced cover band for a couple
of years. Some of us played in other local bands,always doing some cover stuff..you know,all the bands start this way.
2. How would you describe your musical sound?
2) Our sound is a mix of all the different influences brought in by the members of the band. It's hard for me to give a specific definition of "our sound". It could be described as "progressive death metal" with melody as a principal aim. However we do not define ourselves as a melodic death metal band as the
original meaning of the term.
3. What is the meaning behind the band's name?
3) As it is easy deducible our band name comes from a Sentenced song, due to our past as a cover band. We decided not to change the name because we felt that it very well expresses what we perceive of the world around us.
4. What are some of the best shows that you have played so far, and how would you describe your life performance?
4) We participated to a good number of gigs here, with great and celebrated italian bands like "The Modern Age Slavery" and "Murder Therapy". Unfortunately we haven't been able to get out of Italy yet. Here the "live scene" for underground bands is understimated.
Whoever came to one of our gigs always got impressed by our energy, the passion and aggressiveness of our songs, without forgetting the executive technique that we put in our music.
5. Do you have any touring plans?
5) Right now we are dealing with some people in order to bring Ever-Frost outside Italy and maybe outside Europe. However there's nothing sure yet, so I can't get through it specifically
6. How would you describe your musical progress over the years and what direction do you see the band heading into on future releases?
6) Well, I can say that we've done a good work since we were only a simple cover band among all the others. Our first original songs are the ones you can hear on our EP, which everyone can listen to on our myspace page. I can easily tell you that we've got new songs that are going to be recorded on our first full-lenght and that on these songs we put more progressive parts as a natural evolution of our sound. Obviously we never lost the typical aggressiveness of death metal. You'll judge yourselves when you'll hear the new record.
7. How would you describe the lyrical content of the music?
7) My lyrics mainly are about what's happening to the modern-society man of today. I am one among many that thinks that there cannot be an happy ending for human kind if we keep on thinking and acting the way we've done til now. In my words you can find my wish to a change in human mentality, which is currently not happening and that surely will lead us to a nasty future. Anyway I did not lose my hope yet and I'm hoping in some kind of evolution that could bring us to the turning-point that we're waiting for since ever.
8. What are some bands or music styles that have influenced your sound and what are you listening to nowadays?
8)Our musical influences are very heterogeneous as,like said before, all the members of the band constantly bring in their way of perceving music and metal. However I can tell that the most important are surely Dream Theater, Opeth, Dark Tranquillity, At The Gates,etc... In this last period some of us are listening to extremely valid bands like Textures, Lamb Of God, Meshuggah, Alter Bridge, Amorphis, and many others coming from many different kind of metal and rock. As you can imagine, you'll find a lot of different things in our sound.
9. How has the reception been towards your music so far from the metal community?
9)For the moment we are satisfied of the many positive reactions that we got from various Magazines and Webzines, which gave us good impressions, from good to excellent! Moreover the good attendance to our gigs is a sign of love and respect for what we do, and we want to thank all of our fans from the bottom of our hearts for their strong support.
10.When can we expect new material?
10)If everything goes as it is expected to go, we should enter the studio in order to record the full-lenght towards the end of March. Then we'll do our best in order to find a label that helps us distrubuting and promoting the new material all over the world. Unfortunately nowadays is really hard to find a label that offers a decent deal for emerging bands.
11. What are some of your interests outside of music?
11)I'm a good reader, I love history, I really like to have a beer with friends and also going to the cinema. Just simple and normal things.
12. Any final words or thoughts?
12)I would like to thank you and Extreme Underground Music Zine for giving us a chance. Getting some visibility as a band is hard and there are few people
interested in the underground scene. I want to remind to the readers that our EP "The Awakening" can be listened to on our space at www.myspace.com/everfrostband. Come check it out and leave a comment, we always answer to everyone. Thanks everybody!Stay metal!
Friday, August 26, 2011
Ever-Frost Myspace Music Preview
Ever-Frost are a band from Italy that plays a very progressive form of melodic death/gothic metal and this is a review of the music from their Mysapace page.
Drums are in the progressive vein with alot of slow parts mixed with some blast beats that are not overdone while the bass playing is all rythym and sounds very technical with a low pitched sound.
Rythym guitars cover alot of different ground with some palm muted riffing mixed with alot of progressive metal influences while some of their slower parts reminded me of some of the mid 80's or early 90's thrash ballads that were all over Headbanger's Ball back in those days, as for the guitar leads they contain alot of melodic guitar solos that take alot of skill and talent.
Vocals are mostly high pitched melodic death metal screams in the classic Swedish/Gothenburg vein while the clean singing has a very classic metal feel. The lyrics seem to cover everyday topics, as for the production on the songs they sound professional and you can hear all of the instruments very well.
In my opinion this is a good band for this style of music and instead of going for the more comercial route that some bands in this genre are known to do Ever-Frost bring back alot of classic metal/thrash influences and they add their own twist without sounding or retro,neo, or pseudo and this would be a good band to add to you melodic death metal collection. If you want to hear the music you can go to their myspace page. A recommended band.
Drums are in the progressive vein with alot of slow parts mixed with some blast beats that are not overdone while the bass playing is all rythym and sounds very technical with a low pitched sound.
Rythym guitars cover alot of different ground with some palm muted riffing mixed with alot of progressive metal influences while some of their slower parts reminded me of some of the mid 80's or early 90's thrash ballads that were all over Headbanger's Ball back in those days, as for the guitar leads they contain alot of melodic guitar solos that take alot of skill and talent.
Vocals are mostly high pitched melodic death metal screams in the classic Swedish/Gothenburg vein while the clean singing has a very classic metal feel. The lyrics seem to cover everyday topics, as for the production on the songs they sound professional and you can hear all of the instruments very well.
In my opinion this is a good band for this style of music and instead of going for the more comercial route that some bands in this genre are known to do Ever-Frost bring back alot of classic metal/thrash influences and they add their own twist without sounding or retro,neo, or pseudo and this would be a good band to add to you melodic death metal collection. If you want to hear the music you can go to their myspace page. A recommended band.
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