Abyssal - "Denouement" (2012)

ABYSSAL "Denouement"

Year: 2012
Genre: Atmospheric Death/Black Metal
Country: UK

Track List:

1. The Moss Upon Our Ruins
2. Celestial Dictatorship
3. Deus Vult
4. Detritivore
5. When Paradigms Supplant Gods
6. Swansong of a Dying Race

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Abyssal (not to be confused with Mexican band under the same name) are a new British atmospheric death metal band who know about my blog and fully support its concept. They've recently released their debut album called "Denouement", which is officially available for free download. It was already reviewed on EM, so I probably won't be able to write any better review. Just to say: if they continue it that way, they'll become one of the most prominent progressive death metal acts in the future.

As for their lyrics, they mostly deal with various depressive and apocalyptic themes. The album contains four tracks which centre on the anger and sadness over the paradigms which reward the individual at the expense of the collective, and two tracks which explore religion through the eyes of the indoctrinated and the indoctrinator. The lyrics in general aren't that easy to get into, but they're said to be fully in the spirit of my blog, and the music is just great (not an exaggeration) - so I highly recommend to check this album out.


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Axidance & Rivers Run Dry & Doomsday & Abyssal - 4-way split (2011)

(A)XIDANC(E) / RIVERS RUN DRY / DOOMSDAY / ABYSSAL "4-way split"

Year: 2011
Genre: Blackened Post-Metal / Neocrust / Raw Crust
Country: Russia / Hungary / Colombia / Mexico

Track List:

Axidance

1. Beginning of the path
2. The last cry of nature (Part I)
3. I know the sky loves me
4. The sign
5. They died because of you

Rivers Run Dry

1. Rephrasing old dogmas
2. The clock's tyranny
3. Hearts urbanized
4. Failure/success

Doomsday

1. Asesino del estado
2. Degradacion
3. Falsos positivos

Abyssal

1. Blindness

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Not so much time has passed after Axidance/Gattaca split was released, and now they made another split - now with 3 other crust bands from all around the world. All the Axidance tracks on this split are new versions of their old songs (except for track #2), recorded with different lineup:

• Dionis (vocal, guitar)
• Sergiy (guitar)
• Ilya (bass)
• Sergiy (drums, synths)
• Ksenia (synths)

Rivers Run Dry are a neocrust band from Budapest with Dr.Slayer on bass, who also plays in Human Error. As for me, I like Human Error better, but nevertheless, it's good to see another crust band from a country which has loads of nationalist rock bands, but neither a big crust scene, nor anything like Cascadian BM scene.

Doomsday are a raw old-school crust band from Colombia whose lyrics are mostly about Colombian civil war (which isn't surprising at all, though - it's the main lyrical theme in both Colombian crust and thrash metal scenes; and while living in the country with an ongoing guerrilla conflict, I understand them quite well). To be honest, they're my least favourite on the whole split, but if you're into stuff like Hatross, you may like Doomsday as well.

As for Abyssal, I can say their music is relatively far from post-metal or crust, but I definitely like the acoustic parts of their track. BTW, there's one more RABM-sympathising band called Abyssal - atmospheric death metal from the UK - whose first album I'll post a little later.

Overall, a quite decent split, and Axidance's side is clearly the best. The physical release: 500 books with CD; 6 color pages with lyrics and photos; released as a benefit for the Anarchist Black Cross. Distributed by: They Live rec. | Иакх rec. | Black Cardinal rec. | Resist rec. | My Riot Inward rec. | Wasted Sky's rec.

Let The World Die - "At the Road of Ruin" (2012)

LET THE WORLD DIE "At the Road of Ruin"

Year: 2012
Genre: Blackened Ska
Country: USA

Track List:

1. BMIS
2. LED
3. 4th Wave
4. MI 884
5. BMIS II
6. IM Power
7. Outro

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To all fans of Leper: here's another band playing a mix of ska/punk and blackened crust, with lyrics based on pretty much the same green anarchist ideology. Let The World Die are an anarcho-punk band from Flagstaff, AZ, all whose members have Navajo & Hopi/Tewa ancestry, and two of them come from a Navajo Indian Reservation. Their ideology is mostly based on Indigenous American traditionalism, with elements of eco-anarchism and even anarcho-primitivism, and their music is a mix of ska, epic melodic crust, black metal, sludge, and classic punk. "At the Road of Ruin" is their first official DIY recording, which is of course officially available for free download.


They also run a local infoshop mostly for the need to have a space to organize against the desecration of the San Francisco Peaks in the community, and other recently pressing issues around the area. After a quick look on their site, I can say I like this particular brand of national liberation activism (of whatever you may call it) more and more. Such set of beliefs, as seems to me, can also be found in other Native American metal bands like Aztra, Yaotl Mictlan, Resistant Culture, the whole Black Twilight Circle, as well as in movements like EZLN (which is probably the only respectable guerrilla movement left in all Latin America).

Female fronted crust from Bristol: Casus (ex-Aradia, Jesus Bruiser)

I guess most of my old readers remember me posting two songs by Aradia, a very promising female-fronted metallic crust band which unfortunately split up before releasing anything else. However, at least two of their members - Christina & Rhi - continue to play crust/dark hardcore, but now under the name "Casus". There's almost no info about them (seems like they even don't have an official page), but there are some videos of them performing live. These videos doesn't do them justice for the sound, though... but it still makes me want to hear their studio recordings:

P.S. Here's another unreleased track by Aradia, recorded live circa 2010. The quality is rather bad, but still ok.

Way To Nowhere - "Old World Order" (2011)

WAY TO NOWHERE "Old World Order"

Year: 2011
Genre: Metallic Crust/Hardcore
Country: Poland

Track List:

1. Old World Order
2. Tearing Off Roadsigns
3. Fate Doesn't Cost
4. A Blind Leading A Blind
5. Don't Try To Find Out
6. Death Comes Tomorrow
7. Along The Path
8. Your Slavery Is My Destiny

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I hope you all know Filth Of Mankind, an excellent apocalyptic metallic crust band from Gdansk (Poland), which is unfortunately split up by now. As one of my readers told me recently, they were somewhat active until 2011, but "The Final Chapter" (2001) indeed became their final release. Some members of FOM also had a side-project (which at some point shared ALL the members with what became FOM's final line-up) called Way To Nowhere. Here's their unreleased album "Old World Order" that was recorded circa 2008-2010 (if I'm not mistaken). Maybe it's not as impressive as both FOM's albums, but it's definitely worth listening.

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Күн Тахсыыта - "Олох Ыарахан" (2011)

KYH TAXCbIbITA "Олох Ыарахан"

Year: 2011
Genre: Hardcore/Metalcore
Country: Russia

Track List:

1. Түмүккэ Тиийэн Кэлэн
2. Ёлёр Күнүн Үүнүёр Диэри
3. Эн Утары Бары Бардахтарына

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Yesterday, on April 20, there were 14 entries posted in my blog this month, and 88 entries posted this year in total. I think it's about time to break this combo by posting something that's definitely not nazi (not nesessary BM).

Meet Kun Tahsyyta, the only known hardcore band with lyrics in Yakut language. While Yakutia is commonly considered the outskirts of Russia (and the world in general), I was pleased to know that there are our comrades too. Can't understand their lyrics, but according to the band, their main lyrical themes are the realities of modern society (injustice, apathy, brutality, greed, chauvinism) and protest against any infringement of anyone's right. As of 2011, Kun Tahsyyta is much more hardcore than metal, but this 3-track demo contains their earlier recordings which were more influenced by black and death metal (the closest analogue would be probably На Выжженной Земле). Of course the quality of production (especially regarding vocals) is far from perfect, but it's DIY stuff made in a place where hardly any rock/metal scene exist. Support the Yakut underground!