Just got in the music order I've been waiting for from Yosuke over at Nuclear War Now! Productions. My order was shipped quickly, and despite a small inventory problem which was taken care of with the utmost professionalism and quickness, everything was just as I expected it to be. I was really in a death metal mood when I was kicking around the web site, but ended up also adding some black metal and straight up heavy metal to the order as well. Couldn't help myself, just too many choices. I'll be visiting again soon. I picked up the following this time out:
Armour - Sonichouse Tape (American Invasion): I've listened to this one once all the way through, and although it really has a demo sound quality at times, the music is straight up old school heavy metal right from the eighties. Armour really has managed to capture the sound that made all those eighties metal acts great. Worth a listen for heavy metal fans everywhere.
Caligvla - Bukkake Baptism: After one listen to this one, I'm undecided on how much I like or dislike it. It's death metal, there's no doubt about it, but I don't really think it's particularly distinctive in any way. Tends to the "if you aren't looking or hear the pause between songs, you probably wouldn't be able to tell the song has changed" school of death metal, which I don't care for traditionally. I'm going to listen to it a few more times before passing final judgment though.
Octagon - Death Fetish: Again, one spin down, and my initial thoughts on this black metal work is that it has merit, especially as it is more a reminiscence than a sequel to Octagon's first work. This is a collection of songs written and recorded prior to 2002, or in 2002 as the case may be. I have found it to be satisfactory so far.
Evisceration - Hymn To The Monstrous: Depending on who you ask, you might get very different answers as to exactly which sub genre of extreme metal this band fell into. I say fell since they are no longer an ongoing concern. I've never been particularly good at getting everything in the right genre,you could say one of my many weaknesses :lol:, and as such, I'm just going to call this death metal. Be advised some might very well try to put this one into one of the many "core" genres though. Your mileage may vary. No matter what genre this fits into, I've enjoyed my first listen though. Tempo changes, a little this, a little that, I can tell when the songs change. :lol: All good things. Will have to listen a few more times to get a final opinion, but so far it's looking good.
Midnight - Complete And Total Fucking Midnight: Haven't listened to all of this one yet.
Sol Evil - Sanctus Santanas: Again, haven't listened to this one yet either. Will be soon though.
Lots of stuff to listen too, just the way I like it. Will also be reviewing some other things I have laying around that are just begging to actually be used for once. :lol:
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In 1994, Portugal's death metal/grindcore outfit, Evisceration, released Hymn To The Monstrous, their one and only full length album, and follow up to their 1993 demo, In The Flesh. I acquired this one from Nuclear War Now for $5.00, which is a heck of a deal for a CD that I enjoy a great deal. Truth is, I didn't know anything about this band when I ordered this CD, and it only made it onto my order as a last second substitution for a different CD that had ended up being out of stock. Lucky accident at best. Not to mention the a death metal mood had taken over my purchasing habits at just that time, so that really was kind of a perfect storm of conditions that lead to Hymn To The Monstrous ending up in my Denon.
Beyond The Ninth Wave is a Black Metal group from Canada Volume 1 is their 2005 full-length debut featuring forty odd minutes across seven songs, limited to 1,000 copies. Seven painful songs, I might add. I picked this CD up from 
a departure for what was going on in the rest of the Norwegian scene at the time. Steeped deeply in thrash, they had little in common with their black metal brethren that ran rampant elsewhere. Unfortunately, they only managed to produce two demos, First Demon (1990) and Load Error (1991), prior to their dissolution in 1992. While God Sleeps collects these two demos onto one album for ease of public consumption.
