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Genital Grinder formed as a death metal act some twenty years ago, but by the time they released their first album Damn Good earlier this year, they had morphed into a thrash band. The music gallops along, catchy and energetic, driven by meaty riffing. The vocals, though, have the feeling of somebody half out of breath from desperately trying to keep up with the music, but never quite managing to do so. Still, the overall product is entertaining.
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Disastrous are a brutal death metal band, which my searches through the Metal Archives indicate is easily the biggest metal scene in the country. The music itself is really closer to straight old school death metal than to the modern brutal strains. Their vocals bring in the brutal aspect, with the standard indistinguishable guttural bellows. These vocals get a tad redundant in my opinion, and they are too loud in the mix. But on the up side, this band is quite good musically.
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Vercelum are a depressive black metal band who released their new EP entitled A Decade of Depression back in February. I really like that these guys actually stay firmly within black metal, as many bands who stake claims in the depressive/ambient end of the black metal spectrum shed much of what makes them metal. Not so here, as the cold riffing and tortured howls are all still there. The music resides in a gloomy, mid-paced range which I find highly effective. This is easily my favorite of these releases.
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That's it for this post. I may do one or two more in this series, but I'm not sure yet.
Deiphago is the only band I am familiar with from the Phillipines. Good raw black metal with thrash metal riffing.
ReplyDeleteI wasn't familiar with Deiphago until I was cruising around for material for these posts. I heard a couple songs from their new album, and initial reaction was that they seemed kind of similar to some of those Australian war metal bands. Would you say that's accurate?
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