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    Autumnblaze – Every Sun is Fragile (2013)

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    The killer releases of summer of 2013 keep piling up with Autumnblaze delivering the long awaited “Every Sun is Fragile”. With an ever changing musical style, the German outfit delivers a very heartfelt Depressive/Post-Rock album that is filled with amazingly catchy songs and very melancholic atmospheres. Pushing their sound even further than on “Perdition Diaries”, fans of Green Carnation to Gothic Rock outfits will love this release instantly.

    Markus Baltes has really pushed the band’s sound over the years but with the opener “New Ghosts in Town”, the listener will immediately know how far they have gone now. There are almost no harsh vocals, and the music is mostly on the Rock side of things, however, there are still some Metal influences present. This track is quite dramatic and thanks to the imposing clean vocals the overall atmosphere is quite dramatic. As heard on “Invisible Fields”, the band guitars are still quite catchy making the music perfect for some heavy duty headbanging.

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    October Tide – Tunnel of No Light (2013)

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    Recently resurrected (2009) October Tide delivers us their second release in four years with “Tunnel of No Light”. Featuring their traditional early Katatonia sound from the 90’s, this band keeps doing what they do best, and we totally dig them for that. Lead by Fredrik Norrman, the band recently changed bass guitarist and vocalist, but you can’t even tell the difference since October Tide is as melancholic and brutal as ever.

    Opening with their signature layered guitars on “Of Wounds To Come”, we get the first impression of the band’s new growler Alexander Högbom, and we must say it is very impressive. The intricate melodic guitar work is the staple of the band and they do not disappoint in tracks like this one and “Our Constellation”. The first Doom epic comes under the name of “Emptiness Fulfilled” and its crushing weeping riffs. This song delivers both magical melodic passages and super powerful growls… exactly what Infernal Masquerade likes.

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    Impiety – Ravage & Conquer (2012)

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    Recently signed to Pulverised records, today we have Impiety and their eight full-length released titled “Ravage & Conquer”. Feeling like a bag of bricks to the face, “Ravage & Conquer” delivers some of the most brutal music Impiety has ever written. Pummeling through eight furiously paced tracks, this is one release that no fan of this band would want to miss.

    Opening like an epic soundtrack to some medieval battle, the guitars blast through things and the punishing drumming indicates that Impiety has arrived. “Revelation Decimation” is the 8 minute opener that delivers waves of brutal onslaughts of hellish vocals and crushing riffs. The band’s sound is cleaner than in previous releases and the overall feeling is very chaotic and brutal… just what the doctor ordered. Steamrolling with “Ravage & Conquer”, “Weaponized” and “The Scourge Majesty”, this release is off to a very brutal and intense start, not to mention several 8+ minute long anthems of destruction.

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    Impiety…Advent of… (2011)

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    Almost immediately after the release of their latest full-length album “Worshippers of the Seventh Tyranny”, Impiety returns with another aural assault with the “Advent of…” EP. In this short but sweet release, the band delivers 3 tracks of devastating Black/Death Metal with quite a decent production behind it.

    The first track “Advent of the Nuclear Baphomet” delivers a crushing Death/Black Metal attack with catchy riffs and very solid drumming. The band’s sound is very clear and monumental since this 6 minute song feels like it lasts for ever (in a good way). The vocals are very typical and the new musicians (recruited in 2010) have what it takes to create very intense songs.

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    Crucifyre – Infernal Earthly Divine (2011)

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    Hailing from Sweden and featuring members of General Surgery and a few other bands, Crucifyre comes to brand us with their ‘Satanic Death Metal’ with their debut album “Infernal Earthly Divine”. Mixing up Death Metal with some Thrash Metal elements and overal weirdness, the band manages to put together 9 effective tracks of chaos and mayhem.

    The first thing we noticed is the singing style of Erik Sahlström (General Surgery), he changes the inhuman growls for a more understandable half growl/half scream approach allowing us to finally understand what the hell he is singing about. The band’s music is fairly standard for a Death Metal album, but there are very interesting moments were the music takes a ‘Thrashier’ sound.

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    Desultory – Counting our Scars (2011)

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    Straight from the time capsule today we have Desultory and their latest release (and first in 14 years) “Counting our Scars”. If you are a fan of Swedish Death Metal with Melodic elements, then you should be familiar with this legendary band. If you are not familiar with them, please hit yourself in the back of the head before continue reading this review.

    After two very strong releases back in the 90’s, this band had to go down the ‘artsy’ path and destroy their rep with the terrible “Swallow the Snake”. Broken up for years and now finally reformed, the band comes back with a no bullshit attitude and 9 tracks of old-school Swedish Death Metal that will redeem them from their last terrible album.

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    Meltgsnow - Black Penance (2010)

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    Seven years have passed since their debut “Black Penance” and Meltgsnow is finally back with their album “Black Penance”, a very diverse, interesting but dated sounding release that will surely confuse all the people used to getting their dose of brutality form Pulverised Records. This release, while not in the traditional ‘vein’ of Pulverised bands, is very interesting in terms of older genres of music being merged together in a very unique and different fashion.

    Merging Gothic Rock/Metal elements with some NWOBHM, Thrash, and traditional Heavy Metal “Black Penance” is indeed one of the most diverse sound albums we have received this 2010. Having not heard of this band before, we can’t really say how much (or little) they have changed over the years, but we can say for sure that the sound in this release gives us a late 90’s/early 00’s vibe.

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    Interment – Into the Crypts of Blasphemy (2010)

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    We love Death Metal and we greatly enjoy bands from the good old days like Grave, Entombed, Dismember, etc., so when we got Interment’s promo we got excited. Interment formed 22 years ago in Sweden when all the glorious Swedish Death Metal movement was going down, after a few demos they broke up never to be heard from again until 2007.

    Fast-forward to 2010 and they are finally releasing their first full-length “Into the Crypts of Blasphemy”, with some members of the band having played in Centinex and still play in Demonical, we can only foresee a very impressive band…. Well this is not the case since in our educated opinion this album blows from start till end.

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    Quest of Aidance – Dark are the Skies at Hand (2008)

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    Quest of Aidance is yet another band that was started/features Christian Älvestam from Scar Symmetry, Solution .45, etc. fame. This Death/Grind band also has within it’s ranks Jonas Kjellgre (Scar Symmetry, Centinex), and Henrik Schönström (Unmoored) on drums.

    After all the name-dropping we find ourselves listening to a very brutal Death/Grind release with some weird stuff in the middle. All previous musicians are usually known for their technical abilities but in “Dark are the Skies at Hand” they show they can do uncompromising brutality with a little technical aspect on the side.

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    Morbid Carnage – Night Assassins (2010)

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    Hailing from Hungary we get yet another band that is jumping on the Trash Metal revival bandwagon, but at least they are pretty solid at it. This band sounds a lot like Kreator did back in the 80’s and we are digging this release just because of this fact.

    The band does a great job at capturing all the brilliant elements that Trash had back in the day, and gives them the proper modern production values to make them sound very brutal and aggressive. “Night Assassins” is not the most original album we have heard in this ‘Trash Metal revival’ era, but it sure is one of the most old-school sounding ones.

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