Τετάρτη 21 Οκτωβρίου 2015

EPs From Hell - Including Monstraat, Nightmare City, The 135

We start with Monstraat's latest EP named the Eternal One. Monstraat is a Swedish based primitive black metal band with all the essential criterias for a meaningful release. Filled with Devil-worshiping lyrics, blasphemy and the whole old school aesthetics witch I really like in a band.
This EP contains 4 tracks, The One Eternal, Unchained, Voidlike Sky and Dead Eyes See.
Nothing new to the genre, they stick to the basics, and hell, they are good at it.
Melodies come and go between the wicked riffs and raspy vocals in the veins of Malign, Morbid Insulter and more.
Plus, really good work on the cover too.

8
Listen Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QggmYuIJ-Lk


Second band, is Nightmare City, a heavy metal/punk band from Sweden also. They released this year their first EP called Nightmare City through Electric Assault Records. It contains 6 tracks, not that long but catchy and hellish. It has an old school vibe that I love, reminds me a bit of Venom, but more clean in a way. Moving on, there are a lot of melodies coming straight from their NWOBHM influences, their style also can be a hint to that. The vocals are not that clean, they have more of a first wave of Black Metal approach, that's why the Venom reffrence above.
A very artistic and punk-ish I must add selection on the cover, and I'm looking forward for their debut LP, which I hope it won't take too long.

7
Listen Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0_uAwzMHX0


























Last band is The 135, a really interesting release from France, playing a form of Avant-Garde Black Metal in a French way, kinda like Deathspell Omega and maybe Aosoth, and since I'm a fan and have huge respect for those bands I couldn't help myself from reviewing this quite good piece of Art.
The EP is titled Lumen Per Lumen, raughly translated as The Light From The Light I think, contains only 3 tracks, with the first one Drakon Manifesto - The Death Of The I, having a 2-minute intro workng as an introduction to the band.
As you may have realised the lyrical concept is about Occultism in a serious way, the musicianship in here is absolutely stunning. Chaotic melodies, influenced by Deathspell Omega, sometimes really nostalgic ones, acoustic passages, but also some are like a wall of nails closing in, causing the listener to go through a lot of emotional changes until the song absorbs him/her in the great vasts of darkness.
The vocals also are a bit of a suprise, mainly because there are a lot of clean singing parts before it goes into the typical yet beautiful growl-ish black metal vocals much like Mgla sounds.
I highly recomend it, to anyone who is interested in the French Black Metal scene, and to everyone who wants their black metal Satanic and Philosophical.

8,5
Listen Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl6PR8OMWck

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