With Bared Teeth and Truth's EP review

Bit of a Triverse week this week, seeing as this is the second post I have on them, and I'll be reviewing their performance (along with State Control and The Meltdownz) at Club Rock on Halloween. Anyhow, With Bared Teeth and Truth's is the second EP from the bad mother fuckers that are Triverse Massacre.

Mike Collins, drummer of Triverse Massacre, show's off his artistic side with the EP's stunningly scary artwork!




Thing's start off with some sqeuals, creating the ambience for the EP, as Wolves At Your Gates crunchy introduction becomes audiable, before things get messy with the first verse of the song. The vocals are a lot better than the bands first EP, as we are able to understand what is being said. The song has a very lovely solo, and it shows how well James Graham and Chris Kelsall work together, as they both have decent guitar parts. The only problem with the song, is that it isn't entirley sure of what genre it want's to be! The solo is almost classic rock, the verses and chorus' Death Metal, and the introduction just plain metal. Still the guys are able to make the song run smothely!!

The second track, Exhale Betrayl, has been compared to Slayer a lot, however I can't help but feel that the speedy riff sounds a lot like the riff in Metallica's Battery. The chorus changes things, as does the second verse, slowing things down, but the riff ultimatly comes back for us to headbang along to. The song's pretty short, not getting the 3 minute mark, but it's damm sweet!

Bullet's Kill Beasts, my favourite track from their first EP, makes a return on this one, re-recorded and sounding better than ever. The drum's are heavier, Starck's voice sounds so much more Powerful, and the guitars are even erier than before. It's hands down my favourite track on this EP as well, and one the guy's will probably be forced to play at every gig they ever play.

The EP ends with Torn From The Throne, a beast of a track that changes time signatures more than Rush!!! But each change of pase is glourious, the band able to show how well they understand each other as they work together to create this headfucking masterwork! The bridge for this song is the best part of the EP, especially when Dan Fisher's bass comes in, giving him a chance to shine!

The EP is avaliable direct from the band for £3, or £7 with a T-shirt (hurry, there aren't many of the tee's left), or can be downloaded here for £3.96! And don't forget, they're playing Club Rock on Halloween, and entry's only £3!
 

In The Jaws Of Deceit EP review

In The Jaws Of Deceit is the debeut EP, released in 2012, from local Death and Grove Metal outfit Triverse Massacre. It contains four tracks that are gauranteed to fuck your head!

Things begin with Clutching At Wars, which has some lovely drumming as an intro, before the two guitars start up the main riff, eventually going to supersonic speed. Liam Stark's vocals change all the time, from near Black Metal screeches, to classic growls. The bridge for this will grab you by the balls, give a violent twist, and then leave, before the final minute does exactly the same, with an amazing start-stop rhythm!

Snake Tounged PT.1 has a very nice bass line from Dan Fisher, it just could have done with being turnt up a bit! The growls may make you shit your self, if your not busy air drumming Mike Collin's crazy speed. "Now that your mind, has gone deep... I can see what it is you are... Turn's me into this empty being" Stark growls before everything gets faster and heavier before finishing with undecipherable growls.

The third track has a slow, ambient start that shows the guitar skills of James Graham and Chris Kelsall, as well as giving Mike's drumming another chance to shine. And then all out carnage begins! If your aren't going to headbang to this, you don't deserve to headbang to anything, so please kill yourself! (wow that was mean even for me)! The bridge in this makes it the best track on the EP , as Stark screams/growls "BULLETS KILL BEASTS" (that's the name of the track), while a crunchy riff is played in sync with him.

The final track is Sluaghter of the Bantu, which begins with a comic drum roll, before breaking into chaos multiple times. The riffs for this are at times sludgy, and at other times faster than Herman Li's fastest solo. This track shows how well the band work together, as everyone plays different stuff, but it all works! 

For £1 you can get this EP here, which you should if you like your music loud! Also, Triverse Massacre are going to be playing at Club Rock on Halloween, so get yourself down there for a good time!

Prototype EP Review

Vaginal Explosion's. Just imagine it: Something so beautiful destroyed and reduced to virtually nothing. This is what you get with Seek Solace In Ruin!

Prototype is the debut EP from Hardcore Metal motherfuckers Seek Solace In Ruin!! The artwork pretty much sums up how you'll feel listening to it, as your whole body is torn apart by the heaviness. 

The first track on the album is entitled 

Discombubulatedcorpseterminationurbanizationgovernmentalibationexplosivemontazumasblastingpowerrevenge, or Disco Bob for short. It begins with a sinister acoustic tune before stopping and then.............. FUCK!!! A burst of heavy goodness that would bring a tear to a glass eye! Perfect for banging your head to.

Next up is the title track, continuing the heavy fucking up that is Seek Solace. A lovely chorus in this one, as Joe's screaming vocals compete with the guitars for dominance. The bridge slows things down, until the drums come in with some very cool fills before the song ends with Joe's vocals winning the battle.

The third track, Arterial Failure begins with some very heavy drum beats and palm muted guitar, before a pause of pace and then a scream from Joe as the heaviness comes back into it. "I'll take you down, I won't show you mercy" Sounds about right, as the song shows no mercy in fucking about your eardrums, especially during the instrumental parts! This one is my favourite from the EP

Rooted begins as soon as Arterial finishes, giving no break for us. The guitar riffs offers something kind of bouncy, so if you want to jump about the place, now's the time to do it. The bridge in this is probably the heaviest part of the EP, as it starts slowly allowing for some drum fills before we get the signature "We're about to fuck you" speedy guitar sound of Seek Solace In Ruin

What's the best part about this EP? Well, it's free!!! Here's the link, download it now (although you may want to prepare your ear drums first)!

Elected Evil Album Review

Die No More's  new album  Elected Evil is released on the 3rd Novemer, but I was lucky to pick up a copy at their album launch show (although Marc the bastard didn't sign it!), so I can bring you all a nice little review of it, prior to the offical release!

Before we talk about the actual music on the album, I'll tell you a bit about the album art work.

So as you can see, we have what can only be described as a demon standing above some kind of alter. Clearly he is evil, and he has elected someone for a job. The job description was probably "Bring me the most unholy music you can create!!" Clearly, Die No More were up for the job, and did it fairly well considering their logo now sports a pentagram!

The album kicks off with an ambient intro, that has a kind of sci-fi vibe to it. It sounds like something that you'd want to have on just before your about to go into the chamber at laser quest. And then the riff for Dark World explodes through the speakers, before Marc's vocals come in. The song has a brilliant little chorus with the lyric "Democracy lost and found, different but the same!" and various over lines that challenge authority. Kev's solo's in this are pretty good,  going wild during the main solo and showing off a bit of tapping at the end! With the first song alone you have the ambiance to get you in the mood for Laser Quest, and the heavy riffs to get you in the mood for shooting all who oppose you (at Laser Quest). 

The second track is called Soul Destroyer, and while my soul is still very much in tact, the tune does have the ability to make you shit your self thanks to the chorus, which is in a kind of call respond way, except the responses are whispered in a fairly sinister. The thing I love about this song is the fact that it refuses to end when you expect it to! During Kev's solo, you think he's about to stop (if I'd been soloing for that long I'd want a break), and then he comes out with something more, and then he does it again, before a crunchy repeating of the riff and the whole song stopping for a second, only for everyone to come back in and get the song going again!!

Absentia has a lovely acoustic intro, before the same riff is played with some very heavy power chords! "Remeber when you told me, you'd always be there for me?... Where are you?" begins the verse. This song probably has the best lyrics on the album, with a chorus ending with "These wounds have healed, but scars remain" . The song has a twin guitar solo as well as a brilliant call respond guitar section, Marc playing the riff and Kev repeating it, just octaves higher (sorry if the terminology's wrong, I don't have a Music GCSE)!

We all know the phrase, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" And yet we have the fourth track, Council of War, which featured on the band's EP, rerecorded here, and it sounds better than the orignial, even though it didn't really need to be done. Still at least we don't have a case of the band being lazy and giving us remastered versions of songs from their EP (Minot, I'm talking to you)! The solo in this version just seems to be more confident, and Steve's drumming is more chaotic than it was in the original, which of course is a good thing.

One in the Chamber is another song that has an acoustic introduction, but this time it's combined with Kev's electric guitar and some lovely drum fills. The verse is sung with the acoustic and then built up with the electric, giving a sense of explosion as the chorus comes in, and then the bridge just gets you pumped for another of Kev's solo's. This is my favourite solo on the album, just cause it's so fast. The end's with the electric guitars fading out and the acoustic's fading in, which has been done really well by whoever was mixing the album, and ends with a chord that seems to happy for the song, yet somehow works.

Your head will be banging every time you hear Connection Lost, just cause it has a brilliantly heavy riff, and some very good lyrics that combine to make the best song on the album. The breakdown before the solo is excellent, particularity with Steve's drumming going from simple taps of the foot pedal to a beast being released. The final chorus and outro are great, especially when Marc whispers "Pride" into the mic with no one else playing (it's another shit yourself moment)! Ultimately, this is the one you'll want to hear live!!

Blood in the Veins finally gives bass player Martyn a chance to stand out, as he plays a crunchy riff before Steve's drum is banged a bit, and then in come the guitars to give it the heaviness we all want. Before the second verse we have a muted chord, giving a comical effect to an otherwise serious song. The song also gives Steve a stand out moment as he gets a drum solo, and of course he uses it well, giving us some of the best drumming on the album.

Final track Oblivious also appeared on the Blue Print EP, and again is better than the original. The strangest thing is, it seems rarer than the original (maybe that's why I like it so much!). The introduction solo is fucking amazing, as always, and as anyone who's heard the original will know, it's a brilliant song. The ending for the song, and so the album, couldn't be any better, with a classic metal ending as a crazy final solo is played while Steve tries to keep up with the drums.

As a little bonus we have the Dark World radio edit, for those of us who forgot to start the song before we entered the Laser Quest chamber!!!

It's easy to compare these guys to Metallica, after all Marc's voice is a uncannily similar to Hetfield's, but there's something different about Die No More ! Maybe it's the fact that they haven't hit the big time yet, or maybe it's the fact that they work so well musically, but anyhow, with this album the guys have made their marc (sorry, that's a terrible pun) on the world of metal, and nobody is going to be able to rub that mark off!!!

Die No More Album Launch

So, Die No More's album launch was on the 27 at the Brickyard, and me and a couple of mate were lucky enough to get ticket's. Three bands for a fiver was a good enough deal for me, and considering the showcase of talent on display, was more than worth it!

Motherload kicked things off (which was a minute after we got in) in brilliant style! It was the bands first time in Carlisle, and while I felt there was a disappointing turn out for them (roughly 60 or 70 people) we made sure they felt welcome with the rock worlds greatest etiquette, headbanging and forming a three man mosh pit, until one of us ended up with a bruise on our head (amazingly it wasn't me) and then moshing some more!!!

I'd like to use this part of the blog to praise their brilliant bassist, Burl, who was truly into his shit, swishing his hair about and slapping his bass as if it were the last thing he'd do! And for once, you could actually hear the bass, at times being louder than the guitar!

The singer was pretty good on the crowd control side of things too, at one point stopping the song completely and telling us we weren't loud enough, gaining an equal measure of laughs and "Fuck You"'s from the crowd!

Next up we had Seek Solace In Ruin, a band that songs have the 'ability to fuck the listener in the face'. They started things off with their song Arterial Faliure, and it's fair to say that all hell broke lose after that!! A fair bit of space was made for the craziest mosh pit I've been in (and I've been in one on a trampoline). I was literally bouncing off the walls in rhythm to their songs.

Seek Solace's bassist, Nicky Studholme, encouraged the moshing from the stage, signalling to people to get back in, and the whole band helped in organising a wall of death, in which I fell to the ground and really fucked up my knee (it's over a week and the bruise looks worse than when I first got it). That's when you know you've had a good time!!!

There were some intresting moments during the set, such as the two times when Nicky came into the pit, at one point holding his bass out to me so I could lick it. Right at the start of their final song their singer, Joe Fryer, pretty much threw himself down onto the stages floor, fucking up a stage dive, and then lied there for a while as confused fans stopped the mosh pit to see if he was alright. The guys left the stage and then returned to finish the song (essentialy an encore for a support band, which must be an honour), with more crazy moshing erupting!!!

Finaly we had the band everyone had came for, Die No More! There weren't any crazy mosh pits, seeing as everyone was fucked from Seek's Solace's set, but there was a hell of a lot of headbanging. During the first song of their set, we were warned by a member of the Brickyard that we had to stop shacking the rail we were holding onto, in case it came off from the force of our shakes!!

Die No More certainly know how to work the crowd, getting us all to sing along to songs we hadn't heard of and giving shouts of "HEY" in time with certain drum beats. Mind you, the vocals could have done with being turnt up a bit, as the instruments were so loud (note: never turn down the instruments unless you're a pussy)!

Throughout the set singer Marc Farquhar commented on how the crowd were slowly getting warmer, and then he released most of that heat when they played Oblivious as the crowd sang along to the chorus and looked in awe as lead guitarist Kev Smith played the crazy introduction solo. And then Die No More left the stage...
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Only to return to the chant of "ONE MORE SONG" that went right through the crowd. And their final song was the song that will forever be in Die No More's set list, the brilliant Council of War, which has a chorus with the chanted lyric "DIE NO MORE" so you can imagine what the crowd was like at that point!! FUCKING MENTAL!!

Overall a brilliant night. Now, you need to check the bands out!! Motherload's album can be bought here in a special fanpack edition,  SEEK SOLACE IN RUIN have an EP that's avaliable for free download here and Die No More's EP can be streamed here, or bought here and their new album Elected Evil is available worldwide from 3rd November! Keep rocking and I'll be uploading a review of that soon!