Wiedergabe - Musik Review

… why the heck am i writing this.

Split (1994) - Lush

{Shoegaze, England}

Okay, I don’t listen much to shoegaze; I’m listening to this album because of the track Light From a Dead Star. It turns out that shoegaze, if this band represents the scene well, is more rock-ish and postpunk-ish than I expected. Sometimes it’s hard to draw a line between this genres .. Maybe I need to listen more. It would be a charm if I’m to this one on tapes. Alas, I need to fix my cassette deck when I got the time…

Fav. tracks: {Light From A Dead Star, Hypocrite, Desire Lines}

btw. the music reminds me of the Antichrisis

yet another wave, killwave? First impression on Prayers
I came across the Cholo Goth" scene because of Kat von D, who married Rafael Reyes and bands with Dave Parley, aka. the Prayers. I have been kinda hooked. They are old school electro wave with some hip-hop. Prayers coined the concept Cholo goth. Not gonna dive into it as I have close to no knowledge of Latin American culture.

Outlier:

This one draw my eyeball. I was kinda intrigued to find out who this actor is and what culture he is representing: like, a weird combination of African tribals, Maya, native American and Latin American gangsters (at least that’s how I see it)? To be honest the cholo goth is cool but this iron jacket presentation is …. kinda disturbing

And a quick search led me to this; Anyways, Rafael seems to be a very nice person.

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/// TODO: reviews of their albums

Holocaust over Dresden (2017) - Hak-Ed Damm

{black metal, Quebec}

https://www.metallerium.com/hak-ed-damm-interview-black-metal

Hak-Ed Damm: Absolutely not. We are not Nazis. When we used those terms, it was only to describe an evil reality that once was. Our opinion about politics in music is that it is bullshit, whatever side you are on. Moreover, T-34s were Red Army tanks that killed many Nazis…

Obviously the name “Holocaust over Dresden” is talking about the Bombing of Dresden towards the end of WWII. Sadly the neo-nazis take the memorial days (13–15 February) of the bombing for their propaganda because they see the tragedy as a “shame to their national pride”. Nevertheless I’m not gonna comment on Nationalstolz oder Nationalsozialismus here.

The music is very punk-ish. I especially enjoy the bass section - it’s jazzy and seems to be a fretless, extra groovy, extra brutal! One thing I don’t like though, is that some of the chord progression seems to be … too upright (like Usine de Mort)? Not saying melodic stuffs are bad but this kinda defeats the goal of, said the artist, being as brutal & terrifying as possible.

Overall, clean mixing, brutal tones, and AMAZING BASSIST.

# on the radar & TODO

Glory and Perdition (2009) - Sear Bliss

{symphonic/melodic/atmospheric black metal, Hungary}

vsesvit (2020) - severoth

{Ambient/Atmospheric Black Metal, Dnipro (Ukraine)}
Ha, Dnipro is a magical place! I love the dnipropop scene (Kurs Valüt)! But that’s for another entry.

Coma (2024) - Gaerea

{Blacm Metal, Porto}

MISC

Phantom der Nacht - Vampyrsgard, {Black Metal, Spain}

# War-themed black/death metal

NOTE: war-themed metal could be a neo-nazi brewery. I try my best to fact check that the bands are not actively promoting nazi ideologies. Also I try not to include the NSBM scene. I’m not gonna talk about my opinion on using nazi materials in music though, that’s for another lengthy post.

Where Fear and Weapons Meet (2021) - 1914
The Suns of Perdition - Chapter I:War,Horrid War (2019) - Panzerfaust
Menschenmühle (2021) - Kanonenfieber
Alpenpässe (2019) - Minenwerfer
Turm am Hang (2017) - Horn
Memorandum Occultus (2017) - The Committee
Blood On Snow (2010) - Estern Front
Kapitulation 2013 (2013) - Endstille
Warlord (2020) - Panzerwar
Kekrokrator (2023) - М8Л8ТХ
Marcellin s’en va-t-en guerre (2016) - FT-17
Panzer Metal (2010) - Negator
Grebbeberg (2023) - Sammath

# MISC

Vulture of Betrayal (2012) - Dark Path

What the heck is this? They are on spotify, apple music and amazon but there is zero information of them .. not on MA, not on Discogs, no one is talking about them and they have 0 play counts on spotify.. They don’t have bio on the said platforms either.. Anyways this is a lamb of god copy band. Production is decent, drum machine but well mixed, and I have to say they’ve done well in copying lamb of god. It’s not something exciting to listen to but it reminds me of my band back in high school. We were down the “new thrash” alley