METAL MANIACS comp. CD
various artists

GUILLOTINE Insane Oppression
Sounds like ‘the morning after’ ere TANKARD with a modern production (too clean). Killer solo.

DRAGONSLAYER Tthe Slayer
This NWOBHM band used to be called SLAYER…and claim to have been the first to use the moniker…whatever, this is solid METAL in the vein of old PRIEST and U.F.O….good to get high too…what?

SCALERA Get Out Alive
A mishmash of Death Metal (vox) and shit like Killswitch and the like…these fuckers are talented and can write some fucking cool riffs and solos.

MENDACITY Away
Progressive Death Metal from Florida. The heavy parts are Swedish-like…throughout they meddle through melodic passages with clean vocals and clean note-based riffing and watery solos.

KRISIUN Combustion Inferno
Brazilian blast fuckers. Nothing much has changed here. The thing I noticed about this song is how the riffing seems to be constantly chasing the drums until the mid-tempo breaks.

WRETCHED Aborning
North Carolina Death Metal. Absolutely nothing original but very well performed…I can fucking guarantee every member of this band has numerous NILE cd’s on the rack at home.

THREAT LEVEL Stand Your Ground
Solid Pit-Metal…touches of Thrash and Hardcore cycle throughout this tough-guy fuck the world track. Catchy chorus.

BOWELS OUT A Chainsaw Autopsy
Best goddamned track so far here…Texas Death Metal…dirty scum-laden riffing…vomited vox…acrobatic drumming.

MAGNUS Dreams
I’ve never fucking heard of this band but this track is lifted from a 1993 album called ‘alcoholic suicide’ which was previously only available on cassette. 90′s thrash with WARGASM and MOTORHEAD influences.

ENTHRALLER Of the Sun
A very competent and talented band with swirling DISSECTION-like riffing, solid as fuck drumming, and eye-crossing vocal destruction. Los Angeles HELL-METAL.

COFFIN BIRTH Spiders of Insomnia
BOWELS OUT GO DOWN. This Canadian band conjure up the rotting corpses of old Thrash, Doom, and Death to create a mind-fuck of a Metal track with a hard-on inducing solo to boot. Brilliant use of keys and vocals towards the end of this track with a killer climax. FUCKING STELLAR.

APOCALYPTIC VISIONS Move and Appear
I have reviewed this bands work before here. (Read Here) . BLACKENED HELL like and axe to the neck. Fuck the world!

ARABYSS Eternal Silence
HELL-RIDDEN Death/Black Metal from Texas. Awash in soundtrack-like keys this is a fucking perfectly produced track in every sense. The mid-point breaks down with an avalanche of trance beats that continue into a SLAYER-like riff progression into a melodic solo that falls into some cool as HELL riffing that fades into the abyss…or should I say…ARABYSS.

All of these bands have a Myspace page of course…check ‘em out… and tell em HORRORYEARBOOK. COM sent you.