Demo reviews - A

ABSOLUTE DISGRACE (BRA) "CONDEMNED" Demo. c/o SATWAN, RUA DESEMBARGADOR DARIO LINS 60/502, NOVA SUICA 30-460-260 BELO HORIZONTE - MG BRAZIL. c/o MARCIO, RUA GAMA CERQUEIRA 371, JARDIM AMERICA 30430-360 BELO HORIZONTE – MG BRAZIL.
ABYSAL (POL) "Primal Chaos" Demo 98. Don't take them for our french band (rip) called like that with one "s" more, this one's from Poland and brings very haunting obscure Death Metal, just listening to the intro makes me travelling through the beyond, I literally left my body & flesh for reaching higher dimensions... I'm now into their music, a real "Primal Chaos" where sounds of agony awakes by crying guitars and Evil Death Metal, the old-school traditions appeared in a raw vibe from below. I'm sure this sound might turn some people off, it's very raw and thrashy and all the songs start with haunting, Evil intros, I love that and they are famous at creating them!! Unfortunately I'm a little less enthusiast about the music but it's original anyway.
ACCESSORY (Ger) "Within the mind" Tape LP 92 TOXO Tape/WEST VIRGINIA.
ANAL VOMIT (PERU) "SUDAMERICA BRUTAL" Demo 98 HURLING METAL. c/o ROY ELGUERA B., URB. EL PACIFICO MZ. E – LT. 15, LIMA 31 PERU.
ANGEL'S DECAY (Slo) "Victims of belief" Demo 99 AKNE.
ANTROPOMORPHIA (HOL) "Bowel Mutilation" Demo. Here's an old Demo, just here to remember that Death Metal in the INCANTATION vein ruled before all the mosh shit & hardcore fusionning "modern" styles...! And what is now called "dark metal" is just a melodic pussy juice compared to the old Death Metal bands, they were heavy, pounding, dooming & brutal with fuming atmospheres from Hell & raw sound from below... had a similarity with our french CATACOMB but more convincing, obscure, brutal, yet melodic & atmospheric. All in all, this was the real Death!
ANVIL OF DOOM (SPA) "DIED BEFORE DAWN" Demo 2003. A Spanish band that do some kind of Heavy/Black Metal, very melodic and also using synths here & there... I must say that it isn't my cup of Metal, whilst they do it pretty well, it contains too much normal & banal tunes for my taste (should I say "trendy"??) and didn't get any pleasure at listening to these boring tunes, simply not for me but will please a larger "normal" Metal crowd. hugoaod@hotmail.com www.anvilofdoom.com
APOPLEXY (Slo) "Monarchy of the damned" Tape LP 2000 AKNE.
APROSOPY (Ger) "On the brink of disaster" Demo 2000.
ARKHON INFAUSTUS (FRA) "IN SPERMA INFERNUM" Demo
ASKALON (POL) Promo 98. Yeah! As said in my previous issue, this band kills and I finally found the entire 3-tracks promo (thanx, cousin!), imagine old GORGUTS, old SUFFOCATION & old GRAVE, old CRYPTOPSY's speed with the apocalyptic NILE's sound, yes it's another supreme & extreme Death Metal release from this land of darkness & terror!! Vocals are a little similar to LUCIFERION and there are many leads as well to enhance their unrelenting skills, the result is as dark as brutal and professional as Hell!!! I fucking love this band 'coz they shred, they're simply perfect & ready to gain new hordes of Death Metal demons with leads worldwide, but are they still going? That's a brutal question burning in me, if anyone knows something about this ASKALON phenomenon, write me immediately! This is undoubtedly the absolute best & most inspiring band's promo in the world, triple-BUY OR DIE to them!!
ATROPOS (FRA) "...LA FILEUSE DE MORT..." Demo 2000. Seems that the intro is taken from Nazxul's CD-outro, raining/storming stuff... Well, this is Black for the highly trendy shrieking vocals and Heavy Metal for the music which is well constructed and reminds me of old MISANTHROPE & NIGHTFALL. This style is too atmospheric and boring for me, I guess I have heard this melodic style too much these last years, so I don't give a fuck about ATROPOS. It's time to reveal more extreme Metal bands than that, don't you think so? For fans of this style only. c/o GERALD MILANI, 34 LA ROQUE COURBIERE, 13680 LANÇON FRANCE.
AUTUMN LEAVES (DK) "Hope springs eternal" Demo 95. This was a good melodic/epic Death Metal Demo in the vein of the old bands from Sweden & Finland, CENTINEX alike with old DOMINUS similitudes. The album that appeared then wasn't that great, that's why I'm talking about this Demo in case some of you asked.
AVULSION (USA) Promo 99 IMPALER OF TRENDIES. Old AUTOPSY sounding and also more cryptic and Dark/Doom/Death Metal is the law here! DISEMBOWELMENT/DETERIOROT/SYMPHONY OF GRIEF resounding from Hell, guttural vibes from beyond, this is greatly obscure as old INCANTATION and completely Evil, DOOM!!!! I also like that semi-Black Metal vibrations in track 2 with its fucking sordid & morbid Death grunts, a little too repetitive for me but good disgusted feelings are trapped inside the flesh of the song, extremely raw, heavy sound & depressive tunes of the Dead that are inspiring and welcome in my head... The 4 first tracks were recorded Jan. 3rd 1999 and 3 others recorded Live Nov. 1995 at Wreck Room-Atlanta, GA. Great feelings, keep you posted on this. c/o EVAN MARCH, PO BOX 48829, ATHENS, GA. 30604-8829 USA. avulsion1@msn.com
AWFUL (ITA) "ABSOLUTE REIGN" Demo 99. I finally met the ultimate Demo!!! Imagine the intensity of old NUCLEAR DEATH & KRISIUN mixed together, you've got AWFUL!!! No cheesy stuff here, this is extremely apocalyptic!!! Sounds like noise at first but once you'll adapt your ears to their particular furious sound, you'll see what it's all about: pure Hell, fast & unrelenting, Evil like SADISTIK EXEKUTION but with the extreme flow of IMMOLATION's fastest aggressions! Unreal, this sounds ungodly & inhuman, completely!!!!!! There is just 3 little breaks in the last song, the two others seem neverending & unstoppables!! A total of three tracks assault that left me some greatly impressed feelings about that band that I never heard of before, not even suspected the existence of such Extremely & Intense Nuclear Metal energy! This blows away all other Demos in this section, this is definitely not for the weak! Absolute BUY OR DIE to them!!!! c/o MICKEY PICCIONE, VIA VANZATI 2, 20054 NOVA MILANESE (MI) ITALY. or c/o VANNI CASATI, VIA MAGNI 15, 22044 INVERIGO (CO) ITALY. or c/o MAX BIANCHI, VIA FERRARI 19, 21040 ORIGGIO (VA) ITALY. awful1@tin.it SOTHIS Recs: PO BOX 14, 21045 GAZZADA (VA) ITALY. www.sothis.homepad.com