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• The Gates of Slumber “Suffer No Guilt”

  I Hate Records is strange. The label name and logo suggest death metal, but I Hate seems mainly to deal in stoner rock and stoner doom. Likewise, the album cover of The Gates of Slumber’s Suffer No Guilt and the descriptions of the song in the liner notes suggest power metal. Surprisingly, [...]
  http://www.teufelstomb.com/reviews/thegatesofslumber-suffernoguilt/

• V:28 “VioLution”

  I’m amazed this band has garnered some hype. VioLution is the third of a trilogy wherein V:28 delineate the end of the human race and the ‘deconstruction of planet Earth,’ i.e., Armageddon. Wow, war and the end of the world! I’m not an originality Nazi, but those are base metal topics. [...]
  http://www.teufelstomb.com/reviews/v28-violution/

• Blockheads “Watch Out”

  Blockheads are familiar figures in French grindcore, enough that Bones Brigade released the retrospective From Womb to Genocide (which contains Watch Out) in 2001 and have been the band’s longtime home/album reissuer. After listening to Watch Out, it should be obvious why. Blockheads have five styles of vocals as four of the five members provide [...]
  http://www.teufelstomb.com/reviews/blockheads-watchout/

• Jex Thoth “Jex Thoth”

  Recently, Jex Thoth’s cover of Bobb Trimble’s “When the Raven Calls” was featured in SPIN’s “Songs You Need to Download Now” section. When reading that, warning signs immediately popped into my head. A few minutes of Google research tells me those warnings weren’t unfounded. Jex Thoth members Jessica Toth and James Jackson [...]
  http://www.teufelstomb.com/reviews/jexthoth-jexthoth/

• Audiopain “The Switch To Turn Off Mankind”

  From looking at the cover of The Switch To Turn Off Mankind, I didn’t hold out much hope for Audiopain. The cover screams METALCORE in heavily Photoshopped, badly-cropped letters. The lyrics are printed an almost unreadable dark-grey-on-black, and the hype attached to this band (Metal Maniacs compares Audiopain to ‘Slaughter and Bonded-era Exodus,’ [...]
  http://www.teufelstomb.com/reviews/audiopain-theswitchtoturnoffmankind/

• Total Fucking Destruction “Zen and the Art of Total Fucking Destruction”

  I like Total Fucking Destruction. I appreciate Total Fucking Destruction’s approach to grindcore - simple, punk-influenced grind that wouldn’t sound out of place on the Hardcore Holocaust comps. Compact Disc Version 1.0 was a decent if redundant debut, considering it functioned more as a clump of demos than as an actual album. [...]
  http://www.teufelstomb.com/reviews/totalfuckingdestruction-zenandtheartoftotalfuckingdestruction/

• Satariel “Hydra”

  Satariel’s third album, Hydra, was supposed to be released through Black Lotus Records. Since said label was financially unstable Satariel put Hydra out on Cold Records, who licensed this to Regain Records. Candlelight USA in turn released Hydra for the American market. This makes four labels involved in the handling of one [...]
  http://www.teufelstomb.com/reviews/satariel-hydra/

• Ratos de Porão “Homem Inimigo do Homem”

  span class=’rb’>Ratos de Porão have been part of the Brazilian punk and thrash scenes for twenty-six years, being on Roadrunner during that label’s pre-running-joke period and currently enjoying a relationship with Alternative Tentacles. In keeping with my patchwork knowledge of metal pieced together by a habit of buying from thrift stores and hock shops, [...]
  http://www.teufelstomb.com/reviews/ratosdeporao-homeminimigodohomem/

• Lordi “The Arockalypse”

  For those barely paying attention to the music business as a whole, Lordi won the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest, which was "shocking" since said contest tends to favour Céline Dion, ABBA, Katrina and the Waves and other such monsters of rock. Lordi have parlayed that win into a North American domestic release for The [...]
  http://www.teufelstomb.com/reviews/lordi-thearockalypse/

• Collision “Roadkiller”

  Collision remind me of Birdflesh in many ways - grind with a goofy yet existent sense of humour, similar lyrical and musical modes of attack, European origins. There are subtle differences - Birdflesh go for knowing stupidity while Collision lean more toward standard left-leaning punk polemic. Of course, comparing Birdflesh to Collision on [...]
  http://www.teufelstomb.com/reviews/collision-roadkiller/

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