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Friday, January 07, 2005
"'The Burning South' by Beaten Back To Pure"
by
Bill Vogel III
Friday, January 07, 2005 A.D.
One of the coolest bands to come along in aeons has to be Beaten Back To Pure. Their 2004 opus, "The Burning South" [This Dark Reign Records], is Southern Doom Grind at its finest and fiercest. (Think Acid Bath fused with Corrosion Of Conformity, and you'll get a solid notion of their style.)
Beaten Back To Pure takes the visceral elements of Doom, Swampcore, Metalcore, Death, and Grindcore and adds some Gothic and Blues moodiness. Eclectic and extreme, Beaten Back To Pure is instantly addictive. Softer, melodic moments offset their incredible brutality. Guttural growls are sparsely juxtaposed by clean, deep vocals. The rhythms are fluid but intense. And the guitar work is amazing-blasts interchange with slick solos. Beaten Back To Pure is just so good....
The most amazing of the cuts includes the instrumental "Vertigo," the Bluesy stomp of "Where The Sewer Meets The Sea," "Running Out Of Neck," the Gothic/Death ode "Smothered In Sundress," and my favorite, the Gothic/Doom Grind epic "One Shovel And A Place To Die." Beaten Back To Pure is the best thing since the mighty Acid Bath.
I'm hooked.
Overall, Beaten Back To Pure is too killer for words. So get yourself purified, and brutalized. Stay savage. Farewell.
Related Bands: Acid Bath, Godflesh, Blood Duster,
Closer Than Kin, Atreyu, Corrosion Of
Conformity, Bleeding Through, Agents Of
Oblivion, Cemetary, etc.
Keep the faith, and the AGGRESSION.
Copyright 2005.
Courtesy of Stranger Aeons Magazine.
W.B. Vogel III 6:07 PM
Thursday, January 06, 2005
"'We Are Gathered Here Today' by Glass Casket"
by
Bill Vogel III
Saturday, January 01, 2005 A.D.
The most severely amazing Melodic Death Thrash band to burn away the daylight in aeons has to be North Carolina's own Glass Casket. Their blistering 2004 debut, "We Are Gathered Here Today" [Abacus Records], is dark, harsh, and starkly sublime. Glass Casket is both bleak and brilliant.
The Glass Casket paradigm is a mixture of frenzied rhythms, massive slabs of groove, virtuoso quality guitar solos, fierce growled vocals spiked by bursts of clean vocal melancholy, and drastic tempo changes. Glass Casket is melodic without being meek. They are aggression with a gloomy, powerful spirit.
The best of these vicious glories includes "Gray A.M. You Will Never Get to See," the weird little atmospheric instrumental "Cellar Door," "Scarlet Paint And Gasoline," the explosive "Fearfully And Wonderfully Made," and the epic bruiser "In Between The Sheets." Glass Casket is a force of nature unleashed.
In summary, Glass Casket utterly devastates. Stay savage. Farewell.
Related Bands: Dark Tranquillity, Gardenian, In Flames,
Beyond The Embrace, Norseth, All That
Remains, Arch Enemy, Killswitch Engage,
Atreyu, Bleeding Through, Acid Bath,
Zao, Beaten Back To Pure, Closer Than
Kin, Hoods, All Else Failed, Agony
Scene, Black Dahlia Murder, Cannae, Lamb
Of God, Dead Horse, Scar Culture, Haste,
Lungbrush, Luddite Clone, Martyr A.D.,
Bury Your Dead, A Perfect Murder, A18,
Throwdown, Earth Crisis, Byzantine,
Freya, Bloodlet, All Out War, Dead To
Fall, Buried Alive, December, etc.
Keep the faith, and the AGGRESSION.
Copyright 2005.
Courtesy of Stranger Aeons Magazine.
W.B. Vogel III 5:15 PM
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