Mayhemfest 2012

 My review for The Rockstar Energy Mayhemfest is up and ready to be read!

I made this show my 10 year old sons 1st festival. Find out 

why inside!

 

http://www.metaldistro.com/blogs/metal-army/6460694-live-review-rockstar-energy-drink-mayhem-festival

Ephel Duath-

The review I did for the new EPHEL DUATH EP is out The New Metal Army site!

  If your a fan of Crisis then you'll love this!

http://www.metaldistro.com/blogs/metal-army/6427630-album-review-ephel-duath-ep

BENT SEA - NOSTALGIA

This is a review I wrote a few months ago for Metal Army America. I dig this album a lot and think it deserves to be heard. So here it is! 

With drums & guitars done in Clevland Oh, bass in Vancover and vocals laid down in Tel Aviv, this is truly an international album! It's grindcore at its best, clocking in at 17 minutes it gets to the point on every song. Dirk Verbeuren (SOILWORK) is doing double duty with the guitar, it shows he's more then just a drummer. He wrote the damned album! Devin Townsend (DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT) laid down some solid bass lines & Sven De Caluwe (ABORTED,SYSTEMS DIVIDE) well, does what Sven does!

The booklet has one sentence intros to each song, just so your not mislead by anything. From songs about blast beats, Blast Beat Barrage and technological advances, Digital Disaster, your also treated to all the social commentary you'd expect with grind since this is just one big ole love letter. It basically says that in the Nostalgia title track. “An homage to grindcore and noise” As fun as short songs are I do wish the song “In One Word” was longer, I would've loved to hear what other band names they could toss in there. I think it's because of the basslines, “Sustained Idiocy” just makes me want to punch something. Dirk's SOILWORK bandmate Sylvain Coudret, comes in and throws a solo in your face on “Dead Meat”. Fool for Life is the longest track (4:06) and gives the album some added weight. It ends with a lovely rendition of “ Bullshit Propaganda” in honor of the mighty EXTREME NOISE TERROR.

They manage to cram this album full of greatness in a short amount of time. Not sure if throw back is the right description for this but this does make ya remember the early days of grind. (Only with better production. Thank you Devy!) With Nostalgia, BENT SEA came, saw and kicked ass. Not only did I like it, I bought it.

OJayy- B+

Find it here, bentsea