Cold Mourning - Looking Forward to Reason
These gentlemen play Doom the old fashioned way. That is to say, they sound more like Trouble than [early] Celestial Season, and maybe more like what Cathedral want to sound like. A little too Groove-laden to be very depressing, but categories aside, this is a fine release.
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Circle of Dust - Brainchild
When someone in a band is given credit for playing the Stick, you’ve got to know the band will be good. Especially when it’s an Industrial band. Musically fairly heavy, and vocally diverse. An interesting release.
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Cianide - A Descent Into Hell
I just even don’t know where to begin with this review. This is such an incredible album that nothing I say will do it justice. They pay their respects to Venom and Godzilla, and even cover Slaughter’s “Death Dealer.” This album is truly awesome. The sound is unbelievably heavy - it’s just beyond words. Cianide normally keep things at a fairly slow tempo, and that only adds to the crushing feeling. A Descent Into Hell is one of the greatest Death Metal albums ever recorded - a classic in every sense of the word. Anyone who does not own this album should be killed on sight.
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Chronic Black - Something for the Sick
Interesting and heavy Death Metal, with a good, thick production. I must, however, wonder about the lyrics (which are not included, and I can’t really make out), when a song is called “Blood Puddle (With a Lump in It).”
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Chaos and Technocracy - Abstract Reflections
After the weird intro, they get right into their unique style of Thrash. They have the advantage of having a female singer, so that gives them a unique sound.
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Channel Zero - Unsafe
Oh how neat. And I had thought that Alice in Chains were already signed. Oh wait! This is Channel Zero. Well, the singer is about 10 thousand times better than that hillbilly from AIC. Golly, they even have some of those cool distorted vocals! Maybe they borrowed the fx rig from Panzytera.
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Caustic Butchery - Offerings to the Overseer
This demo sounds great. The production is powerful, and clear, but the songs aren’t really very memorable, and they are completely over-shadowed by the truly raw vocals. However, they do have a handle on the “brutality” aspect of Death Metal, so if that’s all you need, then these are they guys.
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Johnny Cash - American Recordings
Here’s a review I’m sure you didn’t expect to see in this zine. But here’s the deal: Nearly all of the songs on this album are pretty cool, and some are amazing. My favorite is Cash’s cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Bird on a Wire.” By the way, this is almost totally not a Country album. Generally these songs are more Folk, with an occasional nod to Country at most. Cash has a very powerful and haunting voice, and puts it to amazing use here. Many of these tracks were written for him (including one by Danzig) or are covers, but the ones he wrote are among the coolest. Don’t miss hearing this.
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Casbah - March of the Final Decade
This is an improvement over their 1992 demo, in that they have lost none of their Thrash intensity, but gained a lot more memorability. The somewhat strange, but very powerful and clear, production helps them, but they mostly just know how to write good riffs, and they cram these three songs full of them. Taka’s vocals are yelled with more energy than ever before, and everyone’s playing has improved as well. An outstanding demo, that, if there were any justice in the world, would get them signed in a second.
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