Funeral Rain Press Corps

Genres: Black Metal, Depressive Black Metal
Label: Thorn Laceration Records

Leave it up to ANTI to write some of the most vitriolic black metal to come out of Britain. Taking his normal style of writing and slowing it down a little, throwing in some depressive elements, then adding feedbacks from hell and tortured vocals, and you’ve got the new Intra Tenebrae.
It’s an amazing listen, and I think fans of Thy Light, Happy Days, Blut Aus Nord, and the like would like this a lot. Fans of “traditional” black metal like Carpathian Forest, Craft, Urgehal, etc. – you’ll probably enjoy it too. It’s got everything here.
8 out of 10.

Genres: Black Metal, Thrash
Label: Suffering Jesus Productions, Ukragh Productions, Blood Harvest Records

Eliminator bring forth a fresh CD, released only in 2008, but it sounds like it could have come out twenty years ago. A nice blend of thrash and black metal assaulted my ears straight from the start, sounding a little like Venom. I could hear beer calling to me from the liqor store, yelling “BUY US AND ROCK OUT!” from the opening riffs of “World Obliteration” until the closing of “Prescription for Extinction… Time Enough At Last”.
It’s fast as fuck (300bpm downpicker playing guitar) and loud as hell, and features a vocalist/bassist/guitarist by the name of Warchild, a guitarist named Scythe, and Samus, the drummer for Abigail Williams. I can see these New Joyzee boys eliminating the current American black/thrash competition, and reigning supreme for a long time.
Basically, this review is easy. Into old thrash and black metal? Then get Eliminator. You’ll have to have it shipped from the Ukraine, for ten USD plus shipping, and I believe Blood Harvest in Sweden still has the vinyl available. 7.5 out of 10.

Eliminator on MySpace.