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Genre: Thrash
Label: AFM Records

Oh my god, oh my god. This is probably one of the thrashiest CDs I’ve heard in a long time. It’s like it was written back in the 80′s, and it’s gorgeously executed. This is a fast, mean sounding album with nice pretty parts, slow and crunchy sections, and riffs that are so headbang worthy it’s insane.
If you like the first four albums from Metallica, you’ll like this a lot. Same goes if you’re a Slayer or Anthrax fan.
8 out of 10.

Paradox on MySpace.

Genre: Black Metal
Label: Salute Records

Seven grim tracks of black metal later, the album ends. To my diappointment.
Great productions shows layers of disharmonic music and vocals, working in harmony to show Kosmos Reversum’s and Lord J.H. Psycho’s hate for the human race.
I definately recommend getting this album, and worth the low price (€10) just for the song “Seclusion”. However, the pseudo title-track “Regimental Tanatocracy” and Metalgasmic “Banished to Life” are brilliant as well. The label they are on, Salute, say that “Fans of Gorgoroth, Mayhem & Darkthrone will not regret this!” I tend to agree.
These Italians are getting themselves a 7.5 out of 10 for their ultimate Ultimatum.

Lilyum on MySpace.

Genre: Black Metal
Label: Salute Records

Italy’s Lilyum return with another album of blackened intensity, and it’s just awesome. I thought the last album, Ultimatum, kicked ass, but Fear Tension Cold is definitely the superior CD.
Varied influences are more apparent, taking cues from the usual suspects in Second Wave of black metal (Darkthrone, Mayhem, etc.), but there is also a little bit more experimenting going on too. A little bit more Bathory, a little bit more Stanley Kubrick (a sample from the soundtrack of A Clockwork Orange opens the album), and even Motörhead and bits of KISS are present.
This is an essential album. If you’re a black metal fan of any region or any era, you owe it to yourself to get this.
10 out of 10.

Lilyum on MySpace.

Issue 14: Summer 2008′s issue of Autoeroticasphyxium features a ton of interviews and reviews, including a really cool interview with Tazina, a bellydancer who dances to metal; Alexsadr Maksymov, who runs Ukraine’s Antichrist zine; Joe Sims of Axe Master; and tons more.
On of my favorite sections of the zine is actually a web listing of tons of bands, zines, labels and distros, and more.
Super cool zine, and with a wicked price of only $4 USD or a trade, you can’t go wrong.

Issue 15: Summer 2009′s issue of AEA has the same thing as every issue: awesome interviews, reviews, and for the first time in AEA history, a short story.
Again, like I said for Issue #14, AEA is a really cool zine and it’s got a wicked price of only $4 USD or by trading. And at 64 pages long, there’s tons of reading too.

AEA Zine on MySpace.

Genres: Black Metal, Crust, Thrash
Label: Abstract Terror Records

Opening with an instrumental, then going headlong into a thrashy black metal track, Anicest threw me off guard.
And even then, in the second track, my guard kept getting tossed. Blues was being thrown into the mix!
A G.G. Allin cover (“My Sadistic Killing Spree”) and a Scared Straight cover (“Typical”) follow, both well done, and given a nice blackened shine that’s not there in the originals.
The thrash returns, still keeping the punk attitude from the covers, culminated in a doom flavored final track that drips with blackened hate.
All in all, Anicest’s VI: The Origin of Terror gets a 7 out of 10.
It’s messy blackened thrash with a punk attitude, the likes of which fans of Municipal Waste and their brand of newer thrash should like.

Anicest on MySpace.