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Genre: Heavy Metal
Labels: Planet Metal/High Roller

From 1984 comes ZÜÜL, a band of pure metal heart and soul. Wait, what? This came out this year? And they’re a newer band? Well now, that throws a bit of perspective on it, doesn’t it?
In the same vein as a ton of real metal bands that are older than myself, ZÜÜL release their newest album and it’s a killer fist pumping disc full of sing-along choruses and riffs as electric as lightning to your face.
If you’re into stuff like Grand Magus, Judas Priest, or Metalian, you’ll probably get a stiff for ZÜÜL.
9 out of 10.

ZÜÜL on MySpace.

Genre: Black Metal
Label: Moribund Records

There was a little bit of a hype machine in my head for this band. I was stoked to listen to them on the pretense that they are not a standard anti-Christian band from a heavily Christian area of the world, but rather an anti-Islamic band from a heavily Islamic part of the world.
I expected a bit of a Middle East sound, perhaps some traditional instruments to make their sounds heard, but no. And this does not disappoint me at all. Ayat are crushing down some classic sounding black metal that could have come from the US or South America (it has that slightly more chaotic sound that’s not as present in most European black metal) with touches of thrash and tons of punk elements.
Vocal-wise, it’s fucking evil; and a perfect mix of black metal shrieks and blackened thrash screaming.
The fact that these guys stand a huge chance of getting murdered in their own home country for writing and recording this music doesn’t faze them at all either, and to my ears it seems to help them that much more, adding more fuel to their hatefires.
Songs of note are “Puking Under Radiant Moonlight (Followed By A Century Long Ejaculation)”, “Fornication and Murder”, and “Thousands of Pissed Motherfuckers…”.
7.5 out of 10.