Genre: Thrash
Label: Candlelight Records

Savage Messiah bring just that to the table: a savage form of thrash metal that hearkens back to the late 80’s and early 90’s. And yet, oddly, the band seems to be tempered with a touch of power metal.
The album strongly reminds me of Force of Evil’s album Black Empire, but in a good way. Considering how much I love Black Empire, hopefully this is a compliment. The riffs, the vocals, the drumming, all of it, I’m a fan of.
Unfortunately for me, I know almost nothing of Savage Messiah, so right now this review seems sparse. But, the music speaks for itself: I can’t wait for the next album.
8 out of 10.

Savage Messiah on MySpace.

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Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Label: Candlelight Records

GORE! GORE! GORE! ALL HAIL GORE!
And by gore I mean slaughtering all that moves and then fucking the corpses after.
This album is just pure sickness, splattered on the walls, floors, ceilings and in your eyes. It’s nearing the point of da slamz or whatever they call it, being near pornogrind at times too. But nowhere near as talentless as 99% of slam/pornogrind bands, I should add.
In fact, Ingested are shooting out a very talent filled release, and that should be somewhat apparent from the label that signed them. They aren’t anywhere near tech death, but the drumming alone should raise eyebrows. Guitar and bass wise, the riffs are fast, and brutal, and satisfying for people who want an even faster Cannibal Corpse (blasts at 280bpm!), and the gutteral vocals are so fucking intense. The occasional breakdown hits too, with pinch harmonics stabbing the brain while the drums go off on a super fast blast.
So in other words: fans of Cannibal Corpse’s and Death’s gore imagery, slamming death, and grinding, blindingly fast blastbeats , you might like this.
FYI, Ingested has members of Annotation of an Autopsy in their midst, and the artwork for Surpassing the Boundaries of Human Suffering was done by Toshihiro Egawa, who’s also done work for Abigail Williams.
8 out of 10.

Ingested on MySpace.

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Philadelphia’s heavy rockers Stygian are set to rock the NHL once again! On March 11th, when the Philadelphia Flyers host the Boston Bruins at Wachovia Center, Stygian will be performing at the AT&T Pavilion (located on the 11th Street side of the Wachovia Center). Stygian will take the stage at 5pm EST for a 2 hour pre-game set, followed by two 15 minute intermission sets, and then will close the night out with another hour of rock and metal after the final buzzer of the game.
All ages welcome, and free to anyone with a ticket to the hockey game.

Upcoming Stygian Show Dates:
03/11/10 – AT&T Pavillion @ Wachovia Center (Philadelphia Flyers Game) – Philadelphia, PA
03/26/10 – CMS Middle School Auditorium (Closed Charity Event) – Plainsboro, NJ
04/03/10 – The Note (Bam Margera’s venue) – West Chester, PA
04/23/10 – Best Buy @ Union Square (Special “Fury Rising” album show, 8pm) – New York, N

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Still steadily promoting the hell out of their debut full-length Hour of the Wolf, thunderous New York rock quartet THE RESURRECTION SORROW will kick off the first leg of their three-part Unholy Divine Tour tomorrow in Wilmington, Delaware.

The Unholy Divine Tour, Part I:
3/10/2010 Mojo 13 – Wilmington, DE
3/11/2010 The Smiling Moose – Pittsburgh, PA
3/12/2010 The Depot – York, PA w/ Backwoods Payback, Wrath of Typhoon
3/13/2010 The Black and Red Bar – Washington DC w/ King Giant
3/14/2010 The Brighton Bar – Long Branch, NJ w/ The Ominous Order of Filthy Mongrels
3/15/2010 Lit Lounge – New York, NY w/ Maegashira, Nolan Gate

The subsequent segments of the Unholy Divine tour will be announced shortly. The hard-working outfit features a cast of musicians who have collectively spent time in Murphy’s Law, Tides Within, After Dark, Malstrom, Supervillain and more, bringing years of both studio and onstage expertise to the table. Hour of the Wolf was recorded by veteran NYC engineer Joe Hogan (Nebula, The Atomic Bitchwax) and was released by the band themselves in November.

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Genre: Black Metal
Label: Moribund Records

One of the oddest USBM bands, right up there in the strange with Tjolgtjar, Blood Cult are very kvlt. Only a handful of people really have a Blood Cult release, and most of those are splits with other bands, released in a very limited number (I think the ‘largest’ B.C. release so far is 200 copies; I might be wrong), and barely marketed. But now, thank fuck, Moribund are releasing a Blood Cult full-length.
If you’ve never heard Blood Cult before, imagine if Ted Nugent, Jimi Hendrix, and Joey Ramone hung out with the guys in 1987 era Mayhem, and recorded their jams.
Yeah. Like I said, strange.
This is not music for everybody, and even the most intensely grim of grim black metal maniacs might not understand what’s going on on this album. I don’t know if I get it, really. But I know I fucking love it. Classic rock solos over blackened rhythms, with grim vocals? Yeah, that shit is here, and now due to Moribund, it’s not going anywhere but to the hardened hearts of the hardcore.
If you’re into strange experiments in metal, you should find this release interesting at the very least. If you’re fucked up like me, you’ll love it too.
9.5 out of 10.

Blood Cult on MySpace.

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