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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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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Salem, New Hampshire’s Trap Them have posted a new song on their MySpace page.
Entitled “Carnage Incarnate”, the 3 minute, 27 second long track is a taste of their upcoming 12″ EP Filth Rations. And it’s tasty, if you ask me. Southern Lord will be releasing the one-sided record. The other side will feature etched artwork by Justin Bartlett.
More info on the release will be made available by Trap Them “soon”.

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Genre: Death Metal, Folk Metal
Label: Napalm Records

Folk metal is kind of a lie. There’s a bit more happening here than just folk metal. Like death metal.
But hey, whatever. This album kicks ass. Accordions are side by side with some crushingly heavy guitars, as are whistles, flutes, and the like.
Vocally, death vocals are the order of the day, grunted out with a nice intensity, but not too fast. Kind of reminding me of Corpsegrinder’s sound, but totally different in style.
It’s another really simple review for Napalm Records, and my first review of Svartsot. This stuff is great, and it makes me want to play D&D and get hammered.
8.5 out of 10.

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Genres: Death Metal, Hardcore, Thrash
Label: Napalm Records

This here is an oddity from the Netherlands. The Kandidate are mixing a couple unlikely elements from three genres and turning it all into their own thing. There’s the basic framework of thrash, with some small death metal elements, and tons of hardcore, probably New York style (I don’t know a lot of hardcore, so I don’t know exactly), and hardcore’s brother genre, punk.
But don’t think of this as some kind of metalcore or deathcore; rather think of it as The Kandidatecore.
I’m thoroughly enjoying this, and I can understand why Typhon enjoyed it a lot too. Personally I only know Jacob Bredahl (vocals) from some of his work with HateSphere (never really heard lots of them), and the other guys are all pretty new to the scene so I don’t know them at all. But from what I’ve heard from Until We Are Outnumbered, I hope this band is around for a loooooooong time. This is awesome.
8.5 out of 10.

The Kanidate on MySpace.

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