This album has been in my possession for what must be at least half a year or something. It’s been in prominent sight all that time, generally on top of my ‘to-review’ stack. However, for some reason I just kept picking shit up in a totally non-FIFO (first-in first-out) way. I had pretty much decided not to review it at all, after all I owed it to nobody as I bought this myself and moreover it’s a 2010 album, but then today I thought ”you know what, let’s dump these Facebreakers in my player”.

I remember buying this album because I had found out Roberth “Robban” Karlsson whom we of course know from Scar Symmetry is also operating in this group. I figured the associations Swedish and Scar Symmetry surely meant I was in for some crunchy Melodeath. Karlsson is the one responsible for the growling in SS, so I wasn’t quite expecting sugar-sweet girly-type Melodeath with gently sung clean vocals. Still, I was in for a surprise.

Have I got some intelligent shit for you today! It’s Djenty Progressive Metal from a city called Lowell, Massachusetts. I was half starting to get the idea that only British bands, and perhaps a few Australian ones, were truly masters at creating Djent. I got it wrong, there’s at least one American band too!

I noticed this as soon as I was halfway into the first song on the band’s Cyclopean Imagery album, their debut, released last month. Being a rather new band, they formed in 2008, and with a composition of a sizy six members; dual vocals, dual guitars, bass and drums, I find that rather impressive. Often with bands that are fresh on the block you’ll get more like a pile of good ideas, but no clear concept.

Perhaps I’m overly positive and this is actually really also the case with Pathogenic, but then they must have gotten off a lucky shot. Right at my pleasure bone.

The other day I stumbled across some Brutal Death Metal from Chicago in the form of Peshmerga. These five men united in 2009 and chose a name for themselves that is what the Kurdish call their warriors, meaning “those who face death”. So far they’ve managed one album, titled Murderous Acts of Cruelty, consisting of seven tracks of brutality lasting just over thirty minutes. If you dig it brutal you don’t want to overlook these guys.

Just like centuries ago, the Turks are coming and they bring death and brutal destruction. But unlike the turning point of the Ottoman Wars in Europe in 1683, I don’t think they’ll be stopped at the gates of Vienna by the Polish King and the Holy Roman Empire. In any case they plan to waltz over just about anything and anyone, reducing them to steaming heaps of guts in the process.

The Turks in question named themselves Decaying Purity and they joined forced in Istanbul in 2005, after Mustafa Gürcalioglu (guitars) and Onur Gazioglu (drums) formed the basis of the band. At current, the band also consists of Malik Camlica (bass) and Serkan Niron (vocals).

After a demo in 2006 and their debut record Phases of Dimensional Torture in 2008, it’s now time for their second studio album, entitled The Existence of Infinite Agony, which came out in early July of this year.

About a month ago we reviewed the self-titled debut of a brutal American Death Metal band with the not-so-brutal name Super Happy Story Time Land. Their album was a surprise, in the positive sense of the word. We got into contact with Travis, who’s sorta like the band’s manager and were given the opportunity to interview the band. Given the band’s rep, we didn’t even take the trouble of coming up with serious questions. And guess what, this interview was a revelation!

For those who haven’t yet read our review of SHSTL, you can find it here.

The title is pretty self-explanatory, but let’s spend a few words on this nonetheless. Clean State Records is a pretty unknown record label, having a bunch of independent but generally not very well known bands under its wings. That doesn’t mean shit, as you’ll know. The most unknown bands can completely blow you out of the water.

Think Reclusive Forest Council, the main solo project of the young Taiwanese-American guitarist that names himself Halfbreed Ray. We’ve written about him before, discussing his band Haemic. The guy’s a major talent and moreover he’s working with us on shit not yet to be disclosed (though we are still looking for bands to participate). Well, Ray’s RFC’s on this comp as well.

The full thing was titled The G Force – Stick it to the Man, which is a pretty odd ball title for an Extreme Metal compilation. But forget about that, The G Force is stuffed with sixteen tracks, all by different bands.

I have little doubt this post’s title was sufficient to help you figure out we’re dealing with Brutal Death Metal here. As soon as there’s reference to guts, bodily fluids and raping women, that’s a certainty. Let’s face it, it’s not the most subtle or grown-up subgenre of Heavy Metal, is it?

But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a bunch of technical talent out there. Every once in a while you come across a group that has its shit well in order and manages to play a piece of intelligent, immature or not, Death Metal boiled down to a thick, sticky molasses of punch in the teeth. Visceral Disgorge is exactly such a case.

The band hails from ”the violence-ridden bowels of Baltimore” and currently they are ”vomiting forth their debut album Ingesting Putridity”. That’s a mighty visual figure of speech for fuck’s sake!

The other day a promo Email came in to the Baboon from a band called WIDEYEDAZE and it turns out that these guys are from my neck of the woods. Not only are they from my area but as I was checking the links they sent I recognized two of them in their pics as a couple of guys I’d had a short conversation with at a local CD store a few months back. Though the conversation was short, and mostly related to the Goatwhore shirt I was wearing, I got a good vibe from the two, guitarists Sebastian and James. So, let’s have a listen to some of their Southern brutality.

It’s Saturday, time for some no-bullshit boot-in-the-face Death Metal, which we take from Finland today. There’s this band called Redeye there and they’re pretty mental. The four-pieced group has been working at a breakthrough since 2006, but so far has been unable to enforce one.

At evenly spaced moments in time they’ve been releasing demos, singles and music videos. Their latest is a video for Pitch Black Progress, the fourth track on their 2011 …Of Blood demo. We’ll serve you that after the jump!

Blastanus is maturing. If we were to compare them to cheese, they’d be around the stage in which little chunks are starting to form in the slurry goo of whey and shit. In comparison, when ex-Baboon Tarkan reviewed their previous effort, entitled Odd and released in 2009, they were still not much more than thick, sour milk. With a lot of potential, mind you, but still in its raw unprocessed form.

Where Odd was clearly Grindcore, raw, fast, uncontrolled, chaotic as fuck, with Collapse they’ve picked up on the trail towards truly great Death Metal. They’re not there yet, but the strides they’ve made are humongous.