Is it because they keep falling out of trees?

A different Ray from your earlier post sent us a suggestion two weeks ago, for a band from my home country that I have actually never heard of. They’re called that which is in the post title, they hail from the northern province of Friesland and they play a depressed doomy experimental piece of Black Metal. If you’re looking at a busy day, this might not be the best to start it with. Buuuut, we’ve got that covered.

I quote: “Grindbashers decided to clean up their closet and the skeletons are presented on this CD”. In turn, the CD got sent to me by Herrie, which means as much as ‘Noise’, the perpetrator behind Herrie Records Inc., who is also responsible for Grindbashers’ bass and “mouth & throat” efforts.

However, it’s not just the skeletons of Grindbashers’ murdered family that you hear on this record. Also Tersanjung13, a genre member from Indonesia, brought a bunch of stiffs to the party. The combined result is 28 minutes and 24 songs of rattling clanging Grindcore traversing the air quicker than a chili fart on a breezy summer evening. But when your nose does get wind of them, they’re violent as fuck. Generally I like such farts only when I popped ‘em myself, but fuck it. Let’s just review anyway!

Nearly a year ago we had an interview with Fredde Kaddeth, guitarist and producer of the Dutch old-school Death Metal outfit Massive Assault, focused a lot on guitar technicalities, the band’s inspiration and being an Extreme Metal band in the Netherlands.

Not long after, we also reviewed the band’s 2009 album Dystopian Prophecies. That did a lot of good in our ears and therefore we are pleased to review the band’s recent release, the Slayer EP!

Anyone ordered a pallet load of Groooove? No? Well, I’ve got a full fuckin’ load right here, in the form of SeeS (UK), Noceceptor (US) and CiLiCe (Netherlands), and I’m not taking it back. These three bands all play a type of mathematically inspired Progressive Metal with basement-deep tuned guitars, a.k.a. Djent. Complex rhythms and loads of Groooove are the key here. Truth be told: the untrained listener may mainly hear chaos, but when you manage to rise above that – and when is that not needed when listening to Extreme Metal? – the Groove appears.

If you’re a regular visitor you may remember the rather extensive report in two parts of a Metal-rich evening I experienced in Amsterdan in early December. One of the bands I saw that night was Chapter7, a Dutch Hard Rock band pretty much balancing on the brink of crossing over to Metal. Their performance was among the strongest of the evening, with the energy nearly literally tearing my ear shells off.

I bought their 4-song EP that night, for the incredible amount of €2.-. For those of you who don’t use Euromoney regularly, that’s about the price of a beer. Couldn’t leave that behind, and I still drank that beer anyway! Subsequently I reviewed the disc here.

And today the story continues. The band dropped me a message on My-fuckin’-Space the other day, with a link to their new song Crash, complete with vid. So I hurried my digital ass to YouTube and sacrificed another year of good hearing to the song. Me fuckin’ likes!

A short while ago we put up the second edition of this series on Progressive (Death) Metal bands, after we had put up the first installment a short while before that. The title of today’s post says it all: it’s time for part 3!

Now, all of the bands in this series so far have been contributed by our regular reader Zodiac. We cover him in imaginary cookies in gratitude! Of his list of eight bands, today’s post will introduce the last two, Leprous and Star One.

Just dug out my car’s glove compartment and discovered some unlistened, unreviewed albums in there. Obviously it’s nice to discover you’ve still got new material to dive into, but it gets even better when you find out some of it is also fuckin’ ace! Because that’s what Fuelblooded is! Raw ass Melodic Death Metal with a rich pallet of flavors. They’re also Dutch.

Off the Face of the Earth is the band’s first release since 2006 – track off that album here! – and their second album since their formation in 2002. It looks like it will also be their last, at least for a while, although they do claim they are in the process of writing new material. Why that is? Because they reduced from a five-piece band two just a duo earlier this year. The casualties amounted to vocalist Peter, guitarist Danny and drummer Norbert departing (for different reasons), leaving only guitarist Michiel and bassist Michel around. Damn fuckin’ shame! Let’s hope they don’t start taking the title of their last album 100% literally! Well, let’s see what the album is all about!

Byrd36 just gave you a Brutal way out of the year. And despite that it has already been a music-rich day for The Baboon, I’m going to add a Dutch way to kick 2010 in the ass, because as I’m sure you know I am one of those cheese-munching weed-smoking fuckos. Way back in March I supplied you with a song-unit of Izegrim, lovely, catchy super-awesome Death Metal from the city of Zutphen, in my native area of “de Achterhoek”, the “Back Corner” of the Netherlands.

We’ll make it Dutch Day today, continuing with Focus. Now, in case you, like me, weren’t around yet in the late ‘60’s and you didn’t have a father like mine, spoonfeeding you Classic Rock from birth, you may need some education on this one. Focus is progressive Rock, seeing its best days in the ‘70’s. In fact, it’s so progressive that it still is refreshing today.

So, all too obviously this is one for our Rockin’ Out with … series that Byrd36 started a while ago.

After the metallic void that was yesterday, we’ll do some extra today, starting with Thanatos. This is legendary stuff, as the band is credited for being the first Dutch Extreme Metal band. After its formation in Rotterdam in 1984 the band produced eight years worth of crushing old-school Death Metal with an edge of Thrash. Years that saw constant challenges in light of stability of the line-up and struggles about distribution, promotion and ownership of rights of material. So, in 1992 the band called it “a day”.

Year passes after year. Then, in 1999, original founding father of the band Stephan Gebédi, also active in Hail of Bullets (last band in the post), Legion and Second Hell, re-forges the band with new members. And they lived metally ever after.