When You Scream is a five-headed Melodeath outfit from Osnabrück, Germany. The band formed in 2010 and consists of Chris (guitar and backing vox), Daniel (guitar), Matwey (vox), Michael (drums) and Sven (bass). So much for the band facts we managed to collect.

WYS delivered an album called The Alchemist in June of this year. Though not 100% sure, it seems this is their debut. The game is Melodic Death Metal, that’s all it says. Anyway, we took it for a spin.

Just bundling up these two suggestions I received for the sole reason that the members of both bands speak German. Poor excuse. Well maybe also because they make a similar style of chug-filled Melodeath. We’ve got in store for you: Hopelezz and then Under Destruction.

So, to stay in the vein of this website, I thought of this title just to bring you some news I come across myself, rather than just copying what I read over at the likes of NCS or perhaps what I get through from PR-propaganda. I’ll write what I hear and what I think, and of course this is hugely influenced by our fans, so I’d say, hit us up on Facebook when you have something hot, which is worth mentioning. In this issue, our friend Patrick Urban who pointed out that Dämmerfarben had posted a preview of their upcoming effort Herbstpfad, while I personally picked up a new track from Loch Vostok.

Starting with the latter, I hope we all remember my review of Loch Vostok’s fourth effort Dystopium, which is quite old by now. Reading back, I can’t help but think I grossly misunderstood the album at that point. However, that’s history and now the band is back with a new album. As with Dystopium, it is ViciSolum Productions handling the release of V – The Doctrine Decoded, which is due this autumn. The lads were kind enough to share the song A Tale of Two Kings with us, and with this stream comes the unveiling of the album art, to be seen below.

Four Songs for the Left Behind doesn’t contain four songs. It contains five; four original compositions and one cover of Motörhead’s Another Perfect Day, all of considerable duration.

Over two years ago I reviewed an album by a German one-man band called Another Perfect Day. The project is the brainchild of Kristian “Kohle” Kohlmannslehner, who also runs his own recording studio. Said album, titled The Gothenburg Post Scriptum, is a masterpiece. Through the past two years it has proven itself that time and time again. Amazing melodies and cunning progressiveness are mixed with the deepest of death growls and many an unorthodox element. Anyway, masterpiece, as said.

Now, you may have noticed it’s been rather quiet here at The Baboon. There are multiple reasons, but the main one is that my time to review anything is pretty much reduced to negative numbers, as my job has taken me to China and I’m working my balls off. Second reason is that there’s no YouTube access in China, except through VPN, but that’s just too slow to load anything. The third reason is that I’m just a lazy pig and I smell of manure.

But then, the other day, I got a message from Kohle, about the release of his new EP, Four Songs for the Left Behind and I was offered a promo pack as well. Pretty much at the same time reader Shaft dumped me the links to all five songs on Four Songs and given my experience with The Gothenburg Post Scriptum I just couldn’t let this one slip. So working in negative time, here’s my review of Kohle’s latest achievement.

Random hit on YouTube today: Germany’s World of Farewell. Self-described as ”A pleasant punch in the face for every Melodic Death Metal loving creature out there”. Pretty accurate.

Apparently the band have just got an album out, titled Immersion, the band’s debut. Just got the one song for you, but it at least makes me want to check out more. Which is exactly what I’m going to do now. I suggest you do the same. Here’s a good starting point!

Just got my ass handed to me by this stuff. It’s some very proper Progressive and Melodic Death Metal from Germany. Disillusion has been a band since 1994 and I can’t believe I haven’t heard about before.

Thankfully due to Ventilation Shaft now I have, who found out about the band on Last.fm. There’s a reason why I hadn’t heard of them though: their list of achievements is a tad short for a band that has been active for nearly 20 years. There are only two full-length records on it, one called Back to Times of Splendor (2004), the other simply Gloria (2006). According to VS, ”both are good but different in style”. Wouldn’t it be good to have a sample from both?

We don’t usually write about Rammstein. Shock therapy as it might be to most people, it just isn’t Extreme enough for us. But you have to give them something: that they put up a great fuckin’ image! On November the 25^th they added another item to their list of fucked-up but actually pretty damn awesome exploits: ”Coinciding with 2 shows in their hometown Berlin, German industrial rockers and bêtes noires for cultural mainstream, Rammstein, were celebrated with a mausoleum.”

”In front of the O2 World, Berlin’s biggest indoor arena, fans congregated for a procession including a horse-drawn hearse, which delivered the original death masks of the six band members to the mausoleum. Inside the black cubic building the busts were carefully placed amongst candles and a book of condolence and could be visited by fans in appropriate reverence.”

With the sixth issue of this series, we continue to stay true to the series’ title, aswe’re still dealing purely with One Man Shows. Still female perpetrators as of yet. If you’ve got a good suggestion, drop us a line!

[I'm just seeing I spend the last 15 minutes for nothing since the guys have been featured before. However, not with enough depth because they can do more than the song Sun of Ice. So, enjoy some more Uncreation!]

Since Niek made clear that he had been spoiled concerning Melodic Death Metal over the years, and that he was hard to impress, I decided to pull out some to see where I stood. Uncreation was one of the first bands I got into since they gave away their demo, which wasn’t bad at all, as a free download. Now, roughly six years since the release of that demo and some two years after I heard it they released their album Burning Blood, which is almost a year old now.

Burning Blood brings forth some really solid Melodeath, which, surprisingly, has some things in common with Immortal Souls. The melodies on this killer are very much in the same vain as those of our Finnish brothers, but this time they are drenched in some guttural vocals, and it’s all a tad heavier (and with that slower).

Servants of Justice was released back in December and is this German five-piece’s first full-length release. Still, the band defines itself as ”a true live-band” and to prove this, they’ve refrained from using a metronome in the recording process of the record. Not sure if that means they also recorded all the songs in one go, so all instruments at once, or not, but in the end I doubt it matters.

What does matter is that it all sounds fine and more importantly that the band has found its own weird-ass theme for the music. This is gallows-themed Melodic Death Metal and it’s apparent primarily in the song titles and lyrics – a couple of examples: The Gallow March, Crash Course Dying, Hang ‘em High, Withdraw the Hangmen – and the album cover featuring an executioner in the process of beheading some dude.