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 show 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.

A couple of months ago we covered a song by a German band named Vaulting. I characterized the song as having ”plenty of fast-paced leads, hooks and sharp edges”. A few weeks later the band released its debut record Nucleus, containing thirteen brand new songs of pretty much the same general inclination. If it wasn’t for a bunch of them being rather different.

So Nucleus is a debut according to drummer Sebastian Gathof, so it’s kinda strange how Encyclopaedia Metallum lists 2008’s Epilog as a full-length too. Because taking a closer look at it, it seems more like an EP, with only 18 odd minutes of playing time. Yet there are eight songs which is more than you’d expect on a normal EP. The key is in the Grindcorian length of songs: one of them is only four seconds.

Today we’re having something that has totally, and yes, I mean totally, nothing to do with Metal. However, I still wanted to share this with you guys, and no worries, I’ll make sure you get your daily portion of Metal next to this as well. Dark Suns started out as a Progressive Metal band in 1997, but they somehow watered down to a Progressive/Alternative Rock-outfit, a bit in the fashion of Queens of the Stone Age. The only difference is that I like the former, and I don’t like the latter.

I actually arrived at Dark Suns via Alcest. I was hoping to get something similar, but it turned out to be something different. The style of Rock Dark Suns pump out is very varied and it’s certainly pleasant to listen to. On top of the Alternative/Progressive influences, there are some Funk influences as well. Totally worth a spin or more.

For the fans of dark black Viking Folky type of Metal, otherwise known as Vikingy Black Metal or Folky Dark Metal, we’ve got Slartibartfass. “What? Slarty bass fart?” Yeah, something like that. It’s Slartibartfass, which is German for Slartibartfast, which is a character in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy book series. I didn’t know that, so I’ll just continue to read the dirty version.

Anyfuck, going back to the band from the German city of Ulm, they’ve got a new record out. Their fourth since forming in 2004 and it’s called Schwarz Verhüllt, a German title, just like their three earlier works. It means ‘Black Covers Up’ or ‘Black Veils’ or something of that notion. Loosely said it’s probably meant as ‘Black Disguises’ or something. The album was released on October 26^th and the promo pack has been sitting on my desktop for weeks.

While we’re in the doomy, sludgy type of mood that Toreignimmortal initiated with his post on British Doom Stoners Conan, we might as well throw up Ventilation Shaft’s recommendation as well. He recommends Omega Massif, a German band from Würzburg, Bavaria that has been active since 2005. As Ventilation Shaft describes it: ”very dark in atmosphere, very heavy, but also melodic”. Accurate!

After the band’s 2007 debut Geisterstadt, four years passed until the release of Karpatia, which came out last September. All their songs carry German titles, but the vocals are not. Because there are no vocals. Omega Massif plays purely instrumental.

I’ve seen fit to take you through some of the band’s past releases – there have been two splits as well – as there is some genuinely good stuff there. Just free up some time for this, as this, despite that the songs aren’t even that ridiculously long, is not suitable for quick and easy listening. Now follow us past the jump!

So, the list currently stands at three LPS and three EPs with Part 4 adding another of each.

The list so far:
10. – Savage Messiah – A Plague of Conscience
09. – Blastanus – Collapse
08. – Meankind – 22.Zero
07. – The Apocryphal Order – S/T
06. – Incise – From the Crypts They Rise
05. – Immolation – Providence

04. – Ära Krâ – Ferne Tage

And here we are again, after roughly a month, back to you with some material from Enid’s Munsalvaesche! As you can probably remember, we had some problems with Aural Music, who didn’t want us to upload materiel from the then unreleased album. “No problem.” we said, “We’ll simply get back to you in a month.” And that’s one promise kept.

I’ve got two videos for you, one of Red Knight and one of Condwiramurs, two songs I mentioned in my review. Furthermore, I have nothing more to say about this. If you want to read more click the link above to the review.