Visitor Simon was out in Montréal a while ago, where he discovered some new material that was to his liking. Bookakee is one of them, and they do Technical Brutal Death Cumsplatter Metal. Other than that the band consists of five guys and that they love to kill Super Mario on stage, my intel on these guys is pretty limited.

So, I’ll just proceed with giving you the tunes. First one is a song called Bookakee Blast, the first song from their first EP, released last June.

You guys remember Fractals, the Technical Deathcore outfit from Britain? Although their debut full-length is only seven months young, they’re already back at our doors with an EP called Corridors. This EP clearly show’s the guys have matured over time with everything from lyrics to music becoming more professional and solid.

Style-wise the guys have kept to their Technical Death Metal roots, but Corridors seems to show that they know what they’re doing. Where Paradox contained a lot of short songs ranging between half a minute to two minutes, Corridors shows more lengthy songs, and personally I find it more pleasant to listen to than Paradox. I even found myself tapping my foot to it, which is quite something regarding that this is not really my cup of tea.

This album has been described as Post-Black Metal, and, although I’m not sure what that means, I’m happy to go along with that. Whatever Post-Black Metal may mean, all I know is that Resilience is an album full of brilliant Atmospherical, Technical and Electronic Black Metal.

Résilience is the french word for, you guessed it, resilience, which means something like flexibility. I’ve been wondering what this title meant, but as I couldn’t make any sense of the lyrical content of the album, I thought it must have to do with the listener. As I discovered, one has to be a very flexible listener in order to appreciate the music, and personally, I had some trouble shaping myself to this album. It took me two months to actually start on this album, but yesterday night I saw the light, and I journeyed into the magic land of Smohalla.

Where Part 1 of my favorite 2011 freebies covered two full-length releases Part 2 looks at two EPs which by coincidence both found their way to my ears via NCS.

The list so far:
10. – Savage Messiah – A plague of Conscience
09. – Blastanus – Collapse

08. – Meankind – 22.Zero

According to Misguided Aggression’s Facebook, their music has been described as ”combining the power of Pantera, the aggression of Lamb of God and the precision of Meshuggah”. I don’t know who said that, but the person had it spot fuckin’ on! The band from Woodstock, Ontario plays its material loud, chugging and aggressive, with staccato, syncopated and perhaps even polyrhythmic riffage.

Their material isn’t particularly accessible, but let me tell you, once you get into it, it just absolutely mashes your brain to pulp. Flood the Common Ground (2011) is the band’s follow-up to their 2009 debut Hatchala. From that, we’ve got some face melting lined up for you after the jump.

“The point is, you are alive, when they start to eat you.”

This EP is one in a pile I got from Niek, which needed to be done while he is busy chilling out in London. What I got from him was more of a press release, rather than a press kit. So I had to contact Eric Burnet from Ricburn Media, in order to obtain a press kit. In about two hours I was supplied with what I needed, and this service is really what coloured my view of this record. However, this bias isn’t totally undeserved as you’ll see later. I wasn’t actually acquainted with any of Dischordia’s work, neither was I with any of their influences, but soon I discovered I was in for a pleasant surprise.

Tumblr really seems to be the new way to find bands. Although it’s mostly filled with porn, posers and goths, with which most of us wouldn’t have a problem, there are some treasures to be found. Like todays Fractals, who play a Deathcore-influenced kind of Technical Death Metal. This three-piece from Britain released their debut album Paradox on Bandcamp in May 2011 and it seems to be very promising.

Paradox consists of eleven songs and is about 35 minutes long. There are some really short songs and some really long songs, which makes it an interesting listen. The music itself has a bit of an electronic feel to it, which is mainly due to the programmed drums and the really tight and sterile way of playing these guys have. Perhaps the best way of describing the music is by the definition of their name. A fractal is “An irregular geometric object that is self-similar to its substructure at any level of refinement.” Don’t ask me what self-similar and substructure mean, but they are most definitely irregular and geometric.

I haven’t heard proper Deathcore for ages. So long in fact that I hardly seem to recognize it now. Still, I believe Vaulting, from Wiesbaden, Germany, are operating in the department. Perhaps on the genre’s border with Progressive Death Metal. It’s hard to tell genres apart these days. What I can tell you though, is that Vaulting’s material sounds aggressive, weird and different. All in the good way.

I was contacted by Sebastian, the band’s drummer and he told me they have their debut album approaching is release date fast: it’s scheduled to be aired on October 28 via Unundeux Records. The album’s to be called Nucleus and we may review it later. At this moment in time we’d like to introduce you to the band’s earlier work and serve you a few tracks off Nucleus already.

This one’s a suggestion we got from Jarkko of the band with the most kickass band name ever, The Jasser Arafats. The two bands are from the same city and apparently Deviant Tactics are a bunch of local heroes there that Jarkko felt we should check out. I call that ”coopetition” and you tell me in how many other industries you see this happening, two competing players promoting each other!

It’s one of the many merits of the Metal industry, next to the excessive intake of alcohol and go-fuck-yourself-silly-if-you-don’t-like-my-music-you’re-a-nonce-anyway attitude. So, confident that Jarkko wasn’t pulling our pisser, we went to go and have a looksee at Deviant Tactics, a five-piece from Tampere, Finland, that claims to be in the business of ”Technical Atmospheric Metal meets Punk attitude”.

I actually got a press release of this, more than a month ago. It was well done, containing everything you need as a publisher and which pisses you of if you have to go look for when it’s not included. You know, links to all of the band’s social media pages, a proper-sized pic, links to YouTube videos. There’s nearly nothing left to do, except write the article.

And I reward this kind of care and attention by completely ignoring them for more than a month. What kind of goddamn turd of a human being am I?! Well, a smelly one. And a busy one.

I guess what matters is that I see what’s wrong with it and that I still post about them now. Because, what am I actually jabbering on about? It’s Beyond Creation, a Canadian Progressive / Technical Death Metal band. They hail from Montreal and have been together since 2005. It wasn’t until April of this year that their efforts came to fruition though, because that’s when they released their debut record The Aura.