Quality Steel Records aren’t that known (yet), but they came up with quite some fabulous releases lately. And then I am talking about material by the likes of Ajuna, King Fear, Divine:Zero, Harasai or Karne. You can find the reviews on these band’s last releases on the site, or you will find them in a very near future, by the way.
Dwell are yet another sludge band to come to the surface with this self releas 4-track album. And to be honest this is not a release that sticks out in a positive manner…. 4 songs “to scry on lamentations “ and “ Far dark helm pts I, II and III “ each flirting with the 10 minute marker but unfortunately also flirting with boredom, sloppy execution and overall lack of power in the production… all this despite being assisted by Noah Landis of NEUROSIS /CHRST ON PARADE fame.
Bloodbath is founded in 1998, with a shared fascination for horror and death metal. Since the release of their first EP, Breeding Death in 2000, Bloodbath is a real pioneer in extreme (death) metal music. Grand Morbid funeral is (again) recorded at the Ghost Ward Studio and The City of Glass Studio in Stockholm. Mix for the account of David Costillo.
Following the self-release of their debut album Will Wallner & Vivien Vain in early Summer 2012, guitarist Will Wallner and singer Vivien Vain found Polish label Metal Mind Productions willing to release that album officially in October of the same year...and we at ConcreteWeb were sent a copy of the original, of which a review (by yours truly) was eventually posted on 13/03/2013 in a Two Side Moon Promotions special.
Third studio album released under his own name, with the help of Myles Kennedy, vocalist of Alter Bridge and The Conspirators as accompanying band. And once again Mister Saul Hudson, a.k.a. Slash once again proves what a gifted musician he was, and still is.
Sometimes doing reviews as a hobby is a shitty job, you have to listen album after album and you wonder if mediocrity is the new standard to beat… but then there is this one momen that you stumble on a release which is something different, something good….
So you play in a famous German metal band but you feel bored between tours and recording new albums. Some people take up golf or another hobby but drummer Stefan Scwarzmann (Accept) takes his phone and calls around to see if he can find some colleagues to jam with. Vocalist / Bassist Schmier (Destruction) guitarist Herman Frank (Accept / Victory) were all in for some fun and so The German Panzer was born. Three seasoned German musicians and a name like The German Panzer give you enough clues about what kind of music these gentlemen play.
Swedish duo Murmurs very recently split up; don’t ask me why because I do not know. In 2012 Ulf and Dísa recorded the full length Fædd Úr Eldi (via Australia’s Parkbench Records), but that’s the sole official release, except for a handful of demos.
Mal Etre are a Swiss project by Nocturnalpriest, who’s also active with blackened outfits Malvoisie, Baalshamin, Parämnesia and Polish horde Funebrum. After a handful of demos, Mal Etre released a first full length in 2010, Torment, via the great Kunsthauch-label. It was one of the most surprising albums that very same year, I think.
I guess SPV/Steamhammer wanted to hop on the bandwagon, and make money by releasing this single as a Christmas release, and linking this to the commemoration of the Great War as well (That’s the First World War, for those of you who have just come out of a centuries long hibernation – just kidding of course).
