INTERVIEW TO UMBRA NOCTIS!!! (FILIPPO MAGRI)

Some months ago, I deeply reviewed "Via Mala", the very innovative second album of a black metal band from Italy called Umbra Noctis. Here there is a nice interview to them through the words of Filippo Magri, their singer and one of their original founders. Expect an interview full of strange answers for a black metal act also related to themes like Italian Patriottism, magnificent landscapes and...pornstars!|
HAVE A GOOD READ!!!

Sodomized Cadaver/Sudden Death/A Taste of Fear (Rome, 18th March 2018)

Bands: Sodomized Cadaver/Sudden Death/A Taste of Fear
Location: Traffic Live Club, Rome
Date: 18th March 2018






After a lot of fuckin' time, there is a new LIVE REPORT on these brutal pages! I think that I couldn't choose for a better live gig than the one that I attended on 18th March 2018 at Traffic Live Club in Rome to write a new article of this kind! In fact, today you will read the demented deeds of three bands: A Taste of Fear, Sudden Death (both comes from the area of Rome) and Sodomized Cadaver from Wales! The Welsh madmen, just along with the first two aforementioned bands, have ended an Italian mini-tour from 16th to 18th March in which they terrorized places like Cassano d'Adda (near Milan) and Pescara with the final date in Rome Caput Mundi. And believe me that their tour has been ended in the right way through a totally bestial show!

Leech - "Cyanide Christ" (LL Production, 2013/Defense Records, 2017)

Band: Leech
Title: Cyanide Christ
Genre: Thrash Metal
Year: 2013 (LL Production)
         6th December 2017 (Defense Records)
Time: 43 min
Rating: 81/100











After Formis, this is "Cyanide Christ" by Leech, another CD from the mega-pack from Marcin of Mythrone Promotion! Leech is a project created in an unspecified period (2003, if I understood correctly) by people of the calibre of Jens C. Mortensen (vocals), Jari Kuusisto (rhythm guitars) and Lars Lindèn (bass) from Carnal Forge, Magnus Söderman (lead guitars) from Nightrage and Stefan Westerberg (drums) from Skineater and ex-Carnal Forge, so we are talking about real veterans of the Swedish death/thrash metal scene. So far, their only release under the name of Leech is the album "Cyanide Christ", that was published by the small label from Sweden LL Production but, 4 years later, the stronger Polish Defense Records thought well to reissue it on CD so to give to it a better distribution. This means that, finally, many maniacs can enjoy now this thrashing slab that was remained mostly forgotten at the time of its first release!

Formis - "Chaozium" (Defense Records, 2017)

Band: Formis
Title: Chaozium
Genre: Death/Thrash Metal
Year: 14th March 2017
Time: 29 min
Rating: 83/100











During the half of December 2017, Marcin from Mythrone Promotion, asked me my postal address in order to sent me, as a sort of payment for my work for Timpani allo Spiedo 'zine, the physical CDs of 6 releases by the excellent Polish death/thrashing label Defense Records, included three ones (Whorehouse, Rotengeist and Uganga) already reviewed on these pages before his request. Well, the pack arrived, precisely, on 2nd January 2018 and...UNBELIEVABLE! There were all the 6 CDs promised by Marcin and each of them was accompanied by the relative booklets and, then, I put all them into proper CD cases, as you can see through the pic below. Marcin is a very nice guy, don't you think? So, today I'll review an album into that pack: "Chaozium" by the Polish quintet Formis.

Ram-page - "The Grave of Seven Billion" (GrimmDistribution, 2017)

Band: Ram-page
Title: The Grave of Seven Billion
Genre: Death/Thrash Metal
Year: 30th June 2017
Time: 30 min
Rating: 69/100













Aleksey Koryolov of Satanath Records sent to me 3 mega-pack of releases so far...and I have been still listening to the albums of the first mega-pack (Ram-page included)! Soon or later, I think to summarize in few words 2 or more of these releases in a single article to put in the new "mini-reviews" section, so to make more ready and faster the reviews. Meanwhile, today it's the turn of Ram-page, a Russian quartet that is so prolific that this "The Grave of Seven Billion" (released by GrimmDistribution, another parent label of Satanath Rec) is their 4th album within 8 years of existence!

Trallery: European tour with Skeletal Remains to support Angelus Apatrida!

I recently received from the Spanish label Art Gates Records the news that their Trallery, along with the US death metallers Skeletal Remains, will support the well known Spanish thrashers Angelus Apatrida on tour through Europe to promote their latest album "Cabaret de la Guillotine". It's fantastic that this tour will touch also Italy, even though the bands will play only in Milan and not in Rome.

Trallery - "Spirit on Stage" (Art Gates Records, 2017)

Band: Trallery
Title: Spirit on Stage
Genre: Thrash Metal
Year: 21st July 2017
Time: 62 min
Rating: 88/100













Second live album in few years for the Spanish thrash metal trio Trallery (pronounced as "tragedy"). Titled "Spirit on Stage", this live album is a little bit particular because it was released by Art Gates Records only in a digital version and, in addition, the same label published on YouTube, some days ago, the DVD full show of this album, so you can see the big enthusiasm of the audience in front of Trallery but also their amazing energy on stage. And believe me that Trallery, born as a Metallica tribute band in 2010, deserves a fuckin' lot!

Cult of the Horns - "Chapter I - Domination" (Self-released, 2016; Symbol of Domination/Ira Militias, 2017)

Band: Cult of the Horns
Title: Chapter I - Domination
Genre: Black/Death Metal with Bestial influences
Year: 13th September 2016 (self-released)
26th July 2017 (Symbol of Domination Prod/Ira Militias Prod)
Time: 41 min
Rating: 82/100










If I am not mistaken, Mephisto, the guy behind the French one-man band Cult of the Horns, belongs to my FB group "Bestial Black/Death Metal", and I imagine that he will be happy by reading this positive review about the debut album "Chapter I - Domination" of his malevolent creature. I've got this album in my hard disk even since late August when Aleksey of Satanath Records sent it to me along with other releases (already reviewed on these pages) but I listened to it only during these last days.

Colonnelli: the second album is out!

The second album of the Italian band Colonnelli (Italian for "Colonels", after the surname of their singer/guitarist Leonardo Colonnelli) has been released on 23rd February 2018 under their compatriot label (R)esisto Distribuzione!

REVIEWS' ATTACK #1: Trono Além Morte/Voëmmr (Harvest of Death/Signal Rex, 2017)

With this article, I finally opened the "reviews' attack" column!

Every article into this section will be about 2 or more releases by publishing reviews shorter than the usual. This because I want to allow to the readers to know about 2 or more releases that I consider worthy of attention in a single occasion. But also because for a question of comfort and convenience since I receive every month so many interesting promo releases that I prefer to summarize some of them in this way. In addition, these reviews' attacks will be about bands that are connected in a way or another, that can be their genre of reference and/or their label and/or their country etc... For instance, this article is about 2 black metal bands that belongs to Aldebaran Circle, a Portuguese sect formed by Ordem Satanica (already reviewed some months ago), Trono Além Morte, Voëmmr and Occelensbrigg. In particular, today I'll review Trono Além Morte and Voëmmr, whose debut albums were released firstly on tape by Harvest of Death and secondly on vinyl by its parent label Signal Rex. Prepare to discover two totally insane entities from Portugal, a country that now is becoming a true kvlt for every maniac of the sickest forms black metal.