Stolen Lives - "Luciferův efekt" (Defense Records/Maximed Records, 2019)

Band: Stolen Lives
Title: Luciferův efekt
Genre: Thrashcore with Grindcore influences
Time: 25.55 min
Release Date: 1st April 2019
Rating: 72/100













Defense Records and Maximed Records are back on these pages after some months of silence! Credit for this goes to Marcin of Mythrone Promotion, that some time ago sent me new interesting albums to review. Obviously, when he send me releases edited in co-operation between those two labels, I must expect only tons and tons of extreme aggression! In fact, this "Luciferův efekt", second album by Stolen Lives, isn't an exception to this right trend. But, before talking about the album, I should like to say a few words about Stolen Lives. This is a quartet from Czech Republic that lovely destroys the ears of the maniacs since 2005, releasing mostly a lot of splits along with other ugly bands like Time of My Life or D.F.C., and whose first album arrived only in 2015. 4 years later, this album had finally a follow-up in the shape, indeed, of  "Luciferův efekt". Were 4 years enough to Stolen Lives to calm them down a little bit? OF COURSE NOT!

Amoclen - "Diagnosis: Grindcore" (Defense Records/Maximed Records, 2018)

Band: Amoclen
Title: Diagnosis: Grindcore
Genre: Grindcore
Time: 20.52 min
Release Date: May 2018
Rating: 92/100













"Diagnosis: Grindcore": a title that says already very much about the second album of these 4 breackneck speed lovers called Amoclen. Coming from Czech Republic, Amoclen were born in 2006 and, two years later, had the honour to release a split along with Agathocles (a band whose absurd prolificity remain, for me, an absolute mistery!). Instead, in 2011 they managed to release their first album, "Cymbalta", and, after 7 years of discographic silence, they are back to infest our minds with a new auditory torture whose (new and old) tracks are (almost) all titled after a medicine. But it's a very very pleasant auditory torture, I must say!

Top Sekret - "Piggy Op" (Defense Records/Maximed Records, 2018)

Band: Top Sekret
Title: Piggy Op
Genre: Grindcore
Time: 20.12 min
Release Date: May 2018
Rating: 64/100












Graphically speaking, the third album called "Piggy Op" by Top Sekret is pure madness! Apart the fact to title an album in this way, its simple 4-page booklet (made by Lucka) without lyrics contains some very strange drawings (on an absurd white background) that are very rare to see on a release of this kind (as you can see below in the band pic)! Less rare is the noise played by these 3 masked lunatics from Czech Republic.