Crisis Benoit - "Icon of Violence" (Slaughterhouse Records, 2018)

Band: Crisis Benoit
Titolo: Icon of Violence
Genere: Grindcore/Power Violence con influenze Black Metal
Durata: 13.22 min
Data di pubblicazione: 1° novembre 2018
Voto: 78/100












Ritornano finalmente su queste belle paginette i bolognesi Crisis Benoit, cioè due folli fratellini che ho visto all'opera all'ultimo Go! Fest. Dopo aver pubblicato il live report del festival più violento di Roma, il loro cantante/batterista, che tempo fa mi ha fatto i complimenti per la mia storia del proto-speed/thrash metal pubblicata sulla 'zine, mi chiese l'amicizia su FB. Dopo un po', abbiamo chattato e sono venuto a sapere che era appena uscito il loro nuovo album "Icon of Violence", e io non potevo di certo esimermi dallo scriverne una recensione, anche perché l'etichetta che l'ha rilasciato, la milanese Slaughterhouse Records, è già passata di qui facendosi conoscere per dei bei dischi.

Evil Cosby - "Ridursi al Niente" (Slaughterhouse Records, 2017)

Band: Evil Cosby
Title: Ridursi al Niente
Genre: Sludge/HC Punk
Year: 13th April 2017
Time: 16 min
Rating: 73/100













When Evil Cosby contacted me one month ago to review their new EP "Ridursi al niente" ("reduce yourself to nothing"), their moniker sounded strange for me because I thought already it cited the known US comic actor Bill Cosby. This impression of mine was confirmed immediately by the funny intro of the EP in which there is even a sketch taken from an episode of the TV sitcom "The Cosby Show", known in Italy as "I Robinson" (Italian for "The Robinsons" because the original surname "Huxtable" was considered unpronounceable for the Italian market). But if this isn't enough, the mascotte of the band is an hallucinated Bill Cosby that wear a makeup worthy of a Black Witchery's member! All this is very funny and parodistic but Evil Cosby, a duo from Milan (Lombardy) that released only the demo "Belzecult" and a split with the Mexicans Bala Fria (both in 2016) before to publish "Ridursi al Niente", has nothing in common with the parody as regards the music and lyrics, as you will soon.

Rejekts - "Triratna" (Slaughterhouse Records, 2016)

Band: Rejekts
Title: Triratna
Genre: Grindcore/Black Metal with Post-Metal elements
Year: 6th December 2016
Time: 14 min circa
Rating: 76/100












It's been a while that Rejekts weren't present on these pages. In fact, they didn't released something new even since 2013, when they finally realized their debut album "UNO-" after many years into the ranks. This is strange because this band was very prolific between 2010 and 2013 and, systematically, every almost their production was reviewed by this 'zine with the result that Timpani allo Spiedo was cited into the booklet of "UNO-"! So, many things are changed after that first album, included the drummer of Rejekts because this role belongs now to the new entry Sdru. But, surely, the fidelity of Rejekts to the Underground cause of Timpani allo Spiedo hasn't changed since Black, their singer and leader, has recently send to me their new EP "Triratna", released by the young Italian label Slaughterhouse Records (not to be confound with the US label with the same name). And yet I have to say that this long silence of this band (from Milan, Italy) has not been in vain.