Foreseen - "Grave Danger" (20 Buck Spin/Svart Records, 2017)

Band: Foreseen
Title: Grave Danger
Genre: Thrashcore
Year: 21st April 2017 (20 Buck Spin)/24th April 2017 (Svart Records)
Time: 28 min
Rating: 86/100












Today I'll tell you about a Finnish band that was recently even in the United States for a tour started in 21st April and ended 7th May along with a support band like the young crossover thrashers Red Dead, from Washington, D.C.. I am talking about Foreseen, a fantastic quintet born on 2010 at Helsinki that did the aforementioned tour to promote their very fresh second album "Grave Danger", released by the American 20 Buck Spin in collaboration with the Finnish Svart Records in order to cover also the European market. So, here you are an album seriously exciting that lasts only 28 minutes per 8 ultra-intense tracks!

INTERVIEW TO ABATUAR!!! (CADAVER)

Ultimately exalted by the debut album of this Panamanian cult named Abatuar, some days ago I contacted via FaceBook its mastermind Cadaver for a very good interview. He is a very enthusiastic person and metalhead also because he runs a little label called PUS Records specialized in the extreme metal from Central American countries like El Salvador and Panama, as you will see reading this interview.
It's a shame that the extreme scene from these lands is almost unknown for the metalheads from the rest of the world considering it is perfect for every fanatic of the most violent, raw and chaotic forms of metal but, fortunately, bands of this kind like Abatuar are supported even by a European label as Dunkelheit Produktionen.
But now no other bullshits, and let Cadaver do the talking!

Black Faith - "Nightscapes" (Throats Productions, 2017)

Band: Black Faith
Title: Nightscapes
Genre: Black Metal
Year: 21st January 2017
Time: 67 min
Rating: 87/100











After 4 years since their excellent debut album "Jubilate Diabolo", the Italians Black Faith are back with their second effort "Nightscapes", preceded by the curious single "La Preda" (2014), containing the cover of a song with the same title of the historic Italian rock band Litfiba, surely a strange way to celebrate the 10th anniversary of a black metal band! But don't worry because Black Faith remains "black" by name and by music also because with "Nightscapes", released by the Mexican label Throats Productions, they have a lot of hardship inviting numerous and even distinguished guests coming from the Italian black metal scene. The result of all these efforts is an album so traditionalist in the sound to be very ambitious also because "Nightscapes" is a journey that lasts 67 minutes per 11 various songs.

Death Worship - "Extermination Mass" (Nuclear War Now! Productions, 2017)

Band: Death Worship
Title: Extermination Mass
Genre: Bestial Black/Death Metal
Year: 4th November 2017(first edition)/20th February 2017 (second edition)
Time: 19 min
Rating: 75/100













It's incredible but the almighty Blasphemy, also if they are alive and always on the warpath, don't realize something new since their long-awaited reunion happened in 1999, when this legendary band became a quintet due to the addition as a stable member of Ryan Förster of Conqueror fame, now known with the moniker Deathlörd of Abomination and War Apocalypse. Just he gave birth in 2013 to his no compromise creature named Death Worship. After 3 years of gestation, the usual Nuclear War Now! Prod has released in the previous year, reissueing it recently with a new cover artwork, the debut EP of Death Worship titled "Extermination Mass", a new manifest devoted completely to the verb of Blasphemy. This is due also because their same singer, Nocturnal Grave Desecrator and Black Winds, helped Ryan with some vocals and effects while you can find as a session drummer nothing else than James Read of Conqueror/Revenge fame. At this point, you could say that Conqueror, formed in fact by the duo Förster/Read, are back with Death Worship. But this is a total new adventure, and, with 3 artists of this kind involved in it, "Extermination Mass" is a carpet bombardment like few others!

Abatuar - Perversiones de muerte putrefacta" (Dunkelheit Produktionen, 2017)

Band: Abatuar
Title: Perversiones de Muerte Putrefacta
Genre: Black/Death Metal with Grindcore/Noise elements
Year: 1st April 2017
Time: 30 min
Rating: 80/100












Extreme metal from Panama? Oh yeah!!! Panama, evidently, has it own extreme metal scene and, in a certain sense, it has been recently discovered by Dunkelheit Produktionen, a German label known into the underground for its support to ultra-extreme and rotten metal bands coming often from exotic countries like Malaysia, Sri Lanka and, indeed, Panama. So, it's needles to say but "rotten" is a term very perfect to describe the debut album titled "Perversiones de Muerte Putrefacta" by Abatuar ("slaughterhouse" in Spanish). This is the solo-project, born in 2013, of Cadaver, a singer/drummer helped for this production (preceded by a compilation edited in 2015 by Dunkelheit where there are the two previous demos of the band) by two session musicians; Tony Freire (rhythmic guitar/bass) and Jr. Sucre (lead guitar), spewing forth one of the most heinous and crazy albums of this 2017...nay, of all times!

Holocausto - "War Metal Massacre" (Nuclear War Now! Productions, 2017)

Band: Holocausto
Title: War Metal Massacre
Genre: Black/Thrash Metal
Time: 23 min
Year: 5th March 2017
Rating: 70/100













The Brazilians Holocausto, one of the very first true progenitors of the so-called "war metal", are back with a very very special mini-album! Recorded with the same identical line-up of their seminal "Campo de Exterminio" (Cogumelo Records, 1987), "War Metal Massacre" represents for Holocausto a decisive return to the raw style with which they are now very known and respected into the underground before they abandoned it to embrace various styles ranging from a more standard thrash metal to thrashcore through unrecognizable experimentations like "Negatives". To emphasize this welcome return to the roots, Holocausto have even re-recorded 3 their very old songs: "Massacre" taken directly from their 1985 demo with the same name (!), and "Destruição Nuclear" and "Escarro Napalm" from the fundamental "Warfare Noise Vol.1" compilation edited by Cogumelo in 1986 (!!). Now, if the first part of "War Metal Massacre" is composed of the aforementioned numbers, its second one consists completely of new songs. I have already to say that, among the innumerable returns of more or less old glories from the past happened in these last years, "War Metal Massacre" is surely one of the most surprising ones!