Buckshot Facelift - "Ulcer Island" (Paragon Records, 2017)

Band: Buckshot Facelift
Title: Ulcer Island
Genre: Grindcore with many Metal and Hardcore Punk influences
Time: 40.29 min
Release Date: 14th April 2017
Rating: 78/100












Hey brutalbangers, finally this is the first review for Timpani allo Spiedo 'zine in this new year! Today I'll tell you about the 4th album of a band that started their demented career in 2004 in Huntington, New York. To say the truth, their album, "Ulcer Island", was released in 2017, but, as you know, it's never too late to discover very good productions like this one!

2018 TOP TEN (and one more)

Hey brutalbangers,
so, 2018 is dead and 2019 has already started its path. I have to say that 2018 has been a really nice year for this 'zine, and this for various reasons. Firstly, it's a honor that always more and more labels, bands and promoters send me regularly their productions, and this means thay my work is good. Secondly, I'm pushing to make more hardcore punk-oriented this 'zine, since I love HC punk and we don't forget that this instinctive music influenced a lot of extreme metal genres, so I don't understand why many metalheads don't still today appreciate to the HC punk. Thirdly, finally I published a bunch of live reports throughout 2018, and I have to say that I prefer the live side of the music in comparison with the studio side.
But, speaking about the studio side, 2018 has been a year with plenty of fantastic releases, so the following is my 2018 TOP TEN releases, that are in a RANDOM ORDER. Despite the 2017 TOP TEN, this new one is about many different genres in order to range from technical death metal to groove metal, but also from hardcore punk to end the list with a surprise that doesn't belongs to the classic extreme metal standards of this 'zine. And soon you will realize that that so-called "surprise" represent the extra release of this TOP TEN...
So, enjoy this article and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Corpsefucking Art - "Splatterphobia" (Comatose Music, 2018)

Band: Corpsefucking Art
Album: Splatterphobia
Genere: Brutal Death Metal
Durata: 33.57 min
Data di pubblicazione: 23 novembre 2018
Voto: 74/100













Lectern, Sudden Death, Whiskey & Funeral, Dr. Gore, Verano's Dogs...insomma, parecchi gruppi death metal di Roma e dintorni hanno quest'anno pubblicato degli album ma, fra di essi, ne mancava almeno uno: i Corpsefucking Art. Questi sono un nome storico della scena death metal della mia città visto che sono nati nell'ormai lontanissimo 1993 con il moniker di Enthralment. Da quel momento, hanno intrapreso una fruttuosa carriera musicale durante la quale hanno potuto suonare di supporto a gente come Cannibal Corpse e Immolation, fare il loro primo tour negli USA nel 2014, e partecipare a importanti festival internazionali. E quest'anno è arrivato il loro quinto album, "Splatterphobia", che, come di consueto, vede in copertina la simpaticissima mascotte dei Corpsefucking Art, Mr. Daisy, stavolta intento a maciullare per benino una delle sue tante vittime, fra l'altro indossando una maglia dei Mortician. Fra queste vittime si vede anche la testa del chitarrista Andrea "Corpse" Cipolla, co-fondatore del gruppo nonché boss della Despise the Sun Records e pure membro degli autopsiani Morbo, recensiti ormai ben due anni fa. Adesso però pochi cazzi e vediamo cosa hanno tirato fuori 'sti cinque pazzi!

Cronaxia - "Collapsing the Outer Structure" (Lusitanian Music, 2018)

Band: Cronaxia
Title: Collapsing the Outer Structure
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Time: 31.26 min
Release Date: 7th September 2018
Rating: 74/100













Fuck, the promotion agency Imperative PR is sending me a lot of albums for years, and only today I decided to review one of them! Precisely, I chose to review the debut album of a band from Lisbon, Portugal, whose story is a true anthem to the perseverance. In fact, Cronaxia was founded even in 1997 but, in eternal search for the right members to play their insane music and struggling with many line-up changes, they seriously started to write a full-lenght album only in 2010 after publishing an EP three years before. Despite this will to give life to this album, Cronaxia started to record it only in 2015 with a line-up that consist of three stable members (comprising the co-founder and guitarist Filipe) and two session musicians as well (that are the hyper-active drummer Rolando Barros, and the bassist Alexandre Ribeiro, both from the historical death/grind band Grog). And finally, that album became reality under the title of "Collapsing the Outer Structure", that has been released by the Portuguese label Lusitanian Music.

Nihilo - "Doom" (Art Gates Records, 2018)

Band: Nihilo
Title: Doom
Genre: Death Metal with various influences
Time: 30.43 min
Release Date: 26th October 2018
Rating: 88/100













Gonoreas, Kess'khtak, Lykhaeon: these are the bands from the land of Emmental that have been hosted on these pages during this now dying year. Today, I must add another band into that list since now we are going to talk about an old-school death metal act coming from Bern, the city that can be considered as the capital of Switzerland. Well, that band, born in 2003, is named Nihilo (is this moniker a homage to the pioneers of the Swedish death metal Nihilist?), and the here reviewed "Doom" is their third album, which has been released by the excellent Spanish label Art Gates Records. And let me say already that "Doom" is veeeery good!

Sepolcro+Verano's Dogs+Bedsore+Thecodontion (Rome, 13th December 2018)

Gruppi: Sepolcro/Verano's Dogs/Bedsore/Thecodontion
Locale: Trecentosessantagradi, Roma
Data: 13 dicembre 2018
Ingresso: 5 €



















Nonostante il lavoro, nonostante il giorno infrasettimanale, e nonostante quella cazzo di pioggia battente, giovedì 13 dicembre, come già anticipato sul live report del Grind Galà, sono andato lo stesso al 360 per farmi devastare i timpani con un bel po' di black/death metal devoto alla vecchia scuola. A organizzare 'sto delirio, ci hanno pensato il collettivo antifascista Metal Against Shit (di cui fa parte Ulderico dei Verano's Dogs) e la Sycamore Shows (di cui invece fanno parte membri dei Seventh Genocide), cioè due entità che hanno già collaborato in passato per organizzare delle serate che sono sempre di un certo interesse per i cultori del metal estremo underground invitando anche gruppi stranieri molto rispettati, come gli anarco-black metallers inglesi Dawn Ray'd. Stavolta, a dividere il palco con i Verano's Dogs, ci sono stati i grandissimi Sepolcro (che mi hanno gasato un casino, come leggerete fra poco), e due giovani leve romane al debutto live come i barbarici Thecodontion e gli psichedelici Bedsore, entrambi usciti quest'anno con delle cassettine che hanno ricevuto ottime critiche anche da siti molto quotati. Quindi, leggiamo cos'è successo in questa serata, e che si dia inizio allo sterminio sonoro!