Honorable Mentions from the Abyss #38: Neolith/Lined/Adragard

Hey brutal fuckin' trve metalbangers,

today there is a new episode of "Honorable Mentions from the Abyss" to read, always with 3 bands but this time you have to know that I received in physical format all the albums I talk about here.

Let's go to discover the bands!

Honorable Mentions from the Abyss #37: Lilyum/My Own Voice/Thecodontion

Hey mega-bestial black hardcore punkmetallers,

today I wake Timpani allo Spiedo from its current slumber by talking about 3 Italian bands. But I'm very lazy to build a decent intro, so let's go already to discover them!

Terrordome - "Straight Outta Smogtown" (Selfmadegod Records, 2021)

Band: Terrordome

Title: Straight Outta Smogtown

Genre: Crossover Thrash Metal

Release date: 5th February 2021

Time: 40.31 min

Vote: 84/100

Reviewer: Flavio Adducci

What can you expect from a band that dubs their music as "Brutal Crossover Thrash"? Exactly what they promise: an hyper-fast and intense crossover thrash metal with some demented blast-beats here and there. But these 4 Polish angry thrashers have also a good imagination, so there is no always a blind massacre throughout the 14 tracks composing their new album "Straight Outta Smogtwon" (Selfmadegod Records), that Mythrone Promotion sent me in physical format some time ago.

INTERVIEW TO FOSCH (WITH PAGA')

Hey black metal bangers,

our beloved Francesco Bazzurri reviewed two months ago the brilliant third album by Fosch, an Italian black metal quintet singing in the dialect of their homeland, that is Bergamo, in the region of Lombardy. So, fascinated by this thing and also by the themes faced by the band that are rooted in the Bergamo folklore, Francesco thought well to interview them.

In brief, this is the interview to Fosch. One of their two guitarists, Pagà, answered to the questions.

Timpani allo Spiedo: a simple break?

It’s official now: Timpani allo Spiedo has stopped a bit its activities in these months, so I apologize to its followers and everyone sent me/us ultimately some stuff to review.

Personally, I have no will anymore, for example, to listen to an album and then to write a new review. But I think this isn’t a bad thing. Sincerely, I’m fine with that.

The fact is that the commitments, the needs, the projects change… the life itself changes. So I don’t see anymore Timpani allo Spiedo like one of the essential things for my life. Also because, after many years, finally I am discovering the pleasure, the beauty to listen to an album without writing something about it.

Ergo, I don’t know if this is a simple break for the ‘zine or stuff but this is the plan: my friend Francesco (that I thank infinitely, also for the Timpani’s new logo!) and me will talk about the last releases that we received ultimately, especially about the ones in physical format, then we’ll see.

In every case, it has been really a beautiful adventure, that was started in the now very far 2008. Wow, how much time has passed!

Flavio

INTERVIEW TO DISTRUGGI LA BASSA! (WITH FRANCESCO "MONTA" MONTANARI)

Hey hardcore moshing maniacs,

mentre il mio compare Francesco Bazzurri sta lavorando a una bella intervista ai Fosch (gruppo black metal che canta in dialetto bergamasco, mica cazzi!), io vi presento quella agli organizzatori del Distruggi La Bassa, noto festival hardcore punk che si tiene annualmente, dal 2015, a Ferrara, una delle mie città italiane preferite famosa anche per il suo Buskers Festival e per una ricca tradizione antifascista.

Al Distruggi La Bassa dell'anno scorso dovevo esserci ma poi il Covid ha fatto il sacrilegio di scompaginare tutto e quindi ciaone e tante care cose. Peccato perché sarebbe stata sicuramente un'edizione con i controfiocchi già solo per una line-up stellare comprendente leggende come gli MDC, i DRI e gli Youth of Today, gruppi divertentissimi da vedere dal vivo come quei pazzi degli Insanity Alert, e ovviamente una vagonata di valide band italiane, molte delle quali ospitate già su queste pagine come i MuD (e così avrei finalmente conosciuto di persona AldoHC, dopo che siamo amici su FB da anni!), i Milksnake, gli Obscene Revenge (mi ricordo ancora con grande piacere la loro serata romana di supporto agli One Way System!), i Vibratacore o i romanissimi No More Lies (a proposito, sono tornati live qualche sabato fa!). Insomma, sarebbe stata una 3 giorni da panico in pieno stile "teste vuote ossa rotte"! Ma ciò che è passato è passato, ciò che conta è il presente, e quindi anche il fatto che i ragazzi del Distruggi La Bassa abbiano dei progetti importanti, fra cui una eventuale edizione 2021 del fest.

Ringrazio il gentilissimo e disponibile Francesco "Monta" Montanari, uno degli organizzatori, per aver risposto all'intervista, dopo che l'ho contattato su Feisbuc qualcosa come un mesetto fa.

Le foto sono state scattate da: Enrique Olvera (Nabat) e Francesco Dose (Vitamin X).

BUONA LETTURA!