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A new review section: Buried by Time And Dust

We added a new review section, coincidentally another Mayhem reference following 'The Past is Alive', with the title 'Buried by Time and Dust'. Over the years, a lot of promos have been gathering dust simply because a fresh wave of promos arrived the following month and they were consigned to oblivion. We will review them here to make a clear distinction with our other reviews. We will also use it to complete a discography in terms of reviews. Feel free to contact us if you would like to submit your music or would like to join the staff.

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Morbid Skull Records from El Salvador has released some enjoyable Extreme Metal. This time it is Disorder, a band the owner of that very same label, M.Q, formed back in 1994. “Fuego Negro” is the third album and although everything is sung in the Spanish language, it seems to deal with the violence within the Salvadorian Civil War between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN). One can imagine a war with Death Squads and the likes, is suitable for lyrical content for a Blackened Thrash/Death band. Disorder definitely has Thrash as main course and the 2 other styles as side dishes, all played in the early 1990s way. Although the attitude and basic riffs are 1980s Old School Thrash, some of the melody in the riffs are more the 1990s Swedish scene kind of Thrash. You just listen to the main riff in the beginning of a track like “333”, and you get a “first-album-Soilwork” kind of vibe. For me, a bit of a setback, but this is only occasional. If you are a fan of albums like Deceased’s “Fearless Undead Machines” and a mixture of Bay Area Thrash and Teutonic Thrash (both of the early 1990s), you can give this one a try. (Ricardo)