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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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‘Demonstration Of Two Songs’ is the first demo of this New York, USA based Death Metal band. And, believe it or not, it is indeed a demo containing, well, just two songs…

Two songs that add up to less than five minutes, but give a nice impression of what the band has to offer. On the internet, it is said that this is a Slam/Brutal Death Metal band, but while it is definitely brutal, I wouldn’t put the band in that category, let alone Slam. OK, it has a few solid grooving riffs that wouldn’t be out of place on a Devourment album and in the first track, ‘Dissected (To Further The Knowledge Of Alien Worlds’) there is an occasional “pig squeal” at the end, but the whole thing is more akin to a band like Disma or any other “cavernous” Death Metal band than with that modern Slam scene. The band also manages to maintain variety and diversity in the music with quite a few tempo changes, especially in the second track, ‘Pulverised (Into Bits)’. Something that is not all that obvious with many bands both in the cavernous territories and in the Slam scene. The brutality, which speaks not only from the ultra-heavy guitars, but also from the deeply gurgling vocals, is definitely the thing I will remember most from this ‘Demonstration Of Two Songs’. Let’s see what the next release will bring, hopefully at least a bit more songs.