Anaal Nathrakh - Hell Is Empty, And All The Devils Are Here (2007)

Merry Christmas everybody!!

I have not been posting lately because I have been busy, also I have thinking whether I should continue with this blog as I seem to be the only contributor.

Well anyways, this is Anaal Nathrakh. Anaal Nathrakh means "The Serpent's Breath" in some other language. I actually lol'd at the Anaal part a few years back as I guess so many of you did. But Anaal Nathrakh is a really solid two man band and this is my favorite album from them.

The album is unbelievably heavy, fast like hell and has really unusual vocal arrangements. It sounds great!

All in all it makes for a great album. Just check it out, this album is pretty unique.

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Obscure bands from Czech Republic part II

!T.O.O.H.! - Rad a Trest
Now it's time for the second post about this weird deathgrind movement coming from Czech Republic and this time it's !T.O.O.H.!'s(which is the acronym for The Obliteration of Humanity) Rad a Trest (order and punishment).!T.O.O.H.! is probably the weirdest band I have heard of so far from Czech Republic.

The first thing I noticed while listening to this album for the first time was probably the vocals, not the Average Joe in death metal neither grindcore. The song writing on this album is great, lots of catchy moments and a fair amount of technicality.
They disbanded shortly after releasing this album, they released 4 LP's in their career, so making Rad a Trest a swansong.

Though two of the guy's went off forming another band called Duobetic Homunkulus, which has a bit of !T.O.O.H.! feeling to it and I will definitely do a review on those dudes!


Highly recommended.
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!O.B.F.C.R.! part I
obscure bands from Czech republic

Napalm Death - Harmony Corruption

Well this is going to be a quick one.

Napalm death is a legendary grindcore band from the UK, that released a dozens of angry, fast and moshy albums and one of them is Harmony Corruption.

It happens to be that Harmony Corruption is my favorite Napalm Death album. I do recommend people to take a look on their other albums, because Napalm Death rules.



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Obscure bands from Czech Republic part I

Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris
(2000)

Well, this is my first post on Czech Republics obscure deathgrind movement and definitely not the last, this is probably my favorite movement ever.
Well I'll start with Lykathea Aflame, a progressive and atmospheric deathgrind band, with lyrical concepts like Sadness and giving gifts. This band formed out of the bands Appalling Spawn and Garbage Disposal ex-drummer, Appalling Spawn actually sounds much like Lykathea Aflame just bit more death metal.

The drumming on this album is unbelievable, growling is done seriously well and guitars are out-standing. This album is a brilliant work of art. Except for one minor flaw, that god damn ambient track in the end, though it just builds up with this awesome atmosphere (therefore a minor flaw) they managed to create.

Everything to this album is great and unique, it's not everyday that you find a death metal band that puts emotion in their music.
recommended for fans of experimental death metal.

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P.S. They said that they were going to record in autumn 2006 ever since I have been waiting for almost 2 years for them to give out that new album under the name Lykathé instead of Lykathea Aflame, Those lazy bastards just started recording 2009. Haven't heard anything more of it since then.

Benighted - Icon (2007)

Icon is an album by the French band Benighted. The band formed in 1998 and they play a pretty fun mixture of Grindcore and Death Metal. Although, it's obvious that they have lots of other influences. They even have a Hip-Hop thingy in the song Grind Wit right before the intro comes around the second time..


This is a pretty cool album. Icon apparently stands for "Infinite Conscience of Nothingness" of which I had no idea until I checked it out on Wikipedia just now. The album has lots of versatility, good production and these can play their instruments. It's their 5th album and it's basically good shit.

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Katalepsy - Musick Brings Injuries (2007)

This album is quite possibly the most brutal thing I have ever heard. It's lightning bolt fast at times and ultra-brutal slam slow the rest of the time. It's really grindy, gory, brutal stuff. Look, it's got everything on the brutal slam list:

• Gurgling vokills 
• Brutal samples
• Blastbeats
• Thick guitars
• Unrelenting aural punishment
• Gory album cover

Yes, it looks like this album has everything. Russia's Katalepsy know what they are doing, or at least knew what they were doing because they play a whole different genre now. It's good stuff.

Also, they have a cover of Mortician's Rabid and Megadeth's Symphony of Destruction that has never been more brutal.

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Brodequin - Instruments of Torture

Grinding brutality, medieval torturing and filthy quality, looks like we got our self a great mix for a brutal death metal band. These guys knew what they were doing back in 2000 and didn't stop. Having released 3 LP albums this one is in my opinion the best one yet, being a fan of this dirty mixing and savage concepts of torturing.

These guys inspired Defeated Sanity, a Technical Brutal Death metal band that everyone should be familiar with, Lyrically. So definitely recommended for fans of Defeated Sanity.

Now for a delightful torturing method that I just read about:

Rats

A cheap and effective way to torture someone was with the use of rats. There were many variants, but the most common was to force a rat through a victim's body (usually the intestines) as a way to escape. This was done as follows:

1. The victim was completely restrained and tied to the ground or any horizontal surface.
2. The victim would then have many slits cut in their stomach.
3. Then they would place starving rats in the slits and would eat the victim from the inside.

Gnawing in the intestines usually took a few hours of agonizing pain for the victim. This almost always resulted in death.

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