Fuck yes. HBIH’s favorite underground brutal tech death metal band Slaughterbox have signed to the small and independant metal label Dead World Syndicate Records. Does this mean a Slaughterbox full length debut is on the horizon? I sure do hope so. On Slaughterbox’s last.fm page, guitarist Hal Rotter (center) said a new EP will be released soon within the coming weeks. More news is to be announced soon.
You know, while waiting for this new release, hop on over to last.fm and listen to their first EP/demo The Ubiquity of Subjugation. It’s some brutal (and fucking awesome) stuff.
- JR
Mordechai Von Renvaktar (Or Jonas Renvaktar, if your head isnt stuck up your ass) of Swedish technical death metal outfit Spawn of Possession, has left the band and issued this following statement:
Fleshgod Apocalypse are a technical death metal band, forged in Italy. They add a slight twist to their technicality though, an orchestral backing as the picture above suggests. Brutal up front violins and oboes and shit in the back. The band’s metal part lacks a lot in low end, but it’s still decent without breaking any grounds in that area. The orchestral backing isn’t anything special either, but it’s seen on almost every track. There isn’t much to say, since you’ve all heard this stuff before. If you have balls that is.
Three and a half screaming Italians, out of five.
I tried my hardest not to come up with a lame title for this entry, but I can’t help myself.
Slaughterbox are a deathgrind/techdeath band hailing from Red Bluff, California. Their sound is indescribable. It has spastic, technical, sometimes dissonant and sometimes melodic and sometimes brutal guitars. Ranging from technical tapping and sweeping to crushing riffs, their drummer pounds away as he growls and squeals this band to obscurity. The strange, Patton esque schizophrenic vocals contribute to the already technical and spastic guitar work which is mind numbingly fast. They currently only have two small releases, a split with fellow band Killgasm titled “The Loss of Human Dignity” featuring two tracks:
