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1. Aardvarks - Conglomerate
2. Eternal Pain - Wrath Of Raging Times 3. Final Cry - Raise Of Cain 4. Garmenhord - Al Onder Den Beenvenden Haeslaere 5. Hatred - Fractured By Fear 6. Memorial Park - Selfcaged 7. Ophis - Pazuzu 8. Sanity - Das Beil 9. Sengaya - Behind The Myths 10. Slaine - Doodwegen 11. Steelpreacher - Route 666 12. Tremors - Killing Aggression 13. Unlight - The Nordic Stormbringer 14. Warmachine - Eye For An Eye |
the previous volumes of the collection
THE REAPER COMES II - Saltatio Mortem the tour 2003 - THE REAPER COMES TO YOUR TOWN - gig in Balingen
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review by dalia "gryphon_spirit" di giacomo____
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attention!! the underground bands who would like to take part in the compilation The Reaper Comes IV find all the indications in the official page and they must not have a deal | ||
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Do you remember that winged Reaper that ,under a giant full
moon, and among bare trees was busy with a beautiful female creature
and even busier to present us 14 different bands among the
most valuable of the German -Swiss -Austrian underground? Now
our "nice" Reaper , drawn by the American Jason
Engle (www.jaestudio.com)
strikes back again from a metropolis set on fire ,
ambassador of a wider underground scene. The compilation The Reaper
Comes is arrived indeed at its third volume and is on the way to
become a cult . After having payed attention to a lot of
details, the third volume "comes" to us with an
excellent and professional booklet and with 14 tracks again,
tracks that ooze with Metal and Hard Rock out from every pore.
The Reaper has reached such a high niveau of quality and
maturity, extending its range of action, from now on, not only
to underground bands of the German -speaking area but also to bands
coming from Europe and other continents too. Already in this
third volume we have a band from Belgium and one from Canada, and i
bet that the great international explosion will burst out with the
fourth volume that is already planned for the next year. German
passion and good production with a burst and a hug without
frontiers. And after having impacted so well with the "wrapping",
(i would underline again that the booklet is really nice and
explanatory, every page is dedicated to a band with comments ,
infos, , band picture/logo , CD cover, website and
address in an atmospheric and glossy black and white) let's speak
about the most important point: the musical content.
We find 14 new tracks whose musical genre span from Death- Thrash
and Black to Hard Rock without forgetting a touch of
Progressive and Power. Me? More than happy for the considerable
presence of Doomy Death, i only hope that in the next volume a bit
of praiseworthy Gothic Metal will be included too. But
anyway practically all the tracks are very good (many even brilliant)
and i had to skip nothing , but really nothing and not only because
of the review. I have enjoyed almost all songs
proposed. The tracks are chosen with good taste and with the ability
of a deep Metal conneisseur like Markus Wedig is, and agreeably
alternated in genre and tempo. Another important point, there
is an effort in my opinion to choose the bands and the tracks that
could propose something new, or on the contrary, tracks that are
very good in being good with classic schemes. Nowadays, where
everything seems already invented and re-invented, it is not easy to
emerge with something revolutionary, nevertheless our underground
bands don't give up and try hard to mix and melt at the search
of a new alchemy. Slaine, for example, is a band very open to
experimentation , even if their track is the one i didn't like at
all. Well , personal taste, cause there is nothing to moan about the
great work that these bands are putting on their wheels. And here
they are:
01) AARDVARKS
- "Conglomerate" from album
"Conglomerate" - (D) - Cool opener. They bite
developping, on a Heavy Metal skeleton, a Death/Doom
proceeding with a drop of Thrash. A good growling and a certain
Paradise Lost reminiscence of the Icon era increase the impact
of this song.
02) ETERNAL
PAIN - "Wrath of Raging Times" from album
"In Pain we trust. Relicts for Revenge" - (D) - Fast
Death/Thrash with some Black technique and a lot of anger.
03) FINAL CRY
- "Raise of Cain" from album "Wolves among
Sheep" - (D) - Woow! a Power i like! Rare event!
Impressive and catchy rhythmed, they offer a dark Power with
raw vocals.
04) GARMENHORD
- "Al onder den beenvenden Haeslaere" from
album "Langsch Boschgheckweel Ende Fronckghecraeck" - (Belgium
region Flanders) - Typical mid-tempo Pagan metal with some Black
tones and medieval proceeding without (ohh thanks!) medieval
instruments. The track is strong and catchy enough. The lyrics seem
a bit strange , they sound German, and from
booklet i know that their lyrics "evolved into heathen hymns in
a self-constructed medieval Flemish tongue". Well i think to
understand the word Blut , however it should be interesting to go
deeper into the question.
05) HATRED
- "Fractured by Fear" from album "Fractured"
- (D) - Old school Thrash mixed with a touch of Power and Heavy:
influences from old Metallica and Maiden. The sound is heavy.
Crunchy guitars.
06) MEMORIAL
PARK - "Selfcaged" from album The Skies
beyond" - (D) - With a drop of Maiden influence they are
balanced between Metal and strong Rock alternating growlings (which
is not so widespread with this rhythm )with clean voice.
07) OPHIS - "Pazuzu"
from album "Empty, silent and cold" - (D) - Oh yes!!
Beautiful claustrophobic and hyperbass looping for a
sinister Doom Death with low and aggressive growlings.
08) SANITY -
"Das Beil" from album
"Schattensymphonie" - (D) - And now we run faster and
solemn with Sanity who alternates the Valkyr gallopings anyway
also slow digressions . A bit Symphonic, a bit Death, a bit
Avantgarde. Full of atmosphere.
09) SENGAYA
- "Behind the Myths" from album "Metamorphosis"
- (D) - Classic metal with melodic balladesque flavours and
Progressive support.
10) SLAINE -
"Doodwegen" from album "Non" - (CH) -
It is the track i like the least, but i really think is a matter of
taste cause Slaine present a high musical capacity united with
a certain degree of experimentation. To combine Death with Prog
makes imo the Death unhappy. The resulting sound is too erratic for
me. Moreover I don't consider Prog that good thing. Slaine's
personal interpretation of Death includes Black tones and cymbals in
foreground. No, not my cup of blood but, forothers it
might be interesting. I personally think it depends also from
how much you like or dislike jazz.
11) STEELPREACHER
- "Route 666" from album "Route 666"
- (D) - A title that is a program: Rock à la biker. Canyons
and Californian sun come into mind. Maiden, AC/DC and old Priest
influences.
12) TREMORS -
"Killing Aggression" from album "Recurrent
Creation" - (D) - Change of style, and we are back to my
beloved groovy mood! Potent, a bit Doom, a lot energetic, they
mix Death with Dark melodies.
13) UNLIGHT
- "The Nordic Stormbringer" from the album
"The Nordic Stormbringer" - (D/CH) - We dive into a
Black with round atmospheres powered by raw attacks of
heavy rhythmics. I saw them live when
they supported Ancient in Sursee. Unlight is a
Swiss-German band well known in the Swiss scene.
14) WARMACHINE
- "Eye for an Eye" from album "Demo
2001". (Canada) - Amazing! A metal like it WAS, sounding
anyway fresh. Strongly rhythmic, energetic and catchy , the Canadian
play an old school metal with steamhammer loops with a
professional attitude. Good lead solos and arrangements . With
old but proper elements they have been able to create a
top song...ah when Heavy Metal was something overwhelming!
Aren't these one well sorted shots? Congratz to the bands.
And, again, good opener and good closer. A question:
Markus, do you think it is possible to include somehow also the
lyrics of the tracks in the IV edition?
The only little but really little shadow is that 2 or 3 tracks don't
present an optimal sound (which ones? ahi ahi coup de amn i don't
remember anymore...) but ehi, all in all the sound condition and the
production is really excellent for an underground compilation. This
CD will put a tiger in your stereo, like a famous petrol . So
what? should i penalize this compilation which offers a
brilliant performance only because was not recorded at some
astonishing Finnish or Swedish Studio? ah f*ck off, not with me.
Music content is important and not (always) the dress (that however
is very remarkable here) . Markus
Wedig writes in the The
Reaper's official page: "I don't give a damn what kind
of metal are you playing. Every band has a chance. .... Of course
your sound quality should as good as any possible but it's not
necessarily a fact for a yes or a no. The music just must be good
and make fun" I totally agree . So, Metalheads!
have fun with this jewel done by Metalheads for you!
Rating: 9/10
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