Põhjast – Matused



Unlike most entries in this sub-genre, Matused is not campy hard rock with metal licks and prolonged droning riffs. Instead, it cuts back to the core of what made heavy metal great, with the amazingly adept vocals of Eric Syre guiding a guitar-driven, riff-based band with a sense of how to create and nurture mood like a doom metal band.

Syre’s vocals highlight these riffs with melodies but do not merely duplicate the notes, but instead serve as a separate instrument, winding around the progressions that guide the song and by carefully choosing where to go in that space, both accentuating consistency and foreshadowing change. Like serpents in the trees of an enchanted garden, vocal melodies slowly enwrap each riff and then merge with it, urging the song on to new dimensions.

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Should we organize some sort of meeting of forum members here? Maybe get some beers or a meal together.

Excellent idea. Just try to have it not end in reckless sodomy like last time...

What hit me so unexpectedly was this barrage of music coming from just two men, which hurled me back into about 1987′s fetid Brazilian tape-trader jungle metal, but at the same time carrying a dominant genetic stamp throughout it that was distinctly Bode Preto’s. That usually just doesn’t happen — new bands are usually so hyped up and full of their own bullshit, sporting ripped off cover art and/or bastardizing someone else’s logo and when it boils down to the main body of their “art”, the music, well, to me it’s a meaningless string of riffs and rhythms sewn together to make a “song” with no conviction and leaving the listener feeling shafted and devoid of feeling.

That might be OK for some, but not for me — and that’s where Bode Preto comes to play so solidly. I feel Bode Preto — and that’s what I want from music. It’s this way with any medium, or should be. These guys simply let their art do the talking and we garner from it what we will. I don’t think hell is supposed to sound this good though. The song “Elytron (Succubus)” for me denotes a truly classic release. I urge you to tap into that drumming which was not recorded in any studio, but simply a plain room, and absorb the feeling, and you’re on the path which has at least as many layers as Dante’s Inferno, if not more.

Bode Preto - Inverted Blood

SABREWULF - CONDEMNED

El Paso drone/post-hardcore band makes a doom album in the newer style. It's bleak, dark and pure punk in its spirit.

http://www.deathmetal.org/news/sabrewulf-condemned/

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DESTROYING TEXAS FEST 7

Absu, Blaspherian, Inquisition, Bahimiron and guests play a Northwest Houston show. This should be legendary, and may end in fire.

http://www.deathmetal.org/news/destroying-texas-7-absu-bahimiron-inquisition-blaspherian-sunday-november-3/

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THE ROOTS OF METAL

A new art exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany shows us the darker side of Romantic poetry, literature and art, which coincidentally was the sliver of that genre that inspired heavy metal.

http://www.deathmetal.org/news/the-roots-of-metal-dark-and-occult-romanticism/

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INTOLITARIAN - BERSERKER SAVAGERY

This extreme fusion of martial power electronics and droning war metal creates an audio interruption that is, like the barking of a loudspeaker in a bombed city,  a broadcast from hell.

http://www.deathmetal.org/news/intolitarian-berserker-savagery-2012/

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MUSIC IS THE BASIS OF LANGUAGE

Rice University researchers find that music not only obeys the laws of language, but may be the way we developed language. This has heady implications for riff-heavy metal music.

http://www.deathmetal.org/news/music-is-the-basis-of-language/