{"id":16834,"date":"2012-01-26T13:01:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T18:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/?p=16834"},"modified":"2013-01-19T08:02:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T13:02:17","slug":"various-artists-new-year-killing-spree-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/2012\/various-artists-new-year-killing-spree-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Various Artists | New Year Killing Spree 2011<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Alissa Ordabai<\/span>
\nStaff Writer —<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"AA country with a vast and incredibly diverse cultural heritage, India \u2013 strangely enough \u2013 offers rather slim pickings when it comes to metal. Or at least this is what this compilation of 26 metal tracks is suggesting. <\/p>\n

Ambitions and budgets range from demo quality renditions of 80s thrash to post-modernist exercises in combining everything that\u2019s ever existed in metal. But more often than not the imitations of what was in the charts 20 years ago sound tired and inorganic, and the attempts to mix and match them with something else \u2013 be it with symphonic metal or rap-metal \u2013 come through as empty recitations aimed at proving some sort of metal literacy as opposed to conveying inner realities. <\/p>\n

There are, however, exceptions on this record – bands which succeed in mixing thrash, death, power groove, or whatever else, to such a convincing and finely balanced effect that you immediately connect with the genuine feeling behind the accomplished chops. Halahkuh, Grimmortal, Vile Impalement, Deafen, Dark Octaves of Sin, Crystal and the Witches, and Dead Calm Chaos are all to be named as the ones making an effort in the originality department and trying to think outside the box. <\/p>\n

It is unfortunate that India\u2019s richly variegated traditional music is making little impact on the bands featured in this compilation. Grimmortal is one outfit which successfully taps into the country\u2019s musical heritage and for that stands out a mile from the rest of the record\u2019s offerings. <\/p>\n

Other bands \u2013 such as Provissk, Plague Throat, and Azure Delusion \u2013 receive kudos for exactly the opposite, i.e. direct borrowings – in mood and in sound – from the likes of Lamb of God, Napalm Death, or mid-80s Metallica. They may borrow and even directly recite, but do it in such a studious, powerfully laconic way, that you instantly realize that here inner matches the outer, otherwise none of it would work. And when imitation reaches this level of competence, there is a hope that the next step for those bands will be something truly original. <\/p>\n

Genre: Metal<\/p>\n

Track Listing:
\n1. Bestial Murder \u2013 Slaughtered for Sanctity
\n2. Arihant \u2013 Why So Serious
\n3. Blurred Haze \u2013 Hope
\n4. Arcane Deception \u2013 Arcane Deception
\n5. Mutiny in March \u2013 Without the Second
\n6. Dark Desolation \u2013 Futile Dogma
\n7. Exalt \u2013 Kill with Me
\n8. Forsaken \u2013 Unsterblich
\n9. Slain \u2013 Here & Beyond
\n10. Azure Delusion \u2013 Apocalypse
\n11. Aughad \u2013 Desgtroying the Creator
\n12. 1883 AD \u2013 Who Will Kill
\n13. Verses \u2013 Threshold
\n14. Provissk \u2013 Bounded to the Sacred
\n15. Scarface \u2013 Salvation Denied
\n16. Crystal and The Witches \u2013 Alter of Hipocrites (sic).
\n17. Exiled Sanity \u2013 Redesigning Humans \u2013 I [The Uprise]
\n18. Dead Calm Chaos \u2013 The Ladder
\n19. Dark Octaves of Sin \u2013 Blasphemy
\n20. Deafen \u2013 Fate of Misery
\n21. Plague Throat \u2013 Present Chaos
\n22. Vile Impalement \u2013 Cremated Remains
\n23. Intoxicate \u2013 Give Me Mercy
\n24. Halahkuh \u2013 Sacrilege
\n25. Grimmortal \u2013 Resistance
\n26. Dream Diabolic \u2013 Necromenser<\/p>\n

Online: http:\/\/spreebangalore.in\/?p=590<\/a><\/p>\n

Label: Metal Spree<\/p>\n

Hardrock Haven rating: 6.5\/10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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