Tag Brazil
Following on from the release of their latest album ‘Legion’ Ave Noctum’s Mark Eve caught up with Antonio Araujo (Guitar) and Dick Siebert (Bass) from Brazilian thrashers Korzus for a chat about thrash, the universe and everything…. AN: You… Continue Reading →
Let me ask a question…. Do you like thrash metal? I mean proper thrash metal, the stuff that makes you want to bounce round the room like a ferret on speed breaking stuff and jumping off cupboards. Not the pansy… Continue Reading →
It’s no surprise that this debut EP from this Brazilian quartet, named after the first Gorguts album, sounds like classic (Schizophrenia / Beneath The Remains) era Sepultura. In fact the influence is worn so obviously on their sleeves that it’s… Continue Reading →
Anyone for a slice of Candlemass inspired South American doom? Forty four years on this planet, and I never thought I’d put those words into one single sentence. The simple fact is that Capilla Ardiente (Burning Chapel) hail from Chile,… Continue Reading →
Not many bands can claim to have launched their own official beer. Unearthly from Brazil can do that. The reason is that this band has become legendary in South American metal circles. In existence since 1998, “Flagellum Dei” is their… Continue Reading →
Borknagar’s Oystein G. Bryn had some nice things to say about these Brazilian black metallers which, even if like me you have been underwhelmed by Borknagar’s output over the last decade or so, carries intrigue and weight in equal measures…. Continue Reading →
The 13th Sepultura studio album, 7th with Derrick Green and the studio début of drummer Eloy Casagrande, is inspired by Austrian filmmaker Fritz Lang’s classic 1927 movie ‘Metropolis’ with socio-political lyrics by Andreas Kisser and Derrick Green. Musically it pulls… Continue Reading →
In 1996, Max Cavelera of Sepultura decided to part ways with the band and form his own group ‘Soulfly’ due to wanting a new musical direction with a more spiritual feel to the music. In the earlier days of Soulfly,… Continue Reading →
Ah, funeral doom. Even at its most adept, most melodic and most majestic there is something about it that means it is forever condemned to the grey, quiet shadows. The pace perhaps, the rich, often romantic melancholy even. Whatever, there… Continue Reading →
This Brazilian band formed in 2007 and this is their debut 4 track EP. Presented in a very nice bi-fold digipak format, this band obviously takes their music seriously and this can be found when you play any one of… Continue Reading →
This band formed in 1996 in Brazil and to date I find this one of the best exports in the power metal field from that country in rather a long time. To say this album is infectious is an understatement…. Continue Reading →
Brazil can produce a lot of raw noisy bands, but the country can also produce a lot of cool metal bands that hold their own against many contemporaries around the world. However, Hellish War falls into the more positive part… Continue Reading →