Description
Metalegion 8
Highlights on this issue range from features with some of the top acts of the metal scene, like Asphyx, The Amenta, Ablaze My Sorrow, Einherjer, Hell-Born, Dread Sovereign or the vile black metal act Atrexial but also covering underground gems like Akhlys, Korpsesoturi, Bhleg, Transilvania, Significant Point, Godagainst or the violent death metal rhythms of Soulskinner between others.
It also features a 2-page label report from the Indian Transcending Obscurity Records, a mixtape done by Inquisition vocalist/guitarist Jason “Dagon” Weirbach, an evolutive perspective of Scott Ian from Anthrax to Mr.Bungle, plus all sort of regular sections and a 78 minutes sampler CD featuring songs from bands that will satiate your headbanging needs.
Features:
ASPHYX – Cooked under restrictive lockdown measures, the tenth full-length album “Necroceros” by the genre-defining Dutch quartet Asphyx is everything that fans would expect, and perhaps even more. Partly influenced by the state of the world, death is for that matter much present, like it has always been, yet the way that fearful topic is introduced alongside various historic and war-related themes gives it a more realistic, aggressive edge.
THE AMENTA – A desolate travel through a fast rhythmic experience
ATREXIAL – Crossing the realm where lost souls experience pain…
KORPSESOTURI – Respecting the old Finnish flavours of traditional death
BLESSED BY PERVERSION – Intensity, melody, and brutality are their deathly weapons
DREAD SOVEREIGN – A pessimistic vision of a world unhealthy
DIRA MORTIS – The ancient breath of ominous, foetid gutturality
TRANSILVANIA – When mysticism and fierce grim metal go hand in hand
IOTUNN – A giant leap into the exciting world of Garganey
SCOTT IAN – Spreading the passion on how to become a musician
AKHLYS – An out-of-body experience of ferocious black metal
SOULSKINNER – Building unrelenting wrath under unforeseen adversities
INFILTRATION – Leading the way through brutal realms of intensity
SEER OF GALLOWS – The violent intense dynamics when entropy rises
GODAGAINST – Old beasts rise when the proper summons is mumbled
NIRNAETH – Vibrant gloomy atmospheres charged with villainy
HELL-BORN – Reciting the old words while the fire still burns
IGNITOR – Using black magick to engage us with an old tradition
ABLAZE MY SORROW – The touch of melodic death metal done the right way
PORK TRUE – The expansion of an indestructible true pork chop
SIGNIFICANT POINT – An electrifying gaze towards stormy guitar riffs
BHLEG – Emotion and violence in contrasting rhythmic patterns
CANCERFAUST – Continuously spreading terror and demonic filth
EDOMA – Experiencing layers of history through gloomy ice
TOMORROW’S RAIN – Doom filled with a ton of well-known guest musicians
EINHERJER – From a period where pride and honour meant something
Regulars:
UNDERGROUND BANGERS – Prime selections that require immediate attention
CHOICE CUTS – An exquisite audio selection of bands on CD
LABEL REPORT – Metal at home in India via Transcending Obscurity Records
DEVIL’S SCRIPTURES – iconic Rob Halford and a book worth 12 years of photography
DIARY OF A METALHEAD – Ramblings of a mind plagued by the devil’s music
IN THEIR OWN WORDS – Intruder’s Metal Blade Records years reissued
SLICE & DICE – Only the strongest will survive our scrutiny
MIXTAPE – Jason “Dagon” Weirbach shares his fundamental selections
Sampler CD:
01. BLESSED BY PERVERSION WITHIN MONUMENTAL CHAOS
02. KORPSESOTURI PEDON SIELU SISÄLTÄSI
03. GODAGAINST REALMS OF ABOMINATIONS
04. SEER OF GALLOWS WORLD WRAPPED IN FIRE
05. DEATH AT DAWN VOICES IN MY HEAD
06. SOULSKINNER THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS
07. INFERNAL THORNS ANCIENT WITCH
08. INFILTRATION MISSING IN BODYCOUNT
09. TYPHONIAN DISEMBODIED
10. TOMORROW’S RAIN A YEAR I WOULD LIKE TO FORGET
11. KRIEGSGOTT H8 4ALL
12. EXSANGUINATION ENTRAILS THE ABYSS LIGHTHOUSE
13. DARK ZODIAK DESTROY DESTRUCTION
14. MALFESTED MASKED WITH THE SKULLS OF THE FALLEN
15. NATTAS CASTAWAY
16. FINAL DAWN SATAN’S HOURGLASS
17. HEGEROTH LAST SALVATION
18. NIRNAETH NIEMOC