F- Minus – ‘Won’t Bleed Me/Failed
Society’ (Alternative Tentacles)
This
band seems like they really hate their parents, only looking at their pictures,
they are kinda old to hate their parents! With a fast paced drum beat, no songs
over 40 seconds long, nothing but screaming, and the icing on the cake, lyrics
like: Cant live alone/ gotta be free/ hate my parents more than/ they hate me/
Schools and factories/ make me sick/ I’d rather stand here/ and sell my dick.
I’m gonna go ahead and ask you if you ever thought it was fun to be in a circle
pit? Do you hate the cops? Does punching a 14 year old sound like your idea of a
good time? Would you rather “stand here and sell [your] dick” than, I don’t
know, learn how to play a different bass line? Those aren’t really my things,
but hey, if they are yours then F-minusis the band for you. (Feowyn A.
MacKinnon)
The newest
album from Falkenbach is grand, sweeping, and damned impressive! Taking the
phenomenon of folk metal to new heights, Falkenbach show that there's more to
the genere than playing a violin over a blast beat. Do you like your metal
heavy? This album is as heavy as they come, with extreme vocals punctuating the
arrangements like a sledgehammer. Do you like your metal melodic? Both the
riffs and clean vocals have a melodic sense that both surprises and stays with
you. Do you like your metal epic? This could be the soundtrack to a really
bitchin Viking movie. Really, if you've never found a folk-metal band that
you've liked before, I'd recommend giving ‘Heralding the Fireblade’ a spin. It
WILL suprise you. The Heathen Hippy gives it four battle-axes. (Taliesin A.
Govannon)
Ladies and
gentlemen, I present to you the most original extreme metal album of 2005. Fear
of Eternity is the project name given to Andrea Tilenni's latest contribution to
the "one-man metal band" phenomenon, and ‘Toward The Castle’ is an album that's
been four years in the making. It was time well spent, because this is music
that skirts the edge of insanity and comes back stronger than ever. There's not
a single blast beat on the album, no double-kick drumming exercises, no screams
of angst-ridden petulance...this is black metal at it's spookiest, and it's
designed to unsettle you. This sounds like the soundtrack to your nightmares,
the creepy, fucked up ones at least. It actually reminds me of John Carpenter's
early soundtrack work (‘Halloween’, ‘The Fog’) at times, and I mean that in the
best possible sense. This is eerie, organ-leaden black metal that out-goths any
outfit out there. What's so refreshing is that it's so different than what I've
heard lately. If you're tired of black metal that just becomes a blur, then
check out Fear Of Eternity. The Heathen Hippy gives it four and a half minor
chords. (Taliesin A. Govannon)
This
is fast, melodic punk with intelligent lyrics that manages to avoid going over
the edge into commercial territory. If you like early Bad Religoin and
Pennywise, but feel like those bands have become increasingly mediocre, this
might be the ticket for you. I don’t think the songwriting is quite on a par
with the best from either of those acts, but it’s not bad. At least the energy
level is there. Good production, solid musicianship, and a top notch vocalist
take what might otherwise have been so-so material and give it some impact. The
Fire Still Burns isn’t breaking any new ground, and I don’t think they intended
to, but they do what they do well. (Bob Ignizio)
This
band seems like they really hate their parents, only looking at their pictures,
they are kinda old to hate their parents! With a fast paced drum beat, no songs
over 40 seconds long, nothing but screaming, and the icing on the cake, lyrics
like: Cant live alone/ gotta be free/ hate my parents more than/ they hate me/
Schools and factories/ make me sick/ I’d rather stand here/ and sell my dick.
I’m gonna go ahead and ask you if you ever thought it was fun to be in a circle
pit? Do you hate the cops? Does punching a 14 year old sound like your idea of a
good time? Would you rather “stand here and sell [your] dick” than, I don’t
know, learn how to play a different bass line? Those aren’t really my things,
but hey, if they are yours then F-minus is the band for you. (Feowyn A.
MacKinnon)
The newest
album from Falkenbach is grand, sweeping, and damned impressive! Taking the
phenomenon of folk metal to new heights, Falkenbach show that there's more to
the genere than playing a violin over a blast beat. Do you like your metal
heavy? This album is as heavy as they come, with extreme vocals punctuating the
arrangements like a sledgehammer. Do you like your metal melodic? Both the
riffs and clean vocals have a melodic sense that both surprises and stays with
you. Do you like your metal epic? This could be the soundtrack to a really
bitchin Viking movie. Really, if you've never found a folk-metal band that
you've liked before, I'd recommend giving ‘Heralding the Fireblade’ a spin. It
WILL suprise you. The Heathen Hippy gives it four battle-axes. (Taliesin A.
Govannon)
Ladies and
gentlemen, I present to you the most original extreme metal album of 2005. Fear
of Eternity is the project name given to Andrea Tilenni's latest contribution to
the "one-man metal band" phenomenon, and ‘Toward The Castle’ is an album that's
been four years in the making. It was time well spent, because this is music
that skirts the edge of insanity and comes back stronger than ever. There's not
a single blast beat on the album, no double-kick drumming exercises, no screams
of angst-ridden petulance...this is black metal at it's spookiest, and it's
designed to unsettle you. This sounds like the soundtrack to your nightmares,
the creepy, fucked up ones at least. It actually reminds me of John Carpenter's
early soundtrack work (‘Halloween’, ‘The Fog’) at times, and I mean that in the
best possible sense. This is eerie, organ-leaden black metal that out-goths any
outfit out there. What's so refreshing is that it's so different than what I've
heard lately. If you're tired of black metal that just becomes a blur, then
check out Fear Of Eternity. The Heathen Hippy gives it four and a half minor
chords. (Taliesin A. Govannon)
This
is fast, melodic punk with intelligent lyrics that manages to avoid going over
the edge into commercial territory. If you like early Bad Religoin and
Pennywise, but feel like those bands have become increasingly mediocre, this
might be the ticket for you. I don’t think the songwriting is quite on a par
with the best from either of those acts, but it’s not bad. At least the energy
level is there. Good production, solid musicianship, and a top notch vocalist
take what might otherwise have been so-so material and give it some impact. The
Fire Still Burns isn’t breaking any new ground, and I don’t think they intended
to, but they do what they do well. (Bob Ignizio)