A black metal break:
Dead Rivers Run Dry send their metallic greetings from Australia, this is their first self-released work which consists of four songs of barbaric black metal and when
Terrorizer mag writes good words about them then my crappy opinion doesn't count at all. This is black metal rooted in the second BM wave and without the typical clichés especially in the lyrical content where instead the usual occult stuff they bring some apocalyptic nightmares about environment destruction. Music wise they deliver frantic drum beating and solid bass, soul tormenting guitar riffs while the shrieking high pitched vocals complete the pessimistic landscape created by music. Here is a review taken from
Heath Harvest and its waaayy better than my crap:
"It is a good sign when I find it easy to
write a review for a release and this one flowed after just a few
listens. Invoking desertification, corruption, and the entire
post-apocalyptic milieu, Dead River Runs Dry are a newly forged
Australian black metal assault. A vile and pessimistic atmosphere, raw
and untrammeled by any instinct for civilization, marks the four tracks
of this, their debut demo release (available for free download via the
Bandcamp link provided below in the label line).
Dead River Runs Dry stick closely to the
conventions and formulae of the black metal genre, but nonetheless
deftly avoid the pitfalls of cliché and staleness that sometimes haunt
the style. Each track offers a coarse slab of mid- to frantic-paced
black metal, sometimes with some thrashier elements thrown into the mix
to keep the edges ragged and flinty-sharp.
Wrapped around the guitar riffage is some
very solid bass work and drumming, the rhythm section providing a tight
and snarling structure for the music as a whole. The vocals ride over
the instrumentation with an appropriately sickening shriek and gurgle,
and occasional clean choirs add extra flesh to the performances.
This is not a band that channels anything
bright or joyous; disgust and contempt strive in conflict with
occasional remembrances of grandeur. All in all this tension conjures
the harsh realities of a drought-laden continent – possibly in a few
decades, all life stripped from its broad back.
Yet there is also a swagger and a strut
to the songs, reminiscent of Serbian black metal band Kozeljnik. I
suppose the recent violent history of the Balkans is to Kozeljnik’s
brand of vileness what the rapidly decaying and desertifying Australian
landscape is to Dead River Runs Dry’s distempered onslaught.
Black metal almost always seems to be in
dialogue with the environment. Even the most apocalyptic and
misanthropic of its manifestations is possessed of a certain horizonal
drama; it sweeps down from mountains, sends oceans churning, and sets
forests ablaze. The challenge for Australian black metal has always been
to find a sound that suits the local climate and geography (rather than
incongruous invocations of the frost-bitten north). In this respect
Dead River Runs Dry seem to be succeeding admirably.
The music also attempts to dive into the
pit of humanity’s responsibility for the environmental disaster
presently sweeping the planet. This is courageous, creatively speaking,
when compared to the fantasy- land-nature-worship nostalgia some artists
are guilty of committing. In short, then: the very promising musical
content offered on this demo is supported by a mature complex of ideas
and spiritual questions.
All in all, a well produced and performed
demo release, from a band that sounds like it has the stamina to carve
out an ideological hell hole all of its own in the barren wastes of the
Australian desert. Prophetic, sun-blasted, and antagonistic from start
to finish."
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A black metal break: Dead Rivers Run Dry send their metallic greetings from Australia, this is their first self-released work which consists of four songs of barbaric black metal and when Terrorizer mag writes good words about them then my crappy opinion doesn't count at all. This is black metal rooted in the second BM wave and without the typical clichés especially in the lyrical content where instead the usual occult stuff they bring some apocalyptic nightmares about environment destruction. Music wise they deliver frantic drum beating and solid bass, soul tormenting guitar riffs while the shrieking high pitched vocals complete the pessimistic landscape created by music. Here is a review taken from Heath Harvest and its waaayy better than my crap:
Warthreat D-beat raw punx come from Perth, Australia , we first met them in their demo tape from 2011, Raw Punk and Chaos Noise is their five track tape for their South East Asia tour ( late Feb to early March '12) and delivers nearly eight minutes of what the name of tape says: Raw D-beat punk full of distortion in the vein of almighty Disclose, Confuse, Shitlickers, etc, this is prety much chaotic and noisy with distortion, treble and reverb to the maximum ,two songs are fresh new, two re-recorded and taken from the first demo and the s/t 7" and the tape ends with Conquest of Disclose.
Ex Craw come from Perth West Australia and they are the band named The Craw with a slightly different name, i posted Primitive Thrash split ep with Deathgrenade so there is no need to repeat any shit about them. Extinct is a eighteen track home dubbed demo tape recorded in 2011 and released by Live Fast Die Drunk Records (myshit, site, blog) a label run by Shane (bass player in Ex Craw and also in Warthreat) who kindly offered it (thanks and cheers!). The demo lasts nearly 30 minutes and brings fast and thrashing hardcore punk similar to their stuff from the split ep, most of the tracks are new and just a few come from 2010-2009 sessions, the cover includes insert with lyrics. sound is raw and decent. Link is provided by Ex-Craw, very nice effort and i wait for more by them, thanks Shane and have a crusty new year!
"Started March 2011. Members; Tom(drums), Kieran(vox), Mark (guitar). Have been/are in other bands like; INEBRIATED,OCEAN OF ZERO,DREGS OF HUMANITY,GHETTO BLASTER,NATION OF HATE,MIDGET FETISH. Played a few gigs so far w/ TEARGAS, DEBACLE, UNKOWN TO GOD, HEROIN SS." (taken from their ReverbNation page)
Warthreat come from Perth, western Australia and this is their demo tape, recorded in 28 December 2010. The demo came in only 50 copies and were sold out but there is a second pressing "professionally duplicated in STEREO through DEX Audio and include a double sided folded insert". Music wise there are seven tracks and nearly thirteen minutes of raw, noisy and chaotic D-beat strongly influenced by Skitlickers, Anti Cimex, Disclose and the likes. This is good piece of noise and at the moment, Black Seeds and D-Takt & Råpunk have some copies available. Warthreat have a fresh new ep on Crucificados and members were in Suffer and Extortion and currently in Ex Craw, check their myspace.(download link is provided by the band)
This is brutal crust with grind elements from Melbourne, Australia: "Debacle started in may 2009 when the five of us started jaming together. we played our 1st show at the pony bar in Melbourne on Friday the 13th of November 2009. After playing our first few shows we recorded our 7 track demo tape in march of 2010 which we then launched at the Arthouse in Melbourne on the 28th of April 2010 with the help of Satori, Pisschrist and Mossuraya (Switzerland) it is now available from us. After 18 months of jamming, shows and set backs Woomby decided it was time to move back to Queensland so on Sept 11th 2010 at the Black Goat he played his farewell show,he shall be missed. Jimi decided to step up to take on the bass duties,as well as his vocal commitments. and on the 24th of Sept at Loophole we played our first show as a 4 piece. we are always keen for a show or two so get in touch if ya want us to play your show, hopefully we'll see ya at a gig sooner".This is on their myshit page,(they are also on shitbook) as said above the tape delivers seven tracks and thirteen minutes of brutal crust in the vein of Disrupt with deep low howling vocals, fast beat with some slower parts, still available from the band, score a copy of you like it
