KILL CHAMBERS 'The Reckoning' RISING Reading bruisers Kill Chambers unleash horrific hell with their first lashing of prime-album material, thus the result is a catastrophic carnage of Melodic Death Metal colliding with cutting-edge Metalcore, revolutionizing the first audio wave of their debut album 'The Reckoning'. Signed to Rising Records, the quintet bring the same level of brutality as label-mates The Dead Lay Waiting but perhaps leaning more to the more softer kind in vocal levels. However don't let the image or genre-tagging fool you, for the album has enough balls and mind-crushing power to overthrow any army, let alone leaving the listener mesmerised at what just happened, chock-full of riffs, breakdowns, frequency shifts and attitude, Kill Chambers is 'the metal band to overthrow Reading Metal throne-robbers Malefice'. [10] RHYS STEVENSON _ NOCTEM 'Oblivion' RISING As majestic as bull fighting is and as brutal as the Spanish armada amassed to be, the final force resulted in a mind-blowing sophomore album from the Spanish quintet Noctem. Pummelling out a monstrous emblazonment of Black / Death / Thrash Metal in its most extreme form, Noctem raise the flag of the Spanish Metal scene with emphatic style. With their sophomore album being an apt soundtrack to cavaliers on the battlefield, this is one record with a death signature and death will riding on it. Sounding like a Thrash Metal covered Behemoth, Noctem are sure to take the underground by storm. [8] RHYS STEVENSON _ SKELETAL DAMAGE 'Fire & Forget' RISING Cheshire Thrash newbies Skeletal Damage offer no compromise with their debut album 'Fire & Forget', as they head straight into the full whacking of break-neck thrash and soul-crushing English Metal. In the style of the tactical European Thrash signature, the quartet ignites a series of sensationalist tracks and herald the pure essence of bringing menacing to the forefront. As for their debut album, there lacks no negative issues but more so the ideology that heads will bang, moshpits will commence and above all thrash just got a whole lot faster, it’s time to 'Fire & Forget'. [8.5] RHYS STEVENSON _ ARMY RISING 'Impending Chaos' RISING As majestic and glorious as Iron Maiden are, Ireland's Army Rising employ Heavy Metal with some Thrash elements in the drumming, whilst infusing a great level of headbanging riffs, all in all summing up their debut album 'Impending Chaos'; being fast, chaotic and essentially heavy. Capturing the essence of the root of Heavy Metal, it is clear that Army Rising know how to play the genre to its full potential as seen on tracks like 'destination grave' with its swinging feeling in the music, much like a pendulum on crack cocaine. None the less, the boys from Tipperary have only just begun. [8.5] RHYS STEVENSON _ KAIDEKA
'False Idols & Pyrite Thrones' RISING Hailing from the South-western peninsula of Great Britain is Cornish quintet Kaideka of whom exert their bizarre and odd mix of Nu Metal and Thrash Metal to make what one would assume is 'Nu Thrashcore'; though the band would more than likely disagree. Chock full of balls (sometimes sweaty), their latest offering 'False Idols & Pyrite Thrones' does not shy away from being individual, but nor does it hide from being nothing new, the latter proven by the American band Soulfy, however Kaideka offers a more gallant variant, one to echo off the infamous pirates in Cornish history - in fact the music would be apt in a Pirates of the Caribbean film, more so Chester Bennington of Linkin Park will have envy in mind. [9.5] RHYS STEVENSON
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Tanya
11/1/2012 13:00:21
Have seen Kaideka several times - they are truly awesome live - have their latest album and agree that however they label themselves or are labelled - the album proves they have technical know how, guitar/drum mastery and lyrically brilliant...in my humble opinion Xxx
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