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Not sure what you mean there with the 'Some users work better than others'. Thanks for giving it an ear anyways.

edit: Oh I get it now. You probably meant 'Parts' not users.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fr8vqIiUxw

Another one recorded over the Covid period at our rehearsal room at Westlink Enterprise Centre, Belfast and at Earthmusic NI by Vic Bronzini-Fulton.

This is the first song we recorded for the Enshrine album/project.

Uilleann pipes by Cormac 'Buzz' Ó Brian.

Been listening to this all week. Good value considering it includes the demo compilation and their three albums. With the exception of their first record 'Equal In Death' it's all great. 'Incarnate' was the only record I had back in the day and I remember it taking me ages to get into it. It's definitely one I've heard in the past described as just noise even by metalheads. I used to wonder if this sound was intentional and now reviewing it all there's no doubt it was. It was retro even back then. Just crusty Possessed type riffage and screeching squealing solos a la Slayer/Morb and hammering snare and crash like Terrorizer or Merciless most the way through. I'd say they were one of a kind in the UK at least. Proper double Jewl case too just like the Holy Terror - Total Terror box set.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CB-9SUQhZA

Cheers for your ears and words. Yeah vocally I guess there are Americanisms in there. Just the way it ended up. They were broadened up between doom blues, a bit of hardcore crust and a narrative noir type thing I guess.

Another new song from a Belfast based Covid period 3 piece project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIdKoXDAeXc

Of course this thrash band are playing tonight in a museum. 

https://www.songkick.com/concerts/41992847-early-man-at-ulster-museum

They did 'Primitive Future' off BTR in Belfast.

If you are in Belfast then you got two/three venues tops for anything heavy. It's nowhere near what it used to be and what's odd/worse is we used to complain about it back then when in comparison well...

I have a ticket and haven't booked any accommodation. This sounds bad.

I'd have said I'd prefer to see The Troops Of Doom but this isn't as good as the first album and they seem to have buried the drums. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkmgbCkDR4PohSI89P14pLg

'Feel' and 'Inner Dilemma' off that are just perfect songs for atmos. Vocal reminds me of Sumerlands 1st now in retrospect.

An overlooked band from nearer to home that weren't so obvious genre wise but reminded me of OverSoul. End Of Level Boss abiet with a Voivod twist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6RF0dYsoQM

Got fuck all else to do today now I'm outta the eye of the storm that is Paddys day in Belfast town centre. Went to HMV just before I left and was surprised to find the Exhorder new album cheaper than the internet.
The last Exhorder album was so boring to me I never even talked about it and I've always been a massive fan. I didn't even go to their show in Dublin not too long ago. Saw the made up recent live vids then and thought they were weak as fuck.
This album is well produced just like Testaments last thumbs up album but Exhorders last was samey southern american and seriously boring. First half here is so dull I can't even comment. The changes the band made kinda remind me of what 'The Armed' are doing cept Exhorder know this music by their generation an it aint just like a kid changing channels constantly. It just switches style for points between moods instead of delivering for themselves it seems to reach for relevance instead. Highlights are 'Year Of The Goat', the first song to deliver on this album at track 6.
'Taken By Flames' wins just on pure force straight after only to fall a bit flat at the end with Slayerisms. 'Stolen Hope' wishes it had  the same imapct of Pantera's 'Floods' but no chance, walk on home boy despite Thomas's very epic Geoff Tate vocals at the end.
'Lacing The Well' has some early Dark Angel to it intially that cuts to a Numetal groove chopping it's legs off before she's running.
'Sedition' sounds like they wanted a power metal Superjoint ordeal but it just don't make sense. A different band sound altogether.
Some of this hammers and they have no doubt threw everything at the wall to see what'll stick.
The last song weirdly sounds like when Spiritual Beggars went metal on 'Ad Astra'.
I will say that what this album has in abundance is variation especially from the mid to the end.




Exhorder - Defectum Omnium
1 - Wrath of Prophecies 2.5
2 - Under the Gaslight 3
3 - Forever and Beyond Despair 3.5
4 - The Tale of Unsound Minds 3.5
5 - Divide and Conquer 3.5
6 - Year of the Goat 5
7 - Taken by Flames 4
8 - Defectum Omnium/Stolen Hope 3.5
9 - Three Stages of Truth/Lacing the Well 3
10 - Sedition 2.5
11 - Desensitized 3
12 - Your Six 3

They backed Boris in Belfast I think in the Black Box..

Hearing Shrinebuilder there.

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