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- None So Vile: Tech-Death Squads

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New York Times
Wolves in the Throne Room from lympia Wash. are helping to open up the style’s possibilities. The group’s music is swirlier and noisier and more cathartic than most black metal; its long pieces reward your attention with real musical narrative. And though those drums keep going constantly (the part of black metal that ultimately drives me crazy) “Black Cascade” the band’s third album coming out this month from Southern Lord transmits the feeling of rules being rewritten. n “Ex Cathedra” Nathan Weaver screams a phrase I didn’t think could be inscribed in a black metal song: “I love you. ” Karamanduka y MelcochitaTwo Peruvian comedic singers Karamanduka and Melcochita teamed up to make a salsa record together in the late ’60s with the house band from the Mag record label. That’s about all the information we get on “Extra: Acabo Con Lima Huyo Pa’ New York” (“I’m Done With Lima I’m Fleeing to New York”) just reissued by Sonoramico.

After Saddam & bombs Iraqi band rockin’ in USA
The Associated Press
Tales of bands struggling through hard times and overcoming obstacles to stardom are as old as rock ‘n’ roll itself. But Acrassicauda named after a species of black scorpion has had a harder time than most. “A lot of heavy metal bands talk and sing about war and death and destruction but they haven’t experienced it” said bass player Firas al-Lateef. “After three years living as refugees in Syria and Turkey — and putting their survival ahead of their rock star dreams — the band is in America. They live in a small apartment with little more than some fold-out beds and a couple of chairs doing the things many wannabe rock stars do: looking for jobs and women not necessarily in that order. “We’re still in the process of figuring it all out” said drummer Marwan Riyadh 24.

Metal lives at Dubai’s Desert Rock festival
GulfNews
Nervecell on the Desert Rock stage for the third time brought back old school death metal and fans weren’t disappointed. The first Middle-East band to go international they were in their element. August Burns Red a US-based band were the ones to bridge the newcomers to the old timers. A metalcore band they had quite a show going on with distinctive growls and guitars that screeched and wailed quite unbecoming of the band’s looks. Circle pits spanned almost the entire grounds which was a sight indeed.
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None So Vile: Tech-Death Squads
Pitch Weekly
Beneath The Massacre fails miserably. While technical death metal players execute difficult instrumental maneuvers the music is hard-for-hard’s-sake without real compositional skill or coherence. Albright: “That’s true to an extent until you find incredible composers like Mike Keene from. Like most challenging artistic endeavors technical death metal encounters a certain strain of anti-intellectualism; basically “I don’t understand it so it must be crap.