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Picture Credit: Pentral Artwork: Heidi Taillefer   Pentral - What Lies Ahead Of Us Release Date: May 07, 2021 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Length: 72:57 Genre: Prog Metal / Prog Rock Origin: Belém , Brazil The album on hand is the debut release by North Brazil's trio Pentral. But honestly, it is way more than just that. First of all, band members Joe Ferry  (bass), and brother Vagner  (drums) and Victor Lima  (guitars and vocals) were supported by several guest musicians: Ivan Teixeira  (backing voices and keyboards), Isabelle Trindade  (backing voices), Yaniel Matos  (cello), and Tim Palmer  (guitars, tambourine, and keyboards). And yes, "What Lies Ahead Of Us" is not just a regular album. Pentral's debut is a concept album creating a narrative that is as thrilling and as realistic as life in the 21st century itself. The great cover artwork by Heidi Taillefer  already gives us the first ideas what this might be about. "What Lies Ahead...

Picture Credit: Κραυγή Artwork: Lisa Lawrence and Aether Vortex Designs Κραυγή -  Κραυγή Release Date: March 10, 2021 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Length: 21:55 Genre: Depressive and Suicidal Black Metal Origin: Greece / Brazil Κραυγή (pronounce: Kravghi; Greek for "Scream") is a transcontinental Old School Black Metal project with a strong tendency to subgenres such as DSBM and Raw Black Metal. Κραυγή consists of Brazilian artist  Enrih Strange (bass, guitar, drums, mix), and Grito  (lyrics, vocals) from Greece. Κραυγή (Self-Titled) Ep by Κραυγή The sound on their selftitled debut EP can best be described as a merciless blizzard. The music blows like a brutal storm of icicles and the intensity of the relentless cold of Siberian winter. The lyrics are all in Greek (I guess) and are performed in a brachial early-day Black Metal manner. Fans of pre- Attila  Mayhem will like this a lot. Κραυγή play the music for everyone who cannot get enough of winter...

Picture Credit: Ignited Ignited - Steelbound Release Date: November 01, 2019 Label: Voice Music Format: Digital Length: 39:29 Genre: Heavy Metal / Power Metal Origin: Balneário Camboriú , Brazil "Steelbound" was recorded in 2019, two years after South East Brazilian band Ignited were formed. The quartet delivers ten hot tracks of powerful Heavy Metal with classic themes. A strong feature on this album is the massive sound that comes out of the speakers like a wall.The metal played by Ignited s broad, sonorous and heavy. Another striking feature are the vocals which change between melodic deeper chanting and extremely high falsettos. The latter is Heavy Metal as hell! The gang shouts that accompany the vocals from time to time add to the energy of the music on "Steelbound". Somehow it appears, as if the band got stuck in mid-tempo. The variety in speed unfortunately is very low and hence Ignited hardly break out of their sedatively stomping Hard Rock tempo. Thus, de...

Picture Credit: Initiate Decay Initiate Decay - Awaken the Extinction Release Date: April 15, 2018 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Length: 12:21 Genre: Technical Death Metal / Brutal Death Metal Origin: Esteio , Brazil In the spheres of Extreme Metal, artists often tend to be either technically versatile or brachial. In some cases one might even think that these elements belong to the same scale, and that therefore variety and brutality negatively correlate to each other. Well, that's not not the case. And Brazil's Initiate Decay are proof that Death Metal can be both technical and brutal. The 2018 debut EP is defined by various song structures and intelligent changes in metre, tempo and intensity. At the same time, Initiate Decay are spitting venom with high velocity and brachiality. The EP is like a death-bringing warmachine with numerous hidden turrets. You can never tell where the next shot is coming from and where it might hit. But it is most certainly a lethal project...

Picture Credit: Carniça Carniça -  Carniça Release Date: September 20, 2017 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Length: 34:02 Genre: Thrash Metal  / Heavy Rotten Metal Origin: Novo Hamburgo , Brazil One might assume that "Carniça" is the debut album by Novo Hamburgo's Heavy Rotten Metal band - and so did I. Well, that actually is not true. Instead, this is the third longplayer by Carniça who were formed in Southern Brazil almost 30 yeas ago. Carniça call their music Heavy Rotten Metal. Predominantly, it is a brachial form of Thrash Metal with some influence from gory Death Metal and actually some New Wave of British Heavy Metal, as you can hear in the song 'The Putrid Kingdom'. And there is that obvious impact of the South American Metal scene that makes "Carniça" so dynamic and energetic. They even pay hommage to the Brazilian Thrash Metal legends Sarcófago by covering their song 'Midnight Queen'. Extreme Metal from South America and especiall...

Slowner - Flood of Hell Release Date: December 25, 2020 Length: 08:08 Genre: Stoner Doom / Desert Rock Origin: Recife , Brazil Slowner Online: Facebook Instagram Bandcamp YouTube Spotify Looking for affordable and high quality promotion for your music? Here's MusoSoup! Follow MangoWave on Telegram DONATE

Photo Credit: Requiem's Sathana Requiem's Sathana - Requiem's Sathana Release: April 10, 2020 Labe: Cianeto Format: CD/Digital Length: 40:25 Genre: Black Metal / Blackened Death Metal Origin: Novo Hamburgo , Brazil Requiem's Sathana were founded in 2017 and mostly consists of members from Bloodwork and Dyingbreed . The band's approach is to create musicked hailstorms of ice cold needles. Merciless and elemental Blackened Death Metal fires towards the eardrums as the seltfitled debut commences. But Requiem's Sathana have a lot more potential than just hacking down dark legions with ultra speed. After the devastating orcan of the first track 'Legion' Requiem's Sathana add plenty of Prog elements to their ice cold and brachial music. Photo Credit: Requiem's Sathana CLICK HERE TO LISTEN Requiem's Sathana play massively intense Black and Death Metal without sounding hackneyed. That is not only due to the influence of Prog Metal and Doom Metal (es...

Photo Credit: Lucas "From Hell" Evilcult - At the darkest Night Release: June 26, 2020 Label: Awakening Records Format: CD/Digital Length: 39:13 Genre: Blackened Thrash Metal Origin:  Bento Gonçalves , Brazil Sweet child of Satan! This is already the tenth appearance of Awakening Records on my page. Today, we're listening to the first longplayer by Evilcult from Bento Gonçalves, in the South of Brazil. The band was founded in 2016 and has so far released an EP and some singles. Members are Mateus "Blasphemer"  (drums) and Lucas "From Hell"  (bass, guitars, vocals). The music on Evilcult's "At the darkest Night" is a merciless brawl of rough Thrash Metal with plenty of Black Betal impact and a certain influence by Speed Metal. It is ultrafast, absolutely brutal, icecold, blasphemous, and pitch-dark. Or in less words: a fantastic Metal album. While Mateus  is drumming, thrashing and clubbing like a berserker in a clockwork, Lucas  is crea...

I was born in 1987. In the same year J.P. , Roberto , Alexandre  and Rica  founded the band Metralion in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil . All four of them were into Thrash Metal and that's exactly what you're hearing when you listen to their songs. Within the following two years, two albums were released: "Quo Vadis" (1988) and "A Mosh in Brazil" (1989). And then there was silence. Silence kept on for over thirty years. My Brazilian and other South American readers are invited to tell me whether Metralion are really sort of a legend for Thrash Metal or if they just disappeared silently. Photo Credit: Black-Roos Entertainment EPK Last November the two albums by Metralion were re-released as a compilation via Awakening Records . Thus, now we can listen to the full opus of Rio de Janeiros Thrash Metal band. That means more than one hour of fullspeed Old School Thrash Metal and nostalgia are available on CD now. My first impression is that the two albums wer...

"RLC" ist the name of Saturndust's second long player which was released digitally in 2017. On May 08, 2020 the 47-minute album will be avalailable on vinyl via Nécio Records . Saturndust is a trio from São Paulo, Brazil who dedicated themselves to the exploration of black holes and the darkest spheres of outter space. The band consists of Felipe Dalam  - Vocals, Guitar, Synthesizers, Guilherme Cabral  - Bass, and Douglas Oliveira  - Drums, Effects. Picture Credit: Saturndust / Nécio Records EPK The journey Saturndust are taking us on is not the one you might expect. We are not about to view flickering caleidoscopes of colourful images as on a typical Space Rock journey. Thisis the dark side of space. "RLC" makes us discover rutted landscapes of abandoned worlds and deserted planets. The sounds makes us travel through vast galaxies of sheer emptiness and inhospitable spheres. Saturndust play rough and heavy Drone Doom containing and experimental approa...