Brainscab Review=Seventh Star: Dead End

Once a long time ago when I was a kid I was outside playing with my friends when a pick-up truck with a camper turned down our street. Well we were in the street at the time playing and got out of the way and right when we did the left rear tire completely flew off the truck. Well when that happened the axel bit the cement of the street and sent sparks flying everywhere, the thing that really sticks out was the grinding noise of iron hitting cement and the total violence of that action. Seventh Star’s “Dead End” reminds me of that moment in time with a controlled vengeance. “Intro”, “Take I Bake”, “I Quit”, “Thick and Thin”, “Everyday”, “In The Lie Of The Beholder”, “Bondservant”, “Coldest Day”, “Game Over”, “Blood Money”, and the title Track “ Dead End” Will bring you into the age of newer metal of a mix of power filled riffs in the Hard-core fashion dwelling a little bit on the thrash side of metal. If I had to compare these guys it would be between Pissing Razors, Pantara and Pro-Pain that leaves them not like them but in that vein. Dead End will bring down the house in a mosh storm of bodies leaving its mark on any who dare.

http://www.myspace.com/seventhstar

Brainscab Review= The Element: Mind Sludge

This is probably in my experience in the metal world the best kept secret that has not been signed to a label. Rafa and Co. have a masterpiece that any true fan of metal needs to get their hands on. Being very heavy on the instrumentation in accordance to the progressive nature of metal for the listener to enjoy and share to the world. “Climbing Up The Stairs”, “City Of Angels”, “Pentatonic Rain”, “One Way Part I”, “One Way Part II”, “Thoughts”, “Breaking Chains”, “Same What”, “The Truth In The Eyes”, “Winds Of Autumn”, “Seventh Day”, “Utopia Part I”, and “Utopia Part II”, will send you on a journey that reminds me of some of the guitar masters that I grew up with. (Toney Malcalpine and Vinnie Moore, just to name a couple) Being majestic as well as dramatic in nature this first effort from The Element will enthrall all listeners and I do believe becomes a fan instantly. (Just Like I did my first listen)

As an extra bonus there are two covers as well that are very hard to find but I got them when I received theses recording. “Kashmir” the Led Zeppelin classic and in my opinion the best version I have ever heard as a cover for a song. “Flight of Icarus” The Iron Maiden Classic that will go great with any fans collection of covers.

http://www.myspace.com/theelementprog

Brainscab Review=Imperial Vengence: Death, August & Royal

Edward Alexander and David Bryan!!! Remember these two names for they have developed an intense British extreme metal hammer to smash the eardrums of the listener. With melodic and dark metallic sounds incorporated in songs lie"6th Airborne Division", "Aristocratic Sex magic", " The Shadow Of The Crescent", "CWN AWWN", and "7 Gates Of Hell". You will be hooked into these two's vision of a British world that you thought did not exist. They also have 3 feature videos to go along with the songs to complete with a visual stimulus as well. With a Braum Stoker vampire like sense of a WWII, European industrial age message that can not be denied its powerful message. This heavy and dark melodic duo are at the gates inviting you in...



ttp://www.myspace.com/imperialvengenceuk

Brainscab Review=Criminal: White Hell

Massacre Records
Without a match to their equal Criminal’s metal approach is undeniable to ignore by those who have the disease of needing heaviness in the music they love. White Hell will be that fix for those who Jones for a metal diet. Being able to match the riffs of thrash and death into a chemical fix that sustains the endorphins’ of the heavy riff area of the brain creating new wrinkles of the extreme sounds of blast beats, angry growls and solid bass lines. Feel the White Hell of Criminal as it courses through your veins cleansing any doubts that there is a poser in you somewhere. “21st Century Paranoia”, “Crime and Punishment”, “Incubus”, “Black Light”, “The Deluge”, “Strange”, “Mobrule”, “The Infidel”, “Invasion”, “Eyes Of Temptation”, “Bastardom”, and “Sons Of Cain”. These twelve messages of extreme metal will burn the soul as well as the body of any needing a pure metallic fix. Criminal’s White Hell is a cure that needs to be experienced.
http://www.myspace.com/criminal

Brainscab Review=Raining: Pain Machines

There is nothing I enjoy is a well played and somewhat long recording by a metal band. Raining is one of those bands that has taken their “Pain Machines” effort to blast any listener into a Rock’n’metal frenzy matched note for note and riff to riff in high electronic energy. Matched with a high octane vocal attack that froths forward to be counted and delivered as a whole part of the music experience. When you blast these twelve songs through your speakers so the newborns will take notice you remind them why Metal is all about freedom and expression brought to live in Pain Machine a Raining creation. “Turn It Off”, “Pain Machines”, “Enjoy The Hell”, “Silent Sin”, “Mental Power”, “Game Of Death”, “I Want To Live”, “Waiting For Hell”, “Scream For Blood”, “Destroy”, “Eleventh”, And “Legacy Of Evil” clock in at just under 50 minutes giving it all and leaving it on the floor is what Raining has done just for you. I believe fans of Joey Lynn Turner era Deep Purple and Rainbow will take this in as well

http://www.myspace.com/rainingband

Brainscab Review= At War: Infidel

Heavy Artillery
Shawn Helsel, Vocals, Guitars/ Paul Arnold Lead Vocals, Bass Guitar/ Dave Stone, Drums and all things that go BANG!!! At war a three piece thrash band that carries on in the Old School sounds not un-like Motor Head and DRI. On their creation of Infidel they are not trying to change the metal world but destroy those who stand against what is right and true. Taking on the sound of true metal with a touch of punk and a whole lot of attitude Infidel is a LP that leaves one message and one message only victory or death. The track listing goes as follows “Assassins”, “At War”, “and Make Your Move”, “R.A.F.”< “Rape Chase”, “Semper Fi”, “Vengeful Eyes”, ”Vengeful Eyes (Continued)”, “Want You Dead”, These nine tracks will leave you with a motivation to take care of business like you have never done before. At War’s Infidel is a purposeful metal LP gives anyone that is the enemy of Freedom one big middle finger in their face. Crank it up and blast away!!!

http://www.myspace.com/atwartheband

Brainscab Review= Lizhard:Lizhard

http://www.myspace.com/perrisrecords
Luke Marsilio, Paul Mainetti, Luca “Ze” Moroni and Ricky Lecchini straight to the curb Rock’n’ Roll that they will remind you why it’s all about the party. These boys from Italy play like it was the 80’s all over again and like it will never end. “Rock ‘n’ Roll is back”, “Devil’s highway”, “Let the good times roll”, “I cry for you”, “Life in the fast lane (Foreigner cover)”, “Let’s Party”, “Bad to the bone”, “Angel”, “My wild Side”, and “Diamond”, have a glimmer of Dokken, Savage, and Winger while still proven to have just enough of it all to make it their own. Lizhard is here and they like to ROCK!
http://www.myspace.com/lizhardband