Luckily some gigs around made my mind back to almost (ab)normality. Fighting back! This time these stuff: TERRAHSPHERE (US) - Third in order from the Sun 1991 + 1988 demo Eternally Scarred. First listenings were tough, mostly because the first track is hugely weird in vocals but honestly, after three times this stuff get's right into your face... is highly technical thrash metal. Naming again Dark Symphonies Records and also owning MYSTO DYSTO, you know the line is the same... this band is fantastic, has lots of stuff in common with acts like ATHEIST, little HELLWITCH and ASPID too. I would remark "Plan of Observation" (here we have an X-file!), "Under the black Moon" and "New Clear Day" tracks but honestly I enjoyed it all! The demo is exactly in the same vein, more Speed Metal with some EXCITER's influence mostly in vocals but musically speaking is a techincal speed metal, "Vicious Circle" track reminded me of PADDOK from 'Brigada Metallica' Uruguayan compilation too, "Apocalipsis" track in the solo part, mostly the guitar tune and distortion. If you are into weirdness of music, well, this is one of those bands you will remember your whole life for sure thanks to "Re-emergence of Atlantis" track that opens this album! By the way, the artwork is supreme for this kind of act! EVIL SINNER (Bel) - Merciless demo 1987, I hardly check mp3 stuff but Fukulu (my friend from the act HEFESTO) told me about them, I got the mp3 through slsk as one expect and listened to it right away, since I don't know too much projects from that country. To my surprise this demo is in the vein of BLOOD FEAST, killer act, raw sounding, the guitar tune is excellently taken as if it were a rehearsal (probably is), and drums sounds really live. It seems to have no production at all which makes it even more appealing to my mind. All tracks are great except the last one which seems to be added just to fill the space."Merciless" track is the odd one here because it adds more speed and ends up with some CRYPTIC SLAUGHTER similarities and kills. Great discovery by my young fella! A dubbed tape from this act or good rip from the tape will be more than wellcome! NAÑ - A Close Friend of Death demo compilation 2014 - released by Metalrace Records, a good Russian metal label. This is a Thrash/Crossover project quite good, I say 'quite' because I don't like this genre in general terms, but this one was an exception, it is good. Sadly this release is not as impressive as some of the other releases this label has already done. If you are willing to explore their scene as I do, you will not be dissapointed, it is a good item to have and is not that expensive either. Includes their two demos, one from 1990 and the other 1992, the first one is the one I enjoyed the most, the second one is not that impressive and it even includes the best tracks from the first one... vocals are identical, like if those two years never passed, but I felt more comfortable with their first one. What I do hate from this label, no fukin word in English! Ha ha, every release of them is purely Russian, it is pretty sad since I would love to read about bio's from the bands they tend to add (not in this release, the insert is hugely poorly done). KGB - CMEPTbH BOCCTABWNÑ 1992, Another Metalrace release wonderfully done, its insert is printed beautifully with some "shinny" parts in the logo and such. Excellent Technical Thrash Metal like what Russians always tend to do... tracks are really lengthy, I could relate this with ASPID band but not that fast as "Extravasation" album is. It always blows my mind when you listen to some simple Riff and Russians just do the maths to make it more complex each time!!! I think Russian metalheads have always had some sort of function in their brains, ala f(x)=i, where x is your riff and i is an impossible riff !!! Ha ha! This music is mostly instrumental, vocals are great but they are not used too much. Not too much pictures but great high quality ones and I cannot state anything else on this because I know no Russian. Totally recommended their sound is as sharp as 80's which I fukin love in 80s Russian sound as a fukin beer!. TREBLINKA (Swe) - Bootleg CDR compilation with "Crawiling Vomits" demo 1988, "The sign of the Pentagram" demo 1989 and "Severe Abominations" EP 1989. I always ignored this band because I thought it was purely black metal, the kind I don't like, what a fukin poser I am... This is Death Metal with black atmosphere, thrash parts and primitive. The first demo has a middle-distortion-like guitar which at some point reminds me of BATHORY (first era), but musically is not like that... Is not a fast kind of music at some points, great riffs with the kind of drumming you could expect in Black/Death metal bands, probably this could be considered as a proto Black/Death because of its lack of speed and morbid notes, the track "Earwigs in your Veins" totally reminded me to that jazzy/experimental black metal BELIAL (Chile) did in their "Homo Lycanthropus"! I noticed that HTC fanzine from my chilean friends took the name from here and in this very track named "Hail to Cruelty" I even found a riff similar to "Death Metal to the grave" from my act PHERETRUM, what!? crazy fuk! "Cadaverous Odour" start with Rock music, crazy... it twist my mind! And there you instantly recognize AGRESSOR,SEPULTURA,MUTILATOR brazilian kind of riffing. After this release, the advance in the band with more distorion in guitars and a highly improved drumming, this is indeed a somber Death Metal with more speed and great riffs and vocals turned from a sort of BlackMetalish tune into almost PESTILENCE/MERCILESS/Chilean kind of screams. Even the guitar tune could be expected in bands like DEMIGOD,DEMILICH,FUNEBRE from the finnish scene. Astonished me because I was not expecting it. Also included slow parts which was not common in the demo, with the blackish melody I kind of dislike, at least in the openning track "Nocturnal Funeral". "Evilized" is faster and it has blues rythms in guitars! WOW!!! At some points something rang the bell in relation to MORBID (Swe) act, a Riff or something. The EP is probably their peak, it counts with an improved version of "Earwigs in your Veins".The openning track "Severe Abomination" even made me thought of a Hardcore influence and of course when blasts is like SARCOFAGO. The riff which cuts the track in half is like listening to the death itself with a flute! wonderful! Even the part with weird chorus is magnific. Generally speaking, ideas in guitar riffs seem to come from ancient Brazilian deathrash metal, if you forget about the music and analize guitar riffs, you can for sure think of this. What else can I say of this great obscure encounter I just had?! This band is big and now I know why. ADDITION: I would like to thank all those warriors from abroad that are letting me know that the works done in Extreme Resurrection fanzine is good and also those telling me that they are enjoying our music in PHERETRUM. We feel honoured and will keep fighting for the underground spirit no matter what!