Special Guests on the album: Victor "Chungaleta" Soto (Slavon/Catfight): Guitars Jorge Molina (Acero): Guitars
SALVEMOS A LOS TIBURONES
(Detengamos el comercio de aletas)
CALL TO THE INFERNAL HORDES third issue already on
the streets!!! Including an interview with AZTERION and a CDR compilation in the
first 200 copies. Click the link below to read the entire interview.
Azterion was born
in December 31st 2000, with the purpose of create and develop a new and an
original style of music, exploring many rhythms and genres, having death & trash
metal as the main influence. We have suffered many changes in seven years, but
those changes helped us to developed a unique style that we call Destructural
Metal (in the early stages).
"Es como un puñetazo en la nariz!!!
Brutal y lleno de odio, un viaje de media hora por los mas profundos y oscuros pensamientos, en búsqueda de la liberación del alma."
Eddy Rojas - Craneometal.com
"Brutal, directo y rápido... A lo que vinimos. Como tiene que ser un álbum de death metal!"
Max Gutierrez - December's Cold Winter
"Un disco con mucha potencia y muy variado con una mezcla de riffs veloces y rítmicos."
Esteban Rojas - Cisma Producciones / Deznuke
"Sonido aplastante!! Es difícil muchas veces que un grupo impregne la adrenalina de su interpretación en una grabación. Azterion lo ha logrado"
Javier Fernandez - Freak World Entertainment / Auriga
"Death Metal potente, enérgico, fresco y sobre todo claro, directo y muy honesto, esto es lo que Azterion nos presenta con su material debut. Un disco homónimo que refleja una banda joven pero experimentada y conocedora de los menesteres de la música extrema.
Sin duda estamos frente a un registro musical que no se puede dejar de escuchar, una gran producción, sonido claro y robusto, con invitados de lujo y un diseño gráfico impresionante."
Arturo Azofeifa - Rock Power / elmuro.co.cr
Honestly, I never thought that a day like
this one will arrive for me as a metal fan to point out which my favorite
Costa Rican band is if someone would ask me for a precise answer to it, and
with no hesitation that answer is AZTERION!
Previously featured in issue three of our
humble zine with a full three page interview, this trio is backing up all of
their statements with this tangible gem entitled “Destructural”.
“Destructural” is not just a title at all,
it is also a summary of the music contained in this, their debut album,
where a lot of influences in the extreme metal music parameters can be found
– Death Metal, Thrash Metal and subtle small Black Metal hints – plus
intricate and subtle additions of progressive rock music bringing a whole
experimental dimension to it but always loyal to brutality and hellish
savageness! It is hard to say if AZTERION sounds like other band around, as
a matter of fact that is something I totally admire of these bastards since
they achieved to resume a hell of influences in an HONEST and unpretentious
musical style and never in diminishment of the EXTREME concept they have
been developing ever since their first years in the Costa Rican scene.
The album opens with an inspiring and quiet
DISSECTION-like acoustic guitar intro which Japanese title “Shiawase”
prepares you in a “fooling you around” approach for the bestial audio
carnage you will face in “Camino de la Cruz”, a song plenty filled with
aggression and neck breaking segments introduced by an intelligent
progressive rock drum/cymbals break and developed later with explosive and
melodic guitar solos in charge of very respectable and high quality guitar
players which appeared as guest musician in this release: Victor Soto (guitars
for the Costa Rican Heavy Metal performers SLAVON) and Jorge Molina (from
the Costa Rican Heavy Metal legend ACERO.). The next to come are three high
elaborated songs which follow the same “de-structure” approach they lined
for their style: “Parábola”, “La Ley Del Duende” and “Azterion”. The last
song –“Kanashimi” – is an instrumental keyboard based one during its first
part because later it moves to a more guitar based melodic leads. To sum
things up, 35 minutes of exiting extreme high quality elaborated metal is
what your ears are going to experiment here.
In the sound field the band has nothing to
envy to foreign countries and this album is a tangible example that in Costa
Rica we do really have talent to produce high quality music with identity
and devotion. As bonus material, the band also included some CD-enhanced
multimedia with videos and other goodies. Full colored booklet, lyrics
inside (in Spanish), pictures, etc…etc…etc…
Speaking how great they are is just useless,
so I will finish this review in the classical way: BUY IT OR FUCKING DIE
ASSHOLE!!!!
Gilbert Miranda (a.k.a.
U.Xerxes.H) - C.T.T.I.H. Magazine
Hails Azterion! How are you doing these days? Please come join the Dark Funeral mailing list and street team if you haven't yet. Eternal support and thanks to you!
Hell...Demons or Demon! What is new with you? Of course your loyal and most dedicated and neverending supporter of all time has come to bother you once again. I hope that you do not mind me doing so? Muwahaha! Just can not help it, very addicted indeed. Anyhow, hope that you did not vanish out of Hell? Anyways, hope to see you here still? Yes, I will ask always, and hope to hear some more news from you as well? Really means alot. Oh, and yes, this comment is being sent to another band site as well. It does take time to do so you know? Take care...Horns raised high...Val's Hell :)
Hi! Our first EP out in Summer 2009, with new drummer, guitarist and keyboards! so stay tuned for more heavyer and technical sound!!! and in the end of March we are going on the tour with band CILICE (NL)