NEWS
A tendencia do repertorio e apresentar nomes nao tao
conhecidos do grande publico e que executem os estilos Heavy e Thrash
Metal, com aquela sujeira tipicamente oitentista. Com tantas bandas
apresentando otimas cancoes, e natural a grande diversidade que os 55
minutos proporcionem. Fatalmente cada ouvinte encontrara seus momentos
preferidos, mas este escriba nao abre mao do Heavy/Thrash do alemao
Stone Cold Black e do bielorrusso Straight Land, alem do alucinante
Stoner do sueco The Itch.
Ha muita coisa boa por aqui e, ainda que cada banda se apresente com
sua respectiva e boa gravacao, globalmente existem aquelas tipicas diferencas
auditivas entre cada faixa, o que e algo frequente neste tipo de compilacao.
Frequente, mas que, aqui, nao compromete em absolutamente nada a fluidez
da audicao.
A intencao de "Burning Metal" nao e so a obvia divulgacao
das bandas apresentadas. A ideia tambem e, futuramente, lancar um album
completo com os nomes que obtiverem uma melhor aceitacao por parte do
publico. Entao fica a sugestao de o leitor acessar www.myspace.com/zombiedevilrecords
e emitir sua opiniao. Quem sabe seu grupo escolhido nao tem a oportunidade
de liberar um disco por aqui?
Burning Metal – Coletanea
(2009 / Zombie Devil Records – nacional)
01. Demonic War Machine – Witchburner (Alemanha)
02. I Am Revenge – Redeemer (Canada)
03. Living On Thrash – Stagewar (Alemanha)
04. Down To The Bones – Downtime (Alemanha)
05. Riotor – Riotor (Canada)
06. Adrenaline – Stone Cold Black (Alemanha)
07. Propaganda – The Itch (Suecia)
08. If You Come Blind – Hungry Johnny (Franca)
09. Outcome Of Rah – Straight Land (Bielorrussia)
10. No Brain Activity – Crucial Attack (Estonia)
11. Last Gulp – Ensis (Luxemburgo)
12. Apoclimatic – illGotten (Australia)
13. Escapar – Infierno 99 (Uruguai)
original link: "http://whiplash.net/materias/cds/098153.html"
Reviews for Straight Land's Degree of Isolation
(Metal-archives.com)
Decent - 67%
Written by Muloc7253 on July 16th, 2009
This is a pretty cool
EP and although it's not really my sort of thing (it was hardly intended
for me) I can definitely see Straight Land being popular with a different
crowd.
What we have here is very well produced, well played
and catchy groove/melodic death metal. Straight Land are often referred
to as a death metal band, but I can't really see their music appealing
to real death metal fans unless your definition of death metal is Amon
Amarth and Six Feet Under. Straight Land list their influences as Pantera,
Chimaira, Machine Head and Meshuggah among others, so expect a borderline
death metal EP influenced by those sort of groove/metalcore bands rather
than Suffocation and Demilich.
It's pretty cool though. The songs are all catchy and
well written, sometimes going for a sort of epic feel (think more In
Flames than Nile though) and sometimes just plain rocking the fuck out.
If you don't mind more commercial styles of metal there are lots of
great headbanging moments on here, and even someone like me that is
only really interested in the most brutal side of death metal can find
enjoyment in this. We get some clean vocals aswell, and they work well
at the climax of the songs, like the aforementioned Level Seven. So
if you're into melodic death metal and you like those Gothenburg-derived
riffs mixed with Pantera chugs, with a clean sung chorus every now and
then you should find some enjoyment in this. I feel I should give some
mention to the last track, which is a track of Pink's 'You and Your
Hand'. I don't really like death metal bands covering pop songs as it
usually just sounds silly (and I never find it funny, when that's the
intention) and to be honest, it does sound silly here in the verses
as the vocalist growls the lyrics, and is a low point in the EP. But
the chorus is pretty cool, the band employ a female vocalist to take
care of the hook and it sounds pretty good beefed up with metal riffs.
Plus it's the last track, so see it as a bonus track of sorts.
PRESS RELEASE
Straight Land was formed in January 2001 in Bobruisk
city (Belarus) by founding members : Sergey Glebov (guitar), Pavel Busel
(guitar), Anton Grigoryev (bass) and Andrew Rusin (vox). Their progress
through music led to first album entitled ..Negative feelings.. in 2002
which granted them a contract with Music Violence Productions.
After 2 years of playing in Straight Land and recording next album ..Santa
muerte.., Pavel and Anton decided to part ways for personal reasons.
In autumn 2004 Straight Land started looking for a new guitar player
and bassist. But just as they found Alex (guitar) and Max (bass), who
had been playing together in techno-death metal band ..Faithless Mind...
After hard-ass working, in 2005 band recorded single ..AntiNoise.. and
full-length album ..Refractory.., with which the group has got new unique
melodic sound and has received positive responses in press.
During in 2 years band taking part in different gigs and festivals in
Belarus, Russia and support in tour Italian band ..Brandon Ashley and
Silver bugs.. in Moldova.
In January 2007 band found a drummer Dmitry Kirsanov, who inhaled fresh
air and has added energy in sound.
It has taken Straight Land another year to come up with a new single
..Degree of isolation... By the end of 2007 all the material has been
prepared and is to be recorded in the beginning of 2008.
Music of Straight Land criss-crosses between different touches of metal.
Some magazines and fans call this music ..Deathcore, Straight Metal,
Metal core .., for the band itself it's rusty bleeding mechanism with
a blast!
All of the band's releases were the source of good reviews by independent
mags, zines and webzines like : Space Junkies, See Saw, Legion Magazine,
Thy Doom, Metal Empire and more.
Discography:
2002 - Negative Feelings
2003 - Santa muerte
2005 - Refractory
2007 - Degree of isolation
Contacts:
Sergey Glebov
Belarus
Bobruisk city, Mogilov region
Gagarina st. 3b-55
Phone: (+375)297412450
E-mail: bormachine@straightland.com
Web: www.straightland.com
01.02.2009
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