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Arma Gathas – Dead To This World (2010)

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After all the countless Trash Metal releases we have reviewed in 2010, we finally get a break with a band that incorporates other elements to this genre, and makes it sound very different and fresh. Arma Gathas hails from Switzerland and their combination of Trash, Groove and some Hardcore elements makes them sound both powerful and fresh.

If we had to guess where this band is from without doing research, we would have guess that they came from France, since Arma Gathas sounds like a Trashier version of Hacride, Gojira, etc. The riffing in “Dead To This World” is very Trash Metal oriented but with more aggressive vocals and different rhythms thrown into the mix.

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Morbid Carnage – Night Assassins (2010)

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Hailing from Hungary we get yet another band that is jumping on the Trash Metal revival bandwagon, but at least they are pretty solid at it. This band sounds a lot like Kreator did back in the 80’s and we are digging this release just because of this fact.

The band does a great job at capturing all the brilliant elements that Trash had back in the day, and gives them the proper modern production values to make them sound very brutal and aggressive. “Night Assassins” is not the most original album we have heard in this ‘Trash Metal revival’ era, but it sure is one of the most old-school sounding ones.

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The Breathing Process – Odyssey: (Un)Dead (2010)

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Out of all the bands we have reviewed recently, The Breathing Process is by far the one that combines to most influences of different genres in their music. With a very impressive (but sometimes terrible) mixture of Black/Death/Gothic Metal with some Melodeath and even Metalcore-ish influences we get “Odyssey: (Un)Dead”.

After their very impressive debut album “In Waking: Divinity”, we could not expect anything less from this young American band, but we also got a bit disappointed at some points during this album. The band fails to mix their elements together and ends up sounding extremely chaotic and redundant in some places.

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As I Lay Dying – The Powerless Rise (2010)

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We try to stay away from as much Metalcore crap that we can, but sometimes we get some releases that are worth listening to and giving them a solid review. “The Powerless Rise” is one of those, it features an As I Lay Dying that has been refining their sound with every release and now, they are good enough for us to enjoy (somewhat).

The band is as brutal as ever and features the traditional breakdowns that most people love to death, however, we enjoy this album because of the brilliant melodic parts that some songs have in this release. The band might have 80% of the elements that makes us despise Metalcore, but objectively and musically, they can also compose brilliant songs.

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Pain – Cynic Paradise (2010)

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We really do not understand the point of re-releasing for the USA an album that has been out for almost a year in Europe, but hey, it’s Pain and Cynic Paradise is indeed a very solid album that we loved since it came out (in Europe!). With their intoxicating Industrial Metal, Pain is the brain child of Peter Tägtgren and is considerably different from any of his other projects.

“Cynic Paradise” has taken even more electronic/techno influences than before and it’s pushing the boundaries of Industrial Metal quite far with its pop-ish influences in songs like “Follow Me”, which by the way has vocals provided by Anette Olzon from Nightwish. As a very versatile musician, Peter Tägtgren shows that he can do very bombastic music that will please people that are usually repulsed by his other projects (people that do not listen to metal).

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