1. Brilliance of Thunder
2. Universal Domination
3. Glorious Blood
4. Exploitation of Superiority
5. Overdose of the Grotesque
6. Slaying the Losers
7. Extermination from Nature
8. Levitation of Bestiality
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CD que recopila las 3 demos del '12/'13/'14 de esta banda española liderada por Ebola (CRYFEMAL/ MUERT) donde practica un arrollador, bestial e infernal Death Metal con toques Black en la lĂnea de bandas como MOLESTED, NECROVORE, CORPSE MOLESTATION, SARCOFAGO...
Full length di debutto per gli Spagnoli StormVold, duo composto da Ebola, che si occupa delle parti vocali e di tutti gli strumenti, tranne la batteria, suonata da Taenia Solium. “Third Bestial Mutilation” è un album che farà gioire tutti coloro che amano le sonorità black/death old school, grazie ad uno stile brutale e grezzo ma non privo di parti tecnicamente ineccepibili, che consentono alla band di spaziare tra la furia cieca in stile Possessed/Sarcofago/Treblinka e parti più raffinate e tecniche alla Hate Eternal. Molti brani dell’album sono tratti dai precedenti demo “First Tibicena Brutality” del 2012 e “Second Guanche Massacre” del 2013, con i pezzi del primo sicuramente più brutali e grezzi, con batteria in costante blast beat, mentre i secondi sono maggiormente articolati, pur mantenendo intatta la ferocia esecutiva. Troviamo, così canzoni ricche di cambi di tempo e con un guitar work estremamente variegato come l’opener “Brillance Of Thunder”, caratterizzata da continue accelerazioni e rallentamenti, a testimonianza dell’evoluzione tecnica avvenuta tra un demo e l’altro, che si contrappongono a songs grezze e dirette in puro stile Possessed, come la brutale “Slaying The Losers”. Un album caratterizzato dalla perfetta fusione tra brutalità e padronanza tecnica in cui nessuna delle due componenti prende il sopravvento sull’altra. Una manna per gli amanti del metal estremo.
STORMVOLD recorded album this year, that is full of nihilism, occult blasphemy and black death metal. The crosses are turning around here, beasts are screaming and guitar walls are falling down from all sides. It reminds me a trip to a lonely ossuary. The CD has a dirty, ugly sound, which adds to the believability of the music. STORMVOLD entombs you alive, their music gnaws you to the bones.Let them take you away on the next world voluntarily and with pleasure. Black death metal album, that was recorded at the cemetery!
STORMVOLD from Tenerife, Canary Islands is a two-men project born in 2012 and after two demos and a compilation tape, Xtreem Music picked all their material up and released their first two demos with some new stuff as their first real full-length in form of "Third Bestial Mutilation". The presented eight tracks are a dirty mix of old school Death Metal influenced by US bands like early MORBID ANGEL, with some influences of raw Black Metal and Thrash Metal of the late 80s. STORMVOLD have no ambitions in providing any melodies or fine solos, they reduce their sound to the style, which was around in the middle and late 80s, when bands like early SEPULTURA, SARCOFAGO, POSSESSED and SLAYER made their first musical steps and the race was to become the most extreme band on the planet. The vocals are a harsh bastard of Death and Black Metal vocals. The raw guitars are low-tuned with maximum distortion adding some rare and raw guitar solos. The drumming is brutal and they keep the technical level low and the songs simple. The production also is raw and harsh, trying to match the standart of the 80s, but of course it sounds a lot better than really old productions. I prefer the two songs of their first demo, as 'Extermination From Nature' and 'Levitation Of Bestiality' are really good tracks, with some nice lead guitar lines, but they reduced the incorporated melodies after this release. Those of you, who still prefer the times, when Death, Black and Thrash Metal was one dirty mixture and nobody cared for categories, you should give these guys a listen.
Seeing the name Stormvold I immediately had to think of the Norwegian death metal band Molested that was active in the 90s and released an EP entitled 'Stormvold'. Looking a bit more into this band they hail from the Canary island of Tenerife and Molested seems to be one of their main influences. The artwork on the cover of 'Third Bestial Mutilation' was even done by Erlend Erichsen, who used to play drums for the Norse act.
Basically 'Third Bestial Mutilation' is a compilation of the three demos by the Spanish duo. Even when the first four songs haven't officially been released before. The other four tracks have been released on demos in 2012 and 2013 though. Musically this is quite brutal death metal where you can hear a clear influence of South-American acts besides Molested. The tempo in general is fast and the music seems quite chaotic. The trained ear will hear that it is all well played and this simply is a band with a specific style. Just check 'm out I'd say. I pretty much dig what Stormvold presents.
Honestly, I'm really surprised at some of the music that comes my way.
I do have personal policies when it comes to what I'll review and what I'll check out even. There are things that I've looked at them and thought...no...no way in hell..haha
When I saw the title Third Beastial Mutilation, I have to be honest, it seemed fairly certain to me that this music would be too offensive to be published here.
I didn't give it much of a perusal and didn't read the presser that accompanied it too closely. When music has a title like this, it's typically not that good.
In metal, offensive titles are the same thing as selling sex instead of music. Well, I listened to this album and I realized that it's far more than just a title, and the artwork doesn't jive with what I normally take as intentionally offensive music, so I listened to it.
Stormvold has crafted a masterpiece of old school death metal with Third Bestial Mutilation.
Each part of the music brings something to the table that makes the music slightly different than say Deicide, Obituary, or Carcass, but there's enough in common with all three of them to make this record fit in with that crowd.
But hailing from Madrid, Spain would've been enough to keep them out of that group I think....
This album exceeds expectations by defying death metal conventions. Instead of thundering snares and double bass blastbeats 95% of the time, there are mountains and valleys in the drums.
No triggers are used on this record. The double bass blasts are all done with proper drums. In the heaviest moments, they are felt more than heard. Though they thunder like carpet bombing, they feel like an avalanche crashing down.
The rhythm guitars have that holy grail tone... A heavily overdriven fuzz sound that Slayer used to such perfection, but with a strong mid-range and bottom end rumble.
If this sound could be distilled into a distortion pedal, every up and coming death metal guitarist would have 3.
The leads are a bit avant garde. Instead of wailing sweep picks or blistering arpeggios, the leads start off with harmonic swells and move into Buckethead styled solos. They move so quickly from A to B, it sometimes feels like a synthesizer.
The vocals, though guttural and harsh, do not overpower the sound. They are mixed down into the background and fell into line with the drums.
Strong and atmospheric.
Finally, this album begins slowly and moves into the brutality and speed on the back side of the eight tracks. It feels like the space between two armies as they prepare for battle in medieval Europe with swords drawn.
In the beginning, the space is large and languid and at the end, there is no room but that of the swords strokes.
All metaphor aside, this is the best death metal record of 2014.
„Third Bestial Mutilation” to kompilacja, na ktĂłrą składają się dwa pierwsze dema Stormvold i cztery nowe kawałki. Dostajemy więc na jednej płycie wszystko to, co do tej pory ten zespĂłł stworzył. Jeśli więc ktoś do tej pory się z tą nazwą nie zetknął, to teraz ma idealną okazję, aby za jednym zamachem poznać całość. Dodatkowym magnesem, przynajmniej dla niektĂłrych, z pewnością będzie fakt, że za Stromvold odpowiedzialny jest niejaki Ebola ( jedynie perkusję nagrywa niejaki Taenia Solium), czyli człowiek, ktĂłry udzielał się lub udziela w takich formacjach, jak Cryfemal i Muert. O ile jednak wymienione w poprzednim zdaniu zespoły obracały/obracają się w klimatach black metalowych, o tyle Stormvold to inna para kaloszy. Ebola zrezygnował z malowania twarzy farbkami i wieszania się w pozycji odwrĂłconej na krzyżu na rzecz prężenia muskułĂłw i robienia poważnych min. Co należy przez to rozumieć? A no to, że w Stormvold death metal jest głĂłwnym rozdającym karty. Praktycznie cały album to pieprzone death metalowe tornado. Tu nikt nie zamierza się pieścić i bratać z wymyślnymi zagrywkami. Od początku dostajemy ogniem w twarz i tak jest do samego końca. Raz szybciej, raz wolniej, innym razem z kolei pojawia się całkiem chwytliwa zagrywka, a wszystko to skąpane w typowo podziemnym sosie. Death metal uprawiany przez ten zespĂłł jest duszny, ciężki i cholernie agresywny. W zasadzie nie ma tu żadnego momentu oddechu. Jest tylko jazda na pełnym gazie, ktĂłra niechybnie doprowadzi was do fizycznego wyczerpania. Czuć tu zło i o to właśnie chodzi. Te 35 minut z małym okładem wręcz każe uznać Stormvold za bardzo obiecujący zespĂłł. Już teraz słucha się tych dźwiękĂłw z dużą dozą przyjemności, ale coś czuję, a wręcz jestem pewny, że w przyszłości ten huragan może mocno przybrać na sile. Oczywiście o ile nic się nie zesra i kapela nadal będzie istniała. Jedynym łącznikiem pomiędzy starym a nowym w wykonaniu Eboli jest wokal. Zdecydowanie więcej ten element ma wspĂłlnego z black metalem właśnie niż z death metalem i stąd może w nazewnictwie muzyki zespołu pojawia się słowo blackened. Nie ma jednak sensu udawać, że Stromvold jest naturalną kontynuacją poprzednich zespołĂłw. To nowy twĂłr, ktĂłry niejako zaczyna z czystą kartą. Śledźcie uważnie dalsze kroki tego ansamblu, a najsampierw zapoznajcie się z tym wydawnictwem. Uważajcie na swoje głowy. To tak ku przestrodze, żeby potem nikt mi nie zarzucił, że nie ostrzegałem.
Como se puede presentar el trabajo de esta formación tinerfeña de una manera somera y telegráfica: cruda, salvaje, corrosiva, despiadada, y aunque lo siguiente pueda parecer una frase hecha que se emplea muy a menudo, en el caso de este disco es rigurosamente cierta, y es que estos ocho temas están marcados y guiados por el odio.
Recopilatorio de las tres demos que estos diablos guanches han elaborado desde su creación allá en el 2012. A saber, “Third Bestial Mutilation”, “Second Guanche Massacre” y “First Tibicena Brutality”.
STORMVOLD puede considerarse que practica un Death/Black de sonoridad muy cruda y referencias a los momentos iniciáticos del estilo. Las caracterĂsticas podrĂan ser las siguientes: si bien es cierto que los riffs podrĂan definirse como básicos, las estructuras de los temas muestran un gran dinamismo y riqueza de tempos, es decir, no estamos ante una banda monolĂtica, si no, por el contrario, dotada con gran variedad de sonoridades y recursos; otro aspecto importante vendrĂa a ser la voz, grave pero entendible, y, lo más importante, rebosante de ODIO e IRA… ¡que mala ostia, por todos los diablos!
A pesar de que lo que hacen no es especialmente original, lo cierto es que no atino a encontrar una banda con la cual compararlos, no obstante, quizá SARCOFAGO, quizá BLASPHEMY, quizá la demo “Rumpus Of The Undead” de ABHORER, no sabrĂa con quien establecer una comparaciĂłn reveladora la verdad.
Aspectos negativos, bien, a mĂ, repito, a mĂ, personalmente no me gusta el sonido de ninguna de sus tres maquetas (si bien es cierto que, claro, son maquetas…¡que diablos!), incluyendo la que se grabo en los Necromorbus Studios. En cierto modo y salvando las distancias, creo que tienen el problema (no, no tan grave) que tuvieron KĂ–RGULL THE EXTERMINATOR en su disco debut o NOCTURNAL BREED en el “The Tools Of The Trade”, es decir, se busco un sonido crudo pero se termino quitando contundencia y pegada a los temas… esta es mi opiniĂłn
En definitiva un recopilatorio repleto de temas salvajes, pero con un añadido de dinamismo que no es habitual en bandas con estas sonoridades… Es preciso seguirlos muy de cerca.
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