Review: Nephrolith – Xullux

We’ve recently been contacted by Nephrolith in hopes for us to review their debut album Xullux. Well, even thought we took our time, because we’re lazy busy bastards, here it finally is.

First off, a little about the band though. Nephrolith are a Slovenian Black Metal (as if the picture above didn’t give away enough already) band who recorded a demo, called Vinsketh, in 2009 and just recently released their debut album Xullux.

Now you know as much about the band as I know. Make the jump to read my review of Xullux.

Chimaira: new album complete.

I should seriously get payed for all the free promotion I do for Chimaira. I don’t even like the band that much. Not at least since around the middle of the last decade (old much?). In fact, I’ve probably written ten times more posts about them than I’ve had sex in the last six months. Which is kind of a paradox, because if you multiply zero by ten, you get a zero, and I’ve clearly written a few posts about them on occasion. Explain that!

Nonetheless, the news. If you already read the post title, you know it, Chimaira have completed their new album, and they announced it via a tweet earlier tonight, which surprisingly says:

“new album complete.”

Exciting news, right? Yeah, Chimaira releasing a new album isn’t really exciting by any standards nowadays, but at least you got to see puppies in a basket. How often do you get a chance to see that shit, ha?

What if In Flames opened a restaurant

Once upon a time, I wondered what it would be like if Papa Roach were chefs (it would stop them releasing terrible music at least), and now I’m wondering what it would be like if In Flames opened a restaurant…

Oh wait, I don’t need to wonder, according to Blabbermouth, Peter Iwers (bass) and Björn Gelotte (guitar) of In Flames have partnered up to start a new restaurant in their hometown, Gothenburg. Named 2112 as a tribute to Rush‘s 2112 album, the restaurant officially opened on April 21. Wow, whatever next?

Normally I’d attempt to post my own joke right about now, but one witty Blabbermouth user won me over when he enquired if the drinks will be as watered down as the band’s music. Ouch.

Weekly Dose of Metal: Blood Red Throne

They’re made of blood, they’re red and they’re… a throne? Yeah it’s fucking Blood Red Throne, the Death Metal masterminds hailing from Norway. Wondering why you should check them out? (besides the fact I’M telling you to) You should check them out, because, besides being badass and one of the best modern Death Metal bands, but also because the band feature Tchort (of Emperor and Green Carnation, as well as a host of other brilliant bands) on guitar, who is pretty much a God.

Blood Red Throne are full of meaty grooves that put the grooves of my penis to shame. Just one listen of this band will leave your ears bloody and your mind battered, and I mean that in a good way.

The song ‘Deliberate Carnage’ taken from 2005’s Altered Genesis can be heard below.

Trivium have advice for Metallica

Trivium have some words of wisdom for Metallica. If I were Lars, I’d listen. These guys have obviously studied and reproduced Metallica‘s sound time and time again, so they know their shit.

“I checked [Death Magnetic] out. It was better than ‘St. Anger.’ I think they did a really good job of getting back to what made them Metallica in the first place, and I just wish they would get someone like Colin [Richardson] or Andy Sneap to mix the shit out of those records. ‘Cause [‘Death Magnetic’] and the new Slayer album [‘World Painted Blood’], if they had the production quality of, say, the new Megadeth and Exodus albums, they’d be brutal as shit. I think there’s good songwriting, but if you [combine] cool songs with killer, modern production, it really adds to the listening experience…” said Corey Beaulieu (not pictured above)

Hopefully the production quality on the next [Metallica album] and they just deliver something that is sonically crushing like the ‘black’ album was; [that record] was ahead of its time as far as album production for a metal CD. So hopefully they do that.“

Read full article here.

Leaving jokes aside, they do have a point. Why make albums if you’re gonna make the sound like shit? Or lemme put it this way… Why go through all the trouble of recording music if you’re not go all the way and present them in perfect quality?

Hopefully they’ve learned their lesson and the waveforms of the new songs won’t look like fucking bricks.