I remember the days you had Metal compilation albums like California Metal, Underground Metal and (my favorite) Metal Mission. These days may revive again because this sampler is a good start. There are 19 tracks on it from bands worldwide (!). 1 - Tourniquet's Trivializing The Momentous, Complicating The Obvious which is one of their heaviest thrash songs. 2 - Australia's Kohllapse put their Thorn from the Distant Mind Alternative on this album. It's more in the gothic metal vein with an alternative twist. 3 - Eloi is run-of-the-mill thrash. 4 - Australia's Paramæcium presents the fat doom/death track I'm Not To Blame. 5 - Discern is fast pounding deathmetal. 6 - Narnia seems to be a more tranquil moment on this CD with good Swedish melodic metal. 7 - Indonesia is represented through Kekal with extreme fast black metal old style. 8 - Britain's own Ashen Mortality is here too with great doom metal in From The Cage. 9 - Feast Eternal appears to be death metal that reminds me of old Deuteronomium. 10 - Australia has another representative: Day Of Atonement which is death metal. 11 - Latin America is represented through the melodic death metalheads of Lament. 12 - Thrash metal band Oil with former Dark Angel Ron Rinehart comes next. 13 - Finland's Deuteronomium is here with an excellent rock 'n roll twist to the death metal sound. 14 - Their country-men of Immortal Souls come up with a blend of death metal and black metal. 15 - I'm proud my fellow Dutchmen of Sculpture are on this disc too with Death To Death. 16 - Australia is once again represented through Vomitorial Corpulence, though this is a very short track. 17 - Finland's Jacks Of All Trades delivers some Rap 'n Roll. 18 - Inversion reminds me of the album Destruction Comes of Vengeance Rising. Fast Deathmetal. 19 - Anaemia has the title-track from The Second Incarnation which is brilliant and brutal heavy metal. There are many songs on this disc that I'm into. The majority of the tracks fit in with the extreme metal niche and for fans of that, this CD is an absolute must have.
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Dead Zine 1998Reviewed by GrindboyThis is the greatest thing to happen to the underground maybe ever. 19 tracks, $1. Thank you Cross Rhythms Music!!! For beginners, we get the new electric song that Tourniquet put on their Acoustic Archives album. I've never bought an album with "Acoustic" in the title, but I'm glad this song's included here because it rocks! Reminds me of why I liked them in the first place -- fast and furious.…
