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MACHETAZO "Sinfonias del Terror Ciego" Cd

 

(Razorback Records - RR32)
Release date: 2005
Running time:
31:44

Review:
The Blind Dead series aren't really my fave zombie movies, not even my fave spanish zombie movies (Jorge Grau's "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie"!) or spanish horror movies ("The House That Screams"!), honestly the Blind Dead movies aren't really that great (though I seem to remember the second one, "Return of the Blind Dead" was the strongest of the bunch! Maybe check this one out first!)... Still, the Blind Dead creatures themselves are pretty fascinating and perfect for a concept album like this... Even Cathedral made a bunch of songs about them... To sum the story up, these are former blood-sucking Templar knights who were persecuted, killed and got their eyes beaked out by birds... Centuries later, they rise from their graves all zombified, skeletonized, thirsty for blood, riding on their zombie horses in slow motion, swinging their swords around! They might be blind but they ain't deaf, make a noise or scream and they'll go straight to you and grab you with their dried up bony fingers! For Machetazo, this is ground for tons of weird and creepy movie samples and intros and a superb fold-out poster artwork by Nor... The whole layout is also really neat, all black & white & greenich tints, kind of musty-looking like if it had been left in a tomb for a hundred years...
Ok, enough movie talk! Musically, this is pretty much same old Machetazo but with fresh new songs! Raw and nasty old school death metal/grindcore. The main difference is the band got an additional member which I'm guessing is that bassist guy! The bass parts are way more prominent and kinda technical compared to the old stuff... Almost Iron Maiden-style... It really makes the songs more swirly and cool, definitely a great plus to Machetazo usual style! The mid-paced thrashing intro song "
Marcha De Los Muertos Sin Ojos" sort of reminds me of something out of Metallica "And Justice for All..." but the rest of the album is mostly all-out aggression and grinding death metal... Still, you can't do an album about the slowest moving zombies in movie history and not have a few spooky doom parts in there! Some moments in this album are therefore totally sludgy and slow, in a definite Autopsy vein! By coincidence Chris Riefert recorded vocals for one of the songs here! (the truth is I couldn't tell which song it was until I checked, haha! But still... Classy guest appearance!) A good balanced between the "Carne de Cementerio" death metal vibe and the grindy intensity from "Trono de Huesos", all of this plus more bass in the mix and probably the band's best sound production yet, still raw but in a way every instrument can be heard more distinctly this time. Flawless layout/art direction also makes this one of the most gorgeous-looking Razorback release ever... "Have they heard your heart beating?", "Scream... So They Can Find You", "Tonight they return and everyone will die."... Don't pass on this one!

Tracks: 1)Marcha De Los Muertos Sin Ojos (3:03) 2)Monjes Fantasma De Ultratumba (1:59) 3)Sacrificio (Para El Ídolo Tu Muerte Para Ellos Tu Sangre) (1:11) 4)Adoremos Al Cráneo Cornudo (0:53) 5)Niebla Fúnebre (2:32) 6)Colgados Y Abandonados A La Putrefacción (1:31) 7)Cripta (2:57) 8)Sepulcros Malditos (1:38) 9)Ritual De Resurrección (1:49) 10)El Necronomicon Templario (2:05) 11)Monasterio De Berzano (1:21) 12)Momificados Para La Inmortalidad (1:58) 13)Horrendos Espectros En Letargo (1:49) 14)El Buque Fantasma (2:11) 15)Psicofonía De Los Templarios De La Muerte (Los Cuentos Del Muñón Gangrenoso IV) (4:47)

Label Website: www.razorbackrecords.com
Band Website: www.machetazo.org

 

   

MACHETAZO "The Maggot Sessions " Mcd

 

(Living Dead Society - LDS 001)
Release date: 2003

Running time: 14:41

Review:
This is the cd version of the same Machetazo Ep... This one doesn't contain any new song per se (with the exception of a Venom "Black Metal" cover), these are still very interesting, oh so good, raw versions of "Trono de Huesos" & "Carne de Cementerio" material; slightly differently arranged (added intros, etc...), and with a more prominent bass sound than usual... If you live in a hole and don't know Machetazo, they play a cross of old school death metal and old school grindcore, and they play it right too! Purely rough and uncompromising, with mean, thrashing guitar riffs, nasty abrasive vocals, punishing drumming, simply one of the finest bands around... This release also has some striking cover art by Dennis Dread mixing Iron Maiden "Number of the Beast", a maggoty Lucio Fulci face & the gasmask-wearing Machetazo members hanging by their own guts... The whole layout on this one is really killer... I guess it's more destined to Machetazo completists... But this is still genius spanish grind with an extra crunchy sound (killer sound!) and an extremely well-packaged cd... Definitely a worthwhile addition to any collection in my opinion! It's the first release of Living Dead Society from Spain which sounds like a very promising label! Watch out for them... http://www.livingdeadsociety.com

Tracks: 1)Trono De Huesos (3:50) 2)Pudrete Como Un Cerdo/Bolsas Con Sangre (1:44) 3)Ataque Simio (1:32) 4)Maruta (3:43) 5)Black Metal (3:52)

Band: http://www.machetazo.org
Label: http://www.livingdeadsociety.com

 

   
MACHETAZO "Carne de Cementerio" Cd

  (Razorback Records)
Release date: 2000
Total running time: 47:58

Review: It's so good I'm scared. Starts with a really impressive intro, something like Rosemary's Baby satanic ending when the woman discovers her child is Satan's child... The machine then rolls on for about 15 nasty songs... Don't expect frenzy grind-noisecore in the vein of their debut demos. Here you'll get something more consitent and juicy. An exemple of well-produced gore-core. Something with the heavines of old school death metal, mixed with the sharp rawness of grindcore. Not always fucking fast (though it sometimes is) but always catchy and truly powerful... I can't hide that this kind of rocking death-grind simply overjoys me. Those 15 hits also reeks a horrendously scary mood, which also tends to get definitely gross or grotesquely funny at times; thanks to a selection of cleverly picked up intros. Horror Movie samples in spanish. The use of spanish for song titles and everything is by the way a big original thing, it gives a true personality to the band, and it renews the usual boring gore concept alot. If you can imagine a cross over between Exhumed "Gore metal", Dead "You'll never know pleasure...", Sanity's Dawn "Mangled in the meatgrinder" & Impetigo "Horror of the zombies".. You get the picture! This is the first gore-core highlight for this year 2000. A must-have. Thanks Razorback Records! Get this piece of festering gore metal right now if you don't want your white trash ass to be hacked into pieces by the demented fat butcher from the cd cover.

Tracks: 1)El enjambre asesino 2)(Todos somos) Alimentos del los gusanos 3)La cara mazada a golpes 4)Humillado y descuartizado por mongolicos 5)Torso 6)P.U.S. (Purulento Urologo Sarnoso) 7)Suicide fuck 8)Obecede a tu demonio interior 9)Pudrete como un cerdo 10)Masticasesos 11)Los ninos no deberian jugar con cosas muertas 12)El ataque de king Ghidorah 13)Delusion of terror 14)Maruta (carne de cementerio) 15)Los cuentos delu munon gangrenoso

www.razorbackrecords.com

 

   
MACHETAZO "Trono de Huesos" Cd

 

(Razorback Records)
Release date:
2002
Running time: 31:36

Review:
Razorback Records keeps treating us with the finest grindgore releases around and there's still alot to come... It feels like it's raining masterpieces all over the place, sorry to sound like I'm kissing ass but it's how I feel. I'm happy to say this new Machetazo doesn't disappoint, quite the contrary, it could be the best Razorback release (although you have to be rational, it'd be a tie between this, Engorged, Ghoul and Gruesome Stuff Relish debut albums... hard to pick a definite favorite really!). First there's something special about this brandnew cd, it's the black & white cd layout and cover artwork. It works really great for the band, it looks basic and it's simply one of the neatest layout/artwork among Razorback releases yet.
But anyway, let's just get to the meat of the review. "Trono de Huesos" is all about Machetazo at its raging, grinding best. Machetazo's tenacious rawness and fresh grindcore/old school death metal style imposed with "Carne de Cementerio" is still intact, except it's faster, more menacing, aggressive and grinding than ever. Movie samples have been reduced to a smaller portion and leave more space to the songs themselves, which have a truly enticing depth to them, that and infallible intensity. Their brilliant grind needs no artifacts. They get pretty close to Terrorizer, Assuck, Repulsion and early Carcass territory. I'm not gonna try to describe the band's sound more, it's just a grind band with unique chemistry, a band that kicks ass wih confidence and strength. It's definitely gonna rank as one of the best album for this damn year, so I strongly suggest you take a listen to this. Please note that the album features a fantastic Motorhead cover version! Brings back great memories, it's been an eternity I haven't listened to those old Motorhead records! Also note that "Trono de Huesos" will be released as a 12"LP by Throne Records (www.thronerecords.com)

Tracks: 1)Banquete Funerario 2)Garrote Dil 3)Enterradas en el Jardin 4)Un Vestido de Pellejo Humano 5)Purificación a través del Dolor 6)La Flema 7)Engendro 8)Trono de Huesos 9)Bolsas con Sangre 10)Yo Fui un Caníbal Adolescente 11)Lepra 12)Ataque Simio 13)Ace of Spades 14)Los Cuentos del Muñon Gangrenoso

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Label Contact (cd available for $11 US/$13 world ppd):
RAZORBACK RECORDS www.razorbackrecords.com
c/o Billy Nocera
P.O. BOX 321
Farmingville, NY 11738
U.S.A.
Email: WNocera@aol.com

Machetazo Goreofficial Site :
http://zomb.pix.org/machetazo

 

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