 Hailing from the land of the rising sun, grief of WAR is taking Speed Metal to the upper echelon of aggressive music with their brand new CD entitled WORSHIP. The Japanese quartet has set their sights on elevating Thrash to its former glory by creating a cleanly produced, heavy as hell album that will make you furiously banging your head, and they have succeeded in their pursuit with their new CD. WORSHIP is a 44 minute kamikaze attack that will have you bowing in submission to their killer guitar sound known as the Samurai Crunch!
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 Fans of Occult Horror and Doom Metal lift yourselves from the dark bowels of stagnation and rejoice! Moss has arrived with their 3rd full length CD entitled TOMBS OF THE BLIND DRUGGED. Over 40 minutes of hypnotic music with an ominous aura that will pull your carcass down into the crypts and keep you there for all eternity.
 Combining the best elements of 70’s era Hard Rock and traditional Doom Metal, Japan’s Church Of Misery new CD, HOUSES OF THE UNHOLY, delivers over 48 minutes of a dark and disturbing Acid Metal. The band’s love of Wah-Wah driven Metal, and their fascination with disturbing lyrical imagery has brought about a unique listening experience that is liken to a psychedelic bad-trip. Their sound is heavily influenced by Black Sabbath, with that well defined 3 piece sound, but adds to it the random sound effect that mysteriously wanders into the sound-scape as part of the acid-trip effect.
 Not since the days of Stryper have I held such utter contempt for a band like I do for The Crimson Armada. On their new album GUARDIANS (out now on Metal Blade), these Black Dahlia Murder rip-offs have gone the route of preaching their spiritual benedictions while wearing the mask of Death Metal musicians. Attempting to layer their vocals like many of the more monstrous bands of this genre, The Crimson Armada falls short of reaching the proper aesthetics with lyrics like “Fall to your knees. I pray for mercy.” Not very brutal in my eyes!
 Baltimore, Maryland rap veteran Ruthless Rob returns this year with CITY TRASH, a fair follow up to the 2006 LP, BLOOD ON MY HANDS. The album features 13 tracks, all exclusively produced by Dizze Dahmer, and (just about) all twisted in some sense. The collection is aggressive early, as violence inducing anthems like “Snuff Dat Hoe”, and “Dust Em Off” set a frenetic, and abrasive tone. Unfortunately the momentum built up early subsides as quickly as it arose, as CITY TRASH downshift’s drastically around the midway point.
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