Ferrous Beuller

Words of iron carry more weight.

Adagio – Life Review

By Ferrous Beuller on July 27, 2017 in 2017, French Metal, Power Metal, Progressive Metal, Reviews, Self-released, Power Metal, Progressive Metal, 20 comments

“Unlike other genres, power metal isn’t one that I can freely delve into – I need a little consideration before I lunge into that fray of fromage. Having spent most of my adult life in front of a classroom full of students with inevitably big ideas, patience is not a virtue I was born with but one I have since earned by iron and blood. The kind of patience that allows me to sit in wait for an album with a little more crunch; a little more progression à la Symphony X, Borealis or Kamelot.” Patience is a virtuoso.

Integrity – Howling, For The Nightmare Shall Consume Review

By Ferrous Beuller on July 25, 2017 in 2017, American Metal, Hardcore, Relapse, Reviews, Hardcore, 29 comments

“If you’ve followed the band’s thirty year career at all, you may think you have an idea of what you’re in for; but Howling demonstrates a disregard for convention as flagrant as my indifference for sentence length.” Run-on with the pack.

Decrepit Birth – Axis Mundi Review

By Ferrous Beuller on July 24, 2017 in 2017, American Metal, Death Metal, Nuclear Blast, Reviews, Technical Death Metal, Death Metal, Technical Death Metal, 42 comments

“At this point in 2017, a year already subject to a burgeoning tornado of death metal souls, the genre is hardly in need of a qualitative shot in the arm. Regardless, after seven years in the ether, none other than Decrepit Birth have descended to lend their technical muscle to the array of perennial brutalities, with fourth album Axis Mundi and a semi-reconstructed line up.” Brutal rebirthing.

Yer Metal is Olde: Death – Scream Bloody Gore

By Ferrous Beuller on July 15, 2017 in American Metal, Combat Records, Death Metal, Yer Metal Is Olde, Death Metal, 64 comments

“Vishnu, ineffable by nature, is an ultimately cyclical deity – one whose concept is equal parts creator and destroyer; an incarnation of extremes. As he creates, so he destroys. So did Chuck.” And then there was Death.

Beyond Grace – Seekers Review

By Ferrous Beuller on July 10, 2017 in 2017, Death Metal, English Metal, Melodic Death Metal, Progressive Death, Reviews, Self-released, Death Metal, Melodic Death Metal, 81 comments

“If perhaps, you have had the misfortune of laboring through any of my previous reviews, you may have picked up on my shameless love of death metal. You may have also noticed I’m a little picky when it comes to that genre’s melodic side. There’s nothing insightful in my complaint – I just find a lot of it to be somewhat toothless, and death by gums is no way to go. Beyond Grace, know these tenets well, and if debut album Seekers is anything to go by, won’t be happy until we’ve all been consumed by an omnidirectional wave of death metal to bleed the brain and skin the soul.” Melodeath, camels and conquest.

The Interbeing – Among The Amorphous Review

By Ferrous Beuller on July 6, 2017 in 2017, Danish Metal, Djent, Long Branch Records, Metalcore, Reviews, Djent, Metalcore, 33 comments

“How about a group of Danes playing a core influenced brand of djent that flails at Meshuggah on the verses and Fear Factory on the choruses?” Djent you hear?

Akatharta – Spiritus Immundus Review

By Ferrous Beuller on June 25, 2017 in 2017, American Metal, Death Metal, Doom Metal, Pulverised Records, Reviews, Death Metal, Doom Metal, 7 comments

“Sometimes, when that flight of masochistic fancy hits, we here at AMG like to play a little game lovingly referred to as Promo Roulette – not unlike Russian Roulette, but with every chamber loaded with disaster and disappointment. The powers that be randomly assign a project, comfortable in the knowledge that the first, last and only rule of said gamble is: the house always wins. On occasion, however, it is possible to steal a non-fatal cranial grazing and happen upon something worthwhile. So when the relative quality of Akatharta’s debut, Spiritus Immundus, rebounded off my ferrous hide and into my lap, I was pleasantly surprised.” You got lucky, Beuller!

Desultory – Through Aching Aeons Review

By Ferrous Beuller on June 21, 2017 in 2017, Death Metal, Pulverised Records, Reviews, Swedish Metal, Death Metal, 17 comments

“A strange analogue runs alongside my taste in traditional Swedish death — namely, my love for the classic horror fiction circulated by American publisher EC Comics in the mid 50’s. If you’re unaware of their pulp pressings, first of all: be ashamed, and second: do yourself a favor and Google the morbid pencil-work of Graham Ingels and scare yourself up some culture. The dark yet direct content of that material emphasized familiar characteristics I would soon come to recognize in the Stockholm death metal scene, infamous for its D.I.Y. brand of incipient malcontent, braced by a dirge of funeral winds and sci-fi malice aforethought.” Hello and goodbye again.

Assault – The Fallen Reich Review

By Ferrous Beuller on May 12, 2017 in 2017, Death Metal, Reviews, Singaporean Metal, Thrash Metal, Transcending Obscurity, Death Metal, Thrash Metal, 13 comments

“Singapore probably isn’t the first country that springs to mind when considering the apex of ferocious heavy metal, but Assault’s debut album, The Fallen Reich, is doing its very best to convince you of its worthy candidacy, by carving a thick slab of Gothenburg marbled death metal and thrashing the living hell out of it.” Skulls, tanks, skull-tanks.

Amentia – Scourge Review

By Ferrous Beuller on May 10, 2017 in 2017, Belarusian Metal, Death Metal, Reviews, Satanath Records, Technical Death Metal, Death Metal, Technical Death Metal, 15 comments

“To get the name dropping out of the way, if you’re a fan of Misery Index, Blotted Science or The Faceless then, chances are, you’ll enjoy the kind of technical death metal that Amentia are offering.” Crank the wank.