Hellchild / Circulating Contradiction
Cryptopsy / None So vile Double review after a interval.

Both band lead the front line of extreme music. As for Hellchild, actually I already saw them at the Milwaukee Metalfest of this year, it is amasing above all that such a small and skinny guy roars this extreme voice. At that time, if my memory serves, they played totally chaotic sounds, however as far as I listened this album, they plays quite an amount of ordinary tipe of metal music, and this is surprising too for me.

As fot Cryptopsy, since I've had only their latest album at this point, I went up to this album, feeling the same unsatisfaction as I felt about the latest one. That is to say, however rampant their play may be, without

Vader / Litany
Let me complain again first. Readers of this page must know that in case I have to prepare for uocoming show in a hurry I make it my custum to buy the latest album first and after that live albums or best albums, then according to my saffinity to the band and my economical and other physical state I may purchase other works. And in this case, it was severely difficult to get the slatest album. Now I'm already adopted well to this terrible state of distribution in North America, but I'm afraid that that bad enviroment make it grown the amount of crappy guys at shows who come without any foreknowledge and naturally tend to go moshing or surfing or whatever.

Well, to be honest, when I bought and listened to the live album I couldn't dig it so much. However, in case of this latest studio album everything was totally different! First of all, songs are well composed and they have many good riffs. Audio quality is good too, and however it may devide fans to pro and con, the sound of kick drums sounds like a kind of electronica thing, and it appeals to me quite well.

Dying Fetus / Destroy the Opposition
First, let me complain little bit. Talking of Dying Fetus, I already knew their name even before I came to Canada, so I'd wanted to listen to them, however their first CD I listened to was their previous work, Grotesque Impalement album, for however I wanted to get their works these were not available for us quite a long time. Admittedly as for the stock and circulation of past staffs Japan is the top of the world. So comparing to Japan is unfair to them, however still that situation is too awsome to endure.

Well, since they have moved to Relapse, I hope they will never torture their fans by such a way. However, as for this new material, I felt another disstisfaction. Even as for death metal or hard core thing, I prefer a clean sound production. But when I listend to this album for the first time, I thought too clean a whole sound production eliminates the agression. In this album too they still play not so fast tunes, although I think it has nothing to do with my dissatisfaction because I think there is no rule that a death metal band shoud play fast songs. However, having seen their show and comparing with that, this album fails to please me. However well songs are composed and however rampant the performance is, it go through my mind smoothly. I afraid they would become "the first band spoiled by the Relapse"...

Cephalic Carnage / Exploiting Dysfunction
I've found that they call themselves as 'Rocky Mountain HydroGrind'. I like such a catch-phrase, although I must confess I cannot grasp the meaning at all.

Since after all I like musicians trying to create a new type of music, necessarily I'm a their big fan. Inevitably I tend to compare them with the Dillinger Escape Plan, who are a their laben mates and recent hot topics in Japan too as them, but since Dillinger guys create a wholly serious but moderately catchy music, so far I prefer Dillinger to Cephalic often. However Cephalic has a comical aspect which Dillinger seems to lack, in this respect I love them rather than Dillinger.

By the way, today I happened to wonder, if a completely ordinary people without any fore-knowledge about metal music is brought to their show, what attitude and feeling the person would have?
9. Oct.

Voivod / Voivod Lives
Excuse me for sudden talk, but however many bad and bizarre point it may have, one of it's major good point of the japanese metal magazine "Burrn!" is a detailed live report (anyway, this magazine has not so many good aspect than bad ones, I assume). On the other hand, despite of that here in north america we have so many and so cheep show exceedingly than Japan so that it is much easy and better to go to show itself than to read a report after that, even if metal magazines have live reports, they are ridiculously short and abstract almost always without exact set list. Sometimes, even some reports report that they played songs which they couldn't play. Accordingly, for the preparation for a show, we have to rely heavily on live albums.

Today I felt that Voivod give rather great influences on so called new-metal scene. Sorry for my impoliteness, but at the time I saw their show for the first time, since I had not checked their recent style, I thought they had received influences from new-metal.

Of course, now I'm a big Voivod fan, however for unknown reason I feel big trouble to learn their songs. As for a band just recently I began to listen to, it's not any trouble. But, as for the band I like very much, it's quite heavy...