Assorted Collection 58 - Various Artists

The loudest, heaviest, obnoxious and unapologetic metal show is back to make all the sh*t people in your life pay the price! 

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Playlist of Doom!
1. NOCTEM - Tiamat's Crown, Album: Exilium, 2014
2. MACHINE HEAD - Killer's and Kings, Album: Bloodstone & Diamonds, 2014
3. BELPHEGOR - Conjuring the Dead, Album: Conjuring the Dead 2014
4. AZOOMA - Encapsulated Delusion, Album: A Hymn of the Vicious Monster, 2014
5. AIRBOURNE - No way, but the Hard way, Album: No Guts, No Glory 2010
6. GUNDRIVER - Against the Darkness, Album: Gundriver No. 1, 2014
7. DECAPITATED - The Blasphemous Psalm of the Dummy God, Album: Blood Mantra 2014
8. SCHAMMASCH -Provoking Spiritual Collapse, Album: Contradiction, 2014
9. ZWAN - Number of the Beast, Album: Spun Soundtrack, 2002
10. RAW IN SECT - Blue Haze, Album: Blue Haze 2014
11. HI-GH - Forged in Hell, Album: Death and After, 2014
12. DIZTORD - I AM, Album: Diztord, 2014
13. VLAD IN TEARS - Feed On Me, Album: Vlad in Tears, 2014
14. MADE IN WAVES - Abussos, Single: Abussos, 2014
15. RUBLOOD - Electro Starfuckers, Album: Star Vampire, 2014
16. GODFLESH - New Dark Ages, Album: A World Lit Onl by Fire, 2014
17. PUTRID OFFAL - Suffering, Album: Suffering, 2014
18. CARNIFEX - Last Words, Album: Die Without Hope, 2014
19. CRETIN - It, Album: Stranger, Dec 2014
20. ALBERT BELL'S SACRO SANCTUS - Beatification of the Dead, Album: DeusVolt, 2014
21. ROB ZOMBIE - Lords of Salem, Album: Educated Horses, 2006

Interview and Podcast with Iranian Death Metal Band, AZOOMA

Iranian progressive death metal band AZOOMA are our guests of honor. The AZOOMA boys are featured with an interview; discuss about their debut EP, A HYMN OF THE VICIOUS MONSTER out on XTREEM MUSIC. The guys talk to us about the EP; play some songs from the EP, and curate some personal metal cuts for us. 

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Music Playlist 

1. AZOOMA - Self-Inflected, Album: A Hymn of the Vicious Monster 

2. AZOOMA - Eridanus Supervoid, Alum: A Hymn of the Vicious Monster 

3. DEATH - Without Judgement, Album: Symbolic 

4. IRON MAIDEN - Fear of the Dark, Album: Fear of the Dark 
5. AZOOMA - Encapsulated Delusion, Album: A Hymn of the Vicious Monster 

6. PANTERA - I'm Broken, Album: Far Beyond Driven 

7. METALLICA - Ride the Lightning, Album: Ride the Lightning 

  

EVOLUTION ROCK:  So, you guys got an EP out called 'A HYMN OF THE VICIOUS MONSTER', what can you tell us about this EP by AZOOMA? 

SHAHIN: Actually, you now. It tells a story through out the whole tracks. We wanted for it to sound and look like a Gothic novel from the 19th century; that's because why chose the title of the songs in intro, chapter 1, chapter 2, you know, like the chapters in a book; and actually it is a conceptual album; and it's about a normal person who seems to be a victim of a situation. But eventually it becomes clear.  That if the conditions are right he can turn into the monster which he is the victim of. You know, it's the nature of mankind. If he has the opportunity, he can change into something evil or do vicious deeds; everyone has this potential. But the true power is not to let this nature; this essence grow. That's what we want to talk about in this EP. 

EVOLUTION ROCK: Right, so you guys are talking about controlled anger? 

SHAHIN: Yes, something like that. 

EVOLUTION ROCK:  Yea, but anger is good, sometimes, right? 

SHAHIN: Sometimes, but you know, you don't have to let it grow so much that it affects everything in your life. You just have to control it. 

EVOLUTION ROCK: ..and let it out sometimes but in a healthy way. Like listening to f*cuking metal! 

SHAHIN: Yea, exactly that's right.

(Shahin Vaqfipour - vocals, Ahmad Tokallou - guitar,  Farid Shariat - bass, Saeed Shariat - drums)

EVOLUTION ROCK: So, talking about f*cking metal. You guys have selected some bands also for the show, and we're going to kick it off with a song called 'SELF INFLECTED'. What the hell can you tell us about this song? 

SHAHIN:  You know, this is the first chapter of our EP and the lyrics and the music try to show about the person that doesn't know what to do because of the problems..it's a person who doesn't know what to do, and he is so confused. 

...(SELF-INFLECTED song is introduced and played; song lyrics below)

EVOLUTION ROCK:  Can you describe the writing process for a 'VICIOUS MONSTER? 

SHAHIN: First, we are specific and we talk about the story behind the EP. We talk and we exchange our ideas about the story. Then we specify, and we wrote the story of the EP...we specify every track of the story. So, we are going to our practicing place, and we spend some many times, for hours, and hours there...and we play music...and we try to think how this thing can sound better. You know, it's about our pleasure, when you are satisfied with the song...and when we think that's right...then we are going to record this. 

EVOLUTION ROCK: Compared to your early recording that I heard in 2007, this is a much heavier album-sounds brutal! Congratulations to the f-cking muscians, there! 

SHAHIN: Thank you so much. 

EVOLUTION ROCK: Can you compare this record to what you did in 2007? 

SHAHIN: Actually, you know. We didn't want to specify or choose any genres for our music. We just do it in the way we think it is right, you know? We had that feeling in that time, and we are going to express ourselves in those songs. It think it kinda of became heavier because of how we felt back in that time when we were recording the album. 

EVOLUTION ROCK: Right on, and this album is more darker than the previous songs recorded, what can you tell us about this? 

Track list
1. Preface (intro) 1:13
2. Chapter 1- Self Inflected, 5:46
3. Chapter 2 – Eridanus Supervoid, 8:31
4. Chapter 3 – Encapsulated Delusion, 6:58
5. Chapter 4 – Gyrocompass, 10:36
6. Appendix (outro) 1:03

SHAHIN: It think, like I told you before. That's how we felt exactly in that time because the EP tells a horror story; needs the dark parts, and the dark conditions, you know? It's like when you want to watch a horror movie. You make everything ready for it. You turn off the lights, you sit in front of the TV and turn the volume up; and you try to make everything scary. 

EVOLUTION ROCK: F-ck yea, man..and what are you guys listening to nowadays? Can you tell us; the guys in the bands what are listening to? 

SHAHIN: Actually, we listen to many things: jazz, blues, heavy metal, progressive, actually everything. For example, me myself I listen to Devildriver. 

FARID: I'm listening now to Faceless, Opeth, Accept's new album. 

SHAHIN: I'm trying to remember the title of the song..the Fall of the Empire. 

EVOLUTION ROCK: We are going to play a song called ERIDANUS SUPERVOID, who can tells something about the song? 

SHAHIN: This title is about a place in space, you know. Where the temperature of that place is so, so...you know it's about a place where it is zero temperature. In theory, it can be a gate to a parallel world. 

...(ERIDANUS SUPERVOID song is introduced and played, song lyrics below) 

EVOLUTION ROCK: How did you guys get signed? 

SHAHIN: We have this dear friend who is the chief editor of Metal Track, Finland. So, we talked to him, and he said he would help us to find a record company label to get signed and distribute this EP. He said it was really great, and that it needs to be heard more. So, me made some contacts with some record labels, and he found Xtreem records from Spain for us. 

EVOLUTION ROCK: Congratulations guys. I hear Xtreem records is the label of notorious death metal singer of the band AVULSED, Dave Rotten. 

SHAHIN: You know him. He's a great musician. He knows the real music, and he wants to help the bands to get heard more; the bands which don't have the same opportunities as in countries where extreme metal music is widely accepted. 

PERSIAN ROCK AND METAL FESTIVAL 2013 in Tbilisi, Georgia

EVOLUTION ROCK: So, I see a lot of photos on your Facebook. Holding up your CD in support. How does that make you feel? 

SHAHIN: Great! Actually, it makes us feel so happy when we say those pictures. It gives us positives vibes and energy to keep going because it shows that there people all around the world who like our music, you know. And it is great the people all around the world feel the same way that we feel. 

EVOLUTION ROCK: Regarding the reviews you've been getting for the record, the webzines and the media people out there, how are the reviews going? 

SHAHIN: We didn't expect that they would review our EP in so many webzines, and it makes is think what we really did 'cus we didn't expect this much from other websites and other ones in other parts. And the reviews are about 8/10. It really feels great. I don't know how to express our feelings about this. 

EVOLUTION ROCK: So, you guys have a song for us. What's the name of the song? 

SHAHIN: Without Judgement, by DEATH.

EVOLUTION ROCK: Talk to us about the influence DEATH has had on your music? 

SHAHIN: You know, when we first listened to a record by the band DEATH, on tapes because back in those days there were no CDs over here. When we found this tape, we listened to it, again and again. It made us just say, Wow! What is this? 

...(The song Without Judgement by DEATH is played) 

EVOLUTION ROCK: So, tell me Shariat. What song are we going to play? 

F. SHARIAT: Fear of the Dark by Iron Maiden. 

AZOOMA rehearsal room in Mashhad, Iran

EVOLUTION ROCK: Can you tell us what Iron Maiden means to you? 

*speech in Persian 

SHAHIN: He says that one day when you wake up and play a song by Iron Maiden, you can continue your day with energy and absolute power. 

...(The song Fear of the Dark by Iron Maiden is played) 

EVOLUTION ROCK: How has the scene changed over there for metal since 2007? 

SHAHIN: Actually, there are so many bands which day which the work and they try to record... I think it is better condition for us because of the improvement of technology; thanks to the internet. So everyone from around the world can listen to their songs. 

EVOLUTION ROCK: How is the band VASPOOHER? They're good friends of yours? 

SHAHIN: In VASPOOHER, Ham Alizadeh (vocals, guitars) is trying to find band members because their bass player is going to live in Canada, now. And Saeed is dedicating and devouring himself to AZOOMA, right now. So, Ham Alizadeh is searching for band members.

EVOLUTION ROCK: Can you tell us what are your plans for the future? 

SHAHIN: We just want to keep on doing what were are doing and making our hearts happy. We are now working on the next album which is going to be released through Xtreem Music records, again. You can't believe it, but this stuff is really something different. It's really something new. When you will hear it, I'm sure that it will blow your minds! 

EVOLUTION ROCK: We got a final song from the record. The song is called ENCAPSULATED DELUSION. What can you tell us about this song? 

SHAHIN: We think that this track is the heaviest track of our EP, right now. I think it would be great for preforming and playing it live; in live shows at concerts. 

...(The song ENCAPSULATED DELUSION is played, song lyrics below) 

EVOLUTION ROCK: Before our final words, we got a final song another from anther band. So, what's the song guys? 

SHAHIN: It's going to be PANTERA, I'm Broken! 

(The song I'm Broken by PANTERA is played) 

EVOLUTION ROCK: Alright guys, thanks for being on the show and participating. I hope to hear from you soon! What are your finally thoughts? 

SHAHIN: We want to thank for giving us the opportunity to be on your Podcast. And your listeners. Surely, you will hear so much more from us. If someone on this world hears our song, and if he or she doesn't know the name of the band, and it is our music you are playing...he or she will find out this AZOOMA! Keep on going, keep metal alive!

...(The song Ride the Lightning by METALLICA is played) 

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Song Lyrics for A Hymn of the Vicious Monster 
courtesy Shahin Vaqfipour

Chapter 1 - SELF-INFLECTED 

Into the labyrinth of secret paths of my destiny
Through nighttime growls for my liberty

Seeking shiny stars inside the mystic myth on the furious waves of oceans

Shivering because of this unwritten fate which leads me to my past memories
and shouts to remember.
escaping from the falling shades of angels who doomed to hunt down my emotions

living souls chase away moments of truth in the maze
Noone can hide his wicked chests of rage


Why there's always have to be a journey
Why do I have to be a traveler in insanity
Why do I have to seek in dark shades
to feel secure agasint the savage raids

Why do I have to be stranger in my universe
Why do I have to be ranger of my own place
Why do I have to be shadow of my own voice
To forget the deeds of frustrating  noise

another sleepless night, creatures come crawl out to sight
Grabbing the gem inside, chasing me with their hunger for desire

Why do I have to be stranger in my universe
Why do I have to be ranger of my own place
Why do I have to be shadow of my own voice
To forget the deeds of frustrating  noise

burn within the abyss of ages of gods

Chapter 2 - ERIDANUS SUPERVOID

Mirrors mirrors on the wall
What can I do about my desire
Do I have to shoot right at my head
To avoid dreaming at nights
Do I have to carve my name on this bullet
To start playing this Russian roulette
How can I leave the realm of mirrors
How can I win game of horrors

Silents screams begin the holy war
In my roars at the other side
Looking for a place to hide 
To snatch peace in my eyes
Seeking the sights of fears
To see the normal life for real
How can I leave the realm of mirrors
How can I win game of horrors

In my broken pale face
something gets near from distance
Appears the reflections of my own shade
Tries to grab me into his own tale
How can I breakdown the fortress
While I'm a prisoner of this blaze
Ages ago in his wicked bloodshed
How can I come out from this deep dale

Long times ago,Longer than it seems
In a place perhaps I seen in my dreams
The weird ages of my faded needs
Chasing me with their increasing greeds

This shapeless being of tears
throws out to me his claws
Still spreads his own fears
In his territories of growls

And he's the one who rise and shine
To take the curse and carry on
And all the men who fall are gone
It's him the one who sets all dawns

To steal my spirit and doom my destiny
unchangeable rules of his insanity
Should I listen to his vicious cries  to infinity
Should I witness this massacare for eternity

I need to find source of this sensation
Need to release the screams of this rusted salvation

Gone

TO reach the borders of nights
I must chase the last remaining light
Arriving to a deserted cursed room
filled with wanderers roaming strangers of gloom

Atrracted by the ultimate power of this castle
All defeated in their ancient savage battles
With spells on their shaterred souls
All wait for the corridor to get out
Burn the past memories  of your bleeding life
Wait for your new blaze of dawns and rise

Chapter 3 - ENCAPSULATED DELUSION

I'm the Lord of these lands of mirrors
I'm the king of your unseen horrors
I'm the one who waits in all dead ends in shadows
I'm the one who stares at you, Man of hollow

I'm your shadow of reflection,
I'm the illustrator of your fears
I'm the desire of destruction,
I'm the creator of your tears
My time has come, To seek this prey of mine
with my ancient unwritten rules, You play last game of your life

You can't hide in sins of crowds
Your blood beats shout so loud

Your illusion of getting out of here
Is the delusion of your own mind
Try to find your conscious for real
There's no music of angels, nor rhymes

My time has come, pray for your divine sign
*I'm vicious voice at your back, I'm the mysterious mirror man*

You can't hide in sins of crowds
Your blood beats shout so loud
There's no heavens, nor hell
no sound of salvation of bells

All attempts you make are gone in void
All rusted nails run in your veins
Lead you to me and choke you more
Bring you back to me is all you gain

You can't beat the king
cause, here I'm everything
You can't seek the lights
In my realms of night times

It's your own encapsulated delusion
Not the inspiration/ of my illusion
Your fate is in my hands
You can hear your last desperate grasps

You can't hide in sins of crowds
Your blood beats shout so loud

I'm your shadow of reflection,
I'm the illustrator of your fears
I'm the desire of destruction,
I'm the creator of your tears
My time has come, To seek this prey of mine
with my ancient unwritten rules, You play last game of your life

AZOOMA - A Hymn to Vicious Music (Album Review)

AZOOMA -A HYMN TO VICIOUS MUSIC- 
by LORD MALIGNUS

In early 2009, we were largely interested in promoting a cosmopolitan world view of metal. We offered our audience a taste of international metal from all corners of the globe. In fact,  Evolution Rock has been characterized and has become a true International Metal Show for all metal loving peoples around the world. It was during this time, we received a unique music submission entitled "AZOOMA, "A Hymn on the Creation of Man"; signed as, "Shahin, Keep on going, Keep Metal alive, Rock on!".  It seemed like another tasty morsel of metal arriving at our door steps waiting to be discovered, but to our surprise it turned out to be a music submission of a metal band from Iran. Wow! Iran, how exquisitely rare and fantastic the idea of airing for the first time an Iranian metal band on the show; I'll say it again: for the first time! I personally welcomed the opportunity, and grew interested and curious to know who these musicians where? To me in those days, anything sent by real musicians (from anywhere in the world) was always a good listen and a first for the show. Additionally, I would have a huge ace up my sleeve when it came time to hang out with friends and listen and discuss about bands. No matter what new album was the debate about, once I played the song by AZOOMA or any other band I aired on the show, they would all just stop talking and shut up-and I was the man! Makes me feel like I'm a kid again! You know, when you come up with an awesome record or new band, and all your buds are like all stoked about it. Well, I'm not a kid anymore (physically, but every girl I have dated still remarks me as being one or treated me like one or that I have an inner child; I don't know with chicks, man. It's different!). I'm 4 sizes bigger (waist that is), but every time something cool-musically that is- comes my way, I get that 'I'm the man' feeling'. And it was pretty much the same feeling when I got to know AZOOMA's music.

So, before we get any deeper into that 'child thing' or that 'I'm the man' business, I'll move on to say that I immediately started my email interrogation with this guy called 'Shahin'. Not sure what to expect, or how this would work out for the band. Having past experience of making a series of shows on Cuban metal, I was cautious to approach the matter with respect and to make sure not to involve any politics in the matter. I cautiously aired the song submitted in one of the Assorted shows. I could deeply relate with the struggle these musicians must have gone through to create this music, and personally sought out to do all in my power to help spread the word of the band as much as I could on the show. This later led to interviewing the band, and later on another Iranian band called VASPOOHER. These interviews opened my eyes to the idea that rock and especially metal as a musical style was alive and thriving in Iran. This finally led to making AZOOMA one of our top 10 artists of 2010 by the listeners and supporters of the band. Now we jump a couple of years into the future *June 15 2014, and we find the band releasing one monstrously heavy EP entitled a HYMN OF THE VICIOUS MONSTER and singed to the international Spanish  label,  XTREEM MUSIC.

How things change! From a small creepy caterpillar to a beautiful (gay) butterfly; from a one night stand to a 'I'm tired. I don't wanna do it tonight.";  from a dorky snot nose high school reject to a mega rock star (no thanks Marilyn Manson); from a raw let's lay the foundations of our music demo to an awe inspiring monster of an album!  This is pretty much how things have changed -musically- in the AZOOMA camp. We can assure the reader that this album is one small step for AZOOMA, a giant leap for Iranian progressive death metal! Quoting the first rock star on the moon, of course. I'll also continue by saying that this album is huge! Monstrous in sound just as described in the title, and vicious in death metal progressiveness. It's without a doubt a gargantuan achievement by the quartet of Persian metal geniuses. Always a tight group, musically coordinated, and devout alumni of the rehearsal room. The four core members remain, and this is probably why the music has gotten better and tighter. To put it bluntly; all the musicians got better! Better at playing their instruments, better at making arrangements, and that also includes the lead vocalist, Shahin because vocal chords are instruments. In the case of death metal, guttural vocals mostly used to splatter words of death and destruction-yea! But as I will explain, and you will hear there is also 'singing'! Yup, there is real singing and spoken parts. The core rhythm section composed of  the Shariat brothers, Farid on the stand alone bass guitar and the technical drumming of Saeed provide that tight base line for the guitar mayhem of Ahmad Tokallo. Like I said, all four musicians have improved the mastering of their instruments; however, in my personal opinion, it is Ahmad Tokallo's guitar playing that has improved immensely and drives the album with his riffs. Ahmad practically has ingeniously concocted some very technical and sticky riffs. I would add memorable, as well. But there is much more to Ahmad's guitar playing than just bashing out monster riff after monster riff. There is progression. There is tons of melody. There are acoustic guitars, but most unique to his style, there is Sumerian/Persian guitar influences that are undeniable. And this is what makes the whole of the music genuine. Genuine to their roots, genuine to themselves and to their fans. To top it all off, the album is a concept album; loosely based as a medieval horror story written in chapters.

In regards to production and sound quality, the album was professionally mixed and mastered by the band's personal friend Ehsan Imani who captured the AZOOMA sound at the band's personal rehearsal room. 

The cover artwork of the album features a fierce piranha-like embryo creature designed by artist and friend of the band, Shahryar Shervin.

Track list
1. Preface (intro) 1:13
2. Chapter 1- Self Inflected, 5:46
3. Chapter 2 – Eridanus Supervoid, 8:31
4. Chapter 3 – Encapsulated Delusion, 6:58
5. Chapter 4 – Gyrocompass, 10:36
6. Appendix (outro) 1:03

Personnel
Shahin Vaqifpour – Vocals
Ahmad Tokallou – Guitars
Farid Shariat – Bass
Saeed Shariat – Drums
  
 Label 
Xtreem Music, June 15 2014

...And all this time I thought it was going to be called A HYMN ON THE CREATION OF MAN! As so many times I asked lead vocalist Shahin what the name AZOOMA meant? He gladly explained the definition and name in our first interview, "...a hymn on the creation of man, where Heaven and Earth do meet on Azooma, craftsman-gods together ye shall slay, and of their blood mankind ye create." (The name was taken from a book by F. Galpin, The Music of  the Sumerians, 1937). After listening to the album, I completely understand why it is suitably called A HYMN OF THE VICIOUS MONSTER.

 

So we continue with the breakdown of the EP song by song for you. We'll try to entice you as much as we can, but you are going to have to listen to the songs yourself. We'll just say that if it starts brutal don't expect it'll be like that all through the duration of the song; the AZOOMA boys like to switch it up and progress in and out of the heavy stuff.

TRACK 1, PREFACE (INTRO): The calm before the storm. As you drift to a gentle acoustic guitar strumming its blissful chords you find a nice secure place where you drift across the Persian deserts at night. You are drawn in and lured to be safe for only a brief 1:13 minutes before your whole existence gets sucked into a frenzy of guitar riffs that marks the end of your blissful trip; and alas, the monster's hymn begins...

TRACK 2, SELF INFLECTED (5:45): This track stands out for its chaotic riff intro and descending riff progressions that carries the whole song. Most memorable is the prechorus and chorus attacking riffs and master solo. A benchmark heard through out the whole album, courtesy of master guitarist Ahmad Tokallou.

TRACK 3, ERIDANUS SUPERVOID (8:31): This track is completely what AZOOMA is now and gathers all the elements of the band's new sound. The musicianship for the track is genius. Every band member has their personal take on the track. At the beginning, it is a sonic attack of lashing death metal in the style of Death and Carcass. Up to around minute 3:10 when Ahmad's guitar separates itself into  a huge lead section and then coming down with a delicate non distortion riff. Farid's bass lines creep into the mysterious atmosphere with Saeed's drumming building up momentum for the repeating distorted heavy section; then comes a clean vocal melody out of nowhere but fits in perfectly with the rhythm. Again, Ahmad complements with another heavy lead section leading to the pronounced rhythm section again and to the brutal death metal ending in the style of Morbid Angel.  This is where the progressive Opeth influences of the band are shown. It is basically the AZOOMA sound for 2014. 

TRACK 4, ENCAPSULATED DELUSION (6:58):  Definitely one of the most  heavy tracks from the album. Beginning with slow heavy distorted open chords to the back beat of Saeed's double kick drum assault, the song kicks into a sick  chaotic death metal groove that dominates the entire song. What I enjoyed the most is the chorus' heavy riffing and memorable mid section.  Again, Mr. Ahmad's guitar work is brilliant. As the song approaches its climax the overall heaviness is ingeniously broken down into a Persian melody and sustained single note rhythm that gives way to the most intense part of the song then concludes back again to the sick chorus heavy riffing section; more pronounced to make the ending more dramatic. 

TRACK 5, GYROCOMPASS (10:36): One of my personal favorites from the album. Just like track 3, this track is a showcase again for all the members of the band. I liked how everyone got their mark in the song. It is a great piece of music to listen to. Right from the start the song thunders in and quickly goes into a clean vocal melodic break that is followed by a classic death metal bashing. Then the songs spins into a lead section with the rhythm section playing precise odd time frames. This gives way to another blistering solo by master guitarist Ahmad. The song continues to lash out more heaviness until about minute 6:05 when Saeed's percussion and Farid bass lines take control to a traditional style of Persian music. This progresses to Ahmad's sick hammer on tapping to a brutal death metal section. More sick hammer on tapping spiraling down to my favorite part of the whole album around minute 8:49 where Ahmad bursts into another ill lead section (his best solo of the whole album). What really hooked me in was the guitar solo accompanied by a brutally heavy machine gun rhythm guitar with double kick drum action! Just this piece of music that roughly lasts 43 seconds made me an AZOOMA fan for life! The song then concludes with a pronounced brutal death section to the single note squeal of Ahmad's guitar.  

TRACK 6, APPENDIX (OUTRO): The Conclusion. Traditional Persian music echoes the end of the final chapter with Shahin's final spoken words and the last turns of the pages of the book entitled A HYMN OF THE VICIOUS MONSTER.

Back then, as today, we were on a mission to prove to the masses that metal is an international feeling with no borders, shared by millions (nowadays, in 2014, it is quite obvious that the idea is not new). AZOOMA arrived in a time when we needed something fresh and from the far regions of the middle east. From the first demo song we aired 'Dreams of Broken Mind' to this elaborate piece of art called A HYMN OF THE VICIOUS MONSTER, we can conclude by saying that the band has found a sound. We cannot say if it will be definite, but most likely it will keep on evolving and improve. We will have to wait and see what a whole 9 to 10 song full album will sound like, but we are left with a feeling that it will be something equally as good or even better. So, instead of rating the EP like most reviewers would do, we would like to simply recommend the album to you the reader and listener. It is a first debut of genuine musicianship with a taste of originality.

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AZOOMA made their music debut on the show in one of our Assorted Shows in 2009 with the song, "Dreams of Broken Mind" which was mostly a well-recorded demo featuring mostly an assortment of thrash hooks with melodic overtone. The vocals seemed to come from an animal's scrapped throat rather than a human being, but put together with the melodic thrash made for a very visceral raw sound. Months later, the band was featured with a small interview in which the members took the opportunity to present another of their contemporaries, VASPOOHER. By the end of the year, the band participated in our TOP 50 Band Countdown Best of 2010 show in which supporters of the bands and listeners of the show voted for their favorite artists. AZOOMA came in position #9 from 50 bands included. Positioning themselves in the top 10 independent artists for that year. Listen to our first interview with AZOOMA and the demo song Dreams of Broken Mind...click here

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PLAYLIST OF DOOM! 

1. THE HELL - OLD JACKS, NEW JACKS, Album: Groovehammer (2014)

Review

This brutal five-piece is now out to do the same to the rest of the world, using the release of their second album, Groovehammer, on 8 July as a convenient starting gun...When so many similar bands seem to carry gimmicks that distract from the music, it’s certainly refreshing to experience a band who, despite the rather jagged-edge finish they give everything, provide very little on which to focus on other than what they’re playing. Read the complete review at Hu Now

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2. SLAYER - IMPLODE, New track (2014)

IMPLODE -lyrics
So is it just me or everyone can see the world drowning in its own blood?
Humanity's declined, spanned over time, a fossil drying in the mud
It's deception and decree that germinate and see how deception growing all around
Is this beginning or the end? In darkness we descend and I can't wait to see it all go down

Standing in the room only for World War 10
Front row center to the ultimate end
Mankind comes to believing this sloth
Take on the charades till we murdered our souls

Like a fire storm reaching out of control
Demons reaching all, it's taking its toll
And deep down in your personal hell
Fishing out to everyone but never yourself

Implode
With Resurrection And Divine
Implode
Extermination Of The Swine

Sick of this shit called power scene
Lash on forth, give them what they need
Bring all the devils in the world, conspire
Acting with malice, only feel the fire

No wonder people of religion are obsessed
All they want from us you shall get
Arrogance will never lift the fools' regime
Know you gonna understand what I mean

Implode
With Resurrection And Divine
Implode
Extermination Of The Swine

So many stupid fall, I said it a million times
There's nothing looking over us
It's just mistakes you made out of your own hate
The personality in each of us

Society will bleed so what's it gonna be
Destructive road or go
And if I do the wrong through teachings of a song
I'm pretty sure that God still hates us all

Standing in the room only for World War 10
Front row center to the ultimate end
Mankind comes to believing this sloth
Take on the charades till we murdered our souls

No wonder people of religion are obsessed
All they want from us you shall get
Arrogance will never lift the fools' regime
Know you gonna understand what I mean

Implode
With Resurrection And Divine
Implode
Extermination Of The Swine





3. VOMITILE - COMMENCING ASSAULT, Album: Mastering the Art of Killing, (2014)

Biography

Formed in early 2007 the band released a 7-track EP in 2010 and three years later their debut album Igniting Chaos was released. They have played live numerous times, including support slots for legendary SODOM and OBITUARY. VOMITILE’s style is pure old school death metal with some melodic elements. Superb deathly growls and thunderous drumming along with fierce riffing make this release a must for any devoted death metal fan! The album was mastered by Andy Classen, at Stage One studios in Germany, who has also worked with ASPHYX, DESTRUCTION and ROTTING CHRIST among others. website “Mastering the Art of Killing” is set for release on October 3rd (EU) and November 11th (US) on Pitch Black Records.

Pick up the album here!

 

4. CARCASS - HEARTWORK, Album: Heartwork, (1993)

Album Notes
Heartwork marks Carcass' return after the self-imposed hiatus that followed 1991's Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious. It's also the pioneering grindcore outfit's breakthrough release, successfully grafting melody onto the existing muscle of Carcass' punishing antimusic. Some purists might decry its melodic breaks for soloing or nods toward conventional structure. But Heartwork is that rare album that so carefully dissects and reconstructs its original form that its additional body parts seem like they were there all along. Readd more at All Music.
The sculpture depicted in the cover art, "Life Support 1993", was designed by H.R. Giger.
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5. AZOOMA - Encapsulated Delusion, Album: A Hymn of the Vicious Monster (2014)

Album Notes

AZOOMA spend most of 2012 and 2013 writing and recording new material for the band's debut EP, "A Hymn Of The Vicious Monster", which sounds heavy, brutal and fast. They mixed old school death metal elements with some Persian ones, which run through their veins, resulting in 6 heavy masterpiece tracks. In 2014, AZOOMA contacted the Iranian heavy metal Journalist and Chief Editor of Metal Shock Finland, Mohsen Fayyazi, for help to reach a suitable record label for releasing this EP. Mohsen accepted their request and they inked a deal. AZOOMA signed a contract with Spanish record company Xtreem Music. Now, "A Hymn Of The Vicious Monster" was released worldwide on June 15th through Xtreem Music. Read more 

Pick up the album at the Xtreem Music shop, click here!



6. JUDAS PRIEST - THE HELLION/ELECTRIC EYE, Album: Screaming for Vengeance (1982)

Album Notes

Judas Priest rebounded from the shaky Point of Entry with Screaming for Vengeance, arguably the strongest album of their early-'80s commercial period. Having moved a bit too far into simplistic hard rock, Vengeance found the band refocusing on heavy metal, and achieving a greater balance between commercialism and creativity. The results were catchy and accessible, yet harder-hitting, and without the awkwardly apparent calculation that informed the weakest moments of the album's two predecessors. Read more at All Music.

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Electric Eye - Lyrics 

Up here in space
I'm looking down on you.
My lasers trace
Everything you do.
You think you've private lives
Think nothing of the kind.
There is no true escape

I'm watching all the time.
I'm made of metal
My circuits gleam.
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean.

I'm elected electric spy
I protected electric eye.
Always in focus
You can't feel my stare.
I zoom into you
You don't know I'm there.
I take a pride in probing all your secret moves
My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove.

Electric eye, in the sky
Feel my stare, always there
's nothing you can do about it.
Develop and expose
I feed upon your every thought
And so my power grows.
Protected. Detective. Electric eye.

7. SAXON - WHEELS OF STEEL, Album: Wheels of Steel (1980)

Album Notes

After finding themselves a qualified heavy metal producer in Pete Hinton, the members of Saxon recovered from their disappointing debut in fine form with 1980's career-defining Wheels of Steel. As well as effectively setting the template for the band's most successful efforts, the album's songs positively gleamed with a bright, metallic sheen similar to that exhibited by the chrome eagle hoisting a motorcycle wheel on its iconic cover. Wasting no time with niceties, Wheels of Steel kicked straight into fifth gear with one of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal's signature anthems, "Motorcycle Man." A proto-speed metal classic, the song also reintroduced the oft-recurring biker themes that would rear up again on the even more frenzied "Freeway Mad" and the album's epic title track. More at All Music. 

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8. Mercyful Fate - Curse of the Pharaohs, Album: Melissa, (1983)

Album Notes

Mercyful Fate's debut album, Melissa, took Black Sabbath's dark occult obsessions to an extreme, fusing them with the speed and tightened, twin-guitar riffing attack of British metal bands like Judas Priest and Iron Maiden. But the band had a distinctive sound of its own, thanks to the neo-classical flourishes of guitarists Hank Shermann and Michael Denner and the unpredictable vocal leaps of King Diamond, who could jump from a deathly growl to an unearthly falsetto wail in the next line. Read more. 

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Curse of the Pharaohs - Lyrics

Away out in Egypt in the valley of kings
Where the mummified pharaohs
Pretend dead in their sleep

Don't touch, never ever steal
Unless you're in for the kill
Or you'll be hit by the curse of the pharaohs
Yes, you'll be hit and the curse is on you

Now if you're breakin' the seals
And disturbing the peace
Then you're startin' up a curse
Bringin' evil disease

Don't touch, never ever steal
Unless you're in for the kill
Or you'll be hit by the curse of the pharaohs
Yes, you'll be hit and the curse is on you

The curse of the pharaohs can be so deadly
Or just destroying your future
Takin' it all shady

Don't touch, never ever steal
Unless you're in for the kill
Or you'll be hit by the curse of the pharaohs
Yes, you'll be hit and the curse is on you

9. Ozzy Osbourne - Miracle Man, Album: No Rest for the Wicked, (1988)

Album Notes

Things start to improve for Ozzy on No Rest for the Wicked, as Zakk Wylde replaces Jake E. Lee on guitar and Osbourne comes up with his best set since 1983. Again, it's not quite up to the level of excellence his Blizzard of Ozz band achieved, but Osbourne sounds somewhat rejuvenated, and Wylde is a more consistently interesting guitarist than Lee. Highlights include "Miracle Man" (in which Ozzy gloats about the downfall of the TV preachers who had long attacked him as an agent of Satan). 

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Miracle Man - Lyrics

I'm looking for a Miracle Man
That tells me no lies
I'm looking for a Miracle Man
Who's not in disguise
I don't know where he'll come from
And I don't know where he's been
But it's not our Jimmy Sinner
Because he's so obscene

Miracle Man got busted
Miracle Man got busted

Today I saw a Miracle Man
On TV cryin'
Such a hypocritical man
Born again, dying

He don't know where he's going
But we know just where he's been
'Twas our little Jimmy Sinner
That I saw on the screen

Miracle Man got busted
Miracle Man got busted
Miracle Man got busted
Miracle Man

A Devil with a crucifix
Brimstone and fire
He needs another carnal fix
To take him higher and higher
Now Jimmy, he got busted
With his pants down
Repent ye wretched sinner
Self righteous clown

10. QUEENSRYCHE - DO YOU BELIEVE IN LOVE, Album: Operation: Mindcrime (1988)

Album Notes

Queensrÿche scored their breakthrough success with the ambitious concept album Operation: Mindcrime, which tells the story of a fortune hunter whose disillusionment with Reagan-era American society leads him to join a shadowy plot to assassinate corrupt leaders. For such a detailed story line (there is also a tragic romance thrown in), the band keeps its focus remarkably well, and the music is just as ambitious, featuring a ten-minute track with orchestrations by Michael Kamen. Those experiments don't tend to work as well as the tighter, more melodic prog metal songs, which are frequently gems, especially the singles "Eyes of a Stranger" and "I Don't Believe in Love." Read more at all music.

Buy the record here at the Queensryche shop!

11. KREATOR - PLEASURE TO KILL, Album: Pleasure to Kill, (1986)

Album Notes

As fierce and unyielding as the group's debut, Endless Pain, was, Pleasure to Kill provides double the sonic carnage and superior material. Standout tracks include the syncopated "Riot of Violence" and the sprawling closer "Awakening of the Gods." Pleasure to Kill might not be the best recording from Kreator, but in many ways, it could be the most significant. Read more.

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Pleasure to Kill - Lyrics

Day turns to night as I rise from my grave
Black was the hole were I laid
Stalking the city to seek out your blood
I love when it showers from my blade
Your body is so pretty but how will it look
When my perverted lust is stilled
No one to save you no parents or friends
Because they've already got killed
My only aim is to take many lives
The more the better I feel
My only pleasure is to hear many cries
From those tortured by my steel
The colour of your blood from your open body
Is all I wanted to see
Tasting the blood from your lips as you die
Means satisfaction to me
Pleasure to kill
Hear my heartbeat as you see me upon you
Tears in your eyes I do not care
Listen now to the motor of my chainsaw
Open your eyes don't be scared
Look into my eyes do you see any love?
The only thing is agony
Now I can't wait to give you the good pain
Die now and be free
My only aim is to take many lives
The more the better I feel
My only pleasure is to hear many cries
From those tortured by my steel
The colour of your blood from your open body
Is all I wanted to see
Tasting the blood from your lips as you die
Means satisfaction to me
Pleasure to kill
Now that my mission is done
Your body forgotten has been killed
I return to the cemetery
And my bloodlust is stilled
My coffin is open for me
I lay down and rest
Nothing will set me free
And so I kill until excess
Day turns to night as I rise from my grave
Black was the hole where I laid
Stalking the city to seek out your blood
I love when it showers from my blade
Your body is so pretty but how will it look
When my perverted lust is stilled
No one to save you no parents or friends
Because they've already got killed
My only aim is to take many lives
The more the better I feel
My only pleasure is to hear many cries
From those tortured by my steel
The colour of your blood from your open body
Is all I wanted to see
Tasting the blood from your lips as you die
Means satisfaction to me
Pleasure to kill

12. TESTAMENT - OVER THE WALL, Album: The Legcy (1987)

Album Notes

Signed by thrash metal mecca Megaforce Records, the group lent its original name to the following year's remarkable debut, The Legacy. Hailed as an instant classic within thrash metal circles, the album's coupling of furious riffs and harmonic sensibility stood second only to Metallica in controlled power, technical delivery, and sheer confidence. It also benefited from Megaforce's recently obtained distribution deal with Atlantic Records, and Testament lived up to their promise while touring America and Europe in support of Anthrax -- then experiencing their peak with the Among the Living album. Recorded on that tour, the Live at Eindhoven EP cemented Testament's standing as champions of thrash's second wave, and despite lacking the consistency of their debut, 1988's sophomore The New Order maintained their forward momentum and led to yet another lengthy world tour that took the band as far as South America. read more at All Music. 

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Over the Wall - Lyrics

I've been a prisoner
Trapped in by fear
Ordered for the rest of my life
Condemned in a jail cell
Ain't seen life in years
Escape is the only way out

Restart my life
Or self destruction
To climb this wall
Of dark construction
Holding the quest for freedom
That beckons me

My sanity is all but gone
My patience is growing very weak
I need to get a hold of myself
I stare at the wall
For the right time has come
Escape must occur on this night

Stand in my way
And I'll run you straight through
There's no one to stop me now
For I'm on the loose
And I'm ready to start
Torture and hell an this town

OVER THE WALL !!!!!!!!

The search will not stop
And hounds will not rest
Till I am back in my cell
For if I am caught,I'll try it again
Over the wall I will go,I will go

13. EXODUS - A LESSON IN VIOLENCE, Album: Bonded by Blood (1983)

Album Notes

Exodus were one of the earliest thrash bands of the 80’s that contributed enormously to the consolidation of the subgenre. They opened for Raven back then, along with Metallica and Anthrax in that legendary tour that introduced a new refreshing violent sound in the US. Among the crowd of those shows, there were many future essential musicians for this music who, inspired by what they heard, would try to make their own stuff. But Exodus were on stage, becoming one of the leading acts of the movement. With the departure of Kirk Hammett, it is said the band took the direction they really wanted from the beginning, changing their sound considerably into what made them one of the most acclaimed groups of the decade. It all started with Bonded By Blood. Read more

Bonded by Blood is their first album, and possibly their best. It contains well known thrash anthems "A Lesson in Violence", a 7 minute epic "Deliver us to Evil", and the ever-so-cool "Bonded by Blood" which contains the insanely cool lyrics "There's blood up on the stage/Bang your head against the stage!" and overall is a thrash classic.

Exodus were:
Paul Baloff - Vocals
Gary Holt - Guitars
Rick Hunolt - Guitars
Rob McKillop - Bass
Tom Hunting - Drums

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A Lesson in Violence - Lyrics

If you got something to say
Then come my way
I'm guarded by Satan
I'm riding on Baphomet
I'll teach you a lesson in violence
You won't soon forget

The pleasure of watching you die
Is what I will get

Fight - for what you believe to be right
Crushing with all your might
I laugh at their pitiful cries
They run from the fire in my eyes

Nothing can save them now

You've learned a lesson in violence
Get on your knees and bow
Or learn a lesson in violence
I love to stab my victims
Until they're dead
A knife to the throat
Or a smashing blow to the head
I'm judge and jury
My sentence has just been passed
Step into the circle of hell
If you think you can last

Fight for what you believe to be right
Crushing with all your might
I laugh at their pitiful cries
They run from the fire in my eyes

Nothing can save them now
You've learned a lesson in violence
Get on your knees and bow
Or learn a lesson in violence

14. OBSESSÖR - RETURN OF THE USURPER, Album: Assassins of the Pentagram (2014)

Biography

Emerging from the depths of Hell in 2009, German Metal commando OBSESSÖR didn`t waste much time until their first release „Black Thrashing Blasphemy“ was spat upon mankind in the same year. Back then, the sound was a very harsh glimpse of what would be about to come from these demons in the following years.

The first full length „Blitzkrieg Battalion“ saw the dark of day in 2012 via GoatKult Symphonies and opened more doors for those hellish tyrants, followed by numerous live performances in several countries with many well respected artists and bands, such as Gehennah, Barbatos, Blizzard and
Delirium Tremens.

After a split CD in 2012, „Black Magic Rites“ was released as 7“ vinyl in 2013 on mighty Deathstrike Records, presenting the band more mature and focussed than ever before. The two brand-new assaults, besides two re-recordings of old songs, already marked their slight change to a more aggressive and Speed Metal orientated sound.

To herald the arrival of a new dark age, MetalPunxRex dared to disgorge yet another 7“ vinyl in 2014. This time OBSESSÖR and their brothers in arms HELLHUNT gathered forces to set the night on fire! This mean piece of black wax perfectly prepared humanity for the inexorable darkness: „Assassins Of The Pentagram“, OBSESSÖR`s second full length album was released on Evil Spell Records in summer 2014!!! 10 dark and heavy hymns of pure Black Speed Metal to poison the souls of real Heavy Metal maniacs!! The line-up has been stable throughout the years to this very day, the next live rituals are already planned, there is more to come....INTO SPEED METAL HELL!!!! Read more

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15. CALIBRE ZERO - EL NUEVO ORDEN MUNDIAL (The New World Order), Album: Con las Botas Puestas (2014)

About the band

Calibre Zero is a Spanish rock band from Madrid formed in 2007. The band is composed essential of four members whose musical influence has strong roots in Motörhead, Barricada and Metallica. Calibre Zero's music is mostly political. They have toured and played in several countries. Their latest album is entitled "Con las Botas Puestas" or with With Our Boots On.

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15. BLUE CHEER - SUMMER TIME BLUES, Album: Vincebus Eruptum (1968)

16. BLUE CHEER - DOCTOR PLEASE, Album: Vincebus Eruptum (1968)

About the band

Personnel:
- Dickie Peterson - bass, vocals
- Paul Whaley - drums
- Leigh Stephens - guitar

San Francisco-based Blue Cheer was what, in the late '60s, they used to call a "power trio": Dickie Peterson (b. 1948, Grand Forks, ND) (bass, vocals), Paul Whaley (drums), and Leigh Stephens (guitar). They played what later was called heavy metal, and when they debuted in January 1968 with the album Vincebus Eruptum and a Top 40 cover of Eddie Cochran's hit "Summertime Blues," they sounded louder and more extreme than anything that had come before them. As it turned out, they were a precursor of much that would come after. Read more.

Doctor Please - Lyrics

Help me please, Doctor
Doctor, won't you please
I need your pain killer, Doc
Shot inside of me.
Well I ain't got no money, child
But I been here before
Cash me in, Fill me up
Why don't you throw me out the door!

Well help me, Doctor
Well why won't you
Why don't you
C'mon and help me please
Won't you please
Whoa, I need your good living
Shot inside of me, Yeah!

I got this funny feeling
Feeling inside my head
Without your good living, Doc
Well I believe that I'll be dead
Doctor don't you turn me down
And won't you hear what I say
I need your good living, Doc
And I need it right away!

Well help me, Doctor
Well why don't you
Why won't you C'mon and help me please
Won't you please
Without your good living
No! What would I be!

Alright!

I got this funny feeling
Feeling inside my head
Without your pain killer, Doc
Well I believe that I'll be dead
Doctor don't you turn me down
Don't burn me away
I need your pain killer, Doc
And I need it right away.

Well help me, Doctor
Well why won't you
Why don't you
C'mon and help me please
Won't you please
Without your pain killer, Doc
Lord! What would I be - Alright, Stick it to me Doctor!

17. PIG DESTROYER - RED TAR, Album: Mass & Volume (2014)

About the Album

Recorded during the final hours of the sessions for the ‘Phantom Limb’ lp (Decibel Magazine’s #1 record of 2007) ‘Mass & Volume’ finds Pig Destroyer’s typically break neck speed virtually come to a grinding halt.  2 epic songs of crushing doom prove that Pig Destroyer cannot only dominate all other wickedly fast grind bands, but that when Pig Destroyer does slow, they do slow better than anyone else out there.

Buy it at the Relapse store!

Red Tar - Lyrics

In the moment of truth
I stuck with the lie
Got lost in the smoke
Became a slave
To a weak mind

Need to kill a hawk
Need to steal some wings
Blood like red tar

Overdosed on cynicism
Swept under and drowned
Lured in by a siren
I ran my ship aground
Slash of talon
Glimpse of Venus
Tidal waves crashing down

Need to kill a hawk
Need to steal some wings

Grief crawls in the shadow of time
Try to keep in mind
It's all finite.

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