CD Review: Various Artists – The Music of Artisanship + War: Vol II
November 29th, 2008 Filed under: Made In Canada, Reviews - Music by admin
CD Review – Various Artists
The Music of Artisanship & War: Vol II
Diminished Fifth Records
There’s too much good music around to keep track, let alone listen to all of it. While we come back repeatedly to our favorites, we keep digging through endless names and albums, dividing sparrows from the nightingales. It takes a humongous amount of time and the task itself is of gargantuan proportions, even though we like it. This is true for any genre, but Diminished Fifth Records proves that even in such a particular case as the East Coast metal scene, there’s a lot to look into.
A compilation of songs, labeled “The Music of Artisanship & War: Vol II”, is the second in the eye-opening series and contains 19 songs from bands the world is missing out on, as the label put it. The CD presents a rather diverse metal landscape, ranging from thrash and death to power and even doom. Some of the bands are young and maturing, others are more than a decade old like Cephalectomy. Their song “The Igniting Tempest” is one of the records that have never been released before, so fans can get their hands on some exclusive material here. The overall quality varies from song to song, same can be said about the genres. Check out Something Delicious, who have a very unusual mix of funk and hardcore. Tempting Tragedy presents an early-90′s style epic doom metal with additional stylistic changes worth attention.
Some of the music is relatively novel, while the influence of some famous bands can be felt in general, be it hard rock or sludge. This compilation would be interesting to just about anybody who likes metal, giving an insight into a vast number of genres and East Coast bands, which are still in the shadows. It’s all very different, but damn if it ain’t heavy. If you want to get into the very underground metal world – this is your ticket.
By Arceon
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