Ereb Altor “Gastrike”
It is a wonder that this band was
quite obscure to anyone in the
scene in these parts. All I get are
blank stares when I mentioned this
band. They’re formed primarily as
a sort of BATHORY homage band;
their 1st & 2nd albums focusing
more on BATHORY’s Viking, epic
doom metal aka “Hammerheart”
album (which is also enjoyable.)
However, for this album, they’ve
now focused on BATHORY’s “Black
Mark” and “Blood Fire Death” era.
And it does kill!!
hide Tribute II
feel to them, with the sprinkling of Viking
chants and clean vocals to the harsh vocals a lethal combination. I personally feel
that their decision to focus the addition
of distorted guitars and blast beats to
their arsenal will make their music more
‘accessible’ to the general death/black
metal crowd.
Today, after falling
into endless sleep for
15 years, our beloved
hide,guitarist of X
Japan, is still a buzzing
name in the music
scene, both local and
internationally.
I find myself growing to this album the
more I listened to it. It had the charm and
‘epic’-ness of BATHORY’s early works, and
I’m sure anyone into them will agree with
me.
This year, An
anniversary project
titled
“hide ROCKET DIVE
2013-2014 is launched.
7 tracks of grim black metal mixed
with Viking/doom metal would
be a fair description. Highlights
would be “Dance of darkness”,
“Dispellation”, “Seven”. However
you can’t just dismiss this as just
another BATHORY clone as they
do infuse it with a few ideas of
their own. The songs have an epic
The first album in the
series would strongly
represent the music
culture of
Japan, is none other
than Visual Kei music.
Visual kei music, he is the
single one of his kind. The
type of music sound he
created, is a major influence
to many artists who are
active in this genre. It is
even not exaggerating to
say that this is the future he
created.
Till now, hide and the
legendary X Japan still
remains as the most
distinctive and unrivalled
band in the Japanese rock
scene.
hide is most recognized
for his contribution in
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