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HEAVY METAL UNIVERSE ( France)
http://www.heavymetaluniverse.com
atrrocious Devoured
- Live Murders
style : death metal
reviewer : Séb
Avec un tel nom de groupe, une telle pochette et un tel titre, je m'attendais
à entendre une espèce de grindcore vomitif et inintéressant.
Et bien, absolument pas ! ATROCIOUS DEVOURED joue un death metal cru,
rude et agressif, des compositions intelligentes aux riffs et solos
de guitares efficaces. Onze titres pour seulement 35 minutes d'un death
metal qui charcute accessible à tout fan de metal extrème.
La seule chose qui lie ATROCIOUS DEVOURED au grindcore est la faible
longueur des morceaux, car en dehors de ça le reste est bien
plus death metal façon années 1980, avec un son plutôt
bon et un artwork sympas. De plus, notons que le livret annonce que
"cinq pour cents de tous les bénéfices sur les ventes
seront offerts pour nourrir des enfants et aider les plus défavorisés
parmi nous". Donc quand l'underground fait son possible pour aider
les gens tout en aidant la scène metal à se sortir de
cette mélasse neo-musicale pour quelque chose de plus plaisant,
ça ne peut que mériter que l'on s'y intéresse.
Un très bon album autoproduit de la part d'un autre excellent
combo de death metal français. Merci ATROCIOUS DEVOURED !
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ROCK METAL BANDS (Italy )www.rockmetalbands.com
This can be considered the debut-CD for the French
5-piece, as it includes 5 new songs and 6 re-recorded ones, already appeared
in their MCD "Golden Jail" This band seems to be trying to sound
as personal, weird and catchy as possible, and they've got it! I know
it may sound strange, but if you don't listen to them, you'll just expect
a death/grind band as they define themselves. Yet, through a track by
track listen, you'll find how many stylistic peculariaties you may find.
"Times" has some grind vocals, furious
and fast drumming, but soon some death vocals are added before a final
thrash/HM break supported by aggressive - nevertheless not death - vocals.
The same aggressive vocals are in the very thrashy "I Don't Like
it", including a Heavy Metal bridge a thrash guitar solo; grind vocals
and double ones from axeman Antoine Lallart in the blast parts, while
"Pain Ecstasy" is an excellent paragon of sprightly grind-thrash.
In the title track the thrash break, the brutal death finale and smart
lyrics about the killing society's current condition need to be mentioned,
so as to reinforce the cover's impact. And then comes the time for "In
the Desert Infinite", gifted with a great initial riff, and a grind-thrash
solo and refrain, very classy stuff; moreover the drum work is always
powerful and various here. Trust me if I tell you this is absolutely the
best of the 11 tracks.
Landing like a locusts' attack arrives "Killer Gods", with some
hard rock bass lines, mid tempo destructive onslaught and screeching guitars
preparing for the brutal conclusion.
"Golden Jail" proves to be dynamic and groovy and reminds me
of the latest Napalm Death's riffing, while the short "Murderer"
contains a deriding riff separating the grind assault.
"Under Your Eyes" is on the same line of the rest of the album,
still stands out thanks to a top-notch melodic break gutturally sustained
vocal-wise; cool solo and a merry (yes, you read well, joyful!) repeated
riff make it a memorable and odd composition. Were that not enough, you
get a stone rain with "Hatred", embellished by the alternation
of the 2 singers, and with "Ich Will Hinaus", both tightly grinding
from beginning to end, with the latter displaying a final crescendo that
takes no prisoners at all.
The songwriting is fresh and the mixing hides the
kickdrums a little; I'd've preferred a sharper guitar sound, anyway this
is a matter of personal taste; the only plain mistake is in the lyrics,
full of small mistakes that won't be recognized live; I am a perfectionist
and many won't pay attention to them live or even at home, cuz many don't
read lyrics and say: "Whatever!" I think their lyrics are not
the most original ones, but I like the fact they've chosen them, since
those are still current topics to be treated nowadays unfortunately.
"Live Murders" is an eminent album that
will not hit your mind at once but only after some listens, as it usually
happens with new or bizarre things, but when you like it, you'll find
yourselves listening to it continuously. Have Atrocious Devoured created
a new style, 'funny grind'?
MARKUS GANZHERRLICH - 10/12/03
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BRUTALISM (Hollande) http://www.brutalism.com
After their demo Golden Jail in 2001 the band hits
now with their debut full length. As I enjoyed the demo I hoped they continued
their work. And yes they have succeed. The songs are pleasure to listen
to. Brutal, fast, melodic, thrashy, guitarleads, deep vocals etc. Don't
expect some fancy death metal but just a good mind molesting album. Keep
on guyz!
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ROCKAROLLA (argentine)
http://www.rockarolla.com.ar
Francia ultimamente esta ofreciendo un monton de
bandas en la vena death/black, algunas de muy buena factura. Tal es el
caso de Atrocious Devoured, quienes nos mandaron este "Live murders",
primer album luego de cinco demos en su carrera. La banda se formo en
el 2000, por lo que son relativamente nuevos en la escena. Influenciados
por bandas como Morbid Angel, Obituary y Cannibal Corpse, nos traen un
death metal tecnico, lleno de rabia y muy bien ejecutado, con interesantes
arreglos en las guitarras. Riffs "gordos", bateria rapidisima,
con blast beats en algunos temas, y voces guturales como indica el manual
de death metal. Algunos riffs cercanos al thrash se hacen presentes en
temas como "I don't like it", asi como algunos solos dignos
de la dupla King-Hannemann, lo cual en mi opinion, hace que Atrocious
Devoured suene mas efectivo a la hora del headbanging. Deberian para el
proximo disco incluir mas de estos solos. Las letras y el arte de tapa,
(el cual me recuerda a las tapas de Cannibal Corpse), estan orientadas
hacia el gore, tan en boga actualmente. Al respecto de la tapa, ésta
habla por si sola, ya que directamente hace alusion al morbo de la gente
con respecto al crimen y sus consecuencias, y el titulo del album "Live
murders" ("Asesinatos en vivo"), asi lo indica. Atrocious
Devoured son aun una banda buscando su propio estilo, y seguro mejoraran
con el tiempo.
Un detalle a tener en cuenta si vas a comprar este disco: el 5% de lo
recaudado de las ventas del mismo seran donados a fundaciones encargadas
de alimentar a niños pobres.
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Branimir Bane
Lokner
Recenzije metal i extreme metal, gothic, progressiv (Bosnia)
http://muzika.bosnia.ba
Ime francuskog akta Atrocious Devoured cesto se
u poslednje vreme pominje po tamonjem undergroundu. Nedavno su docekali
objavljivanje full-length albuma u sopstvenoj reiji, koji se sastoji
od 11 tema. Intersantno je da su pet numera potpuno nove, a est
ih se prethodno pojavilo na MCD-u "Golden Jail". Istina, na
aktuelnom izdanju "Live Murders", one su dobile drugaciji miks
i produkcijsku formu.
Atrocious Devoured su na terenu death/grinda, ali
ne onakvog kakvog danas najcece imamo priliku da cujemo. Njihov
pristup nije minimalisticki koncipiran i postavljen, vec dosta sloena
aranmanska reenja i tehnicki kvaliteti clanova benda odvode
pricu jednim delom u druge vode.
"Live Murders" nije jednostavan za sluanje
i prihvatanje izdanja, ali akteri price pokazuju kako u ovakvoj formi
imaju znanja i iskustva. Nita nije preputeno slucaju i jedna
sveprisutna sigurnost se oseca od prvog do poslednjeg takta.
Ne znam za kakvu vrstu marketinga su sposobni i
spremni momci iz ove grupe, ali njihov full-length album "Live Murders"
potvrduje zavidnu klasu, na ovom, po sastav, jo uvek pocetku.
Ocena: 8,5 / 10
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LAERMBELAESTIGUNG
(Deutschland) http://www.laermbelaestigung.net
Death/Thrash - Frankreich - Eigenveröffentlichung
Zu dieser französischen Band habe ich kaum Infos und kann dem Bandinfo
nur grob entnehmen, daß sie scheinbar schon eine Mini-CD namens
Golden Jail veröffentlicht hat. Die hat man dann auch
gleich noch mal aufgenommen und mit auf Live Murders gepackt
hat. Schon mal komisch als Demo-Band Material doppelt zu veröffentlichen...
aber das kann den meisten Metallern auch egal sein, denn ATROCIOUS DEVOURED
können mit dieser Full-Length alles andere als überzeugen. Die
Musik bewegt sich im rumpeligen Death/Thrash Bereich und klingt musikalisch
nach einer Demo-Band, die ihren Stil noch zu finden versucht und bereits
vor 10 Jahren tausendfach gehörte Riffs zu insgesamt 11 Songs verarbeitet.
Diese klingen dann durch die supersimplen Gitarren oft fast etwas punkig
und werden vom mässigen Zusammenspiel und besonders dem Drumming,
das besonders in den schnelleren Passagen wirklich schauerlich holprig
und unsauber klingt, noch weiter runtergezogen. Darauf kommt dann ein
heiserer Sänger, der zwischen keifigem Black/Thrash-Gesang und etwas
tieferen Death-Metal Vocals pendelt, wobei beides nicht wirklich kraftvoll
klingt und ersterer auch noch dominiert und oft so monoton runtergebellt
wird, daß man denken könnte, die CD habe einen Sprung. Dafür
daß ATROCIOUS DEVOURED absolut auf Demo-Band Niveau spielen, muß
man aber zugeben, daß sie einen sauberen Sound abbekommen haben,
der allerdings für die Musik etwas zu Höhenlastig ausgefallen
ist. Auch die Aufmachung der CD muß sich nicht verstecken ... das
alles kann aber nichts daran ändern, daß das wichtigste von
allem doch reichlich entbehrlich ist... die Musik! Muß man also
nicht haben, da die interessanten Momente mehr als rar gesät sind.
Bei Interesse einfach auf den Bandnamen im Header klicken und mehr Infos
auf der Band-Website einholen.
Karim
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DIAHABLERIES (France)
http://www.diahableries.shorturl.com
Old skool metal !!! But what kind of metal kould
you imagine from this french band ? Well, different influences on this
cd : Cryptic Slaughter as well as Macabre and Cannibal Corpse. Imagine
a mix of these old bands and you will approach the Atrocious Devoured
musik. Old skool thrash metal sometimes, especially with the rythmik and
lead guitars. More hard kore, fast and brutal sometimes too. Their artwork
is typikal artwork that I found in the 80' years for a lot of hard kore
metal bands kovers : a funny gore pikture for a brutal musik. Effikacious
? Well, you will be the one to judge. I have to add that this self released
is very professionnal bekause the band recorded it with a high sound quality
and they wrote into the book that five percent of all benefits on sale
will be offered as food for children and a helping hand for the more threaten
among us. Do you will buy it for it or for their musik ? Find your way
! This opus has good parts anyway even if it is not too much new musikally
I think. Kontakt :
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ALTERNATIVE MAGAZINE #3. ( Turkiye)
http://www.alternativemag.go.to
ATROCIOUS DEVOURED "Live Murders"
2003 CD - Live In Metal
I was totally shocked when I see this album's cover artwork. Finally it
arrived and here I put it into my old an faithful CD player. It is not
like
I imagined. To tell the truth I was waiting for something like grindcore
and
gore but this is pure grinding death metal! No problem, it is OK too heahe.
Some tracks like "I Don't Like It", "Golden Jail"
are better than the rest
because for their being more catchy and powerful. I think they will find
their own way. Also it would be much better if their write more powerful
songs and sing faster. Worth to try. (By the way you can watch their
"Hatred" video on their web-page.) - 5/7 (Semih)
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MUSIQUE EXTREME (Argentine) www.musicextreme.com
Here is the new Atrocious Devoured album and it
is a good progression from the rpevious one, specially in sound. This
is specially evident on the rerecorded tracks from "Golden Jail".
Yes, here the guitars soujnd more powerful and clear while the drums are
upper in the mix giving more strength to this wild band music. The guitars
are fast and wild as always, giving the death metal feeling to the music
and adding also some thrash metal to the mix. The vocals are also responsible
of the deadly feeling that the music has, being really extreme and screaming
(and sometimes guttural). There is double bass drumming and some thrash
rhythmic patterns played at full speed thata re the essence of Atrocious
Devoured music. Plus we have her interesting tempo and rhythm changes
that add diversity. A good step forward for this killer band !
Federico
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LES ACTEURS DE L'OMBRE (France)
http://www.lesacteursdelombre.com/
Du bon grind trash death à l'ancienne voilà comment la description
d'Atrocious devoured.
Que dire de plus ? Le son de l'album est correct mais pas au top, un peu
plus de puissance n'aurait pas fait de mal ; les influences passent de
Cannibal Corpse à
. Slayer !!!
En bref peu d'originalité dans cet album quand même très
efficace. Qui a dit que l'on ne pouvait pas faire de bonne chose avec
de vieille recette ??!!
A noter 5 pour cent des bénéfices de la vente de ce cd iront
à des uvres caritatives ! Chapeau les gars !!
Chronique dun univers Métallique
.AMBRE
Découvrez ATROCIOUS DEVOURED ! Pour ce que ce groupe de DEATH METAL
apporte à la musique contemporaine.
Ce groupe nantais de cinq musiciens, dont deux chanteurs, est né
il y a seulement deux ans. Dans « HATRED », la chanson dénonce
les murs et les écueils aux rêves, les voix puissantes, hachées
et martelées des chanteurs dénonce lécrasement,
lhorreur, la souffrance de la prison, des camps ou guerriers, de
façon sensible.
Dans « KILLER GODS », les chanteurs
innovent avec leur voix en faisant de ces grognements interdits, qui rappellent
au mystère du verbe « être », quand on dit «
nous sommes ». « ... Vous prétendez détenir
les clefs du mystère ... » dit la chanson, et « pour
qui ? » suggère-t-elle.
Dans « PRISON DORE », « ... vous
devriez vous inquiéter du monde qui meurt ... ». La musique
semble encore plus solide, plus intense et plus dense que dans les autres
morceaux. Tandis que les solos de guitares, plus discordants me rappelle
« trafic » de Jimmy Hendrix ; trafic dun réseau
périphérique de type « Métropolis ».
Dans « MEURTRES EN DIRECT », le leader
sexprime librement de sa voix puissante et
gutturale. Il pourrait être la voix des victimes, hurlant lhorreur
de leur souffrance depuis la vie ou depuis le monde des morts.
Je vous invite vivement à découvrir
la suite de lunivers d « ATROCIOUS DEVOURED »,
musique underground pour le monde des vivants.
ATROCIOUS DEVOURED 2003
Another band stepping into the extreme zone is Atrocious Devoured and
this release has some very cool moments for us bizarre music lovers. Vocally
you have your typical Black-Metal schreeching, but at a more mid-tone
level. I can live with it. The music is a good mix of traditional old
styled black/thrash with some nice suprises thrown in for good measure.
I like the raw, razor-sharp guitar tone used and the odd time beats are
adventurous at best. I also like how this band dosen't just blast-beat
their way through every tune. The inclusion of some adept soloing is also
an added plus in my book. Seems like the bar is finally being pushed higher
by many bands in this realm and AtrociousDevoured certainly has followed
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REVIEWS
FROM GOLDEN JAIL ( 6 tracks demo) 2002
MUSIC EXTREME
A bestial band that plays extremely brutal
death metal with interesting guitar arrangements. That is what Atrocious
Devoured music sounds like. Fats riffs with extremely distorted
guitar, drum beats at full speed with some blast beats in some of
the tracks, brutal vocals. Everything here is conceived to brutalize
the ears. There are some rhythmic riffs in tracks like "I don´t
like it" that are designed to add more heaviness to the tracks
and that are even more effective than the fastest ones. The sound
of the recording is raw and direct so the band has achieved something
like a "live sound" on this recording. Here you have a
band with power and brutality for headbanging while listening to
it.
Favorite tracks: "Hatred", "Killer
Gods" and "Live Murders"
Contact: http://perso.infonie.fr/atrocious.dev
GRINDGORE (TK)
As I understand, this french band was born
in 2000 year, so, as you see, they're quite new band. And they presented
here their first high-quality release here. Yes, their release is
qualitative for sure. Neat brutal death metal with touch of death/grind
full of blastbeats and fast speeds. Influenced by such bands as
Cannibal Corpse, etc. Great sound quality, clear guitars, loud and
sharp drums and evil mid growling. Just good work. It's fine brutal
death in my opinion. As they said, Atrocious Devoured based on serious
professional objectives also Atrocious Devoured have a videoclip
and possible it will broadcasts on the MTV, haha!!! So, Golden Jail
isn't a masterpiece, but decent brutal death. Get this CD for 13
$ through the band...
Reviewed by Andrey
METAL RULES (USA)
It appears that my theme of the month is
death-grind albums, as this is now the 5th album in that style that
Ive had cross my desk. While the other four have been from
the good folks at Deepsend Records, this particular one is from
French band Atrocious Devoured.
Formed in 2000, the five lads who make up the band have been experimenting
with their music, and finally felt that the six songs presented
on GOLDEN JAIL were worthy for release. Since their style is death-grind,
you know that its not going to take too long to get through
listening to this disc, and sure enough, 16 minutes later, its
all over. Fair enough, but how is the music you ask?
Well, lets just say that if you didnt have the bands
bio, the CD case, any artwork or lyrics, and just have the bands
music to judge by, youd know that this was a young independent
band. As it stands right now, the music of Atrocious Devoured is
indeed heavy, intense, and brutal, but the song structures, the
playing and the overall feel of the music is still somewhat amateur.
You can tell that the guys in the band have been working hard at
their music, but at this point its still not a high enough
level to compete with the Nasums, Pig Destroyers, and Cinerarys
of the world, for that is the bands chosen arena.
As I said though, the band is trying, and songs like the title track
give hope for the future. Also, Live Murders is a good
song, using a speedy thrash vibe throughout, and even incorporating
some Slayer-ized solos.
This is still a young band finding their own style, and they should
improve with time. As it is, if youre a fan of this stuff,
check them out.
BRUTALISME
Atrocious Devoured - Golden Jail
This demo is from 2001 and contains 6 death
metal grindcore songs (only 5 on my copy). The songs go from up
tempo to speed tempo. Aggressive vocals, blasting drums and sharpy
guitarriffs and fucking great guitarleads. At last some leads back
to my ears. I wish they put more solos in their songs. My fav track
is "Killer Gods". The songs were fun to listen to and
hope to hear the full length soon!
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