VULCANO (Bra) til Betong førstkommende lørdag
- Posted on 25-04-2012
South of Heaven
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VULCANO
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NEKROMANTHEON
C.C. NOK 150/100
18 år leg plikt
VULCANO
Det blir ikke mer old school enn dette.
Mens Burzum, Emperor og Mayhem fortsatt gikk i parkdress, hadde alt Vulcano denimvesten på – Søramerikas eldste black metal band har holdt det gående siden 1981, og de og deres medbrasilianeres innflytelse på sjangeren kan knapt overvurderes. Deres debut, OM PUSHNE NAMAS er en NWOBHM-inspirert perle, og derfra og ut blir det stadig mørkere – Slem, rask black/death på heilbrasiliansk vis. For fans av Sarcofago, Venom og Burzum så vel som skranglete death metal i Possessed-gata.
Her er noen utdrag fra et intervju Eternal Terror gjorde med bandets grunnlegger Zhema i 2009:
What inspired you to make the comeback album "Tales From The Black Book" in 2003 (Renegados Records, 2004) and then to continue with VULCANO after long periods with inactivity?
During those years stopped I always watched metal gigs and I thought to return with the band because play metal music is a part of my life. In 2000 Soto Jr. call me talking about a possible return and we did some gigs. After his death in 2001, I started to compose the songs that would became in "Tales from the Black Book", so here we are!!
I want to go back and speak about the "old days": You are the first extreme Metal act from South America. When, exactly, will you say VULCANO was born? Where you in any band before that was just as extreme Metal as VULCANO?
I played in some rock’n’roll bands in 78/80. VULCANO was born after ASTAROTH in 81 and in those years we play a hard rock mixed heavy metal. I think VULCANO was born in 84 when we change our style to become more raw and brutal.
Your debut release, the "Om Pushne Namah" 7" EP came as early as in 1983. What bands inspired VULCANO?
We tried to do something like BLACK SABBATH, but we didn’t get it, because we didn’t know how to do it and here in Brazil didn’t exist good equipments.
Many extreme bands have later emerged from South America. How was the feeling of what you were doing at that early stage of VULCANOS career? Did you feel as a band breaking ground for others to come? How was the support on that time, from concert promoters, labels, fans?
In the beginning there was no promoters or labels, each band did its own gigs and some times we joined our equipments and we produced our own gigs. The scene happened just in our area. For example, I bought my own backline and P.A system and I recorded our first single when all of peoples thought, that crazy! So I think VULCANO was very important for the others band.
NEKROMANTHEON
La ikke terningkast seks i Dagbladet, Dagsavisen, Lydverket og Aftenposten skremme deg – NEKROMANTHEON er norges definitivt feteste thrashband, og det helt uten å henfalle til trivelig melodi, allsangrefreng eller utvanna, tøysete nu-schoolfakter. De veit tross alt bedre på Kolbotn. Deres nyeste fullengder, "Rise, Vulcan Spectre", er thrash for dere som syntes alt var bedre da Russland fortsatt var Sovjet, Michael Jackson fortsatt var svart og Kåre Willoch fortsatt var høyremann, Fylt til randen med dritekjappe riff, desperat vokal og den raffeste trommelyden siden nittenseksogåtti.
Torgrim Øyre i Dagbladet skrev blant annet dette i sin anmeldelse av "Rise, Vulcan Spectre"
Oslobandet Nekromantheons Indie-debut, «Rise, Vulcan Spectre» er så programmessig i utførelsen at den hypotetisk sett kunne ha stått mellom Sodom-EP’en «In the Sign of Evil» (84) og Possessed’s «Seven Churches» (85) i en kronologisk platesamling.
Det betyr ikke at de unge thrash-spirene er for dølle kopister å regne. Nekromantheon utstråler en vitalitet og ungdommelig entusiasme som tidvis har vært en mangelvare i den ellers så etablerte norske metalscenen en stund.
Det handler om å dyrke autensiteten og den instinktive energiutblåsningen som la grunnlaget for thrashens blomstringsfase opp mot midten av 80-tallet.