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I think it's pretty safe to say that this is one of the oldest and
best compilation series out there for a wide variety of reasons. First
of all all the releases so far are qualitative and I like the fact that
the bands participating here put a lot of effort in this. What I mean by
that is that the people responsible for this compilation give the bands
six months of time to come up with something cool and representative of
their sound and most times the bands decide to do something new and offer
us an unreleased song, which gives extra points to obtaining this sampler.
After all I don't see a point in buying a compilation when I know all or
most of the songs beforehand... Besides these, there are other reasons
that make this sampler appealing with the most important of which being
the fact that this is the ninth compilation in a row for deathmetal.be
which subsequently means this is a successful endeavour. There's also the
fact that throughout the years I've come to know numerous great bands from
Belgium and the last reason is that this is one of the best mediums to
learn about a country's underground metal scene. "Sampler 9" has one extra
reason that makes it worth your while and this is its musical variety.
Up until now the samplers used to feature extreme metal bands only, but
this time you will also have the chance to listen to some dark progressive
metal (by the way I was extremely impressed by THE DIFFERENCE), folk metal,
stoner, deathcore and metalcore along with the grind, black and death metal
songs we are used to hearing from this series of compilation. The last
thing I really want to stress out is that I enjoyed this sampler very much
and thus kept it spinning in my CD player for a long time (and I'll continue
listening to it) and I also want to thank the guys who compiled it, because
they gave me the chance to listen to some really cool bands, whose careers
I'll start following from now on!
The bands that participate here are: CARRION, POWERSTROKE, TITAN,
SLEEPLESS MALEFICE, HEIDRUN, THE EVIL PONY'S, SOLIFUGIA, FATAL RECOIL,
THIRD DYNASTY, G.O.D., ORANGE HILL, THE DIFFERENCE, PREMATORY, BEAR, SEED
OF ROCK, ALESIA, CORPSE MUTILATION, SHADES OF GREY and URZAMOTH.
Christine Parastatidou
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