The BAZ Underground ABC – II – Letter “E”

Enisum combines strong elements of desolation and nature and their sound is unique in my mind. Deep, growling, haunting vocals, with breaks into clean vocals as the track “Moth’s Illusion” as one example, evidences. Melodies are sung in a building, reaching, to a highlight of blistering vocals and guitar riffs that elongate to sudden silence. Beautifully aggressive and atmospheric done well. Metal Marie

Featuring the-Metal-musician-who-turns-up-in-every-NOLA-band Jimmy Bower and the unmistakable demented lyrics and strangled vocals of Mike IX Williams, EyeHateGod are the ultimate musical destination when you want your Metal harsh, noisy, darkly comic, surreal, ugly and abrasive. You’ll hear traces of Black Sabbath and Black Flag at their most grim and grinding, the band forging a sound part Punk and part Metal. Noisy as hell, I was lucky enough to see them in Prague earlier this year and my hearing was fucked up for days.

Leaving many a colourful tale of drugs, disaster and general misadventure in their wake (often with Mike IX at the centre), EyeHateGod also have a barrel-full of great songs to their name (a few worth mentioning right off the bat: “Parish Motel Sickness”, “Sister Fucker (Pt. I)”, “Dixie Whiskey” and “Jack Ass In The Will Of God”). You will be well served by any of their albums, but for anyone new to the band I’d probably start with 1993’s “Take As Needed For Pain” or the self-titled album.

I will leave you with the words of Mike IX on “Medicine Noose” from the band’s 2014 self-titled album:

            Her mind is strangled just like mine.
Her drugs are tangled just like mine.
            Hung by the neck. Hungover wreck.
            Pill cabinet empty off the shelf.
            Medicine noose machinery, drenched in sweat, draped in suede.
            Medicine noose machinery, child-proof cap, child-proof rope.

Tom

The melodic death metal blasting from the EP is just delightful to the point of where it feels like one of those easy listening albums but in quite the different ways than most others. The orchestration work so sophisticated to the point where it feels as a smooth summer drink on a hot day you just don’t want to give up. So should you be in the same position as myself where most experiences with metal from Greece has had the lasting repelling effect of trying others from the same country, I can assure you that this one is quite safe and certainly worth giving a go. Julia Katrin

His three albums are exquisite and worth every penny you invest to have them in physical format either on CD or vinyl. Having them in the collection is mandatory. I’m already looking for mine.
The first album is The Inward Cold, followed by In The Hours Beneath from the same year 2016 and finally, we have The Bleakness of Our Constant released in 2018.
The three full-lengths deserve all the recognition and you can see that Jori is looking to keep track of releases so very soon and I hope so, we will have a new album, maybe next year.
He has also been very active in several tours and shows throughout the United States, doing tours with bands such as Harakiri for the Sky, Numenorean, Gates to the Morning but apparently without leaving Europe which would be a leap in quality for Jori and Eneferens.

What you are going to hear from this band are beautiful melodic moments accompanied by melancholy and feelings. The guitar solos accompany the acoustic passages and the clean voices provide harmony and very special mid-tempos. Brilliant and beautiful. No more words, go and listen to it now! See you soon, Jammerfal

Unsurprisingly, the band name Emyn Muil is sourced from J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it translates to ‘the drear hills’ and is a location of vast, treacherous, hilly terrain that is encountered around the time that the fellowship breaks up at the end of volume one of the The Lord of the Rings series “The Fellowship of the Ring”.

All works by Emyn Muil are drenched in Tolkien’s rich lore and much like the iconic literary works, these audible offerings are absorbing, expansive and rousing. The experience is always memorable and exciting as the tones and moods switch and vary flawlessly. The moments of dark ambience can be biting, the epic black metal grim, while the orchestral synth breaks are full, sweeping and grandiose. At other times the drums and atmosphere are so robust that their weight feels crushing or burdensome. The result is that each album becomes it’s own fascinating aural journey. 

To date Emyn Muil have released two albums “Túrin Turambar Dagnir Glaurunga” (2013), and “Elenion Ancalima” (2017). However, September 25^th 2020 will see the release of a new album “Afar Angathfark”, and I for one am excited.

If you are a fan of Tolkien’s lore or enjoy epic, atmospheric, dark synth with a juicy helping of black metal then I highly recommend that you embark on your own journey into the engrossing work of Emyn Muil. Proua Metallist

Expunged can be described in just 4 words. Old School Death Metal. The songs are very good, the sound of the band reminds a lot a mix of European Death Metal mixed with the Tampa, Florida style. Very well achieved to be honest. Luckily the band had the opportunity to see this amazing first release on the 3 formats, all by different labels. Vinyl by Hells Headbangers Records, CD by PRC Music and Tape by Funeral Hymns Records. It’s band to pay attention and hope that the next release comes soon and so damn good like the self titled EP. The Key Keeper 666