Cost: $1.00
A generous reader sold me two batches of distro clearance CDs for $1 each (if anyone out there is up for a similar arrangement, email me!). A fair amount of My Kingdom Music filler, but plenty of more underground stuff as well. Hopefully I'll get around to posting about more of these, but here's the first, a disc from the second bunch.
The first half of the CD consists of 2012 & 2011 tracks. Immediately the opening riff to "Legião Underground" reminded me a little of Turbo's "Żołnierz fortuny." While it's hard to go wrong with raw '80s style South American thrash, the original tracks feel somewhat generic and nothing particularly stood out to me. The cover of Frost's "Nocturnal Fear" is straightforward, but I liked the "Space Invaders" cover more (I think it's the first Messiah cover I've ever heard). Then the 2006
Ultra Violência demo tracks were a pleasant surprise, as the songs feel a lot more developed and stronger riff-wise than their later stuff. There also seems to be a more prominent speed metal edge on this demo. I think these are the best originals on the entire CD, but sadly for me, this is the only recording here without a cover song. Finally, there's the
Comando das Trevas 2005 demo, which is far more primitive than the other recordings. Again, the songs themselves aren't really noteworthy (aside from "Morte Infernal" starting with a bassline similar to Violent Force's "Dead City"), but the early Cogumelo vibe and evil aura here makes these songs more interesting to me than the first half of the disc. I can't decide if I like the "Blasphemer" cover or not--it's endearingly sloppy, but gets
too sloppy and off time in parts.
