Time for our final foray down the dark metal corridors and over the tripwires and booby traps, into the echoing chambers of eternal hope, where the walls are stained with the scarlet and green juices of my broken dreams and the smell of disappointment and frustration hangs like a thick miasma in the air. It could only be last orders down at the bar we like to call
In fairness, we've had two out of three visits that were a lot better than expected, and we've done better this year than at any other time really in the history of this feature. Will it continue to the end of Metal Month III? Only one way to find out.
Well, first off we have a Brutal Death Metal band, which is great news for me (
) until I realise they're another one that only have two demos, so we won't be checking out
and will move swiftly on.
Hmm. These guys are signed, and have an album, though only the one. If I can find it then I guess they'll do.
Well I can't. Apparently some band called Eternal Tears of Sorrow (don't think they're a J-Pop band!) have a song called that, and other than one or two tracks I can't find anything on YouTube. Naturally, Spotify and GPM profess complete ignorance, so we must push the button once more.
Well this is odd. A band called Iron Thumb, no logo shown. Power metal (at last!) but Japanese, so all their releases are in that language, which may make it hard to find them. Well, let's give it a go. Yeah, as expected, no luck. One or two tracks but that's not enough. So this then is our last chance, as I have always limited myself to four attempts.
That's a pity. A black/death metal band from Singapore, of all places, might have been really interesting. But they only have one album, and it's a split with another band, and anyway I can't track it down. So this final quarter comes up blank I'm afraid.
So that's it for another year, though The Meat Grinder will surely make a few appearances in this journal independent of Metal Month. Hope you enjoyed my attempts to stumble through the vast plethora of metal there is out there, in the hope of chancing upon something great. We hit the mark, actually twice this year, which is a whole lot better than last year. But as always, it's a gamble, it's random, you pays your money and you takes your chances .... what do you mean, you didn't pay? Guards!
We now return you to the remainder of Metal Month III, already in progress...