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The Ordher, Extreme Stuffand and Christopher Wilder |
| By: Senor Stressor |
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English version: Maila-Kaarina |
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The Ordher: "Kill the Betrayers" - Death Metal - Brazil |
Excellent job done by this brutal death metal band from the South of Brazil (yet a traditional area of the country regarding extreme metal bands). The leader is the guitarist Fabiano Penna, already known by his great work with the bands Rebaellium and Horned God.
The Ordher makes music based on speed but they know how to avoid linearity in “Kill the Betrayers”, with very good heavy moments and two more melodic interludes, in a creative and well proportioned CD.
Great drummer Cássio Canto opens the CD with a blockbuster intro , just a little advise to prepare the listener to what is coming next; the brutal and intense track, Progeny.
Next song, a little step on the brake with the mid tempo “Whipped, Crowned and Dead” - which has a very interesting riff that reminds me the not very well known American band Oppressor - and brutal unchristian lyrics (basically the subject of the album), this is one of my favorites.
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The third track,” Fevered Priests", starts with an interesting theme that suddenly turns into a great punchy cadence a la Morbid Angel, very dynamic with blasts, midtempo, themes and a solo which really is a plus to the song, totally different from the usual free demonstrations of speed we are used to listening to. Very good.
My favorite song of the album is the fourth track , “Conspiracy”, which starts really brutal although there is a part with more pace, highly exciting exactly on 1:27 min. I can imagine all headbangers opening a big pogo row at this moment in a concert.
Next, the track “ At One With Darkness”, a fast instrumental unplugged passage that seems to be made to give some rapid resting moment to the listener's ears before the second (and most extreme part of the entire CD), which starts with the midtempo (even though there are a few very fast double drummings played by Cassio and a blasts section), and heavy “Hit the Weak”.
From this moment on what we've got is speed with some occasional but fast slowing down moments, being the heaviest ones: “We Take Revenge”, and the tittle track, "Kill the Betrayers".
The CD ends with the atmosphere of “ Earth Burns”, almost all instrumental.
The crystal clear production is made by the own band and it's a highlight that makes all riffs intelligible and well defined, something not common to happen in extreme metal CDS, specially in the fast parts.
In my opinion this is Penna's best work so far and will surely open space to the band in the extreme scene worldwide.
web page: www.myspace.com/theorderextreme |
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How I started to like extreme music
I started to listen to heavy rock in 1978. There weren't extreme styles at that time (at least not in the same way we've got today), and it is worth to remember that Elvis was considered somehow "extreme" at old times.
AC/DC, Queen, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Kiss and Van Halen were my favorites at that time.
It started to get heavier when Motörhead came out ( the first time I heard “Bomber”, vinyl record version of the album “No Sleep ´till Hammersmith”, alive, I thought I had made a mistake on the speed choice when putting the record on).
And then thrash metal came out with Metallica, Anthrax, Exodus and, the fastest ones at that time; Slayer and Dark Angel. I became a real thrash metal fan, completely in love with the speed those bands would play.
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When the English band Venom released their first album (“Gosh, they are much more brutal than Motorhead!”, this was my thought at that time), the "evil quotient" started to increase and the bands which would become the extreme metal icons in the future came out. Bands such as Hellhammer (later, Celtic Frost) in Switzerland, Destruction, Sodom and Kreator in Germany and Sepultura in Brazil.
These bands came from the thrash metal but had heavier vocals and much more speed in their music. At that time I used to think their albums were very bad recorded and those vocals wouldn't please me that much (of course time changes our opinion). I just liked more the cleaner and better quality sound of the American thrash icons.
Let's jump into the 90's! I've always been a big Pantera fan and one song in particular made me "yield to the charms" of the guttural vocals; on the CD Far Beyond Driven (94), in the song “Slaughtered”, vocalist Phil Anselmo sings it in a very "howling" way at some specific parts and it made me like this type of singing.
After that, beginning to like things such as Bolt Thrower, Cannibal Corpse and Morbid Angel (my first extreme metal CDS), was just a small step. I became a big death metal fan and then, started to listen to other styles as black metal, grind (my favorite at the moment), crust, power, violence, splatter, etc.
In my case, it was step by step that my taste to the extreme metal went on and after this (blessed) moment, a new world full of musical options started to exist and be part of my life.
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Sinistrices - Christopher Wilder
Wilder was an Australian man who moved to the USA, where he became wealthy in the construction business area. He was very well accepted by society, had friends and seemed to be a great guy to all those who knew him.
Behind that social mask, though, there was a dangerous and homicide personality.
Wilder used to attract women pretending to be a photographer, offering free photo shootings. After getting them to trust him, he subdued and took them to hotel rooms where they were tortured with electric shocks, raped and killed.
Through investigation and interviews with some people that knew the victims, authorities could connect them to Wilder and questioned him. They found out he already had a criminal record; 3 separated cases of sexual aggression and kidnapping, he was also being treated by a sexual therapist, a mandatory condition because of a rape he had executed in 1980.
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When he realized he was up to be caught, Wilder got his car, some money and disappeared, in March of 1984, leaving on the way a track of death and violence through several American states. He killed 8 women (maybe more, including Australia) in his blast of horror which lasted 6 weeks.
During that time, Wilder was one of the top 10 most chased criminals in the FBI list.
One day, when stopping to fill up the gas tank in Colebrook (New Hampshire) ,Wilder was recognized by 2 patrol men and was killed during a shooting with the cops.
His dark past was found out later, he has participated on a collective rape in Australia, when he was only 15, being submitted to electric shock treatment when arrested. His therapist said he had sexual fantasies of dominating women and was fascinated by the book "The Collector", of John Fowles, who tells the story of a man who used to keep a woman as prisoner in his house.
A song about Chris Wilder : Chris (D.A.D.)
See you! |
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