Negative-Existence - MANIAC BUTCHER "Masakr" LP

MANIAC BUTCHER "Masakr" LP
[NE014LP]

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Artist: MANIAC BUTCHER

Title: Masakr

Format: LP

Country: Czech Republic

Genre: Black Metal

Record Label: Negative Existence

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MANIAC BUTCHER are back after a 10 year hiatus with their 7th full length album. Ruthless and savage black metal that spits at the cross!

This gatefold LP is limited to 500 copies on thick black wax. with lyrics in Czech and English. It includes a huge 24" x 36" full color poster.

Tracklisting:

1. Ten Cruel Winters...
2. Riding Through The Darkest Woods...
3. Fatal Decision...
4. Unholy Confessional Blasphemy...
5. Bloody Massacre...
6. An Awful End...

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Reviews:

Press Quotes

• "Innovation and progression are all well and good, and undoubtedly contribute to the growth of a genre whose roots still lay firmly soaked in the blood of the past, but there’s something to be said for simply doing something right. Take, for example, Maniac Butcher. Back after a 10-year hiatus, these Czech bastards have been grinding it out for so long that they’re able to list DARKTHRONE and MAYHEM amongst their contemporaries, and it shows. This is true, orthodox black metal – done right…This is black metal as it once was – bloodthirsty, wild-eyed, straight-forward, and forever stained by the ash of burning churches" – Terrorizer
• "Masakr casts aside the past ten years with a single swing of its blood-drenched claw, returning to the swarming HELLHAMMER-by-way-of-DARKTHRONE violence of the band’s rich history as if not a moment had passed. Indeed, the influence of the latter is now somewhat lesser, with the band displaying a more individual sound than before. Without a superfluous moment or throwaway riff, the album’s 30 minutes pass in a thunderstorm of forthright scorn" – Zero Tolerance
• This kvlt Czech duo released a half-dozen full-lengths, a live album, and a handful of splits and demos in the latter half of the ’90s before packing it in at the turn of the decade. Ten years on, they’re back to put the black in metal again. Forget the cheesy band moniker; Vlad Blasphemer and Barbarud Hrom totally deliver on the promise of ‘No keyboards! No female vocals! Only pure black metal!’…full-bodied, punk-inflected, second-wave bombast in the vein of peers DARKTHRONE, CARPATHIAN FOREST and KHOLD" – Rue Morgue [4/5 rating]
• "Thank Satan they decided to regroup and show all the black metal kiddies out there what straightforward, true black metal is. It’s almost as if the band got swallowed up in a wormhole for ten years, because don’t really sound like they’ve skipped a beat. Well, maybe they amped up the production value a bit, but it’s friggin’ pristine, yet still visceral and raw as black metal is meant to be…A good hunk of the forebears of black metal have gone soft or far from the realm of what they were, so it’s a good thing that lying in the underground there are still some forefathers that are purveying the utmost unholy black metal anthems…Thank you for returning, Maniac Butcher, and making me forget some of the major black metal atrocities of the last ten years" – SLUG
• "This is the band for pure raw black metal…the most brutal black metal ever created by a black metal outfit…Blasphemer and Barbarud are the true kings of black metal" – Culture Asylum
• "A triumphant return after a decade-long hiatus. I always respected Maniac Butcher for never giving into the trends of synth, goth, angelic female vocals and such things – they were always true to their roots…This new album may be a little more rocking than in the past, but no less evil-sounding and still mean & hateful. It is simple and cruel like any good barbarian horde…The Butcher is back and they are not fucking around. The black metal scene needed an album like this right now and so do you" – Canadian Assault
• "The first release from the legendary Czech black metal band after a 10-year hiatus, so you can bet some freaks are gonna be leaving the basement to go buy this. Or, more likely, not leaving the basement while they download it and Maniac Butcher somehow make even less money than they ever did before off their raw, no-frills black metal. These dudes pride themselves on no keyboards and no female vox, and you know what? We at Metal Heart can get behind that. And six songs, 30 minutes, some kind of animal squawking in the intro? We can also get behind that" – Metalmaniacs.com
• "As grim and pissed as ever, these dudes have come back to release the record that should have been made by GORGOROTH, if they weren’t so busy licensing their trademark to Rockabilia and Hot Topic, arguing over their name, or teaching elementary school. All true things. Anyway, if you need some old-school BM with a healthy dose of thrash. Get back at Maniac Butcher. And GORGOROTH, get your head out of your ass" – ChronicYouth.com
• "The Czech barbarians emerge in 2010 as if this past epoch had never transpired. The world has gone soft, in the brains and in the muscles, and Barbarud Hrom and Vlad Blasphemer have returned to beat it repeatedly with a morning star that has seen more battle than an inner city youth. Hail, it is about fucking time! Masakr is the band's 7th full-length splatter platter, and it mirrors all the simplicity and excellent writing the band used in the past through records like the debut Barbarians, the Lucan-Antikrist or the more recent Invaze. Six anthems of blasphemy doled out in the band's native tongue, and quite impressively mixed. The band sounds brighter and more bloody than ever before…essentially the aural component to a parallel world in which Robert E. Howard novels or the most bloodiest, Dark Ages of history are the norm and the now. Simple thrusts and jabs of wretched black metal with superb if primal riff compositions. The band have been around for such a long time that their peers could only be counted among the originators of this field, like a BATHORY, MAYHEM or HELLHAMMER" – From the Dust Returned webzine [9/10 rating]
• "A truly horrifying beast of a record firmly rooted in classic black metal territory. It’s actually really refreshing to find an old black metal band still producing the same kind of music they started with! These guys have refused to pander to the 'black'n'roll' stylings of SATYRICON or DARKTHRONE nor let image overcome artistic integrity in the way that DIMMU BORGIR and IMMORTAL have. No, these guys still play ferocious, untamed black metal of a high quality…One of the highlights of the black metal genre this year" – Ice-Vajal.com [9/10 rating]
• "The album is over before you know it, a perfect slice of black metal action that frenziedly delivers on its promises and leaves you wanting more. As other fans of the band will be aware, that sentence could sum up virtually any of their releases, but so what? Maniac Butcher are a great band, and repeating that makes their music no less powerful. Masakr lives up to its name, and is a powerful addition to a discography that can be returned to again and again, whether you understand those lengthy song titles or not" – Metalreviews.com [8.4/10 rating]
• "After a ten-year hiatus, Maniac Butcher returns with a powerful black metal release that will surely send a lot of crappy black metal bands crying to their garage wishing they could craft such hate-filled anthems of destruction…it’s like the band never left the scene. Featuring a crystal-clear production, the band sounds as raw as ever and their music crushes since the first riff…probably one of the band’s best-sounding albums to date. The production behind it is crushing and creates a very powerful album that doesn’t need to sound like shit to be raw and brutal. If you are a black metal fan, you shouldn’t miss this brilliant come back release of one of the Czech Republic’s most crushing and infamous bands" – Infernalmasquerade.com [8.8/10 rating]
• "Wow. This album is simply fucking breath-taking. The raw old-school aggressivity emanating from these cuts is so poignant, it screeches through the mind and brings the blood to a boil…The disc is well balanced between dizzyingly fast, brutal cuts, and slightly progressive and catchy numbers that are really quite addictive and memorable to these ears" – TheDailyStab.GuitarPirate.com [8/10 rating]
• "Their first album in ten years(!), and Maniac Butcher still haven’t lost their touch. This is just goddamn insane straight-up black metal, and it’s perfect for those that like an almost more death metal approach to the genre, without entering blackened death territory…The sound is raw, trebly, with excellent riffs that stick in your head long after the album is done. It makes you want to keep listening to it, over and over again" – Funeralrain.net [8.5/10 rating]
• "Like the Czech title indicates, Masakr is about just that, fucking massacres. This veteran quartet may not be going into fresh territories, but after two decades of battling it out for Satan, why would they stray from their field of expertise?" – Deafsparrow.com
• "Despite the fact that the group has been gone for so long, they definitely appear to be in fine form, as this new effort continues their raw black metal assault. It may be a little short, but Masakr is a welcome return for this long-dormant act… Maniac Butcher in 2010 is very similar to Maniac Butcher from a decade ago, only this time around the production values are a lot better. However, despite the fact that all of the instrumentals are a lot clearer, the band hasn’t lost any of their intensity and rawness. Whether you’ve heard of these guys or not, if you like loud and in-your-face black metal, this is a must-have release" – Cosmosgaming.com
• "Raw, chaotic, thrashing black metal rapes your speakers for nearly half an hour - just the perfect length for such a devastating onslaught. Unintelligible, visceral rasps take center stage like a fucking demon haunting your mind, while the drums blast away incessantly - no incessant blastbeat crap, just some thunderous hammering of the skins…The decent production doesn't deter the raw nature of the material here; it simply ensures that your ears are meticulously assaulted by this sonic assault" – Metalcrypt.com
• "The years have been kind to Maniac Butcher, and I reckon Masakr to be the band's strongest album so far…With Masakr, Maniac Butcher stay true to the already potent formula they have stuck with since their inception. Not afraid of progression, by no means, but not really the kind to go for the low-profile rims when the regular ones work perfectly. Why mess a good thing up? If you like your Czech black metal in the old vein, like you remember it on Zjeveni but a bit more rawer and thrashier, then Masakr is your thing" – Halifax Collect blog
• "Can Masakr hold up to past Maniac Butcher classics of the past? In a word, yes! Masakr is six songs of pure hate and aggression done only as these Czech hate-mongers can do… longtime fans of Maniac Butcher should not be disappointed at all. And if you are new to this band and enjoy raw, ugly, violent black metal done the old-school way, this is a good way to introduce yourself to this legendary Czech band" – Minacious webzine
• "A decade of dormancy is over. Maniac Butcher is back to bloodslinging with its rivet-to-the-head black metal viciousness. The production is one of the first things I noticed. It manages to be (deliberately) thin and thick at the same time. Sharp. Razor cutting like a knife, flat across the ears as a tool to hit with, as well. Then there's the music itself. Furious, racing guitars and drums and inconceivably sneery black metal vox. It's an elevated underground sound, gritty but with a sheen, know what I mean? Abusive and disemboweling and mean as fuck, Maniac Butcher may have a name like a deathgrind band, but it's black metal all the way" – Corazine.com
• "Haven't lost a step, as they still successfully deliver furious, traditional-sounding black metal without any of the trimmings. That's right: if you are expecting atmosphere, acoustic guitars, keyboards, whispered or female vocals, you've come to the wrong place…there's no denying that Masakr is a solid old-school-styled black metal platter for fans looking for something different from all the atmospheric & symphonic acts filling up the genre these days. Maniac Butcher are back, folks, so either revel in it or run and hide" – Seaoftranquility.org

Overview:

MANIAC BUTCHER have reformed after a ten year hiatus and have recorded an new album that is now available. The full length entitled "Masakr" contains six new tracks of orthodox black metal. Raw and heavy guitars pound out riff after riff of furious evil energized by aggressive drumming and completed with a violent wave of harsh distorted dirty vocals that tell the epic tale of Maniac Butcher. The overall sound on Masakr is monstrous. This album is by far the most professionally produced MANIAC BUTCHER album to date yet still captures the raw and underground feeling of previous albums.

MANIAC BUTCHER are the longest running true black metal band from Czech. Since the early 90's they have maintained their motto "No keyboards!! No female vocals!! Only pure black metal storm!!" which forged their straight forward and ruthless sound.

EXPECT BLOODSHED!!!

Links:

Maniac Butcher Official Site
Maniac Butcher NE Artist Page

Images:

8/10 - The Daily Stab
Corazine
Metal Maniacs
9/10 - Ice Vajal :: Music Land :: Metal World
9/10 - From the Dust Returned

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 27 July, 2010.

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