“Viper Vixen Goddess Saint” will easily find placement on several Best Of 2016 year-end lists and much deservedly so for this is an ideally stand-alone opus."įull review: /fire-down-below-viper-vixen-goddess-saint-review-stream/#more-16099 "Chock full of ambience-inducing depth and massively monstrous pedal-driven guitar pyrotechnics, The Mammoth serves as the ideal aural mission statement for what Fire Down Below are all about: controlled sonic chaos and absolutely stunning executions of adrenalized excitement. The beat, the grooves, and the riffs are some of the best i've heard in awhile."įull review: The Metal Nexus, written by Dragon "I throughly enjoyed this album from the moment i hit play. "Fat and fuzzy guitars, huge riffs and an amazing singer make Fire Down Below a truly amazing band!"įull review (in Dutch): The Evil Engineer review, written by Bill Goodman Lords of Metal review, written by Kevin, 87/100 "Fire Down Below, a band now suddenly assailing the stoner/psych and doom communities with their stunning debut album."įull review: /2016/09/fire-down-below-viper-vixen-goddess.html Spread the news: Fire Down Below is on fire!"įull review (in Dutch): dumpmagazine.be/ShowNews/Cd-review_Fire_Down_Below_-_Viper_Vixen_Goddess_Saintĭesert Psychlist review, written by Jones Frazer Our little Belgium has a new rock band that rumbles the way it should. "Leave this LP in the mailbox of John Garcia, and he'll be a fan for sure. What a great new promising band for the Benelux and all of Europe! With great respect for their predecessors they succeed in making their own mark on the genre."įull review (in Dutch): /albumrecensies/fire-down-below-viper-vixen-goddess-saint "With this debut Fire Down Below deliver a rare gem in the stoner rock genre. Zware Metalen, written by Ramon van der Heijden, 90/100 Mastered by Brad Boatright Audiosiege (Portland, USA) The A&R man from Roadrunner who picked these guys up managed to find another filler for bargain bins the world over.Recorded and mixed by Tim De Gieter Much Luv Studio (Brakel, Belgium) While Brazil's underground scene undoubtedly produced some excellent bands, Viper is not one of them. Vocalist Pit Passarell has an excellent sense of vocal melody, and would do well fronting a pop–punk band. There's the odd unusual percussive flourish, like the instrumental "405 South", and the songs are toe–tappingly catchy. In places, it sounds like early Helloween on happy pills, but with worse vocals.Ī few allowances need to be made in the lyric department for these guys, naturally being Portuguese speakers, but the lyrics are like something out of a Motley Crue record, or a 13 year old attempting to write songs for the first time– "Makin' Love", "Somebody Told Me You're Dead", "Far And Near". The songs are bouncy, cheerful and vapid. While Sepultura were listening to Discharge and the Dead Kennedys and were taking it all in, Viper were listening to Bad Religion and The Ramones. The essence of thrash was originally taking a hardcore influence and adding it to metal. It would have been a solid enough album in the early days of thrash in 1985, but for 1995, it's anachronistic and really a bit of a joke. The album sounds like it is full of songs and ideas Metal Church rejected for their debut album. It is simplistic, a little moronic in the lyrical department, and was several years out of date when released. It is the type of album critics of thrash metal would use as an example of why thrash is crap. To be brutally honest right from the start, this album simply is not very good. Bands B, C, D and E are the likes of Overdose, Ratos De Porao, Korzus, or this lot, Viper. Band A is Sepultura, a band who gave thrash metal the biggest kick in the ass since Slayer's "Reign In Blood". Just so this makes more sense to those who don't work as music label A&R people, I'll explain. And just in case, grab Band C, Band D, and Band E before anyone else does! A&R man logic 101: If Band A comes from Country X, then Band B from Country X equals Band A.
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