WARPATH:

• When War Begins... (1992) Warpath plays a more old school type of metal, the riffs are almost rocking at some points, but they can still write a good song. Pretty good production, some inventive uses of clean and distorted guitars. Not really my cup of tea.

• This Is Exile (2008) Deathcore in the same general style as Job For A Cowboy, with a touch of Meshuggah (see the beginning of 'Possession') and perhaps even some Black Metal influences (check out the beginning of 'Daemon'). These guys aren't doing anything that others haven't done before, but they do it so well. The sound is fantastic with a super pounding and thick guitar tone (the band uses 3 guitarists). The music is really tight. The drumming is fast and accurate (love the doublebass at the end of 'To All That Are Dead'). The songs do tend to suffer a bit from the sameness factor, which they try and address with some spooky intros, and mild industrial influences to break things up. But the core of the band (if you forgive the pun) is the unending bludgeoning start-stop rhythms, prepare to be punched in the face. The vocals are mostly low and growly (with the occasional higher pitched raspy screams), imagine David Vincent from Morbid Angel but with a deeper and thicker voice. They certainly aren't gonna sway anybody who hates deathcore, but within the confines of their genre, these guys are top notch. Hopefully they can find ways on future releases to accentuate their unique aspects, and break away from the pack a bit.
  

• Gods on Voodoo Moon (1986, EP)
• Slaughter The Grey/ Pig Heaven (1986, EP)
• Soul-Crusher (1987)
• Psycho-Head Blowout (1987, EP)
• Make Them Die Slowly (1989)
• God of Thunder (1989, EP)
• La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume 1 (1992) Sort of a combination of old style metal and new style metal (Motorhead meets Metallica). Very riff oriented, a more simplistic drum style, with decent although not mind blowing production. Nothing spectacularly new here.
• Astro-Creep 2000 (1995) White Zombie at the top of their game, a mixture of grooves and sound bytes. The production is powerful, with lots of bottom end and good EQing. Pounding drums that don't wander too far from techno / dance beats. Riffs are mixed with samples and strange noises to form a rather thick industrial sound that still somehow retains the old-school groove that was present on their last album. The vocals are quite distorted, they obviously know how to use their effects processors. In general good quality songs that are well written and commercially catchy without being boring, this is the Zombie album to own.
• Supersexy Swingin' Sounds (1996) Dance remixes from Astro-Creep 2000. Some of the songs are just way too dance oriented, with very minimal metal samples. But others still have that harder edge that you need in any form of intense music. In general, an excellent album to have playing in the background at a party, or when you're in a more mellower mood.

• Floating Cadaver In The Monochrome (1999, Demo)
• Voxel Mitosis (2001, Promo)
• Planisphaerium (2003) While I could draw a strong connection between this band and Disgorge, there are a number of factors that set the bands apart. First, Wormed has the super low vocals, but they're even more low, gurgly and possibly processed. Songwise, Wormed's songs have a little more variety to them. Not in the way that say Suffocation has distinct and memorable songs, but compared to the ridiculously random Disgorge formula they do a much larger variety of drum grooves, slow plodding bits, squawks, 1 bar non sequiturs (like a bit that sounds like the intro to Cryptopsy's 'Defenstration'). Imagine Disgorge mixed with say Immolation, and a touch of Cryptopsy. Production is really nice, plenty of bass and highend crackle, and a lot of layered guitars to make this big, big sound. At just under 30min, it ends long before the formula becomes stale. I don't know, is it bad for a reviewer to say it has some indescribable quality that just persuades me to keep it in my daily metal rotation? Because it does, some combination of groove, brutal sound, the ridiculously low vocals keeps my attention, and so I gotta recommend this one.