Schwermetall – Der Film , the first German Hard´N´Heavy documentary, filmed in 2008 + 2009 on 90 Festivals and stages all over Germany, featuring the underground as well as big names (Summer Breeze, Bang Your Head), more than 250 German and international artists and stars, is now hitting the screens. Besides Interviews, Outtakes, Live-Clips and Fanshots you can experience festivals from backstage or VIP areas and find out about different Metal styles: www.schwermetall-der-film.de. Sabaton-Cruise: Who wants more of Metal on a cruise ship should consider this one on December 2, 2010, with Sabaton, Raubtier, Steelwing, Prey, Mary Fay etc, Infos here . The Sorrow competition named HEADBANG & WIN, until Aug 30 details here . Sweden Rock Cruise will be a tribute to Ronnie James Dio (R.I.P.) and will take place on Oct 7, 2010. Details at our tourdates.
Brutal music from The Netherlands keeps coming in constantly, thus I´m not amazed to hold yet another brutal records in my hands from quite a new band called Persistense. Well, to be exact, the band has been around for nine year already, but apart from a demo entitled "Persistense" in 2004, you won´t find anything, up till now, with the debut release "In Blood And Heart". Just on the margin, a short note on the bandname itself, it´s not written in a wrong way, rather a combination of the two words "persistent" and "intense". The group fell apart in 2005, but vocalist Stefan managed to gather some passionate musicians to records a 3-song Promo in 2008.
So how could you describe their sound? It´s some groove Thrash/Death, that is not presenting the usual kind of lyrics, but meaningful lyrics, since the band stresses, that it´s important to them to have recognizable songs, with decent structure and lyrics that fit the whole thing. If you like the vocals of bands like Pestilence or Asphyx, you´ll dig those on "In Blood And Heart" as well, since there´s similarities between the ones of Stefan and aforementioned bands - monotonous in a way, something which some people will surely dislike, but it fits the music, thus no complaints here. Thanks to the groovyness of the songs, it´s a pretty smooth listening and that makes the whole record quite enjoyable. One thing is for sure, there´s no really bad song from the opener "Further" till "Sick World, that is ending the album - brutalities and pretty headbangable riffs from beginning till end so to say.
Persistense surely didn´t invent the wheel, but are surely worth being checked out, since they deliver some quality material, along with nice ideas for songs and don´t have to hide from (debut) bands in this sector from elsewhere. Give them a try!
