B M U presents @ The Frontline, Gent (Belgium):
 
CULPABLE HOMICIDE, BUTCHERED and RHYMES OF DESTRUCTION
 
live on 8th of September 2000 a.t.b.b.


CULPABLE HOMICIDE plays brutal deathmetal with few melodic pieces. It sounded rather good and powerful. They only need to add a bit more variation into the music. The slow parts were just brutal deathmetal wall. The band is very young, and if they have a little bit more expirience it will become only better and, obviously, more brutal.
BUTCHERED (artifexinfernae@hotmail.com) had to play that gig without their second guitar player. I don't know how it sounds when the band is "in full", but what I saw wasn't really bad at all. A mixture af deathmetal and grindcore with a couple of "funny" touches. Two vocalists; one's grunting and second's screaming. BUTCHERED don't take their music very serious and, therefore, they tried to have some fun on stage.
RHYMES OF DESTRUCTION performed almost an amazing show. This pagan metal band now is "in full", since a few months they were joined by a new drummer and a keyboard player. And after a couple of gigs and months of doing rehearsels, the band grew up a lot. The music sounded great with a lot of power. All compositions still have very strange
song structures but more simplified (in a finest sense of this word) and less complicated than before. The crowd's reaction appeared as a  very positive one. RHYMES OF DESTRUCTION have a lot of influences borrowed from classical music, and consequently it's nothing strange that one of the songs played that evening the band's own version of "The Hall Of The Mountian King", originally composed by Edward Grieg.
 

Report by Ronny Van Huffel;
edited by Herr Stalhammar