5\u00a0\/ 10<\/span><\/p>\nA rather interesting collection from the Finnish label Svart Records, dedicated to the metal scene of Botswana - a country that most metal listeners are unlikely to be able to show on the world map, even if they are given three attempts. Meanwhile, the scene of Botswana turns out to be one of the leading in Africa. To demonstrate its strengths, six local bands called on to offer two tracks (except for PMMA project that provided only one song). Looking at the colorful photographs of African metalheads I imagined a certain clumsy and naive Heavy Metal made by 30-year old standards, but it turned out that the material on the compilation s much more modern, and not in a very good sense. At my place I have several metal compilations from yearly 2000s, filled by shits of worthless bands from countries such as Macedonia, who played something in between death metal, thrash, or groove with a faceless sound and zero level of imagination. As it turned out, Botswana is playing something like that. Only the sound has pretty high quality. I'll go through them names. CRACKDUST is the same averaged thrash death, not worthy of praise or blame. METAL ORIZON - non-inventive Heavy Metal with a groove shade. It\u2019s boring to listen, but they play from the heart, I give them that. OVERTHRUST - the best band in the collection; the sound is identical to CRACKDUST, but the vocalist\u2019s roar is impressive, and the music resembles the best moments of BOLT THROWER. PMMA is some silly bullshit. STANE is the nasty Death Metal in the vein of the unforgettable \u201cPromise\u201d of MASSACRE. WRUST is the same nasty Death Metal, but even more annoying because of the repetitive choruses. The final feelings from the collection are sad, and not even because of the boring music, but because its African origin does not betray itself. Such mediocre material with banal song titles and basic English-language lyrics can be found in any country in the world. Therefore, I can not recommend metal from Botswana even to eccentric lovers of exotic stuff, because there's nothing exotic about it.<\/p>\n
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