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No Salvation
(Relapse)

TERHEN
Eyes Unfolded
(Firebox)

OXBOW
The Narcotic Story
(Hydra Head)

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Scare Tactics
(Hold True)

TOMAHAWK
Anonymous
(Ipecac)

CAPITAL
Homefront 

(Revelation)

GET BACK UP
Weathering the Storm

(Organized Crime)

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This sounds like the Sepultura we’ve come to miss from the Beneath the Remains/Arise period. Better than Soulfly you might think and damn right you are.  Have you heard that Hungarian band Ektomorf? Yikes, those dudes truly worship at the unwashed feet of Max Cavalera and sound so dead on like a fourth rate Soulfly that it’ll make you second guess yourself for your liking to that band.  But Chaosfear, besides sounding too much like a band that everyone and their mothers know, do manage to revive in me certain nostalgic feeling. Maybe is the fact that as a youngster I was a Sepultura fanatic for a few months, while my enthusiasm for Soulfly never surpassed my digging of a handful of songs of their first two records.

Take the title track for example; from the production job (which sounds like something that came out of the Morrisound studios back in the early 90’s) to the Andreas Kisser thin guitar solo, to the totally Max Cavalera-like vocals of Fernando Boccomino, (who by the way is also the sole guitarist and therefore manages to channel two members of Sepultura into one) this sounds like the record that could have been released between Chaos A.D. and Roots. More often than not, when I encounter bands that like Chaosfear, sound a bit too much like another band, I nearly vomit in disgust. The thing is, One Step Behind Anger has some really potent old school death thrash metal in it. And the songs this Brazilian trio has created, though generic by virtue of sounding too much like Sepultura, jam, bash, destroy and rip in all the right places. “Driven By Hate” is a classic, had it come out seventeen years ago it would have created waves of rabid fans across the globe. I read somewhere that Chaosfear plays South American style thrash metal. That sounds about right, because it resembles vintage Sepultura, and that's basically all the world knows about South American metal.

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