I would recommend that drummers stay away from this album at all costs especially if they like listening to drums. However, I am positive that there are guitars and vocals on this album because that’s all I hear. I’m not sure if their drummer did tom rolls at all because I really can’t tell. The mixing of the drums is so poor that you can hear cymbals crashing here and there and a snare drum blasting away. They might as well have not put drums on this album. There is just a major problem with this album. I’m actually not being sarcastic at this point, the guitar work is great. I blame Dungeons and Dragons and their conveyance of the wolf riders in so many medieval adventures. Apparently they evoke a totally different image for different people. When I first saw this album cover I immediately thought of Deströyer 666’s “Unchain the Wolves.” I mean, wolves are cool, I like them… I don’t associate them with endlessly going to war though, but that’s just me. Head to the band’s bandcamp page to stream, and purchase, Heavy Metal Disaster.In my seemingly never ending search this year for more French Black Metal, call it being biased towards my heritage, I've managed to stumble across Ases. Harvey says the band has their sights set on releasing Heavy Metal Danger as a cassette and then looking toward a debut full-length and becoming an “actual band.” He’s also got his eyes on another ’80s metal trope, which is the biggest shock about this whole thing yet. “I think that’s right where we’re at, second-tier Metal Blade singer, like ’84, like Tyrant or Savage Grace, which are all great records,” he says. I mention this to Harvey, quickly realizing it might sound like an insult, but Harvey knows what’s up. Right down to the choice of font on the cover and the quote marks around the album title, this is absolutely genuine early-to-mid-’80s metal, bringing to mind second-tier US trad bands on Metal Blade. We have some songs that are like a ‘danger in the dark’ sort of motif, but the other songs are mostly about chicks. “It’s nice to take a break from writing about stuff that’s so horrific and just write a song about chicks and stuff. “Bruce Dickinson clearly has nothing to worry about,” he says with a chuckle, about his singing. So they did, and he shrugged his shoulders and sung the songs himself, doing a surprisingly capable job considering we’ve been hearing him doing the death metal gore-‘n’-gurgle for years and years he also has taken the opportunity to spread his wings a bit lyrically. Once the band got booked for the Frost and Fire fest, Harvey figured they’d better record some tracks. As far as the heavier stuff, that’s what I listen to anyway, traditional metal.”Īnd so it was born, Harvey trying to get an actual lineup together only to struggle when it came time to find someone to throw behind the mic. We said it’d be a regular metal band, like Accept style or whatever. People would say, ‘Ya’ll on MySpace, man? I’ll check you out.’ So we made a fake Facebook page with the members of Exhumed with different names and different instruments. “We’d always be on tour, and be in the middle of no place we’d stop to get a drink at the gas station, and people would be like, ‘Ya’ll in a band?’ So we started making up ridiculous band names, and Pounder sort of stuck. “It started as an in-joke with Exhumed,” says Harvey. And if that sounds interesting, the origins of Pounder are even more interesting, and incredibly hilarious. “The songs aren’t tremendously different, structurally, than Exhumed songs.”īut the end result is, the four songs on new demo Heavy Metal Disaster (mental note: buy Harvey a beer for ruling) raging melodic and traditional like Angel Witch, which makes sense as guitarist Tom Draper has served time with those NWOBHM legends. “My whole thing is about finding commonalities in song structure and the songwriting end of it,” he says. And, according to Harvey, it’s not really all that different from his other projects.
But anyone who knows Harvey realizes this makes perfect sense, the man loving his classic metal in a big way, Pounder serving as a way for him to show off that love. Sure, it may come as a surprise to some diehard death metal and gore-grind fanatics that Matt Harvey of Exhumed and Gruesome has a new project out, and it’s 100 percent old-school/traditional/New Wave of British Heavy Metal-worshipping melodic metal.
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