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About Men Eater:

Men Eater is band from Lisbon, Portugal, and was raised in 2004. The wonderful-assembly label is thrown about much too frequently nowadays, but Men Eater definitely includes the cream of the crop of the contemporary portuguese subterranean repositioning. The ribbon shares musicians with known groups as For The Glory, Blacksunrise, Riding Pânico and Mushin, but it's so much more than your intend side-offer it almost hurts. The concept of getting it together was born in a comely accidental manner though in the risk in of a van, while driving wager dwelling-location from a period away in Spain. Sérgio (vocals), Miguel (guitars), Carlos (guitars) and Carlos BB (drums) were fair bouncing ideas and, all of a unexpected, it struck them as a arrow of lightning why the fuck dont we start a plan together?. It took form in a daytime and became a actuality on the next, more or less a year ago. No big plans to beat the earth or anything, equitable a shared heat representing agreeable music and adequate awakening to start handwriting the first songs about at formerly upon a interval As uncomplicated as that. After some months of labour and with bass contestant João already on board, they definite to pen the important five songs which were quickly self-released as an EP. The sound contained on «Men Eater» a immoral shock of muck/crust riffs hybrid with stoner and ambient influences hit the location be fond of a melodic tsunami, a great swell able of causing formlessness and disarray amongst the fans and media. To draw comparisons is at all times unfair, especially championing musicians as honest as these, but impartial attempt to drawing this A Kyuss/Mastodon assortment, obsessed close Converge and Isis, doing Led Zeppelin and Motörhead covers on a sweaty practice room. Hard, isnt it? Well, the similarity you get wont be too afar from the genuineness or the energy the sash conveys on a living mounting. Gigging attractive regularly, the quintet played all above the country sharing stages with names so different as The Ocean or Madball and, beside the stretch they started longhand new songs, the buzz all approximately was already overpowering. Unfortunately not completely the identical spell the bandeau definite to split with Sérgio, but that didnt discontinue them either Fuelled next to the wonderful reactions they were getting, the four musicians with guitar participant Miguel at current also handling vocal duties faced the subject of initial material with a newborn confidence. «HELLSTONE», the debut filled-extent copy, is a complete image of that. The album contains ten potent songs, which were build on the basis already place down on the EP while also bringing a entire collection of different influences to the desk. «HELLSTONE» was recorded at the disreputable Blacksheep Studios close to Makoto Yagiu (of If Lucy Fell fame), half-bred at the Red Room Recording, Seattle, alongside Chris Common (these arms are snakes / lips of the architect / the coma recuperation) and mastered by Ed Brooks (isis). Prepare yourself for a greatly contagious mingle of mire/pose with expanding sonic landscapes