Metal is back! – More innovative than ever. The combined force of the Metal and Experimental scenes is currently busting strict genre codes and clearing the way to musical candor. Planned, programmed music, Metal forges into the abyss between Drastic and Precise, from whose depths a complex yet violently confrontational immediacy emerges. Repetitive circular riffs and impacts of explosive sound aim at the maximum atmospheric and aural physical impulse. From Blindsnakes’ evil boiling Noise convolutions, drum blasts erupt as sharp as the spikes of Black Metal. Next Life’s "Gameboy Death Metal” compacts candy-sweet Nintendo melodies, the creepiness of Hammer horror, exploding beats and hyper-precise guitar play into monstrous, grotesque miniatures. Orthelm's sound is like a spastic CD jumping between guitar solos from Joe Satriani and Steve Vai, weaving them into an abstract mathematical formula, taking Heavy Metal’s fixation on virtuosity and technical perfection to hitherto unknown extremes. Drum and guitar compositions played at irritating speed that unites Tony Conrad’s minimalism, Wolf Eyes’ aggression and Lightning Bolt’s energy. Al Naafiysh dedicate themselves to pure electric currents of maximally distorted guitar riffs; overwhelming dark Drone Metal with a touch of psychedelic Stoner Rock whose physical force will penetrate into the smallest folds of your entrails.