Feeling not particularly well (and no this has not been induced by the consumption of industrial amounts of alcohol, for a change) I decided to give my poor braincell a little rest and compile this small selection of bands better known in the local scene here in Estonia.

I really didn’t use any criteria here but just picked 3 tracks – if you want more you can dig more up yourself or await my next installment.

So Here Goes…

Loits-Emaraud

To start things off we have the local scene veterans Loits, originally started up as a straight forward black metal act that later evolved into something that sounds slightly different…and this is one of the cases when evolution has overall been a good thing. The band manages to sound fresh and interesting and has avoided becoming a stagnant and boring black metal act.
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Metsatöll- Vaid Vaprust

Probably the best known Estonian metal act outside of the country – Metsatöll play folk metal. While they aren’t a bad band, I personally despise folk metal…and you know the saying goes…if you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say anything at all…and I won’t either.
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Horricane-nitro boost turmoil

And finally, here we have one of the most massive sounding bands in the local scene Horricane. They play a catchy breed of death metal which is laced with some keyboards and samples…and truth be told I hate keyboards in extreme metal (with a very few exceptions) so the keyboards for me destroy the bands sound a bit but luckily enough whenever they perform live the keyboards are inaudible and all we get is massive and groovy riffs which get the pit going fast.
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That’s all for now – see you next week.

Stay Brutal!