Review of Mad Aleister - Throne of the Dark / Crisis / Memos for Another Day
I wasn't sure what to make of the “Anarchy Metal” tag at first. You see enough bands inventing their own little genre names to know that this can go either way. Sometimes it actually tells you something. Sometimes it just means somebody didn't want to write “heavy metal” in the bio. With Mad Aleister, the three singles make the idea a bit easier to understand. The band is built around Allan Johnson, Scott Wark, Armin Kamal and James Kane, all coming from the Canadian metal underground, with Johnson's Exciter history obviously being the name most people will notice first. Scott and James come from Joe Thrasher, while Armin is from Infrared. The Bandcamp description throws speed, thrash and death metal into the same bag and calls the result Anarchy Metal. Fine. After three songs, I wouldn't argue with it too much. The first one, “Throne of the Dark”, is probably the easiest entry point. I immediately heard the Painkiller-era Judas Priest connection in it! “Throne of the D...
