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Vulcano - Tales from the Black Book
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Written by Gautham Khandige   
Saturday, 10 January 2009 16:35
Vulcano formed in 1981 in Brazil and their claim to fame according to Metal Archives is that they were the first extreme metal to come out of South America. Tales From The Black Book is the band’s sixth album and was originally released in 2004 as the band’s comeback album from a fourteen year hiatus. It has now got the re-issue treatment from the good people at Sweden’s I Hate.

Vulcano play your typical primitive Brazilian thrash metal. They do a pretty solid job of it too. The songs are all fast, heavy and fun. The music on offer sounds like a cross between 80s German thrash with some more accessible moments picked out from the discographies of early Metallica and Megadeth. It’s a bit difficult to pick out stand out tracks because while competent and fun, nothing in this album really stands out. The songs are all quite similar sounding with little in the way of variety and have a tendency to blur into one another making Tales from the Black Book an exercise in generic thrashing.

The band brings very little invention to the genre but that’s okay because all the great thrash riffs had already been written pre-2004. The band does have the occasional memorable groove happening but that is too rare an occasion to save this album. There’s something about Vulcano’s music that reminds me of early Tankard but this band is a lot more serious in approach.

At the end of the day, I really don’t know who this album is aimed at. This is a generic thrash metal album that’s not as extreme as it’s made out to be and not as good either. The band’s earlier albums might have made for more interesting re-issues but Tales from the Black Book is what’s out now and that’s that. There’s always going to be a market for primitive generic thrash and I’m pretty sure this will find its way to them. The rest of you can move on.

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Year of Release - 2004/ 2008
Label - I Hate

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