FRIGHTMARE

FRIGHTMARE "Bringing Back the Bloodshed" CD out NOW on Razorback Records!

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to your stereo... FRIGHTMARE returns with more of their pulse-pounding, stalk and slash grind! Three years after the terror of their debut album, the legend of Nic Slasherhead continues with "Bringing Back the Bloodshed. 11 new songs including a cover of LAAZ ROCKIT's cult thrash classic, "Leatherface"!

Featuring beefed-up production values, even catchier riffs, an insane 4-way vocal attack, and more horror as well!

Over 50 minutes of amazing slasher metal! Run for your life, the FRIGHTMARE has begun... again!


MIDNIGHT MURDER MANIA

A deserted summer camp. A bloodcurdling scream. A decapitated head. So ends another life. So begins...FRIGHTMARE! Their debut "Midnight Murder Mania" CD is 10 songs of gore-soaked "stalk & slash grind" from the forest infested wastelands of Oregon! Get ready for the most cranium crushing sledge hammer whacks and rapid nailgun blasts, while insanely catchy riffs cut deep like a rusty machete through your neck. A veritable orgy of blood-slashing horror! What this album does to your ears is almost as terrifying as what it does to your brain!

Biography

Slash! Thrash! Grind! METAL!!!

Frightmare are a sharp and deadly Metallic force like no other! The band came together in mid 2002 when "Maniac" Neil Smith asked some friends if they would be interested in forming a new band. With the goal being to create the catchiest, heaviest most original hybrid of old school Death Metal, Grindcore, Punk and Thrash they could. The lyrical influence came from Neil's life long obsession with late 70's-early 80's Slasher films like The Burning, Friday the 13th, Maniac, My Bloody Valentine, Slumber Party Massacre and Sleepaway Camp. That same year the band wrote and recorded their first Slashterpiece appropriately titled "Midnight Murder Mania". "MMM" was released in the winter of 2003 with rave reviews from both magazines and fans. People noticed right away that these freaks didn't care about the current trends happening in heavy music and that they were all about writing ultra catchy, blood drenched METAL. Death Metal, Grindcore and Punkers a like all dug the "Stalk and Thrash Grind" that Frightmare achieved on "MMM". It was a breath of fresh air in the stagnant underground Metal scene. It was a reminder of the days when Slayer Thrashed, Terrorizer could grind like no other and Impetigo were the kings of GORE.

Frightmare took a break from 2003-2004 to with the various members concentration on their other musical projects. Then in early 2005 the four demented fiends got back together to write and record their second album titled "Bringing Back the Bloodshed". This time Frightmare upped the ante even more with an amazing production, even heavier razor sharp riffs, faster more precise blast beats and an insane quad vocal attack! "Bringing Back the Bloodshed" is the return of the Gore soaked Metal monstrosity! Fans of everything from Repulsion to the Misfits and everything in between will love this new CD!

Frightmare is Binging Back the Bloodshed in 2006 and you better be ready!

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FRIGHTMARE (Nic Slasherhead)

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TRACK LISTINGS

Track Listing for "Midnight Murder Mania" CD

- Cropsy
- Midnight Murder Mania
- Thorn In Their Side (The - Slumber Party Massacre)
- Friday The 13th
- Slasher Holocaust
- The Prowler
- Be My Bloody Valentine
- Black Christmas
- The Ripper
- Frank Zito, The Maniac  

Track Listing for "Bringing Back the Bloodshed" CD

- Intro
- Angela
- Friday the 13th part 2
- Barbecutioner
- They Were Warned
- By Sword, By Pick, By Axe, Bye Bye
- Terry Hawkins Arise
- Slayride
- The Island of Humungous
- The Blood Runs in Rivers
- Bringing Back the Bloodshed
- Leatherface (Laaz Rocket Cover)

 REVIEWS:

Frightmare
"Bringing Back the Bloodshed" CD
Razorback Records 2006
Review from Braindead Webzine

Slasher movies and death metal brought together... It doesn't get much better than this! With an equal amount of thrash and death metal influences, this album sounds like a mix of "Masters of Puppets" & Exhumed/Impaled style death metal, so basicly the same formula as "Midnight Murder Mania" but hey, it's a damn good formula! Frightmare has Lord Gore personel as core members, so there's also an obvious resemblance there too, some similar guitar playing and vocal styling (especially Gurge's very particular splattery guttural growls) but Frightmare defintely has a tighter, more upbeat thrash metal vibe which gives the whole thing a pretty different vibe. Musicianship is terrifying, with incredibly catchy riffing and expert shredding that's bound to leave you gasping in awe! Many 5 minute songs and not a boring second, that's masterful song-writing to me... Also worth noting is the heavy and thick sound production which is taking much bigger proportions than the debut album, I'd say this is one of the best sound production in Razorback history for sure! As for the obscure slasher movie references, this should satisfy even the most demanding horror geek, with a Sleepaway Camp tribute song opening the album, and more homages to flicks like "Don't Go into the House", "The Mutilator", "Humongus", "Driller Killer" along the way, cheesy horror lovers should get a kick out of this... The cd also closes with an inspired cover version of Laaz Rocket's "Leatherface", straight from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 3" soundtrack! The true final note is a killer Metallica "Motorbreath" jam though!!! All in all, simply an incredibly satisfying album, everything sounds just right here, so I'm giving this near full marks for sheer entertainment value!

Frightmare
"Bringing Back the Bloodshed" CD
Razorback Records 2006
Review from themetalarchives.com
Review by: The NecroMolester

This has got to be the most original cd I got in my collection (not really sayin much but my point is that its original!). This cd sees Frightmare almost creating its own genre by blending horror, cheezy, thrash, death metal, grindcore and even a little punk each song. But the best thing about this cd is the element of fun in it, and the cheezy as hell slasher lyrics make it even better!

There is a huge variety in the vocals(because every band member does vocals), the vocals vary from thrashy vocals to death metal vocals to the trademark Lord Gore vocals (the legendary guitarist/vocalist, Maniac Neil, from Lord Gore is in this band). There is also a guest vocal appearence by Digestor (Sean McGrath) of Ghoul on this cd. Each different vocalist has his own sound which suits the music thats being played at any specific moment on this cd, when the riffing starts getting thrashy the vocals get that thrashy edge to them, and when the riffing gets the Lord Gore style (catchy grind riffing) then Maniac Neil takes over and delivers his Lord Gore vocals! There are also points where more than one vocalist is going the same time which adds a punch to the music.

The riffing is pure awesomeness!! They throw in riff, after riff, after fucking riff! The riffs are also varied, as well as the different riffing styles! I play guitar and I'm shit at it, but I know what's good and what's not, but this is just fucking brilliant (much better than what I can do haha)!! There is mostly thrash riffing, but the riffing also ventures into Lord Gore's catchy riffing style, and in a few songs we get hit with killer oldschool punk riffs that will remind you of the times before the commercial pussy college punk came and made family friendly punk rock, or they will just remind you of Municpal Waste, another thing I noticed about the riffing is that it is often extremely technical, and the pace is also varied. The guitar solos are great and actually suit the music that's being played, they remind you (somehow) of oldschool slasher movies. The solos on "Angela" and "Sayride" have got to be some of the as best and catchiest solos I heard in my life!

The drummer is also brilliant, he doesn't take anything away from the music, and adds to the mix, by keeping to the pace of the guitar. When the guitar goes off, so does the drummer! And the drummer can go really fast! He also doesn't just blastbeat the whole cd like most few death metal bands do, which is a relief because it gives your ears a break once in a while, and the drumming doesn't get monotonous.

The bass does its job perfectly, and you can actually hear it! The bass on the intro of the song "They Were Warned" is great and sets the pace for the rest of the song!

Overall the instruments are well co ordinated, and together with a killer super polished production! A "metal head" from another website I was on, was complaining that the production wasn't raw enough and accused Frightmare of being sell-outs. But how can a band that has never been heard on the radio, never been featured on MTV, and never put any music videos out be commercial!? A good production doesn't make a band commercial! And with their oldschool slasher movie lyrics you can see that this band is not targeting the metalcore scene. The goths at my (ex)school will hate this and they will cry like bitches if you play them this!

If you don't have this cd yet I think you should get off your lazy ass and buy it now! It will be worth every cent you pay for it! And for those of you who worry about how underground a cd is before you can buy it, let me just say that every metal head I met, who is a fan of either thrash, death metal or grind digs this (even punk fans)! It is fun, you can headbang to it and will look good in any metal collection, so I'm giving this the Necro Molesters seal of approval!! Buy this and get a six pack of beers and invite your metal friends over and show them the definition of fun!!

Review from Braindead Webzine
Frightmare
"Midnight Murder Mania" CD
Razorback Records 2003

Frightmare is a band spawned from a one-man project called Maniac Killer which was damn great. Maniac Killer was something very grindcore-based, intense and blazing fast, Frightmare, however, is something quite different, much more death metal oriented, with more elaborated songs, thrashing riffs and even a bunch of well-placed, amazing guitar soli... So, yeah I'd say Frightmare plays muscular and aggressive death metal with a neat grindcore edge as well. They've got a nice, heavy and thick sound which ressembles Lord Gore & Engorged alot, obviously, but Frightmare might be a bit more straightforward and focused... I think this album brilliantly recaptures the old school death metal feel, with tightly built songs, steadily fast, unrelenting rythms, swift thrashing riffs, and many elements straight from old thrash metal and grindcore genres on top of everything. Vocals oscillate between growls and higher pitched shrieks, plus alot of variations between the two, all sorts of gurgles and splattery guttural sounds, all delivered with great conviction... Alot of the growls in particular reminded me of Glen Benton's vocals (Deicide). More musical influences... I thought there was a lot of Repulsion to it, a pinch of Impetigo, Macabre and maybe Massacre... Songs feel consistent, really rich and varied, with great solid structures, riffs are catchy and actually diversified, drumming is tight as fuck; All in all, this is one hell of a great death metal album, alot of it is surprising and fresh, definitely apart from mediocre brutal death metal produced these days. There's also the whole slasher/giallo concept of the band which definitely strikes a nerve with me! Slasher references from "Friday the 13th" to "Black Christmas" & "New York Ripper" (Quack!) culminating with a song dedicated to "Maniac" ("Frank Zito, the Maniac", best track on this album in my opinion...) - Pure genius! Couple that with the awe inspiring cover artwork (by Jake - "Tales From Uranus"), "Midnight Murder Mania" is one of the best album in a while. Can't wait for the sequel to this bloody massacre!