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[              Blackstar--Barbed Wire Soul                  ]

Supplier [ Ventor            ] ░▒▓▓▒░ [ Audiograbber      ] Grabber
Releaser [ Jrom              ]        [ AA Prod. Studio   } Encoder
Style    [ Metal             ]        [ 160kbps / 44,1kHz ] Quality
Date     [ 08-17-1999        ] ░▒▓▓▒░ [ 11 (43:31 min)    ]   Songs

CARCASS clearly laid down the blueprint on the appropriately titled
'Swansong', and having laid them to rest, Jeff Walker and cohorts
have expanded the sound for his latest venture, BLACKSTAR. So don't
go expecting any CARCASS style death grunting.

BLACKSTAR do retain the complexities of the CARCASS sound, but
"Barbed Wire Soul" is wrapped in a coat of different colours.This is
pure heavy metal, a form of music from another era. BLACKSTAR write
songs that are embellished in melody and style to seem a far cry from
CARCASS' dark and guttural din.

Twin guitars drive BLACKSTAR onwards, evoking memories of a less daft
JUDAS PRIEST, a touch of NWOBHM, (TYGERS OF PAN TANG, anyone ?) and a
modern flush of MEGADETH (so evident on 'Swansong'). And with
Walker's own vocal style coming on like a Mustaine who's been
gargling with glass for the last ten years, they paint a vastly
different picture to their past.

It may not be what diehard fans either want or expect, but it doesn't
sound bad, and their heart is definately in the right place.

01 Game Over                                              (04:04)
02 Smile                                                  (03:39)
03 Sound Of Silence                                       (03:46)
04 Rock 'n' Roll Circus                                   (04:14)
05 New Song                                               (03:54)
06 Give Up The Ghost                                      (03:08)
07 Revolution Of The Heart                                (04:02)
08 Waste Of Space                                         (03:52)
09 Deep Wound                                             (03:10)
10 Better The Devil                                       (04:42)
11 Instrumental                                           (05:00)

Next month UBE will celebrate its first birthday, and so it's time
to take a look back at a year of both trouble and success.
When we founded UBE in September 98 on IRCNet, we never thought, that
this "little idea" will grow that big and we never imagined, that UBE
will have that success we had the whole year.
That's why I wanna thank all people who helped us to become that big,
all members, who released quality stuff under our label, all couriers
who moved our releases through the world, all the siteops who have UBE
as affiliated group on their site and last but not least all our fans
out there who like our releases.
Also we'd like to greet all other MP3 groups rockin' the scene. A year
ago, there were only 5 or 6 groups I knew, but the last year many new
groups were founded, some of them really became big, some disappeared
as fast as they came. We hope for everybody, that he has as much fun
as we have when we release some stuff. Scene is fun, don't take it too
serious.

As any other group, we are still looking for good talented rippers and
suppliers, who can supply us with new releases or any other things that
could be interesting for us (e.g. hardware, shells, webspace, domain).
If you have something you can contribute to the group, feel free to
contact us via e-mail or just join #ube @ EFNet (key : outpost).

wonder/UBE

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