Manitou Music/Socadisc
Release : 2008

Tracklist “So Blind”:
Words Of Wrath
Deathwish
So blind
My funeral
Not Even God
Thrill Of Flesh
Time Has Come
Obey
My Reign
Crushed By Illusion
Southern Cross
Never Get Me
Mind Control Cults

Tao Menizoo is a french group and “So Blind” is its second album. The style of the group is a mix of death metal and thrash metal but the tracks are a mix of extreme modern and old sounds… the all of it very coherent. The group has some certain influences of groups such as Sepultura, Rotting Christ but it has known to create its own style and create its own music with a sound which is its own. The riffs are catchy and efficient. The vocals lines are simple but also efficient. The tracks are much work on the level of the musical structures but also on the vocals lines and these ones have very often the benefit of much work instrumental intro or outro. The tracks all being heavy and powerful are melodic as I’ve already said with catchy riffs. LH’s voice is well at place, aggressive but staying melodic, and goes pretty well with the style of the group. The changing in rhythm are well put giving some ambiences and a prog side to the tracks. The group does not hesitate to put some spoken like radio passages in its tracks like, among others, « Mind Control Cults ».
The tracks that can be taken out of the album are « Words Of Wrath » for its fast and heavy rhythmic and its little avant gardiste side, « Deathwish »for its changing in rhythmic and its groovy side and « Crushed By Illusion » just for its well balanced riffs and for its melody.
The album has the benefit of an excellent sound quality.
At the end Tao Menizoo gives us an energetic and powerful album to discover if you like extreme metal.

Line up :
LH (chant/guitare) (vocals/guitars)
TTF (guitare/chant) (guitars/vocals)
RNN (basse) (bass)
KSH (batterie/backing vocals) (drums/backing vocals)

Contacts :
http://taomenizoo.free.fr/
http://www.myspace.com/taomenizoo