It’s nice to hear every once in a while from some of the newer crops of bands, hitting the scene in this day and age, that while not seeking to break any new ground, they bring us much of the old school and present it with conviction and feeling, which is a good thing. Plus, […]
What seems to have escaped me to some extent when I saw SOULBURN opening for the mighty BOLT THROWER way back in 2014 was the complexity of their music. Non-musician that I am, the band struck me as a more or less straightforward Death Metal act that matched the British veterans pretty well. It is […]
Maybe it is my love for animal horror movies, but when I heard the name RAVAGED BY THE YETI, I just had to apply for the chance to review it. Even though there are always a few songs here and there from various bands that deal with this topic, I was not aware of a […]
Believe it or not: FUNEBRARUM are back. Ten years after their last release (the EP “Exhumation Of The Ancient”) and 17 years (!) after their last full-length album “The Sleep Of Morbid Dreams” in 2009, the New Jersey based five-piece indulges their loyal fans with a new album. Well, not that new, as “Beckoning The […]
New Jersey Death Metal veterans FUNEBRARUM have finally returned after a decade long hiatus since last releasing any new material and 17 years since their last full-length album was released to the masses. The band started cranking out demos around 2000 and have had several line-up changes in their 26+ year existence. Daryl Kahan and […]
After ten years of silence from their previous EP “Exhumation Of The Ancients”, the New Jersey Death Metal giants FUNEBRARUM are back with their third full-length album, released in three formats by three well known underground labels: CD by Pulverised, vinyl by Doomentia and tape by Morbid Wrath. “Beckoning The Void Of Eternal Silence” is […]
New Jersey’s marshlands have long concealed one of America’s best Death Metal acts. Formed in 2000, FUNEBRARUM forged and delivered a sound that deeply steeped in early ’90s acts like INCANTATION, IMMOLATION and SADISTIC INTENT. Their debut, “Beneath The Columns Of Abandoned Gods”, remains a cavernous and monolithic classic of the genre. After 2009’s excellent […]
Formed in 2015 and based in Philadelphia (USA), this power trio consisting of J.H. (bass, vocals), J.D. (guitars, vocals) and Mike Howard (drums) play a mix of Doom Metal and Sludge with some Death Metal influences. Only one word came to my head after the first spin of “Cemetery Hallucinations” , their second album: heavy. […]
Having only five songs, the first of which is a short intro under a minute long, “Chaos Marked By Death Of Sun” almost makes it into LP category just barely missing the 30 minute mark. BONE WEAPON’s newest release is a primitive slab of cave man styled Death / Doom Metal under a War Metal […]
Once every second year, I grow tired of modern Death Metal and crawl back into my cave in the deep forest and reset with copious amounts of arcane Black, Death and Heavy Metal from the real gods of the genres. When everything is fine again, I come back into the real world to have a […]