The English extreme Metal scene in the late 1980s was amongst the heaviest in the entire world. In 1998 alone, there were three pinnacle English Grind releases that helped forge the national identity and sound. CARCASS had “Reek Of Putrefaction”, NAPALM DEATH had “From Enslavement To Obliteration” and BOLT THROWER dropped the heaviest of them […]
An hour and a half of NAUSEA music. Nobody saw this one coming. At least not me. But Italian premier label F.O.A.D. Records came through with two releases compiling NAUSEA’s discography. These recordings feature a great sound. Even the rehearsals have what I would call “raw studio quality”. Thanks to both the band and the […]
F.O.A.D. Records is re-releasing Los Angeles based NAUSEA’s demos from 1988 to 1992 as a compilation titled “World Struggle: Demos ’88-’92”. This compilation has seen a few versions over the years, this 2026 one having the subtitle of “Extended Edition – Complete Demos And Rehearsals 87-92”. Standing at 122 minutes this double digipak is quite […]
Lately, I have become more enamored, or maybe I should say, I started watching the Spanish and Portuguese Death and Thrash Metal scene with a bit more interest. My main reason is that I will be traveling (again) to Spain, the country of my heritage, and also I wanna look into who is playing and […]
DEATH FROM ABOVE is a Death Metal band from France that began its career in 2021 with a single called ‘Power Of Demons’, later featured on their first full-length “Altered Dimension”, also from 2021. In that release, the band appeared showing a “traditional” Death Metal very much in the vein of bands like SINISTER, IMMOLATION […]
Sweden’s Death Metal stalwarts GLUTTONY, with the support of F.D.A. Records, have released their fourth full length album titled “Eulogy To Blasphemy”. Anders Härén and company are celebrating 15 years of cranking out some old school Swedish Death Metal since 2009 and what better way than to give their fans 12 tracks of full headbanging […]
If you have come across the name WECKÖRHEAD before, you are either a very dedicated reader of music reviews on pages like (especially) this one here, a huge fan of MOTÖRHEAD or already familiar with WECKÖRHEAD and maybe a fan of them either. So in case you are a part of the last two groups […]
When I think about Death / Thrash, my mind gravitates towards the same albums every time: “Beneath The Remains”, “Tapping The Vein”, “The Ultimate Incantation” etc. There seems to be a certain unknown aspect of those albums that has hooked countless fans, new and old, to them. And I think that aspect has not been […]
Wow! I know there are many one man bands, but for some reason not that many traditional Heavy Metal one man bands. Well, this is one of the best I’ve heard in some time. Coming from the land of MERCYFUL FATE, formed by Andreas Thunbo, who has 30 years of experience under his belt, playing […]
BITTERNESS is a German band, that formed way back in 2001 and this is their eighth full-length. The music itself is an energetic form of Thrash, inspired by later era DESTRUCTION (even vocally there is some sort of similarity to Schmier), newer TESTAMENT and some mid era SEPULTURA. The production is very good and with […]