Twenty-two years and now ready with the third full length. The French ritualistic Black Metal band MAHLKEBRE do uses its time to pen new rituals and summon dark obscurities. The band is led by Eklezjas’Tik Berzerk, who also owns the label Battlesk’rs Productions, that release the gospels. He does also handle the output of MALEKHAMOVES, […]
GALIBOT from France had already caught my attention with their album “Euch’Mau Noir Bis”. Not so much for the music itself, but because of the concept, since the band hails from a coal-mining zone similar to the Ruhr area, my home region. After a brief intro, the follow-up album “Catabase” kicks off with a bang […]
Once again Darkness Shall Rise Productions rises to the occasion and have cranked out a reissue of a long out of print classic, this time in the form of THOU SHALT SUFFER’s compilation of material known as “Into The Woods Of Belial”. The last time this compilation was released was back in 2013 via Century […]
At times, I question the reason or validity of labels / bands reissuing older material from Heavy Metal’s bygone days. There are, of course, bands that are worthy and truly deserve the opportunity for us to revisit what some would consider benchmarks of the genre. Then, on the flipside, there are some you truly have […]
From the frost bitten plains of Murmansk, Russia, the world’s largest city north of the Arctic Circle, OLD WAINDS has remained one of Russia’s noteworthy and committed Black Metal band since 1995. Back in the late 1980s, with bands such as RUSSKAYA ZIMA, KREMATOR and their contemporaries, they laid the foundation of extreme music in […]
Here we go. Charge! Two great bands marching together like a single combat machinery. One called PENTACLE. Another called DEATHFUCKER. Do these two beasts need grand introductions? I don’t think so. We attend here the presentation of this work via Iron Pegasus Records which, staying true to its history and philosophy, produces this new split […]
Time for Death Metal. GORENCEPHALIC is a Death Metal band from Brazil, formed in 2023, about which I had no idea. But this is the beauty of Metal, getting great surprises. I think I have said it before, when I see the word “Brutal” prefixed to the words “Death Metal”, I immediately enclose myself in […]
The Russian underground is a scene that is immensely dense in both history and output. One can go as far back as the late 1980s, with bands such as PREISPODNYAYA, KREMATOR and RUSSKAYA ZIMA laying the foundation of extreme music in the Russian Heavy Metal community. An explosion in prominence occurred in the mid 1990s, […]
“Ghost Town” is the new musical offering from German guitarist AXEL RUDI PELL. Even though he’s one of those guitar virtuosos out there, Axel is not a Malmsteen clone whatsoever. If you’re familiar with his music you probably know by now that usually his albums are made of three to four Rock anthems, one or […]
The older you get, the more you start to appreciate music that is based on the roots of everything that turned into Hardrock and Heavy Metal in the years to follow. THE DEAD DAISIES is one of those bands that I most certainly would have ignored when all I listened to just had to be […]