It seems Black Metal is raging wild for now in France, and DESTINITY gives us another proof of this. “Under The Smell Of Chaos” (an awkward title if you ask me) is already their third, but the first one I have the opportunity to listen to. Their label tags them as “Symphonic Black Metal” , […]
To be honest, I was a little weary about reviewing DESPONDENCY’s first full-length because after my initial fascination for the frog noise genre I became bored of it pretty soon. For my taste, the vocals just sound a little too abstract, not human. Could an opus of 30 minutes keep my level of attention or […]
Let me introduce you guys to a sickening, demented and lurid dimension in brutal Death Metal music. Well, ye’know, there are extreme bands such as Cannibal Corpse, Deeds of Flesh, Vile, Dying Fetus and the like. We all know these fountainheads of today’s extreme Metal movement. The question whether these acts can still be labelled […]
I was wondering what is the role of a reviewer nowadays. In the heydays of Metal rising, the reviews, the fanzines, were a very important issue. You just get to “synchronize” with a reviewer / fanzine and use it as a guide to buy / get material. That was it. Remember, there was no internet […]
So what do we have here? Desensitised from the Netherlands are playing good old school Death Metal as it has to be. I didn’t know the band before and I have to say what a mistake. The 3 guys and the one lady on the guitar give us 13 straight Death Metal tracks, all about […]
DESDEMONIA hail from Luxemburg, a rather exotic place when it comes to extreme music. The band was founded back in 1994, and “Paralyzed” is their sophomore full-length. I was unaware of the very existence of this outfit until today, and I am afraid I will forget about them once this review is finished, due to […]
Even though they got signed by Metal Blade now, the Hellbangers Moselfranken league DESASTER still stayed true to their roots on their fifth full-length album. As expected the production is raw and intense and definitely delivers the typical 80s DESASTER Thrash flair. The band simply re-used all of their typical trademarks which they already built […]
With all respect to the undeniable qualities of former DESASTER vocalist Okkulto, who always did a great job of course – the energy set free by new frontman Sataniac is maybe what the band was still lacking in in the past. Sataniac not only comes across totally possessed sounding, but also incredibly powerful and aggressive, […]
I was quite surprised to see that DESASTER left Merciless Records and that Costa (editor of mighty Tales Of The Macabre zine) released their new album on his own label Iron Pegasus Records. After an intro the opener ‘Nekropolis Karthago’ starts like one of these typical fast Black Metal tracks and I wasn’t very pleased. […]
In former times the dark Swedish mountains have been crowded by dangerous animals famous throughout the whole world for their bloodlust, hunger for human flesh and most important for their potential musical class. These animals lived in packs like wolves; shared their musical views and furthermore our passion for beer during their several tours throughout […]