“At The Helm Of The Abyss” seems to be the first official release of this Canadian Black Metal outfit. One might think it is a bit early to start up with an album and haven’t done some demos first, but DEAD OF WINTER proof that this is not necessary in their case at all, because […]
The new industrial revolution has arrived and it seems that every European record company is trying to earn its coin with the current unstoppable wave of new Death / Thrash Metal acts. But finally the time has come to realize that not every piece of Black coal – even if we are talking about true […]
When DEADLY BLESSING’s one and only full-length album “Ascend From The Cauldron” reared its ugly head way back in 1988 the opinions concerning the band were always pretty mixed. It was either “love it” or “hate it” with no real options in between… The main reason was basically the extremely high-pitched vocal delivery of singer […]
The German Death Metal underground seems to get more convoluted with each passing season, good bands struggling and / or falling to the way side, while others of ill favoring seem to thrive. However, now a promising turn of events with that standard, as DEAD EMOTIONS bring before us today their third studio album “Pathways […]
Although this album was released in January I’m sure this will be one of the top Death Metal albums in 2008. I have absolutely no doubts about this. The band’s first sign of life, the demo / MCD “Purifying Consecrated Ground”, already proved the quality of this Greek horde but “Graves Of The Archangels” catapults […]
There’s a thin line between chaos and order. Sadistik Exekution manages to border on this line without falling down (under). So, could New Zealand ‘s Dawn Of Azazel give us the necessary violence where the music borders between a total mess of sound or great tracks that grow on you? I often find messy music […]
The Swedish DARK TRANQUILLITY are one of the few bands which had been from the commercial point of view quite successful but despite this fact I still have the opinion that they never lost the contact to their underground roots. The underground credibility is still there mainly due to the fact that the band recorded […]
Well, this is somehow pretty boring. Sometimes I can not understand why bands like e.g. in this case Dark Tranquillity are celebrated by the media. Off course there are some interesting parts on this new album and of course the band knows how to handle their instruments but still I can not find anything special […]
Ok this is a joke right Frank? I inadvertantly got the CD of some tenth rate Black’n’Roll band who has a couple of guys who think they can sing sometimes (or were told by their sycophantic friends or record co. people that they could) and was sent off to me as the new DARKTHRONE! Haha […]
DARKTHRONE have, for the past three or so years, both disappointed and enlightened their fans. Those among us who now despise DARKTHRONE for selling out, going Punk, or whatever else have you, aren’t entirely wrong, but they certainly aren’t justified in saying the music doesn’t satisfy. This record, more than any other since “The Cult […]