If DARKTHRONE decide to piss off any of their old fans and also the press, it is certainly their choice. If they mean to stir a lot of debates, it is their choice also. If they like to listen to old Rock and Punk albums and play that kind of music – because musically “F.O.A.D.” […]
I know very well that I already praised the EP that DARKTHRONE released before this album. To say that one should forget about everything I wrote there in comparison to this album is certainly not correct, but I must say that I am definitely surprised by the even far better album. The best way to […]
Peaceville are running scared… running scared. Once upon a time all the biggest labels came from the UK, and a slew of original and groundbreaking bands to support them in the early 90s. In an alternative sense Peaceville ruled… that simple. But something went wrong, very wrong. A nightmarish merger with MFN and many bands […]
The statement – with DARKNESS BY OATH the best Spanish Gothenburg Death Metal band enters the main stage – could mean a lot especially if Dan Swanö is supporting the fact but it could also mean nothing more than the amount of shallow words. I can’t get away from my first impression of nice but […]
Three times six – the number of the beast and synonym for all evil in this world could become a more than positive omen for our dear friends from Regain Records. Within 2009 the label released the new MARDUK and GORGOROTH albums which at least counts twice the evil number and which band could close […]
Maybe this new DARK FUNERAL album simply got me in a bad mood or something, but apart from the usual aggression and perfection in terms of production and playing, “Diabolis Interium” didn’t manage to move me at all. Everything just sounds too safe, predictable and wellknown already, that it bores me way too quickly. This […]
I can actually remember this band’s early work, one of the members sent me one of their first CDs some years ago regarding the possibilities of a gig in my hometown Trondheim. Back then they were a lot more attached to the underground and their style was still sounding much more underground as well. The […]
The German Black Metal bands’ third strike is, although it marks the break with the underground charm that the debut “Tales From Eternal Dusk” and its follow-up “Profane Genocidal Creations” had, a monumental piece of melancholic yet aggressive Black Metal somewhere between old KATATONIA (of whom they’ve covered a track for the digipak version of […]
I gotta admit that I still have some problems with the fact that the music delivered by Germany’s DARK FORTRESS is way more melodic than their visual side, which is Black Metal to the bone, yet done with a lot of taste (corpsepaint, bullet belts, spikes, firebreathing, weapons, black and white pictures etc.). The grim […]
It may sound a little harsh, but there’s absolutely nothing spectacular about the debut album by Germany’s DARK FORTRESS. This German five piece has choosen a rather safe way of getting their music out to the underground by presenting themselves the usual way – totally in black, with lots of corpsepaint and spikes. The album […]