All releases from Eyes Like Snow – the Northern Silence sublabel for all kinds of Doom / NWOBHM stuff – are like a trip to my father’s Rock / Heavy Metal collection. The DARK FOREST debut is no exception to the rule and brings back the time when a cover has more been seen as […]
Coming from Germany, this is the second full-length release of this band. The first thing that strikes me is the very good production, with very powerful guitars. Enter the sounds of DARK FACE. The main music can be described as an unholy union of early Florida Death Metal like Malevolent Creation, some more early Doom […]
“Hey Dimitri, I’ve a brilliant idea for our new record. Why don’t we go for something really epic, you know, like one extremely long song, just like those MOONSORROW fuckers on their boring last record ?!? – Sounds cool, but at the moment I just got some rather lame riffs lying around which I wanted […]
Founded in 1999 in Maryland, DARK DISCIPLE come up with solidly executed, rather old school Death / Grind. The songs are played with passion and the band has probably spent a lot of time in the rehearsal room but there isn’t much memorable about “Unholy Hate Gore”, maybe except for some of the sick solos […]
The sophomore album to 1999’s “Rusted Angel”, this time they return with new vocalist Andreas Sydow. The obvious comparisons to such acts as: THE HAUNTED, AT THE GATES, SOILWORK, ARCH ENEMY, will of course arise. However, DARKANE is different in some respects such as many guitar parts follow the drum pattern. Example, drummer Peter Wildoer […]
Hamburg’s melodic Death Metal maniacs are back once more. I have to admit that I came across this band only recently at the Headbangers Open Air where they did a great job among all those Classic Metal veterans. “The Silent Republic” offers a lot to IN FLAMES fans and the likes. It’s heavy, it’s melodic […]
Third album by this Spanish band and it is nice to hear they have been developing their sound more and more every time. Already have their previous CD around, and while I do not recall it as being memorable, they do have some catchy riffs here and there. This new album continues that same tradition, […]
DANSE MACABRE is the brainchild of Gunther Theys of ANCIENT RITES fame, and dates back as far as 1995 when Gunther and members of SEPTIC FLESH and NECROMANTIA decided to form a goth outfit. Faithful readers of the printed version of VFTD may remember that in issue #9 published in 1996, Gunther described himself as […]
This band has taken quite a lot from the melodic side of Death and Black Metal. Strictly speaking, they could have taken it all from IRON MAIDEN, as the majority of them have, but for the sake of variety, and the band’s relative youth, I’ll say DISSECTION and AT THE GATES had a fair hand […]
When you notice that the guitar is far from well played, you really don’t bother to get into the music, now do you? It’s like the player (and, judging from the website, sole member of this Damnation Army) just sloppily moves his picking hand up’n down while the other gently moves from one accord to […]