Fans of dark, brutal and blasphemous Death / Black Metal should watch out for this CD by underground cult act CRUCIFIER. It contains the 1991 “Humans Are Such Easy Prey” demo, the 1992 “Crown Of Thorns” demo, as well as the 1993 Cassette EP “By Disgrace Of God”, the “Powerless Against” promo, released in 1994, […]
Finally a Thrash album that has it all! This US quartet, founded by former NUNSLAUGHTER bass player Craigh Horvan, has released a load of demos and splits before presenting their selftitled debut. Since it’s released on Hells Headbangers you’ll know what to expect and it turned out better than expected! What makes it such a […]
Drivingly fast old school Thrash Metal offers this young band from Cleveland, Ohio. Featuring Novy of VADER / DEVILYN fame in their ranks CRUCIFIED MORTALS certainly do not lack the musical abilities to perform this type of music the way it should be performed. Though totally unoriginal the band’s enthusiasm and energetic performance summons the […]
Is this one relevant for Voices? Not really, or rather: almost not at all! The rather old school Black Metal parts are pretty much neglected. Most of the songs are kind of Folk Rock or Folk Metal, sometimes vaguely reminding me of SKYCLAD, just more Irish. Wouldn’t be a problem with me if there wasn’t […]
With their newest offering “Folk-Lore” Irish CRUACHAN musically not necessarily fit into the VOICES concept anymore. But as they originally emerged from this scene, I decided to give this album a short mention anyway. As the title already gives away, “Folk-Lore” is an album, with a major focus on Irish folk music, which means most […]
Earache’s name can sometimes be taken very literally. In the case of CROWPATH a thirty-minutes “declaration of war on traditional harmonies and songstructures” (that’s what the info sheet says) is unleashed upon my ears. The band’s approach of avoiding traditional standards ends in a kind of half an hour jam session of chaotic Noise- or […]
Extreme aggressions!!!! It seems that I should’ve cared for THE CROWN’s evolution a bit more as their newest offering “Crowned In Terror” is a fuckin’ killer of an album! If you ever had any doubts whether former AT THE GATES frontman Tompa would manage to replace old THE CROWN singer Johan Lindstrand or not, this […]
There’s no sense in beating around the bush concerning CROMB’s first promo. Although members of the well-known Swedish brutal Death Metal act INSISION are active in this band the twisted, progressive Death Metal featuring Hammond Organ, a drum computer and heavy riffing at the same time is pointless and might appeal to people seriously into […]
Who would have guessed that CRITERION hail from Norway after only listening to their music and not paying attention to the record company’s info sheet? Well, they are but their sound is totally late 80s / early 90s US Death Metal. Not too original, I know, but still far enough from today’s trends in Death […]
This Minneapolis’ based four piece already released two albums prior to “Purification” (their debut “Unearthed” in 1994 and the follow-up “Dissection” in 1998), but to me they were still a rather unknown act until I got this self financed new album in the mail. The band’s musical nucleus is without a single doubt to be […]