The Canadian melodic Heavy Metal band GATEKEEPER from Vancouver releases a new album for the first time in five years. GATEKEEPER’s breakthrough took shape in 2018 with the album “East Of Sun”, followed by the EP “Gray Maiden” in 2019. The title of the latest album is therefore a tribute to the province to which […]
KOMMAND from Los Angeles, California, were formed in 2015 and this is their second album following the debut “Terrorscope” in 2020 and two demos before that. “Death Age” runs for only 26 minutes and consists of 6 tracks and I like that – better get 6 precise killing bombs and no filler shrapnel. And this […]
Finnish TRAMALIZER dip their toes into a suddenly hot genre, Swedish Death Metal and approach “Fumes Of Funeral Pyres” with as much ferociousness that they can muster. My immediate band association is GRAVE, if you like GRAVE then you will love TRAMALIZER. However, GRAVE (and ENTOMBED) always had some eerie sections of atmosphere that’d set […]
I’ll be honest. Norway’s TULUS, since 1996 have released a plethora of albums which are sometimes less than satisfying, while others are damn good. So I was a little cautious about their new album “Fandens Kall”. Having three of four KHOLD members (a good band in their own right), TULUS have apparently given their all […]
In “Legacy Of The Beast – Night City”, which is part 2 of the “Legacy Of The Beast” story, we travel back in time to a post apocalyptic version of London’s East End in the year 1981. The shards of the beast have rained upon earth and all those who got touched by them were […]
Considering that there’s already several comic books or graphic novels out there that are connected to Rock and Metal bands, it’s really surprising that it took this long until IRON MAIDEN and their famous mascot “Eddie” ended up in this popular medium as well. The first series, “Legacy Of The Beast”, was originally released in […]
The underground realm would have never sounded more filthy and heavy without the appearance of the new Swedeath BASTARD GRAVE’s “Vortex Of Disgust”. An utterly gruesome recording that easily surpasses their previous effort, “Diorama Of Human Suffering”, which was unleashed in 2019. Throughout their new album, the listener is given the glorious experience of stepping […]
If a band names itself after a NAGLFAR song, then the result will probably not be too far away from the source of inspiration. And indeed, the debut by BRIMSTONE GATE from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, takes the listener back to mid / late ’90s, the glorious days of melodic Death / Black Metal. The aforementioned […]
Over the last years, I came across quite a lot of fine bands and albums from Poland, coming from nearly all sub-genres of extreme music. Thus I was quite curious to discover what GOŁOLEDŹ (translates as “Black Ice”) from Zielona Góra have to offer. This four piece is around for not even two years and […]
From Costa Rica comes this Grindcore band, consisting of only two members, which also incorporates some Death Metal elements in their ultra-short songs. Vocalist Maria and multi-instrumentalist Zodiac like it short, hard and brutal and bang out seven songs in 6:48 minutes. Especially the abysmal growling of the front woman impresses, who surely belongs to […]