This young bunch from Finland delivers a slab of highly promising brutal, yet not too modern sounding Death Metal on its first demo “Yet External Exploration”. Competent musicianship, fierce and fast drumming, some nice melodic ideas now and then plus low and natural sounding growls characterize CARNAL CREATION’s sound. A song like ‘End Your Days’ […]
Old school Death Metal is a tag that’s used for a lot of releases these days. Many are able to fit the profile and do know how to convince but you still can (clearly) recognize some 21th century blood in them. With CARDIAC ARREST “Haven For The Insane” I felt it’s like the other way […]
The tenth installment of Roger and Will’s (MORTICIAN) label Redrum Records, violently heaving forth this Illinois meat wagon, a now four piece of grim Death/Grind. Featuring within its ranks an old penpal of mine, who also plays in the band SEVERED, Tom Kninzer. Quality old style brutal Death Metal is on the toe tag for […]
I remember the extremity of Carcass, both musically and visually speaking. And now with “Choice Cuts” I’m going back in time to bring in some slaughter in my life. Carcass was the most extreme band at the time, and their grindcore did way more impression than the godly “Altars Of Madness” and “Leprosy” albums. The […]
Enter through the ancient gates of the true Swedish Doom Metal realm… How many years has it been actually since the Swedish Doom Metal messiah CANDLEMASS released their last studio album with one and only Messiah Marcolin?! Huh, I can hardly remember any longer… 15 or 16 years or something? Well, never mind because the […]
What shall I say? All this sounds kind of uniform to me. Almost all the songs on this record start off with blast-beats. No variation whatsoever. It is the third track (‘Jumalviha’), the seventh one (‘Herramme On Saapuva’) and the ninth one (‘Suicide Manifesto’) that begin providing a bit of variation. Hmmm, I call this […]
The rating “Polish Death Metal” is almost a quality certificate as many Polish Death Metal bands have the following things in common: topnotch soundquality, the musicians offer a high technical ability on their instruments and the songwriting is very good. It’s easy to find similarities to the likes of BEHEMOTH, VADER and other well-known names […]
Once again CALLENISH CIRCLE from Holland have turned into a darker and heavier act. The new album “My Passion // Your Pain” is faster, and grooves better. There are blasts like the initial one on ‘Dwelling In Disdain’ where the band shows they could easily compete with the most brutal bands on earth in terms […]
CALLENISH CIRCLE from Holland were in the early / mid 1990s and after their debut for Hammerheart Recs. they released a mini CD called “Escape” for Painkiller Recs. – finally “Graceful…” came out on DSFA (Benelux) and now it’s being licensed for the rest of Europe by Edgerunner with the mini CD as bonus. “Graceful…” […]
Congratulations! Not only did CALLENISH CIRCLE sign a world wide record deal with Metal Blade Records, they also delivered their best album ever. Record number three shows the band in a shining bright light. Still they play Swedeathrash and the first thing that comes to my mind is IN FLAMES. CALLENISH CIRCLE are very melodic […]