Belgium. The sole name of this country brings to mind bands such as ANCIENT RITES, BLACK SHEPHERD and some other great bands. And so we have another up and coming quality act, CALIGULA, with their independent debut for 2011, “Not Too Sort To Be Great”. And man, is this a weird listen at first. There […]
I have met two members of the band three months ago in Paris, and received this demo to review afterwards. This young act (formed in 2001) from the East of France play a groovy kind of Heavy Doom Metal. The six tracks on offer here show a lot of promises, the songs are catchy and […]
Originally released in 2006 by Eternity Records, I keep asking myself a really good reason to re-press this album. BRILLIANT COLDNESS, which if you ask me is a quite weird name, plays the kind of technical Death Metal with dangerous mosh/core sound that many Death Metal bands in that technical style devour. Traces of DEATH, […]
Sometimes even the deepest abyss is nothing else than a black hole without light and in contrary to dear Mr. Nietzsche it’s not returning the gaze of every misanthropic soul. Such an abyssal release is “The Mystical Beast Of Rebellion”, the third album of French Black Metal experimentalists BLUT AUS NORD. The album is highly […]
The almost non existing booklet of the original got changed into a foldout version and has all lyrics inside now, as well as the eerie looking individual member shots. The flipside features Axel Hermann’s Vincent Locke type artwork (best known for his work for CANNIBAL CORPSE) in maximum size. The originally red colored logo got […]
VENOM!!! MOTÖRHEAD!!! And as well I can end the review here. But then again, that’s not what a review is for, right? Well, BLIZZARD might evoke an IMMORTAL album, but no, it is on a different way. To start with they are a German trio founded back in 1998. Members of the band are also […]
I suppose (and I hope) that many of the VOICES readers are also interested by traditional Heavy Metal the way it was played in the 80s. I admit that I overlooked this one and only BLIND FURY offering when it came out in 1984. But better late than never, I am glad to present this […]
After years of unavailability and a couple of bad quality bootlegs, Nuclear War Now! Productions came up with what is considered to be the ultimate edition of BLASPHEMY’s classic debut album “Fallen Angel Of Doom…”. Originally released in 1990 by one of the biggest (if not THE biggest) rip-offs of all times, Wild Rags Records, […]
Hell’s Headbangers presents us a re-release of “Christcrushing Hammerchainsaw”, the first full-length in the impressive discography of Swedish necroblasphemers BESTIAL MOCKERY. Originally released in 2002 by Metal Blood Music, this crushing and provocative Black / Thrash inferno was long time out of print untill now! Fans who prefer vinyl should able to forfill their need […]
The French Black Metal scene is more or less one of the last strongholds of the true Black Metal style and bands which are mixing Folklore with the essence of our beloved Black Metal style are more than rare in these landscapes. BELENOS are one of the few French bands which is falling under this […]