I never thought that this would be on a list of re-releases for some label one day. Not that I would say there’s no point, since the album has surely been bootlegged already who-knows-how-many-times before. The very album I’m talking about here is BEHERIT’s legendary debut album “The Oath Of The Black Blood” that the […]
No amount of speculation may ever explain why a band like BURST could ever fall so far from grace. Originally a Hardcore band from 1993 to the mid 2000s, BURST never played Metal per se, but one would assume that they weren’t anything to complain about – until now, as a Metalcore band. It’s interesting […]
There is a small edge of progressive music that lies between 70s Prog Rock, Melodic Death Metal and complex Hardcore structures where some interesting bands find their own balance by creating something fresh and original beyond narrowminded genre-thinking. MASTODON, THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, NEUROSIS and ISIS are bands that have created their own musical universe […]
I have mixed feelings towards this album because it is such a departure from the style the band originally played that I was caught a little off balance by the material on offer here. Maybe you remember that the BURNING INSIDE first offering, entitled “The Eve Of The Entities”, was about techno Death, a kind […]
I’m glad that BURDEN OF GRIEF have finally been picked up by an established company as I already considered them a highly talented bunch when they put out their previous two self financed mini CD’s (which ended up being re-issued as the “Haunting Requiems” full-length CD). Musically this German five-piece still sticks to the melodic […]
BULWARK may not earn your vote for best album of the year, but upon listening to their album, “Variance” you may at least award them a certificate of eccletic writing. The album begins with a Middle Eastern melody – so Middle Eastern in fact, it would sound out-of-place on a NILE record. Perhaps NILE has […]
It seems, judging by the number of unexpected comebacks of 80s bands, like that well (which appeared seemingly bottomless just some years ago) is going to be drained really soon, so what would we have next? Digging deeper and summoning those from the other side? What a band it could have been… Blame these gloomy […]
A new addition to the “New Wave Of Dutch Brutality” (courtesy of UNHOLY TERROR zine, Horns up guys!) arsenal of bands are BRUTUS who are heavily inspired by US Death Metal outfits like DEEDS OF FLESH or GORGASM and were conceived from the womb of a rotten whore in the year 2000. Whereas in terms […]
Talk about wearing your influences on your sleeve. Then talk about tribute bands. And then talk about BRUTALLY DECEASED, a Czech based entity of nostalgia-laden fiends, whose main goal might well be building up the time machine often quoted by both science fiction writers and aging Metalheads alike. Destination and time period in case? Stockholm, […]
This is a Greek three piece instrumental Psychedelic Rock combo and “Dark As Light” is their second album. To put it briefly, what you get here are 4 tracks or more precisely, 4 long live jams. Now this is a tricky waters to thread as usually such endaveours walk a very fine line between being […]