After dumping the original mix of the album, which failed to meet the requirements of the US Death / Grinders, “Methods Of Execution” was delayed, overworked and finally sounds as it should… Crispy, raw, brutal as fuck!!! Though “Instruments Of Torture” in my opinion still remains unrivalled BRODEQUIN’s newest rape of your auditory canal marks […]
Here it is: the debut album of North Germany’s old school freaks BRANDED SKIN. The opener, ‘Perverted Sanity’, isn’t quite as catchy as I had expected but it definitely grows. Maybe ‘The Secret’, one of my faves (check out ‘Lesson In Blood’ as well) might have made it a little bit easier. The band sounds […]
I saw these guys play live with DESPONDENCY and GOREZONE recently and was quite impressed by their old school Death Metal and their stage presence. This CD is already a little bit dated as the band is planning to enter the studio in 2003 as far as I remember – BRANDED SKIN already played a […]
Fuck the objectivity on this one! I’m a fan of these Scottish sickos and after a couple splits and demos, finally time has come for a debut full-length from BONESAW! Having Sid Brew (guitars) from now defunct Death Metal schizoids KORPSE in their ranks was another factor which stired my interest towards this band and […]
Some call him enemy, some call him friend, but like it or not, Kam Lee’s role in Death Metal history should remain uncontested after the good work he’s done with MASSACRE. After he left DENIAL FIEND, Mr. Lee apparently wasted no time in keeping himself active. BONE GNAWER, his latest (and possibly best after DENIAL […]
With a countless number of “Retro-Trash” clone bands trying to copy the classic bands of the late 80s / early 90s, BONDED BY BLOOD (California, USA) stand out as a honest outfit that have built their own style, although drawing the logical influences of the sub genre. The album’s concept is set in the future. […]
Fuck modern influences, fuck modern Death Metal, only old school is real! That’s my impression while listening to the marvelous debut album from BOMBS OF HADES called “Chambers Of Abominations”. The goose bumps arrived my skin after the first 50 seconds of ‘Corpse Holocaust’ (first track) and the “Fuck” of Jonas Stahlhammar. Utterly great! It’s […]
Memory is a funny function of the brain, to have this ability to retain information based on duration, nature and retrieval of perceived issues and items. And we all have the capability to gather this data from long lost moments in time. To me Death Metal brings back a lot of these distinctive jiffies, remarkably […]
“The Mystical Beast Of Rebellion” is the third album of french BLUT AUS NORD already. Compared to the predecessors it is slightly different again. The first album “Ultima Thule” contained atmospheric old school Black Metal with a pagan and symphonic touch (comparable to TROLL’s “Drep De Kristne”). The second album “The Father Of The Icy […]
Honestly spoken, I usually don’t really give a shit whether a band managed to get a well known person to produce their debut album or not, as their material should speak on its own in the first place. But in BLUDGEON’s case things were a little different nevertheless. The reason for my curiosity was the […]