I was quite surprised when I held BLOT MINE’s second album in my hands because I thought this would never happen. This first class Swedish Black Metal outfit was founded by some ex – SETHERIAL members back in 1995 and released a real impressive demo tape one year later. Finally the band was able to […]
With their third full-length opus “Chaos Echoes”, France’s dark ambient Death Metal artists BLOODY SIGN provide a rich and textured listening experience that challenges the open-mindedness of the Death Metal fan while not completely alienating the purist. Here you’ll find waves of amorphous dissonance, scores of watery diminished fifths, meandering song structures, numerous and varied […]
A band that has been featured in Voices many times over and with almost as many line-up changes to boot! Here again are those French Death Metal maniacs called BLOODY SIGN! Heavy, technical, U.S. inspired Death Metal is the forte here – a culmination of many influences can be heard on this nine song record […]
Before I go into the details of BLOOD VOMIT’s debut CD I have to tell you that they use a drum computer throughout the whole album. It does not sound too awful, but if you are an aesthetic (I am – when it comes to Metal drums played by a fucking machine) you will be […]
Considering the straight ahead heaviness of BLOODTHORN’s material these days, it’s kinda hard to imagine that this Norwegian bunch actually used to kick off their career with keyboards and female vocals (perfectly documented on the band’s two full-length albums “In The Shadow Of Your Black Wings” and “Onwards Into Battle”, as well as on their […]
Even though this is already the third BLOODTHORN album, it is the first time for me to encounter this Norwegian fivepiece. And judging the band by descriptions they used to get in the past for the two previously released full-lengths “In The Shadow Of Your Black Wings” and “Onwards Into Battle” they quite obviously must’ve […]
My first impression on this second album of this Polish trio was that it sounds good, but it also sounds like many bands. After a few more listening, it was clear that I was enjoying the music, the riffs, and most of what this album was about: straight in your face Thrash / Death Metal, […]
Poland got many outstanding Satanic and blasphemous Death Metal bands today, but I never heard of any Polish band with the same ideology playing Thrash Metal until I heard BLOODTHIRST!! This band has already released three demos, four splits, a live album as well as a compilation; but only now after 8 years of existence […]
This (compilation) release leaves a lot to be desired, I’m afraid. You may blame it on the in-experience of a rather young company, but hey, the whole turnout still sucks neverthess… First of all, the copy that I have here seems to be a CD-R instead of a factory pressed “real” CD. Ok, I got […]
BLOOD STORM may be a quite unknown name for a big portion of the scene since this US outfit doesn’t seem to be interested in press-exposure too much. On the other hand, they might be interested in the old school way of spreading the word, meaning snail mail, paper printed zines, etc. Why do I […]