The Bleeding Sun is a band from Barcelona that has been around for some time now in the Spanish underground (since ’96), and has in its history one single and three self-produced albums (including this one). And even if they deliver a good live show, it seems they haven’t achieved to take off completely. But […]
From the cold shores of Norway this quintet emerges and their self-titled debut MCD contains four songs (plus two intros) offering well-crafted, diversified and individual sounding Black / Death / Dark Metal with female and clean vocal parts. And though I can not call myself a fan of music like that I have to appreciate […]
Members of this chaotic American Death Metal band have been lurking in bands like PESSIMIST, DIABOLIC and UNHOLY GHOST, among others. Aantar Lee Coates seems to be the driving force behind this band. He is the drummer and has been in the underground for a lot of time; I do remember him from the band […]
Pagan Records has a reputation to uphold. This is, afterall, the label which gave bands like FUNERAL WINDS, SACRILEGIUM and BEHEMOTH their start. One should rightly expect them to sign only the most severe of bands. With the style of Black Metal pioneered by BLASPHEMY popular in the underground today, care must be taken so […]
BLASPHEMY the canadian Black / Death Gods are back! Fucking hell, this looks like a real promising reunion but I am not sure if they really ever will release a new studio album. Anyway, they’re back in the original line-up apart from Ryan Förster (from Conqueror) and this CD includes the gig in Vancouver, July […]
First some evil voices, obviously someone or something is coming… for your soul! Now a martial snare drum, some growling and fucking hell is unleashed!! The band that showed so much promise with their “Atomic Infested Carnage” demo that seems so long ago, comes to unholy fucking fruition on this, their debut full-length CD!! For […]
Don’t you think the logo looks quite familiar? Yeah, I do…I mean it is… almost like… yeah, like that HELLVETO thing logo, I mean… it is the same! I can foresee a big lawsuit and copyright infri… wait… oh… the same label… the same guy… nah, cut it out. The label says it is Black […]
This trend about “cult” bands (spell it “kult” to a better effect) annoys me to the max. Underground magazines are invaded by always the same bands praised over and over as the best thing since sliced bread by people “who knows” about the “true” valour of Metal. This helped to create a new conformism, and […]
I haven’t laid ears on music from BLACK OATH until I pushed play on this album, and to be honest not checked up on what I was about to listen to and review, and to be even more honest, I might have had another band in mind when I said yes to review this one. […]
BLACK LOTUS are relatively new to the Metal scene having released their first EP only three years ago in 2005. Vocally they differ very little from ENSLAVED, which isn’t a bad thing because the early ENSLAVED records are sterling. BLACK LOTUS alternate between the Grutle Kjellson wolfish howl, and the clear bellowing of PRIMORDIAL. A […]