Continuing with the styling that made “Acts Of The Unspeakable” a largely hit or miss affair, AUTOPSY put the remainder of their new ideas into “Shitfun”, their last album as AUTOPSY before reforming as ABSCESS. “Shitfun”‘s title was, and is, strange even for AUTOPSY, and the album was greeted with less applause than the first […]
Shit, I like these Castle Records re-issues – I really do! CHATEAUX, AVENGER, WARFARE, BLITZKRIEG, HELLANBACH and so on and so forth. All these classic NWOBHM acts that used to be part of my youth (looooong time ago, hahaha) and which all sounded so fresh and unique back in the late 70s / early 80s. […]
While the two former albums, “Piece Of Time” and “Unquestionable Presence”, delivered massive attacks of strange rhythm patterns, wicked influences and an unquestionable desire to challenge the listener, the final album in ATHEIST’s way too short history showed a controlled band that actually wrote something we can recognize as songs. “Elements” was definitely not what […]
While the former “Piece Of Time” was an album that forced only good songs with a lot of varied song-structures and strange rhythm passages, “Unquestionable Presence” was the album that took this to an even higher level. ATHEIST’s musicianship was even closer to perfect. Every beat on the drum feels right in place, every wicked […]
Back in the days, this vinyl made my air-guitaring reach new heights. And the air-drumming? I wonder, how was it possible that ATHEIST managed to write such complicated tracks, sounding so natural? The drums were everywhere, while at the same time binding the different parts in each song together. There’s no doubt ATHEIST were ahead […]
Hell yes, this re-issue was certainly way overdue and just a perfect idea! Not only because it’s been unavailable in its original format for quite a while now, but also because of the highly interesting bonus tracks that were added to the nine regular tracks… Well, I really hope that I don’t have to introduce […]
The color of the logo was changed from red to white and the quality of the artwork turned out a bit worse. The album’s title is no longer on top of the logo, but is now centered at the bottom of the front-cover. The whole layout was inked into a dark blue, the lyrics are […]
The logo is a bit smaller now and was moved from top middle to top right, while a different section of the full artwork was used for the frontcover (unfortunately too blurry and dark). The foldout booklet lacks the thanx list of the original release, but features all the lyrics, various color shots (live- and […]
I must be honest. After Van Drunen left ASPHYX I totally lost interest in the band. It seems I was not the only one, as some of the albums recorded without him were not exactly up to the quality of the material released before. Even in the “God Cries” album I have heard more than […]
And sometimes they return from the valley of death – this is the most important fact about the third release from Moscow based Pagan band ARKONA. Since the very disappointing “Lepta” album which showed the band on a wrong track (with only a handful of really interesting songs) they did not totally refocus on their […]