Trying to define the music played by AXIS OF ADVANCE is an almost impossible task, so much this Canadian three piece have developed a highly personal style which defies any categorization. With this third album, AXIS OF ADVANCE have basically kept the style that made their two previous efforts (“Strike” and “The List”) so enjoyable. […]
The US is fucking raging, no doubt about that, after the new THORNSPAWN, ARGHOSLENT, ANWYL and GRAND BELIAL’s KEY albums there’s another Black / Death / Thrash assault that should satisfy any fan of apocalyptic and chaotic soundscapes! AXIS OF ADVANCE, one of many bands James Read (also CONQUEROR, REVENGE) participates in, attack with a […]
Although I was a little shocked at first by the short playing time of the US old school Death Metal band’s second album, it proved to be one of the best half-an-hour’s I have heard for some time now. Do bands like old GRAVE, CREMATORY, DEMIGOD, old IMMOLATION mean something to you? You think PAGANIZER […]
This is not the new album from the pack lead by mister Rotten following “Goresplattered Suicide” as I initially thought, in fact this an enhanced MCD with a slightly “strange” concept – strange as in “unusual” which seems to appeal to AVULSED from time to time if one remembers their remix CD “Cybergore” some years […]
Well, Dave from AVULSED didn’t feel quite happy with my ‘Yearning For The Grotesque’ review. Not because it wasn’t positive enough, he wanted more details and he even thought I didn’t give the album a thorough listen. I won’t tell you my first thoughts when I read his lines as minors have access to Voices […]
Nah… I don’t think so. Because, this is not “easily the most dangerous-sounding Black Metal bands in ages”. First off, this is one band, not one bands. But who am I to judge grammar mistakes, since they are more regular in my writing than in Moribund’s information-propaganda on the backcovers of their promos. The point […]
An event of this magnitude is rare… probably once in every thousand bands or so… that a band grows like this is not something exactly happening all the time. This Czech force has already three full-lengths before this one, and although all of those were good, and possess some competent songs and a couple of […]
AUTUMNAL was formed in 1996, a year when Doom Metal in the vein of ANATHEMA and MY DYING BRIDE already reached its zenith. Nevertheless, now in 2007 a band exists that still plays this kind of Doom Metal with a lot of Death Metal influences. And to be honest, would this album have been released […]
This is a fuckin’ great release! Not only because it is from one of the coolest Death Metal bands we ever had, but also because it features two very good quality live recordings combined onto one single CD! Both sessions were previously already available on vinyl, but there’s some little differences to this CD version […]
Since the rather confidential, yet very good split EP “Überthrash” and a best-of compilation entitled “Deep Dreams of Hell” from 2005, AURA NOIR remained quite discreet musicwise. Still, everyone remembers Carl Mickael Eide’s fall from a window a while ago. Though the dude seems to have completely recovered, and the power duo composed by him […]