You may recall that on some of their records, SODOM played MOTÖRHEAD-inspired songs like ‘Ausgebombt’, or indeed, played MOTÖRHEAD covers like ‘Iron Fist’. ASOMVEL is the United Kingdom’s MOTÖRHEAD-inspired sodomites. This record has an abundance of energy. If ASOMVEL ever take to the road, they’ll have to play all the songs they have in their […]
After beholding the promo-pic of ASMODEUS there is no misunderstanding possible – three human (?) beings, corpse painted and armed. Black Metal from the very depths of Austria. Never recognized ASMODEUS before, I did not know what to expect. Another mediocre Black Metal outfit, totally dispensable? But no, they really impressed me! I can hardly […]
In former times the word folklore wasn’t automatically connected to drunken Finnish trolls – these times the mixture of extreme Metal and traditional folklore is considered as a dangerous experiment by the majority of the extreme Metal scene. The Norwegian ASMEGIN are building a bridge to the mid 90s and hopefully there are still enough […]
AS LIGHT DIES, is a band that is indeed skilled in their use of their instruments, song arrangements / compositions, yet seem to be blighted with the disease called A.D.D. or Attention Deficit Disorder. Too many weird, twisting paths of riffing and writing, odd choices of symphonic inclusions and / oor vocal patterns make each […]
This is Groningen’s AS IT BURNS third album release and I think it is possible that they might access a larger audience with their well-balanced mixture of Thrash / Death / Black Metal. The range of guitar riffing varies from dark melodies to rocking parts to fast, Death and Thrash orientated attacks. AS IT BURNS […]
Fans of SHADOWS FALL, GOD FORBID or SOILWORK watch out, because AS I LAY DYING might be an excellent addition to your collection. On “Frail Words Collapse” the Californian five-piece blends melodic Death Metal elements with the aggression and emotional intensity of modern Hardcore and creates twelve powerful tracks that undoubtedly can enter the competition […]
This album has one problem many of the so called orginial or innovative Black / Death / Dark Metal acts have, they mix too much instruments, samples and vocal styles into one sonic inferno, which is definitely demanding and unusual, but often not very entertaining and live absolutely unimaginable. In ASGAROTH’s case the mass of […]
Here we go… I didn’t have the faintest idea what kind of style this formation would present. The band’s logo somewhat struck me as a Death Metal-related one, which didn’t prove to be totally incorrect. Nevertheless, ASCENSION do not play conventional “well … let’s blast a bit ’cause that’s what we’re best at” Death Metal. […]
This Brazilian five piece originally used to be called GRUUNKS, but they luckily decided to change their moniker into ARUM in 2000… I wise decision, even though I won’t necessarily consider ARUM the perfect choice either. But anyway, musically there’s hardly anything to complain about. The band delivers a furious and raw mixture of Black […]
ARTISIAN is a pretty young Southampton, UK based Death / Black Metal band led by the guiding hand of Infernus Rex (Netherlands based label) which has within their ranks acts like NOSVROLOK, HORNED ALMIGHTY, GOATHOLOCAUST among some others. By listening to their early stuff (including their demo and 2 albums) I did not have any […]