The history of ARSEBREED goes back to the year 2000, when they were founded under the name BLOODCUM. But after releasing the “Arsestabbers” demo in the following year, the band split up in 2002 and is now, after different line-up changes, back under the name ARSEBREED. When listening to this CD my first thought was […]
Hardrock made by Black Metallers. That would be easy huh? Well, although this is true, there is quite lot more to it. If you never experienced the 80s Hardrock / Glam Metal thing, you probably will not understand this. Otherwise, welcome to one quite entertaining record. ARMOUR will do nothing different or original, but then […]
Well, how should I begin? Frank sent me the promo of these Munich based Thrashers and I have listened to this album again and again and again and really tried to make my mind clear… but to be honest, this is one of the most boring Thrash Metal albums I’ve been listening to for the […]
ARMAGEDON’s 1991 demo “Dead Condemnation” was one of my favourite demos back in the early nineties and I wondered why this band didn’t succeed like e. g. their country mates of VADER or BEHEMOTH. In these early years, when BEHEMOTH were founded as a Black Metal band ARMAGEDON already convinced the fans and critics with […]
It happens pretty rarely these days that a band that uses corpsepaint and claims to play Black Metal still manages to set free the true essence of evil through their music at the same time. The big commercial sellout and too many mainstream releases unfortunately have turned a whole movement into something completely ridiculous. Countless […]
During the last couple of years I’ve reviewed dozens of Pagan Metal albums – with a lot of shadows and few highlights – but if it comes to the best releases of this genre the Russian ARKONA are still bearing the top positions (together with the German FINSTERFORST). The band perfectly incorporates the Folk universe […]
The effect that a label like Norma Evangelium Diaboli has especially on the French scene never ceases to amaze. Even a band like ARKHON INFAUSTUS, which in the past enlightened the scene with works such as “Dead Cunt Maniac” all of a sudden come up with heavily contorted religious titles and artwork. Trend-hopping of the […]
This band has made so much progresses that at first I barely recognized them. I don’t like their two first full-lengths at all, but now it is an entirely different story. What ARKHON INFAUSTUS have achieved here confines the domain of the unbelievable and of the more than human. They have reached a new level […]
I did a lukewarm review of this French outfit first effort and I am afraid it goes worse with this one. I don’t know what happened exactly in the life of the band since “Hell Injection”, except that they are now a four piece and that they had the drummer of the awful CONQUEROR within […]
The release of this album was delayed due to the extreme cover and booklet inlay concept, centered around satanized sadistic and drug related themes. But in the end, only the music matters and unfortunately ARKHON INFAUSTUS fail to offer something new in this domain. If you own the ABOMINATOR album “Damnation’s Prophecy” or anything from […]