After the Norwegian dark Death Metallers AETERNUS were dropped by their long-term label Hammerheart Records the band members must have been extremely frustrated, because on their newest effort one senses more aggression than on all previous releases. The sinister, thundering opener ‘Sword Of The Earth’, the blasting beginnings of the fantastic ‘Litany Of Ra’ and […]
Death Metal from France hasn’t had the best reputation the last years. Currently there are some hyper technical (and fuckin’ boring) “Death Metal” acts on the market and in the past France offered good names as MASSACRA, LOUDBLAST or AGRESSOR. That’s mostly all about it (hey Thomas, and what about MUTILATED / ABYSSALS??? – Frank) […]
AETURNUS is a band that I somehow missed out in their beginning and just got to know a while ago through their last full-length “Shadows Of Old” album. The compilation “Burning The Shroud” really made my interest in this band rise as their combination of very raw Death Metal and furious Black Metal outbursts sounds […]
Next to tribute albums compilations seem to be THE big thing at the moment! But in many cases they are really worth checking out, especially if they not only concentrate on wellknown material. “Burning The Shroud” from Norway’s AETERNUS is such a goodie. Unfortunately I discovered the brilliance of these guys kinda late, but as […]
Starting where Swedish AEON’s predecessor DEFACED CREATION left with its single, critically acclaimed album “Serenity In Chaos” (1999) the musical direction is still plain and simple heavily DEICIDE influenced American Death Metal. Brutality and catchiness are apparently equally important to this quintet from Östersund and songwriting-wise they are absolutely successful in achieving this goal. Excellent […]
Sometimes we all realize how times goes by and reviewing the sixth album from this North German Black Metal horde makes me think about ordering their demo “Im Schattenreich” over ten years ago. A lot of things had changed in AEBA’s warcamp: two keyboarder left the band and finally they are working completely without any […]
Nearly a year after their debut album, “All Idols Fall Before The Hammer”, ADVERSARIAL return with “Prophetic Plain Of Abyssal Revelation”, a 10-inch MLP (and digipak CD) reprising tracks from the 2008 “Thralls” demo, two new songs, and two cover songs of ARCHGOAT and INCANTATION respectively. So, for those of you who enjoyed “Thralls”, the […]
Amid the incessant onslaught of mediocre records, occasionally one may find the impetus to continue moving forward… in a sound that properly reflects the impending structural unraveling and the unveiling of images and ideas long thought incomprehensible and which truly shakes the souls of the living to their core with the magnificent grandeur of death. […]
The Italian invasion has just began… could be an good slogan for the Italian underground reawakening after several years of silence and following more traditional Black Metal releases from bands like HOMSELVAREG and MELENCOLIA ESTATICA it’s good that there are also bands like ADVERSAM which are more into the Symphonic Black Metal section. The band […]
Hopefully the guys of ADVENT OF BEDLAM aren’t disappointed that despite the fact that the VFTD staff is consisting of several die hard Metalheads from Costa Rica only one of the German guys is writing this review. The band has been founded in December 2009 and their first release “Behold The Chaos” was giving me […]