After an EP in 2006, US progressive Death Metal act ANOMALOUS now delivers its first full-length album “Ohmnivalent” which is truly a demanding, complex and highly technical assault on your senses – so consider this rather food for your brain than for your gut. Featuring members from ONTOGENY and most prominently ex-VITAL REMAINS / ex-BRAIN […]
If you’re having trouble pronouncing the name of this band, just replace it with “E.T.” instead! As the moniker is taken from the ancient Sumerian / later Babylonian mythos about the ANNUNAKI: the royal inbred children of brother and sister Sky gods Anu and Ki, whose offspring the ANNUNAKI later in their adulthood attain the […]
Can you imagine early CRADLE OF FILTH (vocals) combined with pretty primitive Nordic Black Metal in the old BURZUM, DARKTHRONE, GORGOROTH vein musically? Well, then you have a good idea what a pretty fine looking gal from Finland named Possessed Demoness and session drummer Mental Penetrator unleash on their debut “Cold”. It’s raw and sickened […]
I was really impressed with the Spanish Thrashers ANGELUS APATRIDA’s first two albums. But, WOW! Their latest offering, “Clockwork” shows the logical evolution of the band. Their current line-up, brother’s Jose and Guillermo Izquierdo (bass and vocals / guitar respectively), David Garcia on lead guitar and Victor Valera on drums, has crafted a heavy as […]
ANDRAS have returned with their 4th full-length album this year. 13 songs of the darker kind of Metal they offer us on “… Of Old Wisdom”. ANDRAS are still into creating easy-listening music like they have been doing since the start of their career, although the whole thing gives a more matured and “grown up” […]
ANCIENT RITES is somehow Belgium’s only band I guess (next to AGATHOCLES maybe) who have a worldwide reputation and are part of the Metal scene for already a long time. Over the last 10 years, they progressed from a pure Black Metal act to a Metal band with more and more melodic and bombastic influences. […]
Objective: Okay, the facts. Ancient Existence hail from Hannover, Germany and this is their third album. They were founded in 2000 and recorded their first album “Ancient Existence” in 2002 after winning a band contest. Their second album “Night Eternal” was recorded in 2003. Which brings us to the present and their third album “Hate […]
More than ten years have already passed since ANATHEMA have entered the scene with their classic “They Die” 7″ and “Crestfallen” EP. A lot of changes have happened on the way and nowaydays there’s absolutely no elements left of the doomy type of Death Metal they were playing in the beginning. ANATHEMA anno 2001 is […]
ANATA are a band that hail from Sweden, wait damnit before you leave, they DO NOT play melodic Swedish Death. There, you’re still here? Good. ANATA play some really fuckin sick and twisted Death Metal in a very technical vein. Yes they are melodic but its a technical melodic not like ARCH ENEMY melody, more […]
I don’t like to fool around with the “masterpiece” term, but in the case of this record I can’t have such a problem. In fact, I consider this review totally useless except it gives me the opportunity to publicly state that “Under A Stone With No Inscription” is a landmark in the Death Metal history […]