This Danish band (formed in 1996, with band members that are also active playing in many other bands) has finally unleashed their last attack upon mankind. Or at least that is what the band states in their official myspace page. I do not know the reasons behind this sudden death, as this is only their […]
In the review of their previous effort (“Stench Of Centuries”) I predicted that, given some adjustments, ACT OF GODS could produce a monstrous album. I was no wrong. With a fleshed up line-up (a supplementary guitarist is at work here, ACT OF GODS being now a quintet) and refreshed ideas, this French death squad offer […]
I will proudly admit that I adored the first ACID WTICH LP, “Witchtanic Hellucinations”. I will also stipulate to the fact that I found “Witchtanic Hellucinations” a little on the lighter side, what with all the melodious soloing and keyboarding. This is not to say that those things are bad – they aren’t. I only […]
What makes a literary genre like Steampunk so interesting is it tries to predict what the world would have been like had the library of Alexandria not been set aflame, or how Medieval and Renaissance cultures would have adapted to the advances in technology we have today. Its tremendously good fun, and that is precisely […]
This is not a comeback album, as you may expect from a band like ACID DRINKERS, whose heyday was in the early 90s. No, this is merely the latest installment in a long career full of satisfying albums. From the sound of it, ACID DRINKERS have kept a close eye on the Metal scene and […]
That’s real US Death Metal with some classical reminders to 90s gods like MONSTROSITY, DEATH, MORBID ANGEL, but still with a modern approach. This second album of Los Angeles based ABYSMAL DAWN is a really delighted experience cause it doesn’t shake hands with any forms of current brutal Death / Grind trends in all its […]
I received this CD in the same batch of promos as the NAUMACHIA record reviewed also in these very pages, and guess what: it is more or less the same disc, this time a little darker and more extreme yet no better as a result. I remember the days when Poland reigned supreme in the […]
If a band returns after several years of silence the expectations are more than great mixed with the slightly risk that you don’t get what you expect (for example the latest JUDAS PRIEST release). If a cult act like ABSU returns from the hall of the dead a whole underground scene is holding their breath […]
“Tara” starts with a bagpipe intro but just when you’re about to take out the CD and check if you mistakenly put in one of your numerous folk CDs, all hell breaks loose! Once again, ABSU are taking no prisoners. Sometimes you spot slight hints of SLAYER in one riff or another, but that’s okay […]
ABSOLUTE DEFIANCE is not a new act. They come from Indonesia and until the release of this debut album, they were called VILE. For obvious reasons (maybe you don’t know that there is another VILE from the States that is near to release their second album through Relapse Records) they took the decision of changing […]