Let me begin with my main complaint about this album: the release date. All the cartoon-satanists within the scene go or at least try for some ridiculous 06.06.’06 or Halloween – release and this wonderful piece of music that evokes pictures of vast snow-covered landscapes or autumnal woods more than anything else is unleashed upon […]
In case you haven’t read it somewhere else already, let me tell you that AFTER DEATH is the new home of former MORBID ANGEL-, INCUBUS-, NOCTURNUS- and ACHERON – drummer / vocalist Mike Browning. I really have no idea why it took so long until a label was finally willing to release something properly of […]
The last AETERNUS full-length album “A Darker Monument” (which got released via Nocturnal Art Productions) already dates back to 2003, so it obviously took them quite a while to return to the scene… I suppose the label change was part of this delay, but I’m not 100% sure, so you better don’t quote me here. […]
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 […]