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 […]
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 […]