Well, Norway’s KAMPFAR are already around for nearly 30 years and have released eight albums since 1997. Fun fact: despite that, I never listened to their music intentionally. And I can’t even tell you why. Yet I can tell you that I should catch up on that, judging from the album “Til Klovers Takt” which […]
Gothenburg’s so heavily rooted into the sound of NORRSKÖLD that you can immediately tell after a brief listen to “Prisma Aeternus”, the third full-length from this melodic Black Metal band. There’s a little DARK TRANQUILLITY, a little early IN FLAMES. And that’s never a bad thing. It’s sort of odd how you just immediately recognize […]
BAFOMET from Japan was formed back in 2015. They play old school Black Thrash with a tingling mix of Speed Metal and till now, their discography mostly consists of demos, split- and live-albums. Initially, the band was known as SIGIL OF BAPHOMET, but changed the name to BAFOMET while recording their first demo “Poison Of […]
SULFURIC from Sweden might be a new name to your ears, for mine it surely was, but the guys play in a bunch of other bands and know how to handle their instruments. So from the get go they deliver fast, rabid, skin melting Black / Speed / Thrash Metal in the vein of NIFELHEIM, […]
BEYOND THE VOID is a technical Death Metal band, formed in France in 2018, that is presenting their debut album. They claim to be influenced by old school Death Metal, and by the sound of the band that is true if we are talking about later DEATH, IMMOLATION, GORGUTS and similar bands. The musicianship is […]
With INVULTATION, we have another one man-project, this time from Columbus, Ohio, USA. The man behind the band is Andrew Lampe, who runs three more different projects where he is the only member. Maybe this guy is either not easy to work with or he likes to work all by himself for best results. No […]
When Steven Willems told me about his idea to write a book about the Dutch Death and Extreme Metal scene a while ago, I knew right from the start that the result would be nothing but great. I mean, if you’re familiar with some of his work (first through his own fanzine SLEEPLESS, later on […]
FALL OF SERAPHS is a curious case of French Black / Death Metal. On one hand, the band leans on late ’80s / early ’90s approach of buzzing Death Metal and at the same time they sound a bit modern. I mean, is it the mix? Is it how it’s been put together? I don’t […]
War Anthem Records has put out the newest IRON FLESH album entitled “Limb After Limb”, a 48 minutes aural assault, using the traditional HM-2 Swedish template. The obvious question is, what IRON FLESH is doing, in comparison to what’s out there, which uses the same template? Well, IRON FLESH doesn’t deviate a lot from the […]
Firstly, I had no idea what this was about, secondly the only reason I picked this up from my editor was the combination of Attila Csihar and Flo Mounier, both of whom I absolutely respect for what they’ve put out artistically. I sat down to research what this entire thing was about and I realized […]