It’s only fitting that Bretagne, France’s SOULSLICER named their first album “Pandemic”. And considering Death Metal can easily include death-by-virus themes, well, there you go. Samual Girard (vocals), Kiato Luu (lead guitar), Jerome Mahe (guitar / bass) and Antoine Poisson (drums), for only being together since 2020, have put together a solid, accomplished group of […]
Prague’s birthed the band SUKKHU who create an atmospheric form of classic Black Metal which brings to mind the early to mid 90s classics. Morgause (vocals), EGO BMK (guitars) and Megiddo (drums) capture the feel precisely, mixing old school guitars, screeching female vocals and drums that keep the pace nicely. With their first album “Labyrinths”, […]
The New Wave Of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) was not only the real start and the foundation of our favourite music with all its sub-genres, it also brought us timeless classic albums. One of these records was “Lightning To The Nations” from DIAMOND HEAD, that was released in 1980 as an untitled album in a […]
TRINITAS is a German / Swedish collaboration consisting of the well know protagonists Vargher, Tormentor and Azathoth. Somehow I missed their first EP, so I was pretty surprised who is behind this project when I randomly chose this review. All three members are or were in bands, I really appreciate, so it was pretty clear […]
“Ellenbogengesellschaft” is the fourth album by the one man project ELLENDE from Graz in Austria. The band’s name is taken from an old German word for “exiled” with a negative connotation. The basis of the word can also be found in German “elend” which translates as “miserable”. And that might be the whole review, as […]
On October 08, 2022, Hungarian label Filosofem Records (owned by Roland Neubauer and Karola Gere) will release in cassette and CD format, the fourth LP of WITCHER, entitled “Lélekharang”. WITCHER is an atmospheric Black Metal duo that was formed in 2010 in Szombathely, Hungary and that has achieved to reproduce a very distinctive sound in […]
Pagan / Black Metal. That was the first tag that came up when I started looking for information on German outfit FIRTAN. Since that is a broad tag for music and I don’t know any German besides “Danke”, I went straight to the music. Right off with the opener ‘Faðir’, FIRTAN got me hooked with […]
If you consider yourself a die hard VENOM fan, who collects everything that gets released by this legendary Newcastle bunch, you better make sure there’s enough money on your bank account, because there’s so many releases out there lately, that you could easily loose track. Ok, there have always been re-releases of VENOM stuff throughout […]
Norway’s NORDJEVEL have been impressing us with their aggressive Black Metal since 2016. Now, their third album “Gnavhòl” hits us like a ton of bricks in the jaw, shattering every bone in the area. They aren’t one of those bands that change things up or mellow things down. They just grab you by the balls, […]
Hailing from Finland, TORMENTICON are a long running band that seems to be in no rush to get their songs released. There’s no other explanation that they only recorded ten songs in at least twenty years of existence. Seven of them were released as an untitled album in 2010, yet only about half of the […]