Five kids in their late teens put together a very important Death Metal album and it’d be criminal to not review this! Again, I forget how I came across this, I think it was a thread in Reddit where the post creator said they’d be annoyed if BARN didn’t get big. I didn’t think much […]
This is my first introduction to AN ABSTRACT ILLUSION, a progressive Death Metal band from Sweden. “Woe” is their second album and their first on Willowtip. First and foremost, let’s get it out of the way that AN ABSTRACT ILLUSION plays modern Death Metal. The opener ‘The Behemoth That Lies Asleep’ immediately gave me CYNIC […]
There’s a new band in my hood and it’s called BRUTAL EVISCERATION. To date, they recorded an EP last year and just now they released their first full-length album “Mutilation Before Death”, both yet only available in digital format. Hailing from the area around Bremen, the four guys in the band are pretty blank pages […]
When you think of Norwegian Black Metal, you usually think of MAYHEM, EMPEROR, BURZUM, DARKTHRONE or IMMORTAL. But really, there’s just so much more. And when you consider it, there’s not really a “Norwegian” sound to the early bands. Just look at the bands above. None of them sound alike, yet all sparked multitudes of […]
Three beasts make up the Italian killer machine SPIRAL WOUNDS, among them Giuseppe “Tato” Tatangelo on vocals, who used to be the bass player in SCHIZO from 2010 to 2014. Little more than 40 minutes these guys take to devour your brains and to water your intestines with their extreme Death Metal, that is intricate, […]
Caligari Records put out the first EP of the band / project GROTESQUERIES. I put this aside for a bit and only got back to it today. As soon as I heard it, I wanted to write a short note about it. First things first, this is a 3 song EP with a run time […]
Frankly, I didn’t think I’d enjoy this so much! Mexico’s CATHARTIC worship the HM2 madness like it was part of their genetic code. Nothing wrong with that, but in “Through The Abysmal Gates Of Subconscious” they’ve managed to write a phenomenal 2022 HM2 worship album that ticks off all boxes. Killer vocals that draw you […]
What might happen when two German Death Metal enthusiasts meet, get friends and have a drink or two? Sometimes something special, I’d say, like in this case. Long time friends Leimy from Redemption Of The Rotten Records and Marc from Suffer Productions joined forces after having a beer or two together, going into raptures over […]
In the German Metal magazine Horror Infernal (issue # 33, from December 1991), I introduced a cassette from the Canadian band STRAPPADO. It was entitled “Not Dead Yet” and featured eight tracks of raw old school Thrash Metal. The logo already looked kind of familiar and the name of the band’s vocalist / guitarist, quickly […]
Here we have another fine new edition of an older FUNERAL PROCESSION release through the band’s own label Millennial Visions. Back in 2008, two years after their first self-titled album and the fantastic one-track EP “Schmerz Aus Licht”, the East Frisian Black Metal brigade recorded another long song and released it as an EP. ‘The […]