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 […]
The cover art of “Suppuration Morphogénésiaque” is pretty much the summation of what lies beneath. SEDIMENTUM is from Quebec City, the home of some phenomenal Metal over the years and SEDIMENTUM slay it like how you’d expect. Layer after layer of canorous heaviness, the album is a good juxtaposition of Death and Doom. The guitars […]
Canadian thrashing force PILEDRIVER shocked and overwhelmed the underground with their debut album “Metal Inquisition” in 1984. Provoking and raving numbers like ‘Sodomize The Dead’, ‘Human Sacrifice’, ‘Alien Rape’ and the classic title track still upheld the album’s name as one of the wildest Metal albums of the decade. After the great debut, PILEDRIVER was […]
Certain classic Metal records from the 1980s are in my opinion still underrated and can never get enough acclaim. The first DESTRUCTOR album “Maximum Destruction” is one of these albums. No matter what time in my life I put it on the record player, this record never disappointed me in any way. “Maximum Destruction” smashed […]
Theremin, Chelys Lyre, Davul, Kaval, Dahare – do not worry, these are not the ingredients for an exotic dish. But part of the instruments that 1/2 SOUTHERN NORTH, a one-woman band from Greece, are using on their debut. And when I write now that also saxophone and violin making an appearance then it should be […]
As a Black Metal devotee, every time I look forward to the debut of a band, I search for three things: good artwork, good lyrics and that the concepts involving the developing of the music are coherent. MIASMES has the three requirements mentioned above. MIASMES is a trio from France, formed in 2021, that has […]
It wasn’t even a year ago that I would have been sure that anything released by the French label Les Acteurs De L’Ombre Productions will be at least a fine album for sure. But late last year PENSÉES NOCTURNES taught me better, as I definitely got no access to their music. And now it happened […]
French horde HYRGAL is active since 2008 already and return to the scene with full-length number three, simply entitled “Hyrgal”. Their sound is based on classic true Black Metal in the vein of the Norwegian school, but in a pretty modern interpretation. Paired with influences of Post Black Metal they come even close to a […]
“Slither In Slime” is the second ROTHEADS album, after their debut full-length “Sewer Fiends” (2018). And it can be said that these four Death Metallers from the Romanian capital are now ready to set their footing deep into the stinking morass of the underground. Originally brought to life as an old school Death Metal side […]