Another interesting newcomer in the Black Metal abyss is German horde SUMERIAN TOMBS from Cologne. After two demos in 2021 and 2022 they caught the attention of Ván Records and the result is their first self-titled full-length. After an organ intro the guys already show the huge potential they have to offer. ‘Bloodspells Of The […]
I think no critic likes to write a slating or bad critique, especially if the release is self-financed. But when it comes to the third album by +MROME+ I have to look for the good moments with a magnifying glass. Information is given that “Barbaric Values” is a “concept album based upon the moral and […]
There is a really thin line that divides the melodic Death Metal from Metalcore. The vocals, the riffs and the concepts surrounding the creations of both styles, tend to have some similarities (or the second genre being a copycat from to the first one), without creating something innovative or tunes that depollute the ears of […]
I guess everybody knows this quite awkward situation: you listen to a new band that has nothing really new or exciting, not to mention revolutionary to offer, yet you really like their sound from the first riff? And this won’t change in the run of the record? This happened to me when I listened to […]
In Italian, Noia means “boredom”. But I can assure you NOIA is anything but. The band has an energy that’s vibrant and abundant, and heavy as hell when it needs to be. There’s a familiarity there that maybe other bands have, but yet NOIA stands on their own at the same time. Six albums in […]
After their two EPs “The Rise Of Heresy” (2020) and “The Absence Of Light” (2021) Brazilian Death / Thrashers THE TROOPS OF DOOM have finally come up with their debut full-length album, which they fittingly entitled “Antichrist Reborn”. If you’re familiar with this four-piece already, you’ll of course easily notice the reference to SEPULTURA, the […]
There is nothing wrong with being an douchebag, even Dostoyevski was one. The reasoning for such acceptance is to be proud of having the intelligence of assuming that mental state. And it’s better when blasphemy is in the middle of the breeding. WAN was conceived in 2009, in Eskilstuna, Sweden and performs Black Metal since […]
A fabulous disaster bonded by blood! Baloff is the man, no doubt about that, he toiled the microphone when I first laid ears upon EXODUS, and to be honest, I wasn’t a big fan when Zetro took over. Though he grew over the years, as the music didn’t regress. You can’t take away the status […]
The Spanish Death / Doom Metal band released their second full-length album “God Has No Name” in 2019 on Transcending Obscurity Records, which was my first encounter with them. At least the first encounter I can remember. I wasn’t too impressed with the album, I found it lacking some coherence. It had all the right […]
Just before dawn is when they attack – a classical military move, to engage the enemy just before they awake and are ready to fight back. How effective this tactic is nowadays I don’t really know, as I reckon most military leaders around the world, somehow have studied military history and tactics and know a […]