ECTOPLASMA from Greece already has established their name in the Death Metal underground with 3 previous full-length albums plus numerous split releases and EPs. They have been delivering muddy, disgusting, old school Death Metal picking their influneces from forefathers of the style from both sides of the ocean and boiling it all down to their […]
Sweden’s SARCASM return with their newest full-length on Hammerheart Records titled “Stellar Stream Obscured”. When I first heard of the news of their new album, I immediately revisited their last full-length, which I quite enjoyed. I sincerely hoped the band lost no momentum and it looks like SARCASM hasn’t lost touch with their roots, they’ve […]
SAVAGE GRACE had a bit of a bumpy ride during the 1980s, with several line-up changes and the like. After their promising and energetic debut EP “The Dominatress”, all the way back in 1983, both their high-wailing vocalist John Birk and guitarist Kenny Powell left, the latter going on to form Power Metal legends OMEN. […]
So this will be the third review on this site for SAVAGE GRACE’s debut album “Master Of Disguise” (originally released in 1985). To sum up the music shortly – it is classic Power / Speed Metal from the times when there was actually power in that style of Metal. The execution is perfect and everything […]
At last! INVOCATOR’s “Excursion Demise” is available once again, for the first time in more than 30 years. Since I’m a die hard old school Thrash Metal fan, I can’t deny my bliss because of this re-release (the only way to get a CD copy nowadays is by buying a bootleg, which is not fair […]
HEIR APPARENT is literally the gold standard when it comes to US Power Metal. I remember listening to this for the first time in the mid 2000’s and was quite put off with the vocals then. Needless to say I wasn’t a big fan of Bruce Dickinson either but in either cases the bands have […]
If southern horror is what the two bands on this split release deliver, I am ready to feed on southern horror the rest of my life! The two Chilean bands OSCULUM OBSCENUM and CAVERNAL, both new acquaintances to me, are delivering intense and ‘banging Death Metal in that old school way, that only South American […]
Even if readers of this site think of Death Metal when they hear Chile, the country has more to offer. For example the small label Underground Defenders Productions, which focuses on Heavy and Thrash Metal. The split release “Tormenting Hallucinations” was originally released in 2017, but it could have also been published in the year […]
This band conformed by two demons was formed back in 2012 in Finland, and already has quite a number of releases with many EPs and one full-length out. This is one of the latest material they have released in a form of another EP, containing unreleased material that is both new and old. There is […]
Mystery… darkness… DAETVEN… this one man band, enshrouded in gloom, releases their first album with 8 songs of eerie Black Metal. The first notes might be deceiving as they sound like every day lo-if Black Metal. But the horrible truth is revealed. The core of the band is minimalistic Black Metal, quite similar to early […]