Russia’s one-man Black Metal band AKATHARTOS has released their first set of music in the EP “Baptized By Darkness”, and it’s a fucking mess. Now, before you lose interest, this doesn’t really mean it’s bad. Well, the production is bad. It’s all over the place. Some instruments are louder than others. Hell, it almost sounds […]
Fast forward to France and the debut album from this one-man band named ARCHVILE KING from Nantes. The band released their first release, an EP entitled “Vile” in 2020 and the four tracks on that one, were enough to convince Les Acteurs De L’Ombre Productions to release a full-length album with the band. The first […]
From the icy and rugged far north of Alaska, RÜBEZAHL brood their debut album “Remnants Of Grief And Glory”. The name, RÜBEZAHL, refers to “Lord of the Mountains” and the story goes back to pagan heritages. Ruebezahl legends come out of the Riesengebirge “The Giant Mountains” – a mountain range between Silesia and Bohemia. Although […]
SUFFERING SIGHTS is a relative newcomer in the strong Chilean Death Metal scene. They are already making a name within the global underground scene. Inspired by acts like MORBID ANGEL and POSSESSED plus classic Chilean monikers such as PENTAGRAM, ATOMIC AGGRESSOR and TORTURER, they released a first EP entitled “Existential Realism”. Launched initially on tape […]
It was about time that these sick Chilean puppies made some noise again! The band has been around since 2013, though hasn’t released that much, which is a damn shame, as the material they have released is quite good! Though all the members are busy in other bands as well. On top of that I […]
Is it really already one and a half years since I had the joy to review the demo EP “Eat Shit And Die!” from FEACES CHRIST? Damn, time flies! Back then, I expressed my hope to hear more from the Bavarian three-piece soon. Well, eighteen months are not really too soon, but now my hopes […]
DEAD CHASM from Italy were unknown to me so far, so it was good to hear their first EP “Carved Into Obscurity”. The title track delivers obscure and thick Doom / Death Metal in the vein of CRUCIAMENTUM and GRAVE MIASMA, but here and there I also hear some DECOMPOSED or even old ASPHYX. The […]
Originally I wanted to start the review with the words that nobody sells and buys cassettes anymore. But then I realized that this is nonsense. It doesn’t matter whether compact disc or later digital formats, the good old cassette has never gone out of fashion, at least in the worldwide Heavy Metal underground. Meanwhile there […]
Sometimes I ask myself why some people still make and listen to Black Metal. I’m not a big Black Metal fan (I’m more into Thrash, Death, Doom and Heavy Metal and its subgenres). I consider contemporary Black Metal the most overrated Metal genre ever (don’t get me wrong, I love early SODOM, BATHORY, CELTIC FROST, […]
The German THANATOMANIA already received some reputation in the Black Metal underground with their first EP “Drangsal” and their first album “Resignation”. Listening to their newest offering “Kalamität”, another EP and the first recording for their new record label Sol Records, I ask myself why. Of course their rather depressive mid paced Black Metal isn’t […]