The Italian label Everlasting Spew Records just released this demo on CD. The band also has it available as a digital download. And if you ask me, METAPHOBIC’s “Demo 2021” is one of the best I’ve heard lately. It’s far away from the “usual” Death Metal that has become so common in the last decade. […]
After two demos and two EPs, this is the debut album of OCCULSED, a Death Metal band from Atlanta, USA, that seems to be very intent on creating some old school brutal music. The excellent cover artwork and album title hint as much, and indeed as the album starts playing we are given a rough […]
With HEGEMON, one of the longest running French Black Metal bands found its way into the roster of Les Acteurs De L’Ombre Productions, the premier French Label for black and extreme musical art. Being around for a quarter of a decade now, HEGEMON already released four albums (and some EPs and demos) for small labels, […]
Let me just sum this album up in one word… Goddamn. No need to read anymore if you don’t want to. But if you do, I’ll be happy to explain my reaction. When it comes to one-man bands, it’s hit or miss. There’s usually no middle ground. Either you sound like an actual full band, […]
DEVOID OF THOUGHT are an Italian Death Metal band that has put out their first full-length album “Outer World Graves” on Everlasting Spew Records. At 40 minutes, the band offers plenty of awesome Death Metal moments. Kick starting with ‘Perennial Dream’ the band embraces a very atmospheric technical approach to their music. The guitars take […]
GALVANIZER are simply a lesson in doing OSDM right! Hailing from Finland, they employ a very simple strategy, stick to the roots, write kick-ass riffs, and add in beautiful melodies. On the opener ‘Servants Of The Scourge’ the band establishes a very clear idea on what’s coming our way. There are no gimmicks here, the […]
I’m not new to EXTREME VIOLENCE, a killer brutal Death Metal band from Greece. These guys recorded one of the best CANNIBAL CORPSE and SUFFOCATION like album in 2005 entitled “Ecstasy In Pain”. This album was released by the American label Sevared Records and it’s a great example of a very good and sick CANNIBAL […]
Hungary’s one-man project VRAG, with third full-length “Harcom”, has created five songs and 45 minutes of sheer, unpolluted, mid-tempo Black Metal that doesn’t veer from the soul of the genre. The album cover itself sets the tone of the album with its staffed wanderer in the wilds. Sometimes it’s art like this that draws me […]
So, if you don’t know BIRDFLESH, where the hell have you been sleeping all these past 30 years? The band has been going since 1992, released a bunch of albums and a shitload of splits, played hundreds of shows (which are amazing, intense and hilarious, seen them twice and they always kicked my ass) and […]
Krakow, Poland based Metallers WINGLESS were formed around 2012 and till now they released four full-length albums. While tracking back the past of this act, the strange thing to notice is that their debut effort “Hatred Is Purity” nowhere near already suggested anything about their current delve into the Death Doom terrain. It was rather […]