SLIMELORD are a Leeds based Death Metal band that has never seen the sun! They’re filthy, muddy, echoey, decrepit cave dwellers drowned in a pit of everything unholy. With no disregard for the average mortal, they’ve gone to write riffs using sharpened stones, drum on reverberating sludge and inflict pain on voiceless swamp monsters to […]
When I first laid ears upon “Dark Medieval Times” back in the day, I was taken straight into the dark mysterious world of the Norwegian mountains and forests, that SATYRICON presented me for. My excitement continued with “The Shadowthrone”. “Nemesis Divina” didn’t latch onto me at first, it had some good songs, though I missed […]
Right from the first second, an atmosphere of MORBID ANGEL envelopes the sound. ALCHEMY OF FLESH lays at the “Altars Of Madness” and kneels to the Florida sound with no compromise. ‘Pain Primordial’, the first track of their debut album “Ageless Abomination” on Redefining Darkness Records is an excellent opener which sticks to the simple […]
Maybe there is something that feels too contrived when a band releases in 2021 an album with a cover artwork into which such a lot of effort must have gone with the aim of so much resembling the DIY illustrations of small-scale underground releases from the 20th century. The ridiculous illustration is complemented by a […]
After last year’s amazing return with the full-length “Forever Black”, the 4 tracks in this EP show that CIRITH UNGOL are not only back but very much alive and kicking. Something that can surely be said about them: they still totally sound CIRITH UNGOL! The line-up includes a good chunk of older members and, of […]
Oh wow, that opening! 10 seconds are sufficient to know, this isn’t the path of light. It’s a ‘Maze Of Torment’ and that is pretty much how I could define this entire album. Heavily inspired by MORBID ANGEL and the pathways of raw, in-your-face first wave of no holds barred Death Metal, HEXORCIST pays tribute […]
Think of an army tank, the soldiers within, withstanding the mighty chunks of moving metal with the tank slowly moving across an unforgiving terrain crushing rocks along the way. NOTHINGNESS approaches their Death Metal in a similar methodology. They aren’t in a hurry, their riffs aren’t hitting notes-per-second-records but they take their time slowly building […]
One thing about Heavy Metal and its different sub-genres I like are the cover artworks. Very often one look is enough to know the style and what the music sounds like. Of course the exceptions prove the rule, but in this case it is no surprise that FORBIDDEN TOMB are playing Black Metal in a […]
ARGESH from Varese in Italy are active since 2010 already but hardly any info is available, just that after a decade as an active band they finally unleash their first full-length “Excommunica” via Nero Corvino. The intro ‘Abiura’ starts with tribal drums, some slight strings and choral-arted chants, spoken passages and some infernal keyboards in […]
SOLARCRYPT is a Costa Rica based one man Death Metal project. Originally a digital release, Morbid Chapel records has pressed this demo on a limited series CD. Morbid Chapel Records on their Bandcamp page says “(This is) An absolute tribute to old school Death Metal. If you worship ROTTREVORE, INCANTATION and BOLT THROWER elements woven […]