Emerging from San Luis Obiso, California (USA), MEPHITIC CORPSE released two really good demo tapes in 2019 and 2024. And now, we finally get their debut album, “Sickness Attracts Sickness”. Their first demo tape really piqued my interest. If somebody would’ve told me that this band came out three decades ago, I’d fall for it […]
After the 2023 EP “The Gathering Of Souls”, the 2023 live album “Live At Tiivistämö” and the 2022 demo “Uncontrollable Malformity” (their first release), the Finnish band MALFORMED has returned this 2025 with a new album called “Confinement Of Flesh”. I must admit that MALFORMED is one of those bands that has been a bit […]
This time I have to review a compilation of various artists from Denmark, so I will take it one by one to be specific about every band on the album. It is only eight tracks, so it’s not so long to listen to it. DEIQUISITOR starts the album with brutal Death Metal. They remind me […]
I totally love these kinds of compilations! I really do! And when it comes to Italy’s Doom / Death Metal act INTO DARKNESS, I had even already compiled one myself, with exactly the same content and chronology, just based on shitty mp3 files that I had burned onto an even shittier CD-R copy. Luckily, that […]
Emotional… nostalgic maybe… that pretty much sums up the fourth album of this German group, which started as a project, but has evolved into a full band in the meantime. I actually did a review of their very first album that they re-released with a more updated sound and essence, and it is quite different, […]
This time we have a 20 Buck Spin Black Metal band called WODE. It starts with some epic riffs that sound very obscure. The vocals sound like growling from the dead. It has some double guitar melodies giving the music more depth. There are also some progressive elements here. Maybe like what you can get […]
I must admit, this band is completely new to me. I know you cannot be aware of and have heard of every Metal band in existence (just take a look at Metal Archives and see for yourself), but I would like to think I’m pretty much in the loop. Regardless of my ignorance, we are […]
Now this is certainly old school! This record by a young band from Brazil is diving head-first into everything some of our old heroes stand for. HELL POISON’s third full-length has a very strong dark Rock’n’Roll touch to it that seems to be stronger than just the characterisation as Speed / Black Metal given by […]
Founded in Basel in 2022, Swiss Black Metallers VÍGLJÓS have released their second full-length album, “Tome II: Ignis Sacer”, a follow-up to their 2024 debut, “Tome I: Apidæ”. VÍGLJÓS (old norse for the light which is just bright enough to be able to kill a man) consists of four members from Germany and Switzerland, wielding […]
MALEPESTE is a band I had no remote idea about. I must admit that initially I felt a bit confused when I started listening to them, because I couldn’t identify what they sounded like. So I just let it run. Right away, the vocalist’s style caught my attention, somewhat “atypical” for the accustomed ears of […]