I think I already told you about the forgotten jewels and hidden gems of the glorious days of Heavy Metal in the 1980s. You know, no internet, just some magazines, tape trading and word of mouth – thus we have a lot of still underrated and simply forgotten bands and records. HEIR APPARENT from Seattle […]
It seems like the re-release mania of old 1980s Metal classics and especially demo recordings from the glory days are at a new high right now. In the past few weeks, there were this kind of releases from ASSASSIN, DESTRUCTION and RAZOR, to name a few. Now we have the at least fourth re-release of […]
English Black Metallers HEATHEN DEITY have issued out their first full-length album. Comprised of members / ex – members of some of Black Metal’s more notorious acts such as HECATE ENTHRONED, RAVNKALD, THY DYING LIGHT and GOATVOMIT666 the quartet has finally cracked out an album after 23 years of EPs and demos (hey better late […]
BRUTALITY, the legendary Death Metal band, was formed in 1987 in Tampa, Florida. What we have here is the summation of the band’s work over the course of 4 years, 1987 to 1991. This 2 CD release has 42 tracks in total! Yes, you read that right, 42 in total! How do you review such […]
MELECHESH are a Black / Death / Folk Metal band and “The Ziggurat Scrolls”, originally released in 2004, is being re-presented by Vic Records with 3 additional tracks. Frankly this seems to be the best possible version of this EP. I particularly love the 98 Demo songs, they capture a raw energy woven with a […]
Another trip in the Swedish underground history gets granted by Vic Records. INCARDINE is another outfit, perished in the mass of bands and releases in the early 90s. This doesn’t mean that they were lacking of talent or so, as Fredrik Folkare later joined UNLEASHED and FIRESPAWN. Vic now releases the compilation of their complete […]
Two years after their self-titled debut the four guys from EMPYREAL VAULT are back with album number two. Once again a playing time of half an hour, once again an interesting cover and once again a gripping dose of technical Death Metal. Not that kind of typical technical Death Metal like BLOOD INCANTATION, TOMB MOULD […]
RAZOR is the kind of band that should be bigger, but for whatever reason stayed a bit in the shadows. If some words define the band, it’s that they play brutal Speed / Thrash taking no prisoners. The history behind this recording is that it was supposed to be the follow up to “Armed And […]
This is where it all started. Raw, badly played, poorly produced, copying their idols and again I won’t change a damn single thing. And then those vocals, that I would say had more of a Punk approach, but more likely due to not knowing what to do with the vocal style. And the riffs, no […]
I guess I don’t need to introduce MOTÖRHEAD to anyone of you here. Lemmy and the guys released a lot of live albums in their 40 years lasting career, and it can be debated which one might be the best of them. But it can not be debated that their first full-length live record “No […]