RITUAL SACRIFICE is a Death / Thrash Metal band from Rhode Island, USA. “When Hope Is Pain” is the only full-length in their 30 year career. The Internet tells me that the band recorded the album “When Hope Is Pain” originally in 1995 at Triad Studios, Warwick, Rhode Island. However due to Massacre Records going […]
The country of MASTER’S HAMMER, always beholds a very distinct Black Metal sound unlike any other country. The same compliment can be bestowed to INFERNO. They came into existence in the mid-90s along with other notable Czech bands like MANIAC BUTCHER and the groups surrounding them. And from there, the Czechs built a monstrous discography. It’s […]
Italian Black Metal duo LUM’s first effort is a 5-track EP entitled “L’Feu E La Stria”. Featuring S on vocals and drums from one-man project THE GHOST GARDENER, and Khrura Abro on guitars, bass and keyboards from FERALIA, the band has a little history behind them which has led to their new effort. LUM sort […]
When I reviewed the two re-releases of the EPs from SAVAGE GRACE three months ago, I was damn sure that the mission of Hooked On Metal Records was complete. All the four vinyl releases that the almost forgotten Speed Metal veterans did in the 1980s are available again, the two demos from their early days […]
Three years after their second and up to now latest album “Mythen, Mären, Pestilenz”, which marked their first release for the German label Eisenwald, the Swiss UNGFELL are back with a new full-length release. Musically, “Es Grauet” follows the path that the duo from Zürich took with its great predecessor and the either fantastic debut […]
ODAL, with their more than twenty years of existence in the German Black Metal scene, certainly stands the taste of time. After forming in the heydays of 1999, in each of the previous four full-lengths, as well as the output released on splits and EPs, mastermind Taaken and his forces manages to carve a distinctive […]
Please fasten your seat belts and welcome KANKAR from Thuringia, Germany. Of course, given the mass of new releases, it is difficult, if not impossible, to keep track of things. But for me “Dunkle Millennia” is one of the best German Black Metal albums I have heard during the last years. What impresses me is […]
“DrakoNequissime” is the third full-length album released by the Polish Black Metal band WILCZYCA. Here we have a total of six tracks for almost 29 minutes of boring and poor Black Metal. The album was released by the Polish Black Metal label Gods Ov War Productions, a name that is usually a guarantee of underground […]
Two and half years after their great debut EP “Znikąd”, the Polish Black Metal act with the strange name is finally back with their first full-length. Again, Godz Ov War Productions is responsible for the first album from ANGRRSTH. The four piece from Toruń baptised this one “Donikąd”, which picks up the title of the […]
US Metal is a genre with lots of sub-genres and if anyone wants to get a general view, this album is the right place for you. “The Powers That Be” is already album number five by PHARAOH, a band which was founded back in 1997 and completely flew below the radar, at least here in […]