It’s been 5 years since the last full-length release of Polish Death Metal band DIRA MORTIS. I guess the guys took their time to craft “Ancient Breath Of Forgotten Misanthropy” and it has been worth the wait. Featuring new vocalist Kuba Brewczynski, I think this album expands and takes forward their style. And speaking of […]
It’s about two years now that the French trio HYRGAL crossed my path for the first time. The re-release of their debut album “Serpentine” and the fantastic three-way split release with BÂ’A and VERFALLEN, both on Les Acteurs De L’Ombre Productions, left a great impression on me. Two years later, HYRGAL are back with a […]
OMEGAVORTEX just ruined it. Of course not their debut album, but my Top Ten list for 2020. All was said and done, but “Black Abomination Spawn” is such a brutal and merciless piece of Death Metal I have not heard for a long time. Exactly since the latest TEITANBLOOD album, to be more correct. Originally […]
To be honest, I haven’t been paying much attention to the Finnish Heavy Metal scene. Though that might be a wee mistake, now that High Roller Records has opened my eyes with releases of two splendid bands, SATAN’S FALL and CHALICE, the latter band whose debut album I am going to give a few words […]
WHARFLURCH is a Florida based Death / Black Metal band. This is a compilation release put out by Morbid Chapel Records who seem to be in the business of digging out absolutely cavernous releases and issuing them out for the European markets. The compilation reviewed is a CD pressing, limited to 500 copies. At its […]
When your band name means “vomiting fire”, you know you’re onto something. Australia’s IGNIVOMOUS have been around long enough to master spewing their lava all over the place. Nope, that doesn’t sound right, but does it really have to? Since 2006, the band’s only released three studio albums, the most recent being “Hieroglossia”, a murky, […]
We all know that the Swedish Death Metal sound of the early 1990s left a deep impact on the Metal scene. You know: Boss HM-II pedal, Sunlight sound… Thus I wasn’t too surprised to hear the second full-length from the Russian three piece WOMBRIPPER having all these trademarks including the blasting D-Beats, grooves and crunching […]
From time to time it occurs that I am starting a special theme day when it comes to picking my daily dose of music. Sometimes old demos (favorite one these days MALVOLENT CREATION “The Demos” re-issue by Vic Records), sometimes just live albums (highly recommended the current ones by AUTOPSY and SULPHUR AEON) and sometimes […]
In April, SATAN’S FALL released “Past Of”, a compilation of their previous work, with which they want to draw a line under this creative phase, beginning with a demo, EP, single and compilation. Releasing a compilation album before your debut record! I have never encountered it before. Some detective work reveals that the compilation record […]
This is the debut of SERPENTS OATH, a Belgian trio that arrives in the scene with some flair. Theirs is a convincing argument, since this is an album that combines relentless brutality with accomplished composition. Even though they have several 90s Black Metal moments, stylistically they fall very much into the Black Death realm of […]