VINTLECHKEIT from Norway are pretty active in the underground since 2017 and have released more than a dozen of demos so far. Two of them have been compiled here. “Vinteren Inn Svartfjellet…” was a two-track demo from late 2019 and the title track shows a mixture of old and harsh Norwegian Black Metal. The difference […]
RAW! And I don’t mean the WWE wrestling show with the same name. “Exegesis Of Nihility” starts with a riff PROFANATICA could easily have written and a blast similiar to the drum patterns INCANTATION uses when they are angry. Just imagine getting between The Undertaker and Kane – when they had their family issues in […]
If you think that life is nothing but a dark, viscous stream in an utterly cold world, you are welcome to enter the world of ATRAMENTUS! This Franco-Canadian five-piece from Longueuil in the province of Quebec seems to have found the formula of turning blackness and doom into sound. And that sound is a real […]
“Entity” is an album that creates images of standing outside at dusk as a gentle breeze whispers through your hair… a cold chill sends ripples of shuddering goosebumps traipsing across your arms… and you gaze across the vast hills and swaying trees in a miasmic atmosphere that envelopes you and your surroundings. NÚLL are a […]
Dying Victims Productions is a small record label from Germany focusing on varieties of eighties Metal – Speed, Thrash and first wave Black & Death Metal. So it is hardly surprising that DEATHSTORM are influenced by early KREATOR and the whole bunch of bands that can be subsumed under the label German / Teutonic Thrash […]
If there would be a competition awarding the shortest review of the year I would have written something like “Take a look at the cover” – over and out! But since there is no such a competition some more words need to be spend. After taking a first look, totally unexpected, Black Metal was blaring […]
TEMPLE OF DREAD continue their journey with full force, as they just released their second album “World Sacrifice”, only 11 months after releasing their debut album “Blood Craving Mantras”. And, the band follows the line of the first album, dealing with a pure old school Death Metal, in the ruts of old MORGOTH, old DEATH […]
The band says that they play Subcarpathian Black Metal… formed in Poland in 2015, this is their second album, preceded by their debut album and nothing else, no demos, no EPs… and then those five acolytes of darkness releases this opus. I had to take a look at their previous album released in 2017 to […]
For those who are wondering and seeking a secure listen from a band that has been keeping a constant pace and vision through the years with their own legacy made of tons of works at behind, you are in for a treat then. The relevant good news came from Greece along with the seventh album […]
For those not quite up to speed on Poland’s BATUSHKA, here’s a brief recap. Back at the end of 2018, the band split into two separate bands while keeping the same name (as the original members both claimed they kicked the other out of the band). Now what this means is… Fans now get two […]