The band name BARBARIAN SWORDS would make it seem the band is some sort of Viking, Power or Battle Metal. I mean, why wouldn’t they be? But nothing is further from the truth. The band from Spain actually creates a Black Metal sound. And with an album title such as “Totemic Anal Turbofucker”, you just […]
I have always been a huge fan of the Chicago scene and the bands that have come out of it particularly: CIANIDE, USURPER, SCYTHE, MASTER, DEATH STRIKE and BONES. It has been well over 6 years since BONES released an album, so when I saw that their new release needed a review I jumped on […]
Death Metal has many “faces”. Across its history, the subgenre has been borrowing influences from other types of music, some stylistic aspects and even avantgarde concepts. So basically, if you can imagine it, it may have been done already. But CARCINOID has remained in their own path; the path that leads “back” to the genesis […]
The Greek Death Metal scene in blooming, heavy, dirty and grimy as fuck Death Metal is emerging around the globe, as it was spewed forth by the flame on Mount Olymp. VULTUR is one of those bands, a band consisting of members that have had their go in various bands in the Greek Metal world, […]
The Greek ECTOPLASMA are around for quite a while now and though I often stumbled over their name and saw their logo, I never heard a single note from them. “Just another new Death Metal band trying to sound like the old heroes”, that was what I thought, “but, hey! The artwork is cool!” Listening […]
The album title is easy to interpret, it is simply Death Metal. And as uncomplicated as the translation the music presents itself on “Metal De La Muerte”. The major influence on this debut is HELLHAMMER and the early works of CELTIC FROST. During all nine songs the focus is on the riffs, the guitar work […]
Swedish horde PAGANIZER strikes back with their full-length album number eleven!! Active for more than two decades now, the underground warriors from Gamleby around Rogga Johansson show up in a pretty tight shape here. Really astonishing as Rogga already released a bunch of albums this year, so my expectations were not too high. But the […]
There is not too much information about this new Death Metal act out there. Including members from Germany and Spain, “Smoking Mirror – MMXVIII” is the first recorded effort by this trio, whose enigmatic members are J. on bass and vocals, D. drums and A. on guitars. Released independently by the band itself on tape […]
After their exceptional Black Metal debut in 2011, “Nocturne Eyes And Teeth”, which was full of venom and old school, energetic playing; REVEAL! congregated a fan-base who was then left shaken and disturbed, when they released their second album, “Flystrips”, in 2016. It was even challenging the most exploratory listeners, as they delivered an album […]
Spanish horror Death Metal from the Galician town of A Coruña. The band was formed in 2008, going for a couple of years with a little hiatus before starting a ruckus from 2012 and onwards. This is their second full-length album, and fourth release in total, all sporting a love for midpaced Grindcore and Death […]