Each time Ván Records announces an upcoming release, it always channels anticipation and an urge to explore the whole release over and over again. Why this happens so spontaneously? If you never were exposed to their roster, just do it now and you will get the answer without much effort? To me, it always feels […]
With PÉNITENCE ONIRIQUE, we have another fine example of the nearly vast French Black Metal scene. The band hails from Chartres in the region Centre-Val de Loire and started in 2015 as a one man project of mastermind Bellovesos. With the addition of singer and lyricist Diviciacos, the duo released the first album “V.I.T.R.I.O.L.” a […]
ASPHODÈLE is a French Post Black Metal band and this is their debut album. Even though it is a new band it does, however, gather people with a long curriculum in the scene, like guitarist Stéphane Bayle of ANOREXIA NERVOSA (I still have a NECROMANCIA demo sent by him decades ago), Christian Larsson, who played […]
Far away from easy and accessible MUR are presenting their debut. Based on Black Metal the music is complex and at every moment the listener must count on a surprise. The quintet from France incorporates styles such as Deathcore and Industrial and I totally agree if you stop reading at this point. Both styles are […]
HERUKA from Italy are already active since nearly two decades now but only released one EP and one full album so far. “Turning To Dust” is their second EP and offers pretty solid melodic Black Metal. After a stringed intro similar to mighty DISSECTION with public screams in the back the band starts with title […]
Long gone are those times when bands were putting out albums that would become landmarks on their own. Although there were lots of bands, all of them sounded different. Nowadays, it is rare, really rare for an album to surprise me. It seems there are incoming waves in certain genres, with a bunch of bands […]
When the first tones of this EP hit my ears, I was set 20 years back in time, to when everybody was playing generic melodic Swedish Death Metal, which is what these guys from El Salvador have based their music on, together with some more grooving parts here and there. This EP was released by […]
“Mysticist” by MYSTICIST is a full-on 42 minutes venture into atmospheric and mysterious ambient territory that will certainly be a revision of the legendary creations by MORTIIS. Those who venture into the epic and transforming terrain of dark ambience and lured by its atmosphere, must have been exposed to the records like “The Song Of […]
The Chileans of PORTA DAEMONIUM have been dwelling around since 1998 with a different name, and they released their debut album back in 2016. This split continues what they have been doing, high speed Death Metal in the lines of DEICIDE, SUFFOCATION, IMMOLATION and early MORBID ANGEL. Their 3 songs of this split are brutal […]
This young Mexican band releases their debut recording in the form of a MLP of pure brutal old school Death Metal. The name of bands like AUTOPSY, GRAVE, CREMATORY (SWE) INCANTATION and CANNIBAL CORPSE comes to mind while listening to this recording. This band shares members with MORBID MESSIAH and also NECROCCULTUS, therefore there are […]