The French label Les Acteurs De L’Ombre Productions has suprised me with a wealth of great bands, bands I might not have come across, if my dear Voices From The Darkside editor hadn’t pushed them my way for a review or something else. NUMEN is a new band on that list, a Basque band playing […]
France’s SEKTARISM returns with “Fils De Dieu”, which roughly is a year after their previous release. The album consists solely of 2 songs (‘Oderint Dum Metuant’ and ‘Sacrifice’) and spans just over 44 minutes. This is my first time checking out this band and figured the next question would be if the songs would keep […]
MALHKEBRE is a French Black Metal band and, five years after their debut, this is their new album. “Satanic Resistance” mixes fast and aggressive Black Metal with rather atmospheric parts, and I am sure this is very much deliberate in the way it adds to a certain mood of agony, despair and chaos that the […]
With MAÏEUTISTE from St. Etienne we have another fine example of the uniqueness and huge variety of French Black Metal. On their second album “Veritas” the quintet combines the melodious style of the Scandinavian bands of the 1990s (mainly) with Epic Metal and Doom Metal, thus creating very noble and often pretty complex music. Yet, […]
Denmark’s DEIQUISITOR waste no time in recording and releasing new albums. With their third album releasing only three years after their first, it’s a breath of fresh air to have a band that doesn’t sit on its laurels in songwriting. Not too many bands have released ‘classic’ albums four or more years apart. Catching the […]
UNDERGANG from Denmark are consequently using their native tongue, but I guess you do not need to be a linguistic genius to understand the title. The first two songs are new, presenting the typical UNDERGANG blend of Death Metal. To me the band always sounded like MORTICIAN without the horror / gore movie intros and […]
It was completely right that the debut “Nexus Of Teeth” was ranked amongst the Top Ten albums in 2018 by the Voices staff and readers poll. The ultra compact wall of Death Metal bulldozed almost everything in its way. Heavy influenced by INCANTATION, IMMOLATION and MONSTROSITY the band (consisting of current and ex-members of BURIAL […]
Although the title of the album is in Italian, this band comes from Germany and this is their second full-length. MORAST plays an excruciating form of Death / Doom / Black Metal that relies in pure heaviness and simple, yet straight riffs. The vocals are harsh, although in my view a more cavernous style would […]
Death Metal… Grave Metal… UNDERGANG is a band that relies on the path traced by AUTOSPY, CARCASS and GRAVE while doing their albums puked in their native language. They have been active since 2008 and have released 3 long plays as well as many splits and EPs. This one contains one song of their own […]
VASTUM’s new record “Orificial Purge” is out on 20 Buck Spin and absolutely delivers what Death Metal fans are craving for. Before focusing on the music I have to admit that I’m absolutely amazed by the bands general aesthetics as “Orificial Purge” again delivers a very unusual and unique cover-artwork which immediatly sets them apart […]