Everybody familiar with the Swedish Death Metal scene stumbled over the name RUNEMAGICK at least once, maybe even without ever listening to their material. Active since 1990 the band around Nicklas Rudolfsson (SACRAMENTUM) is one of the veterans of the scene although they were denied the great success. To be honest I have not listened […]
“Ornamented Dead Eyes” is the last offering by Copenhagen based Death evokers PHRENELITH, one of the best Death Metal acts nowadays (“Desolate Endscape”, their debut album, was listed in the best 10 releases of 2017 by the Voices staff and readers). Released last year by Night Shroud Records as a 7”, this EP contains only […]
Finding a good Death Metal live album is a very rare thing. If I had to make a list of my favourite live albums in extreme Metal, I would say: "Live Corruption" by NAPALM DEATH, "Entangled In Chaos" by MORBID ANGEL, "When Satan Lives" by DEICIDE and "Live – Blasphemy In Brazil Tour 2001" by […]
CREEPING FLESH is a pretty young Death Metal band from Gothenburg. They’re active since 2013 and "Into The Meat Grinder" is their first full-length album, self-produced after a bunch of EP and demo releases. Despite being Swedish, CREEPING FLESH don’t play the typical Death Metal that made their homeland famous in the Metal scene, neither […]
The Swedish Death Metal scene is kind of a bottomless pit. It seems that there are more Metal bands than inhabitants in Sweden. Okay, most of them have Rogga Johansson involved, but still the sheer amount of extreme Metal releases from Sweden is astonishing. Another new name on the list is NEKROSITY from Uddevalla in […]
There was a YouTube channel run by a producer of kitchen mixers, and different things (iPhone, Justin Bieber CDs) were put in the mixer and on each episode the opening question was "Will it blend?". When it comes to re-releases, my question is always "Is it worth it?". In this case, straightforward yes. VACANT COFFIN […]
Three years after their impressive debut full-length, “Miserable Miracle“, MITHRIDATIC returned with a grim, sick and twisted new album “Tetanos Mystique”, again mixed and mastered by Francis Caste at Sainte Marthe studio (SINSANEUM, ARKHON INFAUSTUS, DEHUMAN). This new record of the French extreme Metallers was crafted to become an ultra brutal whipping attack for die […]
Good old French MORTUARY is at it again, they started making some real noise during the 90s, were a tad quiet during the 00s and have returned with a vengeance in this decade. The band is dealing with striking Death / Thrash with speed and a good punch, bordering groovy Deathcore here and there, swinging […]
VITRIOL from Portland from the Westcoast of the United States have just released their debut via Century Media Records, who started to spread their word a while ago. Already their taster made me curious, so I was more than happy to receive their album for a review here. The opening track ‘The Parting Of A […]
Before Jason Tarpey was singing in the traditional Metal behemoth called ETERNAL CHAMPION, he was the throat and lungs of a Metal / Hardcore band called IRON AGE. This is in fact their second album, originally released in 2009 and now reissued, and when I first heard it, having read the band was a Crossover […]