After their very fine “The Sea Grave” album from 2013, I somehow lost track of Barcelona based Death Metal squad GRAVEYARD. Shame on me, but there’s always too many releases and too little time… So I was a little surprised that I missed a whole album (“…For Thine Is The Darkness” in 2016) and some […]
This is my first approach to Richmond based Death / Grindcore machine ASPHALT GRAVE, a new act on my radar that released their first and only record back in 2016 under Vitriol Records. The current year this stuff was re-released by Poland’s Selfmadegod Records. Reaching almost 25 minutes of music in 13 tracks, “The New […]
VALGRIND was originally founded in 1993 but broke up in 2003 just to reunite in 2008. Since then the two full-lengths “Morning Will Come No More" (2012) and "Speech Of The Flame" (2016) as well as the EP "Seal Of Phobos" (2017) have been released. "Morning Will Come No More" (2012) was initially released in […]
Netherlandic band PENTACLE have been around since 1989, with their old school blend of fist-pumping guitar / drums co-dependency along with vocals that continue to sound like the devil himself has chainsmoked for the past 10,000 years. Wannes Gubbels (vocals), who you may remember from ASPHYX for a while, has been with the band since […]
Somehow last year’s debut by BAEST slipped through my fingers, but from the reactions it must have been a good one. BAEST was featured on Danish mainstream TV and radio, they won nationally awards, played big festivals and supported well-known bands. Not bad for band which started 2015 and previously to their debut just released […]
In the early 1990s, Thrash Metal was revitalised by a few bands who added a fat dose of groove to the traditional Thrash sound of the 1980s. That band that earned the most reputation and commercial success out of it were of course PANTERA. As history taught us, a lot of even popular bands jumped […]
It has never been more easy getting to know new bands than now. The Internet and social media changed almost everything. Yet at the same time, due to the huge amount of new bands and releases, it is very hard to discover interesting outputs amongst tons of stuff. So the best method, in my opinion, […]
Founded in 2004, Sweden’s NETHERBIRD have just released "Into The Vast Uncharted", their 5th album. And it is not until now that I hear about them. Maybe because I do not usually dwell into melodic and / or symphonic Black Metal. Nevertheless, I have given it some spins and I can say it has grown […]
Rock’n’Roll rebels won’t tell you no lies, will they? That old adage might go for ENTOMBED A.D.’s new album as well. Mr. Petrov and friends have managed to keep thrashing through thick and thin with three pretty similar full-length albums, the first being 2014’s "Back To The Front" followed by 2016’s "Dead Dawn". "Bowels Of […]
Dark majestic droning ambient pieces of distorted guitar riffs, finding inspiration in old DARKTHRONE, BATHORY and DISSECTION, spiced with ritualistc percussion, slick guitar leads, eerie synth and quite captive changes of emotion, and once in a while a hellish shriek from the bottoms of hell. The German band is a spawn of MK who also […]