Finland, whenever this Scandinavian territory appears in your mind, immediately the head starts imagining the land of a thousand lakes, the brazen and engrossing arctic landscape and all the absolutely best and otherworldly early 90s Finnish Death Metal bands lurking in the depths. WINTERWOLF rise from the depths of the Finnish Pampas and leave their […]
As the attentive readers have noticed, this output is released by Terratur Posssessions, one of the most important sources of Black Metal during the last years. Important in the meaning of quality. As a Black Metal fan you could have easily purchased every release by the Norwegian label. And, guess what, the debut by KRINGA […]
Once again, it is time to dig a bit in the dirty rotten past. This time we go back to Finland. In the early 90s, Finland had a pretty active undergound scene. FUNEBRE, XYSMA, CONVULSE and the short-lived ABHORRENCE, who later lead into the better known AMORPHIS, were some pretty promising youngsters, spreading a disease […]
Chile’s CAPILLA ARDIENTE (meaning "Burning Chapel") consists of members from a plethora of bands we all know… Felipe Plaza Kutzbach (DESTROYER 666, NIFELHEIM) on vocals, Julio Borquez (ATOMIC AGGRESSOR) on lead guitars, Igor Leiva (POEMA ARCANVS) on rhythm guitars, Claudio Botarro (PROCESSION) on bass and Francisco Aguirre (BLACK CEREMONIAL KULT) on drums. And instead of […]
From the city of Andrychów in the voivodeship of Lesser Poland hails the band +MROME+. Even though they are a full band, they consider themselves as a studio project with a focus on creating music in accordance with lyrics and artwork and based on a DIY ethos. Of course that includes that their latest album […]
Here’s something to lift us up and drag us down in this dying world of radiation! Finnish villains VORDR do master the ancient art of ripping Black Metal and their fangs are sharper than ever. This new, eponymous full-length album is their fifth in line and it must have shaken the area of Lappeenranta / […]
Abuse, overload, saturation and complete obliteration. Thus the magnificent, yet slightly repetitive world of harsh noise was created. Purveyors of audiomassacres such as SCATMOTHER and CHAOS CASCADE, both from Germany, are willing to show you how harsh their no-input mixers, pedalboards or whatevers can sound. CHAOS CASCADE (whose previous appellation was as superlative as SATANS […]
Whenever a band releases an album years after their last recorded output there is always an air of expectation as well as cynicism from fans and media alike. In the case of SACRED REICH this is their first new musical output since 1996’s "Heal" album. 23 years is a long time, so was the wait […]
May Satan bless Cogumelo Records. Everybody who professes to be an extreme Metal fanatic knows the importance of this legendary label from Belo Horizonte, that between the ’80s and the ’90s brought the Brazilian extreme Metal underground into the world. Talking about Thrash Metal, Death Metal and Black Metal, I challenge anyone to say that […]
Lying in bed with a summer flu, suffering from both, hot temperature in- and ouside and the flu itself is really no fun, so it took me some days longer than expected to start and finish this review. Currently I am a bit disappointed with the Death Metal releases as hardly any new stuff can […]