Greece’s input into the Black Metal scene ranges anywhere from the battle-infested powerful sound of ROTTING CHRIST to the chaotic, blistering wails of RAVENCULT. Athens has shat forth DECIPHER, a rawer, somewhat simple amalgamation of early blastbeat-riddled Black Metal and a slight hint of old school Power Metal riffs on a couple of tracks. It […]
BATTLESTORM is an interesting band from Singapore, active since 2007. The original version of "Demonic Incursion" was released in 2010 by the cult Japanese label Deathrash Armageddon (strictly limited to 800 copies). Here we have the fourth reissue of this full-length album, re-released in 2018 by the Colombian label Trauma Records. This reissue has a […]
INSURREXIÓN’s third demo "El Eco De La Voz" from 2016 somehow flew into our headquarter in Bremen, the closest place to hell on earth. The hot weather outside made me want to crawl back into my grave in the outskirts of Bremen so I did and started to listen to the mentioned INSURREXIÓN demo there. […]
ECTOPIC MALIGNANCY is a new band with two Swedish members and two American members (one of the latter being Michael Poggione, current bass player for MONSTROSITY), and they play brutal Death Metal with an extremely heavy sound, and usually not very fast, bringing more to mind a giant bulldozer slowly but utterly crushing whatever happens […]
With STYGGELSE, we have a long running, yet not that well known band from Sweden. “Offenders Of The Faith” is their third full-length album asides from some demos, EPs and a split release. Since I haven’t heard anything from them before, I can only tell you about this album. And this album really kicks serious […]
Are you morbid and nostalgic enough to take a trip down memory lane? In the event of an affirmative answer, REPENT will bring you back to the time when Thrash Metal was galloping hard towards its early copulations with some forms of more groovy Metal. I’d better explain my thoughts on this before you set […]
NAMELESS… I remember that name… from Colombia. Yes, I received a very nice looking tape named "Across The Threshold" in the late 90s with a quite good production from the time being and the place of origin. Back then in the 90s the style of the band was very obscure, deep and melancholic Death Metal […]
Formed back in 1999 in Chile, a scene that is most likely at the top of the world since a few years now, head to head with any other country you can think of in terms of quality and quantity of bands, this is a compilation of demos and EPs from this band that has […]
When, as in this case, a debut EP is released by three different labels (besides Trauma Records Mexico based Iron, Blood and Death Corporation and a tape version by FUKK Records) there must be something cooking. And without a doubt DEATHFUCKER are a must-have for every fan of raw Black / Thrash Metal. After a […]
With “Gedankenglut”, we have the eighth and newest effort of the really long running (more than 30 years!) one-man band TRAUMATIC VOYAGE from Munich in Germany. Despite the fact that this project is around for that long time and released some of their albums with well-known companies, I never heard anything from them before. Maybe […]