There are tales that speak of frost and fire. In other words, tales of bands that decide to split their sound into two different pieces and strive to make everything work seamlessly. SACRAL NIGHT from Grenoble, France have some very good credentials on paper, with some of their members being former or current acolytes in […]
I had my first doubts when I looked at the cover artwork. An inverted cross. So far, so usual. But why is Jesus not turned upside down and for what reason is his left arm missing? My doubts grew bigger after the intro and the first notes of ‘Occultation’. Lo-Fi Black Metal with gargling vocals, […]
A gargantuan war on Metal between Paraguay and Norway is about to begin as NIDAROS DESECRATION march on with machine gun breath! Nidaros, the ancient name of the city of Trondheim as well as the official appellation of its famous Lutheran cathedral (MAYHEM’s masterpiece cover art, anyone?) represents the conceptual fulcrum of these Asunción based […]
Grind gods GENERAL SURGERY / SAYYADINA’s Andreas Eriksson has secret extra doses of lethal Metal to sell. Disgust merchants KUOLEMAN NYPLÄÄJÄT’s only work, "Seksikäs Kuoleman Leiri" (which should roughly stand for something like "Sexy Death Camp", just to give you a glimpse of the record’s mood) is a straight-ahead war horse flying at bullet speed […]
With OPEN THE COFFIN, we have a really new band, or better project, from Brazil. Yet, despite the name is new, the guy behind it, the sole member, is very experienced and a veteran of the Brazilian scene. Cláudio "Slayer" Nascimento spent nearly 30 years of his life playing in underground extreme Metal bands. Now […]
KHAZAD DHUM is a word that, like the Lord of the Rings trilogy, is now inseparable from extreme Metal. This band are not the first to use Tolkien as an inspiration, nor shall they be the last. For those of you who are expecting to hear a SUMMONING knock off, you’re not quite correct. While […]
VIÖLENCE is an Australian’ blackened Speed Metal project, which is solely lead by Dylan Potter (all instruments). “MotorDemon”, their debut EP, was initially released independently in January 2018; later Iron Fist Production released this on CD and vinyl format too. This one man wrecking crew from the wastelands of Oceania with the motto of "Loud, […]
It’s 1996 Anno Satanas all over again! Buried by time and dust for 23 years, KHAZAD DHUM’s "Blackest" has recently found its way back to this planet’s surface. The Tolkien inspired trio from Germany originally released this indefinable compendium of Zeitgeist Black Metal in a time when the genre’s evil seed was steadily sprouting all […]
More manic blasphemies from Sepulchral Voice Records’ ferocious catalogue. CONCRETE WINDS belong to the VORUM and, possibly, DEGIAL’s obnoxious family, albeit a certain veil of uncertainty is left on who the exact partners in crime are. That being said, the brand new "Primitive Force" has something in common with VORUM’s final EP, 2015’s "Current Mouth", […]
With the Malaysian three piece REPUTDEATH, we have a kind of underground heroes of the old fashioned kind. “Slurking, Reeking, Leeching” is their eighth release, all of them demos or live recordings, mostly on tape. Due to this and the band’s origin, I never heard of them before. Of course I really did expect nothing […]