This reissue of "Through The Black Mist" by PERISHED is a pretty interesting collector’s item for those who, like me, are obsessed by the Norwegian Black Metal scene from the early 90s. This is a recording session from 1994, originally released as a demo tape and now reissued on CD and vinyl by the Finnish […]
The orthodox Black Metal scene is also thriving in Finland, as in many other countries these days. AETHYRICK is a quite new entity, formed in 2016, now ready with their first full-length album, after releasing two demos, which you can find on a newly released compilation entitled "Solstice Circle". The band consists of Gall and […]
Since the establishment in 2009, one thing became absolutely certain. Les Acteurs de L’Ombre productions will never disappoint you. This label is home to France’s Black Metal finest and every release has its distinctive uniqueness and has always been worthy to explore. Maintaining this enticing development, Les Acteurs De L’Ombre Productions released a split between […]
Once more I have the pleasure to review a new release from the very inspiring French label Les Acteurs De L’Ombre Productions. And it’s a split release again, which is always a nice opportunity to check out two (sometimes even more) bands at once. This time, it’s two French bands that are rather new to […]
Well, well, what do we have here? Nothing more and nothing less than MONASTERIUM, a band which I do not have the smallest idea about and, to avoid any prejudices, I denied myself the opportunity to search them or check them out before I wrote this review. So, I push play and… oh, wow, what […]
It’s really a pity that Sweden’s TEHOM are still so unknown in the Death and Black Metal underground… To me they are without a doubt one of the best discoveries in quite some time, even though it also took me several years to find out about their existence. One day I got informed that there’s […]
Quickly after the release of issue # 7, TOUGH RIFFS MAGAZINE # 8 returns to the usual concept of the earlier issues and once again presents us highly interesting, in-depth interviews with established classic bands from the past: CYNIC, CONFESSOR (10 pages with Steve Shelton), GENERAL SURGERY, GOREFEST (7 pages with Frank Harthoorn), BOLT THROWER, […]
Dima Andreyuk is a busy guy for sure! In early January 2019 we were still mailing out free copies of TOUGH RIFFS MAGAZINE issue # 6 to the winners of our "Best Of 2018 Readers Poll" and in the meantime he already released two more issues of his excellent zine. While the visual side luckily […]
If you also miss the madness from "Blessed Are The Sick" until "Domination" and some of what continued and begun on "Illud Divinum Insanus" – by the mighty MORBID ANGEL and the black masses I AM MORBID these days are performing live, the quite new constellation VLTIMAS might be up your alley. This is the […]
Fourth album from this band that (it seems) started in Iceland, but nowadays people from Germany are also involved in this multi-cutural project. One of the things that caught my attention is that the album starts without intro into a fast paced, in-your-face attack of some of the best Black Metal one can listen today. […]