"Awakening Of The Mighty Flame" is the first full-length album from SVATAN. Here we have a pretty young band from the south of Brazil, in which members of various unknown Brazilian acts are involved. A five-member project that in this first album, originally self-released on June 2016 only in digital format, offer us almost 33 […]
The Death Metal outfit INFECTOR from Brazil is back with their third album. What irritated me are two cover versions of BATHORY (‘Countess Bathory’) and MOTÖRHEAD (‘Iron Fist’). One would have been enough in my eyes. The opener ‘Apito Final’ starts pretty slow and it takes some minutes to keep things rolling, but once the […]
When it comes to Death Metal and its sub-genres it seems melodic Death Metal is having a hard time. We have tons of releases each month but I can hardly remember a band which is traveling the paths of IN FLAMES and DARK TRANQUILLITY. By the way, in my eyes AMON AMARTH are a sub-genre […]
A new French Black Metal entity has seen the light of day! SATURNUS TERRORISM is consisting of Dies of EINSICHT and MALEVOLENTA fame and Païard L.F. who formerly was behind GRISÂTRE, so the men behind the band are quite experienced in the game of atmospheric and dark BLACK METAL. Old school disharmonic Black Metal with […]
IRON FLESH, a Death Metal band from France, delivers its debut album after having previously released two EPs. "Forged Faith Bleeding", with its beautiful anticlerical cover artwork, contains old school Death Metal, a bit in the vein of the old Swedish masters. In fact, the guitars sound amazingly like ENTOMBED’s "Left Hand Path". Listen to […]
A couple of years ago a German underground magazine had plans to release a tribute to BATHORY compilation CD… Of course the idea of a tribute album in general isn’t really new anymore these days, but this one was supposed to be a double or even triple CD and only should have featured bands from […]
Daniel Silva (guitars and vocals) started INCARCERATION in 2010. He recorded all instruments and vocals in their first material, a split released in 2012 with the Brazilian band ESCARNIUM. After moving from Brazil to Hamburg, Germany, Daniel was joined by Björn Freese and, as a duo, they put out an EP in 2012 entitled "Sacrifice". […]
French Black Metal tends to be hit or miss. Even in the days of The Black Legions in the 90s, bands in that group such as MUTIILATION and VLAD TEPES were somewhat of a mess regardless of their influence. FERRITERIUM’s somewhere in the middle, though maybe on the ‘hit’ side more than the ‘miss’ side. […]
To me Brazil’s ESCARNIUM perfectly embodies what a great Death Metal act should be all about. With Victor Elian they have a vocalist in their ranks that sounds totally raw and brutal, but neither as deep grunting and monotonous sounding as all those INCANTATION clones nor as clearly understandable as someone like David Vincent for […]
Sometimes it’s rather annoying that present days see tons of new releases, thanks to the internet and an overboarding amount of active labels. Thus it’s pretty easy for nearly anyone interested in extreme underground music to miss really interesting bands, even when they are around for longer times. A perfect example for these “problems” with […]