HELEVORN are hailing from my favourite holiday place, Palma de Mallorca, the best known of the beautiful Balearic Islands. Unknown to me so far (shame on me), these gentlemen already present their fourth full-length album in form of "Aamamata". When I started listening to Metal, the first year I spent drowning into all kinds of […]
Often depicted as doomy, blackened Metal, these words are merely attempts to describe a sound that’s much easier to describe. Plain and simply… SACRO SANCTUS are Metal. Forget the sub-genres. Forget the obsession with pinpointing every little style in a band’s history. This band is good old-fashioned skull-breaking, demon-devouring, axe-wielding, soul-destroying Metal. And Albert Bell […]
DEFECAL OF GERBE is a Grindcore / brutal Death band from France and this is quite a lot of music here for your listening pleasure. Beginning with a parody in French of one of the most famous lines in the ‘Exorcist’ movie, the album quickly explodes in a very brutal and humorous kind of Grind, […]
Straight from the Serbian capital Belgrade, we have a relatively new band called KOBOLD. With a name like that, I expected some Black or Death Metal, but I was proven wrong. On their first full album after two EPs, the three piece offers a journey through the varieties of Thrash Metal. And it’s a quite […]
There is this famous scene called "The Bonnie Situation" in the movie "Pulp Fiction" where John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson are being told by Harvey Keitel to do everything "fast, fast, fast". I am not sure if Harvey Keitel aka The Wolf was involved in the debut by KROMORTH from Brazil, but everything during […]
BLASPHEMATHORY is a Mexican Death Metal outfit formed in 2018 from members and ex – members of some great bands such as GROTESQUE DEITY, CENOTAPH, HACAVITZ and PUTRESCENCE just to name a few. I listened to the EP before I knew about these guys’ background and I was impressed. If I had to choose just […]
The Death Metal scene in Chile is still thriving, they’ve been relentlessly releasing wicked Death Metal in lethal doses for quite some ages now, and much of it is of a quite high quality, if you like your Death Metal a tad chaotic and noisy. This band, together with EVIL HATRED, rose from the ashes […]
It might be envisioning madness within madness to attempt conceptualizing and conveying the unthinkable aura of Lovecraft’s literary creations. There are few literary universes that have been plundered as deeply by Metal bands as that of Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos. While there are many other fictional worlds that have received their share of attention within the […]
This album begins like a cinema superproduction – like you are entering some sort of grotesque 19th century fair. Then the circus music begins, very well done, and accompanied by very fast Death Metal drumming that sounds a bit misplaced. Strident, weirdly played instruments like accordions and horns, together with some wailing vocals, create a […]
BLURR THROWER may not be a household name, but it certainly is a weird one. I bet you’ve never heard of French BLURR THROWER. I certainly have not. However, deeply inspired by Cascadian Black Metal – with bands such as WEAKLING, FELL VOICES, ASH BORER, TIME LURKER, PARAMNESIA – the band tries to respect the […]