The old guard strikes again! To most of you the name CROMLECH might say little, but perhaps the name Eugen “Impurus” Herbst might stir old memories for lovers of European underground Metal. Impurus was in fact the drummer for DIES ATER and ALBEZ DUZ. A multifaceted artist, who has always been devoted to very interesting […]
Started back in 1989, ANTROPOMORPHIA is basically a Dutch Extreme Metal powerhouse. With their debut released in 1998 and after a 12 year hiatus, they have put out four more excellent albums, with “Devoid Of Light” being their sixth, and in my humble opinion, best so far. This brand of music has a really present […]
Some legendary bands from the 1980s who are still around live off their legacy from the days of yore. But no one brought that to perfection like the Epic Metal pioneers WARLORD did. From their formation in 1980 to their temporary split, the band, centred around guitar player and mastermind William “Destroyer” Tsamis, was really […]
If you are a fan of the Doom Metal genre, particularly the old school type, I may have a new release for you. A brand new band hailing from Germany, and this being their debut full-length, I give you OBSIDIAN SCAPES. I say more old school, because I may have mentioned I don’t avidly follow […]
INHUMAN CONDITION, the brainchild of former MASSACRE members Taylor Nordberg (guitars) and Jeramie Kling (vocals, drums), alongside veteran bassist Terry Butler, are set to unleash their third album, “Mind Trap”. Following their departure from the Death Metal institution in 2020, the band named after MASSACRE’s 1992 EP, has steadily carved out its own identity, culminating […]
EXECUTION returns with “Camisole”, their third full-length since 1989. Since their beginning, these French veterans crafted an authentically dark experience that avoids modern extreme Metal’s common pitfalls. The latest record is a concept album about confinement in a psychiatric hospital. It’s about the beginning of madness, the struggle in a brain between the border of […]
This would most likely be the most glorious way to create a colossal masterpiece. After 35 years of waiting, the ETERNAL DARKNESS followers are finally rewarded with an album that surpasses the heights and depths of their earlier classics. The 38-minute-long album that would transport the listeners on an endless voyage through the emptiness of […]
German Black Death Doom Metallers DOOMENTOR have self-financed their fifth full-length album titled “…Of Pestilence, War And Death”. For those of you not familiar with the group, the quartet has been around since 2011 hashing out four previous LPs with their last effort being 2022’s “Doom What Thou Wilt…”. Consisting of bassist Fabian (BLOODDUST), drummer […]
So here this is it. The record from GRUESOME, which aims to follow “Human”, the masterpiece, the legendary DEATH recorded in 1991. And it’s also the album that confronted drummer Gus Ríos with the enormous challenge of having to rework the drum-work of his own mentor Sean Reinert, who sadly passed away in January 2020. […]
There are always people who ask how one can celebrate this old school Death Metal thing so much. It sounds always pretty much the same and is still sort of entertaining, but you can not really write a big innovation hymn in the guest book forty years after its creation. The answer is: yes! You […]