Belarus spawned SODOMIC BAPTISM, with their first full-length "Black Fire Pandemonium", started their album career off right with a blasting, crisp production that opens up the sound to let their Death Metal shine with all its chaotic glory. It’s definitely a conglomeration of tracks to play at the loudest decibel possible (for the most part). […]
"The Test That Divides Us All" is the third album from Polish power trio ROTENGESIT. They have been active since 2005 and they have two previous albums, released in 2009 and 2014 respectively. They do play Thrash Metal, but their influences are all over the place. Their brand of Metal has a lot of progressive […]
Poland has spawned some huge names in Death Metal history. I don’t think I need to mention any of them, right? Well, let me mention one more: INFATUATION OF DEATH. "Code Of Impiety" is a total beast of an album. I really don’t know how many times I’ve spinned this album so far. It is […]
Polish act FORMIS plays Death / Thrash Metal. Since this one is a really wide sub genre, I was not exactly sure of what to expect from "Chaozium", the band’s third and most recent album. I haven’t heard their previous albums, so I don’t have a comparison point. But this album right here has an […]
Last year’s debut EP "Extremly Fucking Dead" by Oakland (USA) based EXTREMITY caused quite an uproar. For both the line-up and the music. Some people considered the band as a kind of Bay Area extreme Metal super group, because the members (currently Marissa Martinez-Hoadley, Shelby Lermo and Aesop Dekker) are or were active in outfits […]
“There’s nothing wrong with living in the past…” writes Derek Oliver (who’s also the founder of ROCK CANDY RECORDS) in his introduction of this 8th issue of UK’s newest bi-monthly magazine ROCK CANDY. And that really sums up already pretty good what this magazine is all about: timeless features on timeless Rock and Metal acts, […]
This review has nothing to do with the extreme forms of music we usually feature… It is first and foremost based on nostalgia, so please have mercy with me… Back in 1990 Columbia / Sony Records flew in a bunch of journalists to London to check out a new band they had just signed for […]
I can’t deny this: I fuckin’ love CORONER. I still remember my first approach to the Swiss gods. I was zapping on TV and suddenly the ‘Masked Jackal’ video clip appeared on the screen. It blew my mind! The unorthodox riffing and great solos of Tommy T. Baron, the raspy vocals and fantastic input on […]
MAZIKEEN is a horde hailing from down under. Started in 2013 as a solo project, it somehow developed into a serious project and finally presents their first self-titled album via Iron, Blood And Death Corporation with the help of a bunch of guest musicians. The opener ‘Prolepsis’ starts slow but already spreads a freezing atmosphere […]
Every few weeks, there’s a new or unknown act from the blooming French Black Metal scene that crosses my path. Today I’ll tell you something about the first album of HYRGAL from the region Var near the Mediterranean Sea. The three-piece was already around about ten years ago and released a demo recording, but split […]