I think that the best way to start a review of a band like WOMBBATH is to talk about their past. They belong to the second wave of Swedish Death Metal, since they were born in 1990, immediately after the true originators of this scene (NIHILIST, ENTOMBED, DISMEMBER, GRAVE, UNLEASHED, CARNAGE, MORBID and TREBLINKA). WOMBBATH […]
Inscrutable are the ways of God. "Deal With Pain" was written back in 1988 / 89 and scheduled for release in 1990, but the band broke up. And now, after 28 years, the debut by DARKEST COLOR finally sees the the day of light. 28 years in which many things changed, but Thrash Metal is […]
What a great discovering arrives from the southwest of Spain, exactly from Don Benito, Cáceres, with this new act called Incorporea, which means an interesting debut for the lovers of the most pure and deep darkness. These three tracks will be released by Oniric Records on tape, but the band sent us a demo CD […]
"Vorant Gnosis" is the third release by the mysterious Black / Death / Doom Metal band VERBERIS. An intense EP with two long songs for a total length of almost 32 minutes of extreme music by this act that keeps itself very enigmatic to the masses, since there isn’t any biographical or line-up information online. […]
Tagged as depressive and / or atmospheric Black Metal, but truth be told, there is more to it. The guitars are raw and very much up in the front with vocals wailing over them; the bass is buried a bit (but it pays off to pay attention) and the drums are more present. There is […]
With AGGRESSION from Montreal, Canada, we have another old Thrash Metal legend of the 1980s who made a return after a looooong break. In this case, original guitar player Denis ”Sasquatch” Barthe restarted the band in 2014 with a completely new line-up after a short-lived (and not really productive) comeback with two original members ten […]
TRUCHŁO STRZYGI from Poland are only active for one year and now they already present their first full-length “Pora Umierać“ via Godz Ov War Productions. Starting pretty weird with a Polish love song the real deal gets announced a bit later. The first track ‘Apokaliptyczny Młot‘ starts pretty quick. Somehow I immediately started liking the […]
LYKHAEON hail from Zürich, Switzerland, and perform some chthonic Black Metal, some of the same streets I wandered trying in vain to locate the TRYPTIKON bunker as an uncultured Aussie tourist years ago. There are a few newer bands coming out of the current Swiss scene like DEATHCULT that have shown promise, but this is […]
GUTTER INSTINCT from the depth of Helsingborg, Sweden (formed in 2012) comprise of members from KRAMATORIUM and ZERO TOLERANCE .They recorded a demo tape in 2013 and caught the attention of Prosthetic Records, who eventually released an EP and their debut full-length “Age Of The Fanatics” in 2016. After a few years of stillness, GUTTER […]
First off… let me just say GRAVECOVEN’s logo is beautiful. I couldn’t even begin to find all the letters. And for some reason, I find that enticing. Secondly, Phillip Gallagher and James Rauh (both from SWAMP WITCH) have released an EP of blackened Death / Doom entitled "Coughing Blood", a compilation of two demos unsurprisingly […]