After a somewhat weird intro of what seems like an SW radio looking for extraterrestrial signs for nearly three minutes, we are taken into the proper music of MONSTRAAT’s second album, created by a Swedish duo that plays raw Black Metal. The production is primitive. In fact, they decided to record it with cruder means […]
Have you heard about PENTAGRAM CHILE, ATOMIC AGGRESSOR, TORTURER, SADISM or DEATH YELL before? For sure! But, what do you know about Chile’s APOSTASY? Maybe nothing. APOSTASY must be one of the most underrated 80s Chilean Thrash acts, just as their countrymates MASSAKRE, NECRODEAD, ABHORRENT, WARPATH, BETRAYED, NIMROD, RUST, etc. Due to so many reasons […]
Not much is known of +MROME+ other than they consist of two members, Key V (vocals, guitars) and P (drums), and that they are strictly a studio project. Other than that, they’re a band who have no interest in promoting themselves as band members, but mainly to promote their music only, letting it stand on […]
I can’t hide from the truth: I’m totally into old bands’ reissues. But, are we sure that every act from the 80s deserves a reissue treatment? No, I’m not sure at all. Nowadays there are tons of clones of the cult bands from the past – we know it and we have to accept it […]
Who the hell is RAGING ROB? Well, RAGING ROB is the former ASSASSIN vocalist Robert Gonnella, who from 1983 to 1989 helped shaping the very best years of this band. In 2005, Robert relocated to Beijing / China and founded the band RAGING MOB, which was put on ice back in 2013. Just a year […]
Formed in the bowels of Chicago way back in 1997, CARDIAC ARREST need no introduction to the devoted fans of putrid and blood-drenched Death Metal, for these grave-dwellers have been carving out aural nightmares of perishing filth for decades now. Consisting of four individuals with an unearthly interest in all that’s absurd, sinister and ghastly, […]
Dry sounding guitars vacuum you in. Drums pound away with weight and vocals, well, when you really get down to it, they just feel like a perfect fit – not overdone, not weak but on point. This feels caveman-like, in the best sense of the word. Really primal Death Metal that is not beating around […]
SADNESS was a pretty obscure band from Switzerland, active between 1989 and 1998. Their first of two albums, "Ames De Marbre“ originally released via Witchhunt Records, finally gets a proper rerelease via Dutch Vic Records. I never heard the album back in the days but remember the cover very well from our local CD store, […]
Back in 2015 I bought a Norwegian fanzine by the name of CHRONICLES, after reading a review at these very pages of mentioned ‘zine, by our dear editor. Time has since taken its toll on us all, and we are now writing 2018 and CHRONICLES # 2 “Norwegian Death Metal” has seen the light of […]
Bands like SUBDUER puzzle me, because they stand on the brink between cacophonic garbage and experimental innovation. SUBDUER’s aim is to put chaos and noise into raw extreme Metal music. Their flyer says it all: Lo-Fi War Noise from Germany. Got the point! Yes, they’re a German band. Yes, the sound quality is very very […]