With CONFESSOR A.D. we have another new band from the blooming scene in France. And they add another tone to the rich variety of styles in France, since the sound of this three piece from Strasbourg is pretty much rooted in classic Metal. Of course they don’t play pure Heavy Metal, but mix it with […]
This feels like a well crafted album, its soundscapes are shaped to fit a precise vision. This Austrian outfit offers Black Metal that at the same time feels stripped down to bare essentials and yet quite vast. Distilled might be the best description. Again, it feels hard to miss the obvious: that this album is […]
With a band name such as ANTLERS, it’s difficult to really envision the type of band they would be (the weird cover artwork, with no information anywhere at all – no logo, no titles, no nothing – won’t help you either – Frank). To be honest, I was expecting some form of Post Metal or […]
The second album by SURVIVAL IS SUICIDE caused some confusion, which is not necessarily a bad thing. But this time it’s just too confusing. Starting with the odd band name. Maybe all fitting names for Metal bands are taken by now, but that is one of the most strange monickers I came across for several […]
3 years after their debut EP, PÁNICO AL MIEDO’s debut album "Formador" hits the streets with their Thrash / Death Metal hybrid with lyrics completely in Spanish. Also graced by a cover illustration from Ed Repka (EVILDEAD, MEGADETH, MASSACRE and countless others). First off, let me tell you that this is a well crafted album. […]
NUCKIN’ FUTS from Barcelona in Spain was totally unknown to me so far, so I expected some kind of Fun Metal like TANKARD and was a bit surprised to listen to some pretty hard Thrash Metal tunes while listening to the opener ‘Cradle Of Hypocrisy‘. Influenced by the well-known genre protagonists like EXODUS, OVERKILL and […]
Death Metal is nearing its 40 years and instead of evolving into new forms, in the last decade it has turned back to its primitive roots. Maybe this revival might have seemed like a refreshing change at first, because of an underground scene saturated by over-produced brutal and slamming Death Metal, but nowadays it’s getting […]
EXEKUTION are a Thrash band from Catalonia, Spain, which formed about a decade ago, and this is their second full-length album. They play Thrash Metal, simple as that, as if they were back in the eighties. There is a lot of the German aggressiveness but I am more reminded of American bands mainly due to […]
THE BLACK CANDLE may be a Austrian based fanzine but it is written in very good English and features very informative, well researched, lengthy and interesting interviews with various bands mostly of the more Black Metal variety or leaning towards the more blackened and evil side of extreme Metal which the editor Thomas clearly has […]
There’s no way to find common points between the evolution of the Russian Heavy Metal scene and those from America or Europe. Yes, the Perestroika opened new frontiers to Russian people and gave the chance to many new bands to emerge, but, compared to the rest of the world, all happened with more or less […]