The name PHYLACTERY is pretty often used nowadays. Right now, there are three bands of this name around. Here we are talking about the Czech band that hails from Brno and just released their first full-length album “Aeber”. The young five piece devoted themselves to Death Metal, played the brutal and pretty technical way. And […]
Gothenburg, Sweden’s one-man band RITE have released a compilation "Lie In Wait For Blood / Se Menniskan, Hatet, Hånet" containing the "Lie In Wait For Blood" demo and the "Juridical Doctrine" demo. Never having released a full-length studio album, T.E. (vocals and instruments) is still able to put forth a cohesive combination of tracks with […]
Sometimes the name of a band is so weird that it will give you no indication of what they play. QUESTION is a young band from Mexico and this an EP they recorded after their great debut album “Doomed Passages”. Let me tell you that even with the weird name, they are a total skull […]
Cold, fast and raw Black Metal, the way it should be played. I could summarize the debut album by the Polish band ELIXIR OF DISTRESS with these words, but it wouldn’t be enough, because "Kontynent" offers us something more (both bad and good cues). We have here a 50 minutes full-length for five long songs. […]
Doom… total Doom. This is the debut album of musicians that have been into Metal music for almost 30 years. In a spiritual way this is the continuation of Mexico’s SUPPLICIUM, but more of that later. This fantastic album is full of total Metal of Death / Doom of the highest caliber. Let me tell […]
The third album of this German band. I liked their previous albums, specially the second one that I still consider as a masterpiece. One day in late 1988 two records arrived in my hands. One was ”…And Justice For All” from a San Francisco band I think… the other was this one. But, but… the […]
Back in the day my friends and I had some sort of “guide” for Metal bands: 1) their first album was going to be raw and badly played, but showed the ideas 2) The second album was going to be a lot better and with an identity of their own, yet still with some fails […]
Back in the 80s the German Thrash Metal scene was as strong if not stronger than their American counterpart. And wheres the Americans were more melodic except a few cases, the Germans were always more aggressive. A few days ago Gary Holt from SLAYER / EXODUS was telling the press not to forget the Germans […]
DEATHLESS from Spain released only one full-length ("Time To Be Immortal", 2000) and despite the band’s status is still listed as active on Encyclopaedia Metallum. The last release was an EP called "The Sounds of the New World" in the year 2003. Maybe this re-release heralds upcoming new recorded stuff, but the band’s homepage just […]
COMMANDER from Munich in Germany are active for nearly two decades now and return with their third output entitled "Fatalis (The Unbroken Circle)". Unfortunately I am not familiar with any of their old material so I just started with their new stuff and the opener and title track starts really promising. The guys play a […]