The second full-length by Spanish based WOMB is a tough piece of work for the listener. Doom Metal to the core, nothing but guitars, bass guitar, drums and vocals. Not a single slice of influences from other genres, just Doom Metal. The first few listening sessions I felt nothing but boredom. But for the next […]
I had no idea that these Brazilian Death / Thrashers were still at it; my only exposure to them until this album was the great “Asylum Of Shadows” that was released in 1999 and a few tracks off the 2001 and 2003 releases. There’s been some drastic line-up changes since this aforementioned album, the long-time vocalist […]
"Just before dawn in the cold light, we came out of the night, a great expectation from the man who ran the show, will it rain, will it snow, will it shine, we don’t know, are there clouds up in the sky" is the first verse from ‘And The Band Played On", from a single […]
THE PROPRIETOR are two guys from New York. At first I thought this must be one of those “mystery” bands judging from the lack of info online. No Facebook page, misleading and incomplete data in Encyclopaedia Metallum… but then I read the bio on bandcamp and found one of the guys on Twitter. Are they […]
ABJURED is a German Grindcore band and this is their second album. It opens with a kind of depressive minimalist intro that leads us into a very Punk sounding Grindcore, mainly because of the Crust drumming but also a bit because of the direct riffing. Direct does not always mean simplistic. There are often dissonant […]
I must confess this band wasn’t on my radar yet! NEOLITH is a Polish old school Death Metal act that is already active since the early 90s. While their late productions are more in the Black / Death style, their earliest work is more oriented to Death / Doom territories. In fact, they’re contemporaries to […]
"We were strangers in the night, both on separate flights, strangers in the night, going nowhere" is the quite catchy and rocking chorus from one of the classic SAXON hymns ‘Strangers In The Night’. One of the myriad of killer tracks on "Wheels Of Steel", the second full-length album from the Boogie Rocking New Wave […]
I was lucky enough to review DEMON INCARNATE’s debut album for Voices From The Darkside some years ago. It was an awesome album and I thought the German outfit could only get better. Well, three years have passed since that album and the band has just released their sophomore album, "Key Of Solomon" on the […]
Marco Brinkmann’s CASKET pulverized us with an old, old, old school Death Metal demo in 2017 with "Ghouls Of Filth", a rotting, crushing, putrid collection of four Death Metal anthems. Now, with a new split release with GRAVEYARD GHOUL, CASKET dish out one song, ‘Feast Of the Fiends’ , and it will rip your fucking […]
The re-releases of the older KREATOR albums through the revived Noise Records label continue in 2018 as well. After the four classic 1980s albums last year, it’s now time to reach the 1990s. And that decade still is not well accepted as far as the old bands and their evolution is concerned. Nearly any successful […]