Good old French Death Metal. It will never cease to amaze me. Not only because bands from this country that play this style are few and far between, but also because usually, these few bands have their own identity. Even newer bands have managed to build their own niche and that alone proves how good […]
This is one of those releases which makes from the first minute clear where the journey would lead. Death Metal, nothing more, nothing less. Plain and simple, pitiless and uncompromising. So if you are out for something extravagant or special better search elsewhere. Just take a look at the cover, I guess no one is […]
There is no need to introduce MASTER here on our site as Paul Speckmann is a true legend and has one of the longest running bands ever. So this is reason enough to release some live tracks of his band and the four tracks recorded during a show in 2016 in Helsinki showcase the guys […]
Pure fucking Death Metal “recorded in the catacombs”, is what SAVAGE ANNIHILATION offer here, a French brutal act. “Quand S’Abaisse La Croix Du Blasphème” is the title of their second full-length, released last year by French label XenoKorp and it is the one I’m reviewing here. ‘Dévorante Dégénérescence Anthropophage’, the first track, starts off with […]
Germany seems to have bought the copyright from Sweden for fantastic melodic Death Metal and bands like NIGHT IN GALES or ORDER TO RUIN keep this ancient flame alive. Album number seven of these restless warriors comes up with some significant changes. First thing is the drumming, which was recorded by a professional session drummer […]
The story of legendary Swiss Thrashers MESSIAH is one full of misunderstandings and underestimation, at least the early days of the band. Started in the middle of the 1980s, the band soon released three demos that led to a deal with the up and coming, yet never really starting label Chainsaw Murder in 1986. The […]
Here we have the historic second album of Swiss MESSIAH. They are usually thought of as a Death / Thrash band (even the intro to the second track states this denomination clearly) but these early releases clearly belong to a time in which there was no real concern about these tags, later much more rigidly […]
This album is a double edged sword for me, for a number of reasons, but first things first. We all know that the 80s were THE golden age for Thrash Metal (and if you don’t agree, please stop reading right away and go swipe your life away on Tinder) and me, being a pimply teenager […]
Dutch land has always been the abyssal source of many artistic mysteries and it has always been magical to be exposed unto Netherlandish form of unique musical vision. CELESTERRE are a band from the Netherlands and "The Wild" is their debut full-length which was released on July, 2017 through Rain Without End Records, a division […]
With a bandname like this, it really isn’t too hard to tell how this is going to sound like… and damn right, after a spooky intro it goes full blast into an anachronistic mix of Thrash and Black Metal – and I mean anachronistic in the best sense. Bullet belts, spikes, corpse paint, it’s all […]