Ah, the difficult second album! I try to steer clear of the term "sophomore" because that’s what music journalists like to throw around and I am not a music journalist, I am a fan of music. Second albums are known to make or break a band. "Clandestine" was good, but nowhere near "Left Hand Path", […]
GRAVEHUFFER from Missouri in the Unites States are already active under this moniker since 2010 and are just releasing their second full-length album entitled "Your Fault“. The presented eleven tracks consist of a nasty mixture of styles like Grindcore, Death Metal enriched by a good doze of Hardcore, D-Beat and even Punk with a hell […]
Dutch based DEINONYCHUS are a well-known name in the European Black Metal scene, the band was founded back in 1992 and "Ode To Acts Of Murder, Dystopia And Suicide" is album number eight after a ten year hiatus. The first facet I noticed was the cover, to me it looks like a person walking down […]
Ten years ago NEID from Italy released their first EP and to celebrate this anniversary the five guys are presenting a 7" EP including five own creations plus a cover track of an Italian Hardcore band called CRASH BOX. The title "Noise Treatment" speaks for itself. Eight minutes of entertaining Grindcore in the vein of, […]
Japan has always delivered when it comes to extreme music; be it Metal, Punk or Grindcore, I can come up with a long list of band names that excel in what they have done for the past 3 decades. And CODE RED here is no exception. "Fang Of The Sun" is their second album, released […]
APHONIC THRENODY is an international Funeral Doom / Death Metal act with members coming from U.K., Italy and Chile that is active since 2002. With a really productive career, that includes 6 releases and different projects for each member – some still active, some already defunct (U.K.’s GALLOW GOD, Italy’s VOID OF SILENCE, Chile’s MAR […]
Would these guys take it the hard way if I decided to write that this album is shit? Well, I don’t know, and I will never know, because it isn’t. It’s surprisingly good. I was half expecting a rotten Grindcore band, but this debut actually consists in some great Death / Thrash Metal. I remember long […]
After two demo releases, “I Have Worn Thee” in 2012 and “Live” in 2014, it took the French Death Metal quartet RED DEAD three more years to finally unleash a full-length album. It got baptised “Therapy Of The Evil” and was put out by the also French label Great Dane Records. Was it worth the […]
It is not a great secret anymore if I tell you about the Chilean extreme Metal scene as an insider’s tip. Too much fine bands from that country are around meanwhile to talk about inside information here. So I come to the point soon with two bands from the capital Santiago who teamed up for […]
Although it may sound cliched and despite I have been reading this for countless times – but the four tracks (plus intro) really blew my mind and left me slack-jawed speechless. Aggressive Death Metal with killer riffs and even more killer guitar leads and solos. A vocalist reminding me of Glen Benton in his early […]