INFEST is an interesting Death / Thrash Metal act coming from Serbia. Formed back in 2001, “Addicted To Flesh” is their fifth full-length. The music here is aggressive, fast and brutal. The album opens with a short intro and after almost one minute comes ‘Hail To The Mother War’, a brutal track charged with good […]
Here’s three things to think about while listening to THE LURKING FEAR’s first full-length… Gothenburg, Tomas Lindberg (vocals) and Adrian Erlandsson (drums). The two members of AT THE GATES are also accompanied by Fredrik Wallenburg (guitars, SKITSYSTEM) and Jonas Stålhammar (guitars, GOD MACABRE / BOMB OF HADES) and Andreas “Dread” Axelsson (bass, DISFEAR / TORMENTED). […]
The Russian eight piece PEREPLUT from the city of Tomsk in Western Siberia is a band for those of you who really like their Metal not that heavy. Of course there is a guitar, there’s bass and drums and a Metal singer, but there’s also a violin, a cello and two flutes in the line-up […]
I missed out MASK OF SATAN from Finland and their “Promo 2015” when it was released two years ago and reviewed on our site. But when I saw that Star Spawn Society signed them and is due to release their first full-length, I was curious to check out their tunes and was not disappointed at […]
Hailing from England’s West Midlands, DOWNCAST TWILIGHT have released their first full-length "Under The Wings Of Aquila", a melodic Death / Black amalgamation with symphonic elements and faint hints of Folk. They’re a little difficult to pin down. Even the foggy, tree-filled album cover suggests depressive Metal, which they’re not. But maybe all of this […]
“Nephren-Ka, also known as the Black Pharaoh, is a character from the Cthulhu mythos who started the worship of Nyarlathotep, a malign entity also known as the Crawling Chaos.” On to the Metal plane, NEPHREN-KA is a French brutal Death Metal band formed back in 2006 and this is their second album. Their brand of […]
INQUISITOR, one of my fave bands ever is back! Alex B, Wim, Erik and Alex W, the original line-up that recorded the ultra underrated "Walpurgis – Sabbath Of Lust", which is also one of my fave albums ever! Yeah, I am a groupie, so what? When I heard that the band had reunited and that […]
AFFLICTION GATE’s new EP encompasses the attitude and feeling of early 90s Death Metal with an excellent and brutal performance up to the standards of today’s underground. It actually has a similar vibe to MASSACRA’s first album "Final Holocaust". Straight forward songs with a lot of variation and tempo changes. Basically "Dying Alone" stays aeons […]
This is a 4 piece band that hails from Paris, France that has been around since 2013 and they play a combination of old school Black / Thrash Metal. To me this is way better than a lot of those generic "let’s play a million miles an hour" Black Metal bands with those annoying screechy […]
After the first riffs of “Decapitated” my first impression was “here we go again with another Swedish old school D-Beat Death Metal act”. I wasn’t far from my initial impression, but don’t misunderstand me, I really love the style, but with over 1000 bands over the world trying to emulate what once was it’s really […]