Obscure, gloomy, dark, “Mörk”. The first album of Ukrainian Black Metal two-piece LAVA INVOCATOR. And I don’t really know what to think about this record. Let’s say LAVA INVOCATOR make use of a lot of elements from different Black Metal styles. It makes the album diverse. But not in an organic structured way. More like […]
After their excellent “Transcendence” EP, I wouldn’t expect anything less striking from this Belgian band. “Tiberivs” seems to close a cycle regarding CULT OF ERINYES composition wanderings since it brings back the more ethereal aspect of the music they had done in their first materials, yet it does it with the heavier and blurry tones […]
If you love REPULSION, you’ll definitely want to hear this. It’s chock-full of quality bands. What surprised me most about this, though, is that while these bands are no slouch in the speed and talent department (surpassing actual REPULSION BPMs on numerous occasions), few of them capture the vibe. For me, REPULSION’s radioactivity is the […]
Sometimes when you think you’ve heard the best already, you run into something even better. Not long after Frank got my third "final" version of the 2010’s list this monster of a record appeared and once again the previous top 10 actually became obsolete (sorry, Frank)! For those who not know POISONOUS, they are the […]
Sometimes I ask myself, why absolute gems pass me by for a long time. In the case of the up to now only album of POISONOUS from Brazil, I already found the answer. Since its first release in 2010 on the small Brazilian label Genocide Productions, “Perdition’s Den” was made available again a few times […]
The is the debut EP for this new solo-project from Poland, creature of the mastermind D.A Khthõn. His music leads us through territories of desolation and tormented souls, he does it with a skilled use of malignant riffs and dissonant melodies, generating an occult and dark atmosphere. The production, done by D.A Khthõn himself, is […]
With HELLCRAFT, we have a Ukrainian band that already is around for a decade now. The core of the band consists of singer Pylyp Makarenko, aka Fill, and guitar player Roman Dankovsky, who uses the at least a little inartfully chosen pseudonym Rommel. Both are also active in PUS LACTATION. With “Apotheosis Of War”, HELLCRAFT […]
Popular belief says that one man bands are usually a phenomenon of Black Metal. FUNERAL TEARS from Tomsk in Russia prove that mystic wrong. With Nikolay Seredov as the only member for a whole decade, it’s hard to deny that we have a one man band here. But Black Metal is definitely not what FUNERAL […]
Although formed way back in 2005 in Uruguay, this is OPUS DIABOLI’s debut album. South American Black Metal bands will always be compared to the titans of their area, namely SARCOFAGO and early SEPULTURA from Brazil, and also some killer bands from nearby countries like Chile. But very few come out of Uruguay and even […]
The Eastern European cuisine is known to be solid, but with a certain finesse. And the same goes for the music of the Belarusian LJOSAZABOJSTWA. Solid on the first impression, but with finesse when you take a deeper look. “Sychod¸annie” is the second, very long EP of this band from Minsk after “Stara¸ytnaje Licha” from […]