This is the debut album of this one man band / project from Mexico, that has actually converted into a live band with the help of various musicians from other bands like MAJESTIC DOWNFALL and DODSFALL. The style this band plays is that of evil Black Metal, which has its roots in the Norwegian Black […]
Of all the places in the world, this band comes form Iraq! Metal is a music without borders, without nationalities, without color… DARK PHANTOM plays a brand of melodic Death / Thrash Metal, which is quite similar to later SEPULTURA or ARCH ENEMY. The production is quite good, if maybe it still could have been […]
Third album from this band from Belarus. AMENTIA plays a kind of technical brutal Death Metal with undecipherable vocals and unorthodox rhythm patterns. The fact that they have already a few albums under their belt means that at least they are hard working with perseverance and that there are more than a few people that […]
TOD HUETET UEBEL are a Black Metal duo from Portugal and this is their most recent release, an intense 20-something minutes EP featuring two songs. The lyrics are written in Portuguese (with some passages in English in the second, much longer song) and are deeply poetic and deeply impregnated with literary locus horrendus, drawing from […]
Live albums have more and more become a double-edged sword. Back in the 1970s and early 1980s, it was part of the good reputation of a Rock band to release a live album, preferably a double LP. Loads of great concert records have been released back then, with known songs in different, often longer or […]
First material by this American band, setting off straight with a full-length album and a deadly cover! Pigeonholing them as a Death Metal band could be very deceiving, for they present a broad range of atmospheres along the 4 tracks. However, the sort of slow to mid-paced psychotic despair vibe seems surface over the dragging […]
There’s something to be said for bringing back the old school sound of Thrash we all know and love, right down to the 80s style band logo and leather-wearing, JUDAS PRIEST influenced band members. Sir Rob Halford would be proud. And if you’re a band trying to attain this sort of thing, you better make damn […]
There is some strange and weird aspects regarding “Soul Extremist”, the first output by TEMPLE OF NIHIL from Russia. Superficially listening to the four songs my first thinking was a mixture of early IMMORTAL (especially the vocals) and some slower paced Death Metal riffs. But after having a closer look respectively an in-depth study I […]
TYTAN occupy the more mainstream and commercial sounding end of the old school Heavy Metal / NWOBHM spectrum with a very polished sound and vocal style being instantly noticeable from the first listen. The musicians are obviously very skilled and can handle their instruments well and overall they deliver an obviously well honed Heavy Metal […]
DISORDER from El Salvador is an interesting project I follow since their last album “En El Río Del Olvido” which I really enjoyed a lot so I was more than curious to hear their new tunes. The opening track ‘Carroñeros De Justicia’ is a destructive Death / Thrash Metal tank with fast tempo, even faster […]