KALOPSIA is a four members Death Metal entity coming from New Brunswick, United States. "Angelplague" is their third full-length and it contains 8 tracks of an average and boring contemporary Death Metal. Here you can find really good musicians and a good production in general (sometimes too good for my taste). Every instrument is audible, […]
It’s the sixth time I am listening to this record now and I am seriously torn between honest respect and marveling amusement. As disturbed as I am on one point as much I am fascinated. What a twisted record. But first the facts. CENOTAPH is a Turkish Death Metal gang which was founded in 1994 […]
I’m sure every reader of Voices From The Darkside knows MASTER are pioneers of heavy music, mainly Death / Thrash Metal, having been formed in the early years of the scene. "Command Your Fate – The Demo Collection" is a compilation that features three releases: the "Follow Your Savior" 2001 EP and two demos, "Everything […]
I’m really glad that one of Germany’s top-notch Death Metal bands is finally back. After over a decade long hiatus, Death Metal gangsters ANASARCA have returned with one hell of an album. Well, brutal Death Metal today might not be as popular as it was back in the late nineties but "Survival Mode" is somehow […]
In the last years, the good old cassette tape had its comeback, not a triumphant one, but the tapes are back as a dear loved medium of the underground. There are even some new labels that specialize in tape releases like German Caco-Daemon Records. Their releases are strictly limited, mostly to 50 copies only, and […]
This review is being written on the brightest day of the year – summer solstice, the perfect moment to listen to such an abomination as AKATHARTA, a band embracing the roots of Death Doom, just to pulverise it with a light and elegant sprinkle of Funeral Doom, summer music, ohh yes. The band is a […]
ABOMINATION is a Death Metal band from Paraguay. Their name may not be the most original ever (Speckmann’s band would always be the first to come to my head) and, in fact, the most surprising thing about them is that although they seem to have existed since 1995, this tape with little more than ten […]
Spanish three piece MARTHYRIUM are releasing their first album via BlackSeed Productions and I got to say I really expected more of them, since I know the old stuff and some of the side projects pretty well. But this album doesn’t manage to find its unique place. If you listen to the 2007 demo “Rites […]
UTTERTOMB – what a beautiful name, not to mention the great cover! Immediately I fell in love with this band from Chile. Rotten, asphyxiating and stinky Death Metal I expected and that is exactly what the listener is getting served. Somewhere I read the words that in South America there are only good or very […]
German Death Metal commando LIFELESS return with their third full-length album entitled "The Occult Mastery" again via F.D.A. Records and the guys show themselves in a matured best-form. Still their main topic is Swedish styled Death Metal in the vein of DISMEMBER or ENTOMBED but within their trademarks they developed their style a step further […]