It might be hard to be objective when reviewing an album whose release I remember eagerly awaiting, and then buying at the store on the day of arrival and carrying home in my hands in expectation to lay down on the turntable. Then again, perhaps it’s the other way around, and maybe nothing is easier […]
Most of you will by now have become aware of the fact that the legendary Metal label Noise Records was re-animated. The label responsible for a lot of releases that are labeled “cult” nowadays (with great justice) was in fact one of the most important record companies of the 1980s Metal scene. The Berlin based […]
Noise Records is tearing it up lately with reissues. They are spewing out reissues from VOIVOD, CELTIC FROST, HELLOWEEN, KAMELOT, RUNNING WILD, TANKARD, GRAVE DIGGER, SINNER, SKYCLAD and KREATOR. Talk about giving the Metal community and the younger generation the chance to have some precious Metal gold! Whether the bands gave their blessing to have […]
Once upon a dark moon, Noise Records was the best label in the world for me. Their roster was amazing: RUNNING WILD, HELLHAMMER, CELTIC FROST, VOIVOD, HELLOWEEN, RAGE, TANKARD… pretty much a teenage headbanger’s wet dream, run by Karl-Ulrich Walterbach, who was also the brain behind the notorious Aggressive Rockproduktionen label, (in)famous for releasing everything […]
DEAD has been active since 1991. Pretty much every Death Metal fan out there may have seen their name or at least, heard one of their songs. Because a 26 year career doesn’t go by unnoticed. This brings us to their latest album, "A Dirty Mind Is A Joy Forever", released by the (also German) […]
I didn’t expect nothing than an authentic German Thrash Metal band at my first approach with BLACKEVIL, probably a name that still has to be more popular in the underground but surely the involved members are not newcomers, having been formed by Abyss (ex – UNDER THE SPELL) on vocals / bass and Hellbastard (ex – NOCTURNAL) […]
"Beyond The Thresholds" is the debut album from this Black / Death Metal band from Spain. Since the very first riffs, the darkness that this band creates enshrouds the listener with a quite asphyxiating aura. Their style can be considered as orthodox Black Metal, similar to early WATAIN, OFERMOD, ONDSKAPT and early MAYHEM. Also there […]
In 1994, when I was in my teens, there has been an album, that simply blew me away since day one. I still remember when and where I bought “Bitterness” and everytime I put the CD in the player and the first tones of ‘Life Shatters’ appear I am 16 again. It brings back so […]
GOLGOTHA and THE BLACK CANDLE recently joined ranks to release a collaborative publication. An interesting concept that busts the mold of traditional publications, something that cannot be replicated in the mainstream print world. The outcome, the end product, is a nihilistically beautiful print magazine that touches the subjects of underground music and art without tripping […]
There are days when you get a flashback to times long ago. I had one of them just the other week when Cleveland’s DESTRUCTOR somehow appeared on my mind. This resulted in another return to the old times of Metal, listening to the band’s first album “Maximum Destruction”, among other classics, and still thinking that […]