“Conflict Is Control / Poisonous Gas Thrower Of Jigoku” is a split release between Sri Lanka’s KONFLICT and Japan’s REEK OF THE UNZEN GAS FUMES. Both groups deliver frontal and abrasive interpretations of Grindcore; loud, fast, and barely contained. KONFLICT offer ten songs of warped, psychologically damaging Grindcore with a tense Black Metal atmosphere that […]
Black Metal duo FORMLESS DEVOTION hails from Cape Town, South Africa. And "Sparks Of Separation" is their debut album and first proper recording, since it seems they haven’t released anything prior to it. And after reading all the available info I could get, I sat down to listen, since I was really intrigued by the […]
This split gathers DYING EMBRACE from India and DUSK from Pakistan, both playing Death / Doom Metal and sharing the record with equity, since each one offers five songs including a cover version. DYING EMBRACE are rather experimental, with speedier passages, a rather Blackish voice, and weird structures. The production is not very powerful, lacking […]
Singaporean trio BLOOD DIVISION just released their latest album, "Traitors To The Gallows" via Cyclopean Eye Productions. 8 songs clocking at 21 minutes. And all I can say is that this one took me by surprise. As soon as I started listening to it, I was hooked. 21 minutes came and went and all of […]
LOCUST LEAVES’ debut album, “A Subtler Kind Of Light”, is a challenging mountain of progressive Metal, ambient textures, and unorthodox composition. Comprised of four long songs, the Greek duo’s newest album plays out with a bookish narrative, each song unfolding a new segment of a story. Theatrical at times, atmospherically similar to early ARCTURUS or […]
Sometimes research on a Black Metal band isn’t a simple thing. In the special case of DIGIR GIDIM, any research leads to nothing. The band seems to be from planet earth and consists of two members who hide their real names behind pseudonyms, of course. At least I found out that the singer is also […]
We have heard of many kind of influences within the Heavy Metal genre. From Jazz, to orchestral, to New Wave and beyond. But in this case, with this band originally from Ciprus, well, it’s a whole different story. In this case, we are faced with a Noise / Industrial band influenced by chaotic and suffocating […]
Split albums are for me a way to solve a few things and one of those is to present more than one band at once (and save cash on the intent). Still, I think that split albums must be done in a way that the overall work of the artists involved are in a sort […]
The general consensus among us connaisseurs of extreme Metal is that "INRI", that genre defining beast of an album, is SARCÓFAGO’s finest hours. While this is a universal truth, like, say, that everything is better with bacon, "Rotting" always gets shamefully overlooked – for many reasons. First of all, it’s fucking impossible to outshine, outsmart […]
This is the debut album of PRECARIA, a Black Metal band from Mexico. I heard the album a number of times trying to make up my mind about it, and ok, these are my impressions: the production is rather bad, with very thin guitars lacking punch, played in the later Black Metal way, with fast […]