The Italian label I, Voidhanger Records is more and more specialized in producing dark, experimental and unorthodox Doom, Black and Death Metal bands that crowd the underground from every corner of the world. Two years ago, they brought to light (actually, to darkness!) the seventh album of TODESSTOSS, called "Hirngemeer", behind which there was the […]
The Belgian three-piece BLACK BLEEDING is around for quite a while now without rising more than a little bit of dust. Three full-length releases, all on a very independent, means self-financed basis, an EP and three demos are in the bands discography through their nearly twenty years of existence. It was just two years ago […]
“Trance Of Death” is probably one of the most anticipated Death Metal releases in quite a while. After the self-titled debut EP in 2011 many people were eager to hear a full-length release by this band – but somehow things needed a bit more time than they usually do. A lot has happened within the […]
AGGRESSIVE MUTILATOR are a duo from Sweden that’s been going on since 2012, and during this time they have released a number of demos and a full-length album. Several of these demos have a short length, such as this one, with four tracks that, all together, do not reach the duration of nine minutes. They […]
MORFIN from California are back with their second strike. While bands like MASSACRE try to reincarnate again and again and partly write some soulless stuff and destroy themselves, young bands like MORFIN keep the old school flame alive by giving a f*ck about sales figures etc. and simply focus on rehearsing as hell and writing […]
Last year, Austrian Thrashers DEATHSTORM took me by surprise with their second album “Blood Beneath The Crypts”. Not even a year later, “Storming The Gallows” hits the shops. A new album? No, sadly not! But there’s no real reason to be sad about this album for sure, for it compiles two DEATHSTORM EPs that up […]
"To Live Is To Suffer" is the debut full-length for the all-female Serbian Thrash Metal band JENNER, opportunity given by Infernö Records that saw some good potential in the two-songs "Demo 2015". "To Live Is To Suffer" is actually a solid old school Thrash / Speed Metal album, without any modern contamination. These girls didn’t show […]
This is the debut of a one-man band from Belarus playing atmospheric Black Metal called Vietah (“waning moon”). "Zorny Maroz" (apparently meaning "star frost") offers very ambient-driven music, quite simplistic and raw. It heavily relies on backing keyboards to set the mood. And the mood is, you get it, depressive, cold and grim. In fact, […]
Here we have another re-released album from the works of Belarusian one man band VIETAH. “Tajemstvy Noczy” (“Sacraments Of Night “) is the third opus of the band, originally released in 2014 on CD only. This time, it gets available on vinyl for the first time, as well as the other three albums of VIETAH. […]
I’m not sure whether anybody reading these lines ever heard of the Belarusian one man band VIETAH before. So, here’s the most important information beforehand. VIETAH, Belarusian for “old moon”, is the brainchild of a guy named Antarctis who also runs a band called BALROG. After the start in 2006, he released four albums under […]