Basically a Turkish band settled in New York (perhaps soon to be re-located if Trump deports everyone… forgive my dark humour), GÖKBÖRI play a seemingly simple brand of straight forward mid-paced Metal, with some old school Black and Thrash looming about but a lot of Heavy and even Rock as well. Begun as a project […]
"Magna Adversia" is already the sixth full-length album by this prolific southern Brazilian band. But apart from prolific, here’s a duo that counts on people once involved with several bands in Brazil, plus the session members and each of their own references, and still sticks to the 90s Black Metal soundscape in spite of all the […]
ENCRYPTED is a two-men project from North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany and active since 2012. After a demo release in 2013 they finally release their first 4-track EP in form of “The Purge” via the newly founded label Star Spawn Society. The result of their hard work is a quite cool old school Death Metal release. […]
Finally it’s here! The first, and personally, long awaited album of Zuerich (Switzerland) based Black Metal outfit UNGFELL. The name which means “misfortune” in old Swiss language, suits the bands concept just perfectly. Most of the lyrics and the philosophy on their records are dealing with death and his manifold appearance. Be it as a […]
The Italian three piece around Bruno Masulli offers another small sample of their doomish, epical Heavy Metal. Their third EP "Fugit In Solitudine" might be the prelude to a new album since it’s been five years already. What to expect on this five songs EP? Business as usual. Despair in an epical magnitude. Battling guitar […]
A few months after the mainly controversial re-release of the only EXORCIST album, High Roller Records again teamed up with David DeFeis of VIRGIN STEELE and re-released another brainchild of Mr. DeFeis. This time it is ORIGINAL SIN, who released one album in 1986. “Sin Will Find You Out” was supposed to be the first […]
Does this band really need an introduction? Ok, in case you need one… BLOOD FEAST is an American Thrash Metal band that is around for quite some time already. Formed in 1985 as BLOOD LUST, their moniker changed into BLOOD FEAST a year later. They stayed active until 1991, a period in which two albums, […]
The first full album of WORMWOOD from Swedish capital Stockholm is an album that leaves questions unanswered. The main question for me was: where should I dump this rubbish so it won’t cause severe harm to the environment? Or to ears of those who love their Black Metal hard and trve? WORMWOOD want to be […]
It seems to me that Chile plays the same important role for the South American Death Metal scene (or the Death Metal underground in general), like Sweden once did during the heydays of European Death Metal around the 90s. Even though there’s already been a vivid scene over there since the late 80s, one can’t […]
“Asphyxiating Devotion”, released by the Spanish label Memento Mori, is the debut full-length by EKPYROSIS, an interesting Italian underground old school Death Metal entity created in 2013 by four maniacs who provide here a really impressive dose of rotting brutality distributed in 9 tracks. ‘Profound Death’, the first one, is the longest track here and […]