Dishing out blackened Death Metal from Spain since their formation in 2001, NOCTEM have steadily released music culminating in new album "Haeresis", their fourth full-length. Writing about ancient civilizations and mythological subject matter, NOCTEM does not disappoint. With their aggressive, blood curdling screams and rapid-fire guitars / drums, it’s no wonder they are moving up […]
This split 7" EP sporting 2 Death Metal bands, PROFANAL from Italy and OBSCURE INFINITY from Germany is a nice little appetizer for the bands’ music. OBSCURE INFINITY released their debut album "Dawn Of Winter" last year, an album I have to check out now, and we are still waiting for the first full-length effort […]
Four years have passed with not so much as a peep out of WITCHERY. Now they’ve returned, with an enormous change in personnel. Legion, best known for his contributions to MARDUK, is on vocals. His voice remains undiminished in ferocity after all this time, but it doesn’t sound anything like his old self. If that […]
WITCHERY didn’t really latch on to me, when they first started and released their debut album "Restless And Wild" in 1998, SÉANCE gone thrashy blackened Heavy Metal, I’d rather have had some more SÉANCE. Though a lot water went through the river, and we were suddenly writing 2001 and I got stuck on "Symphony With […]
Nope, “Dawn Of Winter” is not the new album of Germany’s hopefuls for the Death Metal hall of fame, OBSCURE INFINITY. In fact, it is their first album that saw its original release in 2010 on dedicated Obscure Domain Productions. Since the band signed a deal with F.D.A. Records a few years ago, the new […]
The guys from up-and-coming German Death Metal act DESERTED FEAR are on the march. After two albums for the gold digging label F.D.A. Records, they took the next step in their career and signed a deal with Century Media. Now their recording home is not only one of the most important companies in the glory […]
CYNIC must be one of the most underrated bands in Death Metal history just because they tried to take the genre in the early 90s to new levels of experimentation mixing some really unusual elements with extreme music. This sweet compilation collects their early works before they’ve released their debut album in 1993, “Focus”: “Demo […]
SUDDEN DEATH is a German band that was formed way back in 1990. This is actually the second material they have released and that was in 1998. What we have here is Death Metal, which at times reminds me of early CRYPTOPSY with also some references to CANNIBAL CORPSE and SUFFOCATION although some of the riffs and […]
FUBAR is a Grindcore band from the south of the Netherlands, that built a solid reputation in the underground through more than fifteen years, releasing two albums ("Justification Of Criminal Behavior", 2004, and "Lead Us To War", 2012) and sharing an bunch of split EPs with names as TOTAL FUCKING DESTRUCTION, SPLITTER, EMBALMING THEATRE, LYCANTROPHY, […]
DECOMPOSED serving traditional Swedish Death Metal with a dismal touch of nowadays Black / Death. If you listen through all three albums “Decomposed”, “Devouring” and now “Wither”, you find a central musical theme. Which is, conjuring with evil disharmonious guitars and bass an oppressive atmosphere. Providing a organic old school raised Death Metal drum set and […]