This is my first time listening to Finland’s CONCRETE ICON. Shame on me since they have put out two demos, two EPs and two albums before “Voracious Streams”, their latest full-length released by the fine Spanish label Memento Mori. The band has had a bunch of line-up changes since their formation in 2007 with vocalist […]
LURKING TERROR is an old school, grinding Death Metal five-piece that started out in 2021, but its members are by no means newcomers to the scene. The current line-up consists of vocalist Enrique Chavez (ex-SADISTIC INTENT, ex-CENOTAPH), drummer Joel Marquez (ex-SADISTIC INTENT, ex-INFINITUM OBSCURE), guitarist Vincent Cervera (ex-SADISTIC INTENT), guitarist Noel Bello (ex-INFINITUM OBSCURE, ex-INFERNAL […]
PUTRED returns from the depths of the Romanian underground Death Metal scene and are presenting their second full-length, “Megalit Al Putrefacției”, released last January of 2025. This 10 track album takes you into pure, unfiltered Death Metal filth. That’s what it does! Since forming in 2020, the band has been releasing several demos, EPs, splits […]
Ukraine has become a source of many atmospheric and experimental projects over the last decade. U KRONAKH entered into this during 2020, and their second album, “Night Devours Being”, is another exploration of atmospheric Black metal and Death Metal that showcases the experimental prowess of Artem “Voidger”s one-man project. Released back in 2024, this album […]
RÄUM is a Belgian raw / Post Black Metal band founded in 2020. “Emperor Of The Sun” is their second full-length on Les Acteurs De L’Ombre Productions. RÄUM have an interesting sound, the vocals are just screeches that invoke death, whilst the music swings between traditional raw Black Metal to beautiful Post Metal. I would’ve […]
Sometimes there are album titles that make me wonder what in the devil’s name was the intention? And then there are those that fit like a glove like “Morbid Affection To Darkness”. CZARNA MAGIA started as a rather unspectacular Black Metal outfit with the “Inwokacja Pierwotnej Mocy” demo, but already on their first full-length “Voracious […]
DEINONYCHUS is a band of interest to me. DEINONYCHUS and BETHLEHEM have multiple points of intersections that fascinate me, so I’ve kept an eye out on DEINONYCHUS passively. What we have here on “Fatalist” is very simple, it is heavy, heartbreaking, unnerving at times and insanely engaging. At the core of all the darkness captured […]
Wisconsin based Black Metal trio TUBAL CAIN has returned with their sophomore effort “Slime Abyss” and five years from their debut “Summon The Mist”. The band consists of married couple Kristine (drums / vocals) and Alex (guitars / vocals) Drake along with bassist Chrome Bones, who have been jamming out together since 2018. The band […]
What we have here is a brand new band hailing from Kassel, Germany. I will say off the bat they score points for presentation and really cool cover art. Upon viewing the cover it implies that this is going to be a brutal slam Death Metal, while it does have its brief moments it quickly […]
I will start off by saying I’m not a huge fan of technical Metal. Granted I totally respect the musicianship involved and it’s something I could never achieve myself, but sometimes some bands lose that basic groove or rhythm and the songs themselves get lost to my ears. UNREAL OVERFLOWS is a completely new band […]