Some days ago METALLICA released a new album and like always the drum sound is in the center of discussions. But I tell you, if you really want to listen to some tinny and hollow drums listen to BARZAKH. The duo from Indonesia uses a drum computer, but in no way this is an excuse […]
SENTIENT HORROR is a band from New Jersey, USA, which released a couple of demos / EPs in the last couple of years under the name SENTIENCE. They were formed by guitarist / vocalist Matt Moliti after putting Power / Thrash act DARK EMPIRE on ice. Having now updated their moniker, this is their debut […]
Two years ago, SOULBURN returned after a sixteen-years break to release their second album “The Suffocating Darkness” which had a far blacker painting than their debut release. Live the band accentuated this development and showed that their path is leading more and more into 80s orientated Death / Black Metal. Somewhere between BATHORY, CELTIC FROST […]
It’s odd that a sunny and exotic place like Las Palmas, the capital of Spanish Gran Canaria Island, is where an obscure Death Metal act like NECROVEN was born. Actually from 2011 to 2015 they were active as a one-man band, where the mastermind J.R. in fact played all the instruments in every previous releases. […]
It was three years ago that the English quartet UNCOFFINED hit me from out of nowhere with their first album “Ritual Death And Funeral Rites”. The devastating Doom Death the band from Durham delivered on that album just killed me like a rotting stream of lava. Now they are back again after a long wait […]
Even in times like these with the internet and the possibility to produce your own CD without spending much money, it takes some bands a long time to unleash the first recordings to the hordes of the dark. The Swedish DIVISION VANSINNE is such a case. They started in 2008 already, but didn’t release anything […]
Finally I got to hear the latest output by one of my favorite new Death Metal acts. “Unending Degradation” was one hell of a record that delivered brutality, insanity as well as catchiness. “Remnants Of Expansion” already suggests with its cover artwork that things seem to have gone through a slight change – which KRYPTS […]
This is CHURCH OF DISGUST’s second album, adorned with a remarkable black and white drawing of a couple of monsters tearing a nice girl apart in the middle of the forest. These Deathsters from Texas are clearly fanatics of old school Death Metal. It’s fairly easy to describe their music and give you an idea […]
After two outstanding demos, Dublin based Death Metal outfit VIRCOLAC strikes again with another set of four crude, grim, and – most importantly – very authentic songs. Not unlike many of the bands hailing from Ireland, this pack of werewolves also project their share of Irishness along with their music, but do so without that […]
The Dutch newcomers SLEDGEHAMMER NOSEJOB are a side-project of two guys from MASSIVE ASSAULT. And the album “Stop! Hammertime!” is their first physical release after a bunch of demo songs available for download through their bandcamp site. With a name and an album title like those chosen, you somehow won’t expect classical Death Metal from […]