GxSxD (which stands for God Send Death) is a Japanese band active since 2002. They put out their first album "God Send Death", in 2006. It had a bunch of interesting riffs here and there, which incorporated some Hardcore elements in their style. I listened to it several times a couple years ago, but it […]
What do you expect from a new ASPHYX album? I’m pretty sure none of you expected anything else than pure fucking doom laden Death Metal. Hell yeah, you’re god damned right. On their ninth full-length album ASPHYX is still ASPHYX and that is highly appreciated from my side. And although there are some “modern” and […]
Close to 20 years of band history, mighty UNLIGHT strike back with their seventh output entitled "Antihelion". The first track or intro is a brilliant instrumental track and already spreads out this special dark mood that reminds me again a bit of mighty DISSECTION. The first real track ‘Create And Annihilate’ starts fast and melodic […]
This band from Hungary is a fine example for persistence that pays off some day. After more than ten years and two demos, SIN OF GOD released their first EP in 2010 and the first full-length “Limbus” two years later. Another four years passed by that lead to a deal with the very active Russian […]
Up to now, Caligari Records is mainly known as a label that is responsible for good and professional tape releases, that brought back the good old music cassette the way it was supposed to be. But last year already saw the first release of the dedicated company on both CD and tape. Now this debut […]
Brutal Death Metal from Berlin has become some kind of trademark, since there are lots of bands in Germany’s capital following the path of CANNIBAL CORPSE, SUFFOCATION, DYING FETUS or dozen other bands. KRYLITHSIC are active since the year 2009 and besides the "Leech Of The Parasite" EP nothing else was released. The self-financed promo […]
During the 90s, the first revival of Thrash Metal had its main exponents in Scandivavian bands like THE HAUNTED, THE CROWN, DARKANE, CARNAL FORGE, HATESPHERE, DIMENSION ZERO, DEFLESHED and so on. DEW-SCENTED are from Germany but they can be added to this list as well. Now we call this kind of stuff Proto Thrash or […]
Hailing from Tokyo, FUNERAL SUTRA have released their first full-length "Form And Emptiness", which is a mid-tempo Black Metal presentation. It’s difficult to compare them to any particular band. And that’s a good thing. The smooth riffs of opener ‘Grace’ blend into a solid track of vocals sounding of despair and melancholy. ‘Secret’ keeps the […]
After a cosmic intro hinting at horrors unknown lurking in the depths of space we are thrown into the realms of symphonic Black Metal bringing to mind the likes of EMPEROR, LIMBONIC ART or BAL-SAGOTH. This is the debut album of HRYRE, from the UK. They are heavily into a kind of atmospheric, melodic Metal, […]
In the glory days of US Metal in the middle of the 1980s, the infamous Shrapnel label of Mike Varney supplied the Metal world with a lot of guitar hero stuff. Aside from boring instrumental albums that showed fast finger picking combined with redundant songs, there were also some bands who knew how to combine […]