Greek Black Metal, which follows the traditions of old quite good, you can hear where the band hails from. Though the feel and atmosphere isn’t as the good olden days after all, the classic Greek gods of Black Metal as THOU ART LORD, NECROMANTIA, ROTTING CHRIST and VARATHRON had that special, evil and mystical atmosphere […]
French Death Metallers LORDS OF THE CEMETERY’s first full-length "Citipati" is a little difficult to nail down. The duo of drummer Reno Cavadaski and L.C.F. (everything else) create an album of Death Metal riffs and growling vocals with a little Thrash and Progressive Metal thrown in for good measure. In fact, the album is a […]
Originally born in Manaus, Brazil, by the mind of Daniel Silva (guitar and vocals), INCARCERATION moved to Hamburg, Germany, and joined forces with Björn Freese (bass) and Michael Kock (drums). Thus, they infected the Death Metal underground with their EP "Sacrifice", released in 2013 in all the possible formats by F.D.A. Records and Dawnbreed Records. […]
Dark and doomy Black Metal with a Heavy Metal edge is what these Italians deliver with "Dichotomy". It is my first encounter with the band, and even after countless spins, I can’t really figure out what to think of it. Musically it is set up really well, the songs are written and performed quite nice, […]
The autumn sun is setting and as it drops beneath the horizon and the darkness spreads its cold wings, the soundtrack of night emerges from open windows, in a quiet residential area somewhere in the north of Jutland. BESTIALIZED from Colombia is blasting with chaotic Death / Black Metal of the most evil and noisiest […]
After a decade of activity (mainly as a studio project that made either only a single live performance or a few), around 10 demos and nearly as many split releases, TERRORAZOR present their debut full-length album. As one could guess from seeing the band’s moniker – TERRORAZOR’s musical direction is old school Grindcore, inspired by […]
Surprises sometimes come from out of the blue. CRUZ from Barcelona, Spain is one of the bigger surprises of that kind. I started to listen to their album “Culto Abismal” without any great expectations, somehow prepared for either some Doom stuff or Black Metal. But the first riff already got me. Within seconds, the mix […]
Do you really know what a collector’s item is? It should be something like this compilation of the long runner Metallers DECEASED. Released by Chinese label Area Death, this is a massive compilation, contained in no less than 2 full CDs with an incredible amount of songs focusing basically in the first era of the […]
A wave of Black Metal released in late 2015 is flowing this way – this time we are going to Germany to find OLD PAGAN, that have been quite active since 2006, and "Ogdrun Jarhar" is their third full-length release. I’ve been searching and searching to find an origin for the band’s name ogdrun jarhar, […]
If your Cyrillic isn’t that good, the title of this Ukrainian band’s fourth full-length album means ”Black Midnight Follows Me”, and was released last fall in co-operation with Pagan Flames Productions, though has finally washed upon our shores. The band is a one man attack lead by Human Unknown, who actually does a quite good […]