MORTH is a one-man "Black Metal" project from Bulgaria. I know that without even checking the facts, because I recorded music for a very short-lived ritual noise project by the same name years ago, and I remember that MORTH guy getting all upset because someone else used the same name. While my project was terrible […]
This is an interesting and ambitious beast: two discs, four artists, more than two and a half hours of music and a wacky concept. I am using the term "music" very lightly here, and only because it’s not a spoken word record: it’s somewhere between drone, dark ambient and psychedelia, all of them. The story […]
The Italian band ARCHERONTE excists for almost 16 years now, but still ”Ancient Furies” is their debut album. Prior to this the band released a demo (”Demo 2010”), an EP (”Genesis Of Evil”, 2012), two contributions on a split album, namely ”The Last Prayer” from 2013 with KHEPHRA / BLACK FAITH and ”Eternal Evil” (also […]
Sometimes I have the feeling that the realisation of travelling through time is pretty near. Especially when I hear bands like OROBAS from Bangladesh. Their first EP “Arise In Impurity” sounds so much like the 1980s, it is a pure joy for all those old farts who witnessed the golden age of Metal. And the […]
Makoto Mizoguchi is surely a known face in the American Death Metal scene, having been member of bands like INTERNAL SUFFERING, PYREXIA, ABRAXAS and also live guitarist for the giants HATE ETERNAL. Nevertheless, HORRIFIC DISEASE is a project from his country of origin, Japan, born in 2011 with a different line-up that changed after the […]
Slovakia is not a country that has earned a lot of merits in Metal yet. GOHOLOR are out to change that. After listening to their first ever release, I am not that sure if they will earn those merits. Of course, the blackened Death Metal of “In Saeculis Obscuris” is solid, well played and tidily […]
Two bands are presented on this split. Two bands from neighbouring countries where the temperature can drop very low. Two bands that perform Black Metal. Well one actually, since DRAMA from Russia disbanded in the same year as this EP was released. Too bad, because what they perform here is pretty interesting. The sound and […]
Greek Black Metal doesn’t always have a consistent sound. RAVENCULT is a far cry from ROTTING CHRIST, and so on. But with CHAOSBAPHOMET, you get something unlike either. And not necessarily in a good way. The opener ‘Chaosgenesis’ has everything from acoustic guitar to echoing spoken word to flutes. Yes, flutes. This was five minutes I’ll […]
REABILITATOR’s debut album "Global Degeneration" was released back in 2012 by the band. Metal Archives states a total of 30 copies. Luckily the album was picked up by Symbol Of Domination Records, Murdher Records and Metalrace for a proper CD re-issue. Their brand of frantic Thrash Metal has all those usual influences: KREATOR, EXODUS and […]
"Human Error Is". That’s the rough Latin / English translation for the name of this band. Also, morphology is a branch of biology dealing with the study of the form and structure of organisms. Pathomorphism is an abnormal morphology. So, if I can make ends meet, it would be safe to assume that HUMANITAS ERROR […]