The French outfit AUTOKRATOR hasn’t formed to create easy listening music. The self-titled first album of this new band already shows a very own way of reaching for the utmost extreme in Metal. Death Metal with a touch of Doom and really deep growls are only the base of AUTOKRATOR. Add some industrial sounding staccato […]
Last year I had the (not too great) honour to review the latest offering of the seemingly indestructible Epic US Metal institution VIRGIN STEELE. “Nocturnes Of Hellfire & Damnation” saw the band return to better times after the decline of their glory since the turn of the millennium. After their praised, but in my eyes […]
Unspeakable Axe Records from the United States once again proved its good taste in music with this actual split release. With such acts like TRENCHROT, UNREST and RIPPER on their roster, my expectations concerning "Final State Of Existence" were quite high and obviously I should not get disappointed. The first band to ring in the […]
From the ashes of Polish band AMAROK, this is the debut album of their new outfit named OCCULTUM, and indeed a very good start. Poland never ceases to provide good bands when it comes to the most obscure and / or extreme Metal genres, with OCCULTUM not being an exception. It seems that this corner […]
Ominous yet evocative, distressing yet contemplative, this is an album that has struck me in a very particular way. CHTHE’ILIST’s music comprises a fucking huge range of influences that have been weirdly and extraordinarily patched into something really, really unique. Listened as a whole, “Le Dernier Crépuscule” has the aggressive features all Death Metal bands […]
NUCLEUS is a band from Chicago, not to be mistaken for the New Jersey Doom Metal band. They play Death Metal, as their logo (albeit vaguely VOIVODy) may hint at. This debut CD was a good surprise for this old timer’s ears. Considering this is an American and sci-fi themed band, I was expecting something […]
This is by far the must difficult review I’ve ever made. I remember when I bought the CD compilation entitled "The Megalomania Puzzle" back in 2014, I was so excited to put it inside the CD player and listen to that fiery and unpolished Thrash / Black everyone praised over decades, and it was something […]
Since INFERNÄL MÄJESTY are more or less on the edge of releasing a new record, Vic Records was kind enough to finally put out a compilation of the complete demo history. Having released three demos (one in advance of the monumental "None Shall Defy" and two prior to it) between the mid 1980s and early […]
Twenty years ago, it was extremely improbable to predict future versions of some very underground albums. An example could be the debut album of this band from St. Petersberg, BESTIAL DEFORM. Started in 1990, they grew up during the times of the first Death Metal wave. Since the creation of the first demo songs (which […]
This is a quite short album by Italian band TERRORFRONT, delivering violent Black / Thrash Metal in the rawest possible vein. Only 5 fast and very short songs, including a cover for BESTIAL MOCKERY’s ‘Necrolust’, which seems to be a major influence on these fellows’ music. Personally, “We Don’t Come In Peace” is an appeal […]