Eurynomos, a daemon of Hades, that eats the flesh of corpses, leaving only the bones… Or with a little different spelling a legend of Black Metal, the one and only Øystein Aarseth who haunted with his guitar riffs and melodies together with MAYHEM, back in the day, and now an unholy German alliance between Aethon […]
This album is somehow confusing at first, since it is announced as a "split CD”, yet it features no less than six bands who joined forces and contributed two songs each. The result was called “6 Ways Of Hell”, and I personally would call this record a compilation. But that’s just splitting hairs here. So, […]
I’ve always been sincere in what I like, even if lots of people are not interested in the same stuff I dig. I can honestly say I have a big love for KATATONIA, from their early melodic Doom / Death material, all the way to their mellow progressive Art-Rock transformation. It’s not a big secret […]
I was definitely impressed by this for a number of reasons. The album is absolutely bursting with the raw primitive aggression of the old Black Metal bands of the late eighties / early nineties that existed prior to the attack of the DARKTHRONE clones. This is the genuine stuff, with an unadulterated, take no prisoners […]
When I saw this album, the logo and the band photo, I guessed it would be another retro Thrash act… but not quite so. High speed Death / Thrash Metal with technical inclinations is what this Bavarian quartet has to offer. Clearly the band worked hard on creating complex songs with good riffs and solos. […]
I wouldn’t call this Black’n’Roll as much as Black Metal with humourous touches. When I started listening to this album it even sounded a bit like ISENGARD’s debut, including the production, which is very dirty. Soon into the listening things became blacker, although these guys do manage to have a bit of a distinctive touch. […]
About 10 years ago something that is nowadays referred to as the “Thrash Revival” happened and brought up a lot of (mostly Mexican – American) bands in skintight blue-jeans and white hi-top sneakers playing more or less average US Thrash Metal. One of them was MERCILESS DEATH which the 15 year old me actually very […]
The three piece ANCIENT MOON is an international trio with musicians hailing from three different countries, i.e. Belgium, France and Switzerland. Hiding behind only one initial, the band members manage to remain anonymous. And after listening to their first release “Vvltvre”, I can imagine that this happened for a reason, since no one really knows […]
To set things straight first: these ABHOTH are not the band from Sweden that released three demo tapes and a 7” in the 1990s and had, among others, Jonas Stålhammar in an early line-up. No, these guys are from Montenegrin capital Podgorica and started in 2006. It took them eight years to put out their […]
The Russian ARTIFICUM NEX and their first full-length “Epitaph For Life” are a perfect example for complete uselessness. It all starts with a keyboard- / piano intro heard a thousand times before, only better most of the time. After that, the band offers a kind of Black Metal that was played often enough before: mainly […]