The Russian Black Metal scene is quite large, though it would be strange if not, considering the size of the country. Though there aren’t that many bands that are making a hell of a lot of noise, can you mention ten Russian Black Metal bands on top of your head? I guessed not, I can’t, […]
SOLIS OCCASUM is a solo project of Alexey Denisov from Russia, started in 2012, and this is his second album after "Orthodox Plague” from 2013. "Unholy Faces Of Dead” offers pretty old school monotone and primitive Black Metal. It reminds strongly of the typical Swedish and also Nordic style that flourished two decades ago, but […]
VISTERY from Minsk in Belarus is a Death Metal outfit that was founded in 2011 and they devoted themselves to old school brutal Death Metal in the vein of Polish horde VADER or even some of the US outfits like SIX FEET UNDER or OBITUARY when it comes to their song structures. Their second output […]
"Consumed By The Eternal Darkness” is the debut album of this Mexican Death / Black trio RAGNELL. The band already released the EP ”Black Requiem" in 2013 on the Russian label Sathanath Records. This album is a first acquintance and even though it clocks only two minutes over the EP, it’s labelled as a full-length. […]
Spanish pioneers of PRIMIGENIUM strike once again with a new EP released in late 2015, and as the title suggests, “For The Children Of This World” rises as another great piece in this legacy of cold-riffed and tormenting music we call Black Metal. There are only 4 songs, all starting with no ceremonial riffs and […]
Something new from Caligari Records? This means a thrill of anticipation in most cases, since this label really is a gem hunter of the underground. No matter what remote area of the world a band comes from, if they are a good extreme Metal (or Crust or Crossover) band, Caligari will find them. In this […]
With a band name like NAPALM TED and six songs (plus intro) in less than a quarter of an hour the knowing listener knows what to expect. Just founded last year the Finnish based trio convinced me with the "Swallow" entitled EP. My fellow contributor Anders Peter Jørgensen pointed out the balanced mixture of Punk, […]
It seems that the underground hero label Caligari has a big crush for Doom / Death Metal. In the run of their existence, they released quite a lot of tapes that fitted to the genre, all of them on a high level. The German three piece INTO COFFIN is now out to prove if they […]
Still on the same tragically intense and bleak path, Italian COMMON GRAVE release their second full-length album through Vacula Productions. After the well acclaimed “Il Male Di Vivere” (Italian for ‘The Trouble Of Living’), “Dust Of My Existence” supplies the listener with another 6 tunes of a despairing Black Metal that slowly builds up a […]
The first full-length released by the Spanish Black Metal up-and-coming trio from Madrid, following two EPs, "Deathmaggedon Satanic War Machine" (2012) and "Premonition 666" (2014). From the previous works, in which VISIONS presented a more Black / Thrash oriented sound, both in tempo and structure, comes a more blackened and extensive effort (with the shortest […]