The MINOTAUR is back after a very silent period of precisely seven years with a new 4-track EP entitled “Beast Of Nations” out on High Roller Records. Fortunately enough the band did not change at all within the last seven years spanning from their sophomore record “God May Show You Mercy… We Will Not” up […]
VIDARGÄNGR from East Germany are active in the underground since 2010 and will now release their second full-length entitled "A World That Has To Be Opposed" via War Anthem Records. The press info describes their style as nihilistic, compromiseless and furious Black Metal and this is not too far away from the truth. After a […]
Black Metal is what Belgian ADVERSUS is delivering with this, their first release, which has come forth as a five track EP. A quite dark and harsh album with a sinister attitude, and a great feel lingering in-between the old school second wave of Black Metal and the experimental Avantgarde form that emerged, as the […]
When I stopped publishing SNAKEPIT after the release of issue # 4 and passed everything on to Laurent I never really expected it to become such an influential and long running zine. The interviews have turned into massive in-depth features over the years (with more details included that some of you might be able to […]
The German DAMAGE SOURCE are already around for a while now, yet it took them some years to get a stable line-up. Thus the band only released two self-released demos to date, “Raise Hell” and “Come Heresy…”. But now it’s time for the first official release on a label. The title of the EP, “…Come, […]
Three years ago Schattenkult Produktionen, Total Death Records and Unholy Grave Procession summoned their most abhorrent spirits to let them celebrate an exclusive and obnoxious liturgy. Solemnize the “Slaughtered Whores Of Satan”. A split release of exclusive and unreleased tracks by a triumvirate of raw Black Metal madness. One-man project AKERBELTZ from Spain (drummer of […]
The album opens with a song called ‘Alcoholocaustic Carcinogenocide’, two newly coined words reminding me of booze ridden Black Thrash Metal. But do not be fooled, old-established VRAG from Australia have more to offer on their second full-length. For me the most fitting description is ravishing grimness. Of course that is also the name of […]
This is another Black Metal band that usually dwells in limited tape releases, now from the Ukraine, and presenting their 4th album. The style is that one of early IMMORTAL, DARKTHRONE and MAYHEM. Chilling guitar riffs, a trance-inducing fast drumming pulse and the obvious Black Metal shrieks. Yes, nothing original and sounding way too much […]
The first and only surprise on this EP is the line-up. I suspected at first a band with four or five members, but in fact NEBRUS is a duo, consisting of Mortifero, handling all instruments and Nocturia, responsible for vocals. Yes, your intuition is correct, Nocturia is a female vocalist. But gladly no clean singing […]
The members of this Italian act play in the Death Metal band INVERTED. So I think this is the way they use their creativity in other form doing a very good kind of Black Metal here. Not far away from a sound done by EMPEROR although with bits here and there that recalls early WATAIN […]