There are lots of things happening in Asia. Weather changed, political and civil rights changed too, the exposure and need to do new things also changed. For more than 3 decades Asia has become one of the places to think or mention about when you are in the middle of a discussion about technology, politicians […]
The Malaysian three-piece BLASPHMACHINE is around since 2012. Since then, they might have released a lot of records, split releases, EPs and demos in extremely limited editions of 120 and less copies. But this conceals the fact that all of them feature the same six songs, more or less. All of them were featured on […]
Doom Metal from Portugal, the third full-length by this one-man project. Founded back in 2005 the band or project has been developing from a more Drone Metal to a very reduced form of Doom Metal. Some people call this style Funeral Doom, which is traceable due to the clear vocals, performed in choral style. Of […]
"Atmospheric Black Metal without modern elements" – this self-description could replace the whole review. But of course there are some more words required. First up the name LUBBERT DAS. A mixture of (in terms of linguistics) a German definite article and a proper name. I spent quite some days thinking about the deeper meaning unless […]
Here we have a split CD between two bands who play different styles of Death Metal but they both do it under common themes as blasphemy and profanation, so I think that "Profane Rites Of Death" is a very appropriate title. The first band is DEMONIC RAGE from Puerto Montt, Chile. They formed in 2001 […]
Two-man bands are normally hit or miss. The simpler sound can be brutal or weak sounding. In this case, for Black / Death Metal duo GOATBLOOD, the attack is spawned from the pits of hell itself. If the word "goat" is in the band name, you can pretty much expect it to sound like it […]
Long gone were the glory days of acts like CONVULSE, PURTENANCE, DEMIGOD or even ADRAMELECH. Not to mention that grinding vets in LUBRICANT, XYSMA and PAKENI for example. While most of the aforementioned were put to rest, a new wave of Finnish Death Metal came to life and spawned lots of very good bands to […]
This French band will not be unknown to many of you, considering they’re around for some 14 years already having (prior to this) released two albums (”Aux crépuscules” in 1998 and Malmort in 1999), two EPs (”Thrasheurs 13” in 1998 and ”Moonblood” in 2002), a split with SABBAT in 2000, a compilation in 2003 called […]
Digging through the Panamanian Metal scene. Something I haven’t done too much in my life. But ever since I got this compilation called “Vejación De La Bestia / Fosa Común”, I thought why not checking out what’s up musically-wise with that little country, which more or less keeps the two Americas together. A bottleneck in […]
We all know that Finland is not only the land of the thousand lakes (5 bucks for the phrases fine collector!). Suomi is either well known for a lot of sick and extreme bands. And it doesn’t seem that there’s an end in sight. The newest example for fine extreme stuff comes from the town […]