This is the debut album from this Greek trio. I really like the instrumental tone, which is very much like SLAYER, the old and good SLAYER that is. The thing is that the more blackened vocals are just not as good as the music. They have a slight Jeff Walker tone and some touches of […]
French Death Metallers AFFLICTION GATE’s third EP “Dying Alone” pummels the listener with a blistering opening track of flesh-ripping chaos entitled ‘Negative Lucidity’. Vocalist Herastratos delivers the brutality we have come to expect from this band. The second track ‘Devising Our Own Chains’ continues with a solid reply, only to be followed up by the […]
Swedens Black Metal horde NAZGHOR return with their brilliant new opus “Death’s Withered Chants", which will be unleashed digitally in March and in CD format some time in April. Active since only three years now, the band releases their fifth output already and still seems to be able to increase their songwriting abilities. Presenting themselves […]
A band that is named after the northernmost point of Europe, the archipelago of Svalbard north of the Norwegian coast, far beyond the Polar Circle – what else might this band play but ice cold Black Metal? Well, that is too obvious, isn’t it? The British SVALBARD we have here are not a Black Metal […]
“100 years ago, between midnight and one, something evil came out of THE FOG – now it has returned” – stated some ghastly voice in a trailer of a certain horror classic back in the days. This time it didn’t take 100 but only 2 years for THE FOG to return in the shape of […]
TORTURE RACK is a brutal Death Metal band from the USA, formed back in 2012 and now with their debut CD. They have a good dose of influence from AUTOPSY which is always very good in my book, but there is also some more slam Death Metal in here, with SUFFOCATION being the name, although TORTURE […]
Apocalyptic Productions has been releasing some amazing music from a bunch of new Chilean bands. And now it has graced us with one of the best Death Metal albums I’ve heard in my life. It was released late in 2015 and barely made it to my top 10 list for that year. In my humble […]
More grim Black Metal from Finland! This time it is the second full-length form this unholy duo of people that are also involved in other acts like ARCHGOAT, MAVETH, FORGJORD to name a few. So, this is a quite mature effort form veterans and it does show. Although in this case, the grim Black Metal, […]
Once again Mikko Aspa proves his fine musical and technical abilities and his instinct for plain Black Metal, on this album. "New Golgotha Rising" is now his 8th full-length and still he is able to deliver diverse and entertaining antipathy with CLANDESTINE BLAZE. From the start, you feel he wanted to step back from the […]
This is a compilation of all the 7"es and split EPs from this Black Metal band from Finland. There are quite different sounding recordings, some raw and minimalistic, come others with better production values. So, if you do not want to hunt down all those recordings, here is a good way to have them all […]