NOCTURNE is a two-piece from Austria and has been founded back in 2006. Both members are / were also active in the maybe better known band UNHALLOWED. The direction of NOCTURNE is not too far away from UNHALLOWED as the band also plays 90s influenced melodic Black Metal. After a demo release in 2013, they […]
There’s something to be said for consistency. From beginning to end, this Black Metal band hailing from Chicago, Illinois doesn’t waste time with experimentation or song flow on their first full-length. The opening track ‘Sheperd’s Twilight’ begins with the angst we all want and need from a Metal band. Aamon’s vocals are dead on, and […]
AMENOPHIS from Sweden were active from 1988 to 1993 and, besides two demos and a few live shows, the band did not leave any further imprint on the Swedish Death Metal scene. By the way, a newcomer outfit called MARDUK played their first live show as supporting act for AMENOPHIS. Since both bands lived in […]
If I wish to listen to the best Thrash / Death Metal from France, my thoughts go immediately to the late ’80s / early ’90s albums of MASSACRA, AGRESSOR, MERCYLESS or LOUDBLAST. If SKULLDOG from Argenteuil, not far from Paris, would have skillfully followed that school, I would be really excited to write this review; […]
DEIQUISITOR is an obscure three-piece from Denmark and was formed back in 2013. After a demo release in 2013, their first EP was released by Ancient Darkness Productions in 2014 and Ancient Darkness Productions also managed to sign the band for their first full-length. After completing twelve new tracks the band will release their self-titled […]
Back in 1985 the kids in Brazil were taking Heavy Metal as something serious. In such country, with probably some of the biggest catholic worshippers in the world, and since then up to this day, many economic problems, it was a matter of time for bands to come out and channel those negative energies into […]
Second full-length album of this German Death Metal band. To be honest in nowadays endless sea of releases and specially in the Death Metal realm, it is hard to come up with something above average. Yet, it is possible. But I am afraid that ROGASH is still not up in that spot. The band knows […]
It’s time for a real classic! Yet some of you might have never heard the name OPPROBRIUM before. But I’m sure the name INCUBUS rings a bell, because that’s the moniker this band used to have before and under which the band became known. The band was founded in 1986 in New Orleans, Louisiana by […]
In times like these, bands from once exotic countries (in terms of Metal) more and more become the norm. Thanks to the internet and more or less well researched features in great print magazines, it has become a kind of common knowledge to know that the home of Metal is the world as such. So […]
A record I can’t say something incisive about. And all I want is to make it quick cause I am getting pissed the more often I need to listen to “Wirklichkeitsraster”. A raster is more or less a graphic pattern of lines to put on a picture, an area or in this case the Wirklichkeit(reality) […]