At the end of the year 2014 HELLSODOMY released a fantastic four track demo, which was heavily influenced by the time when bands transformed Thrash Metal into a new style, the so-called Death Metal. The influence of a band like MERCILESS ("The Awakening") is most obvious. The band played this year at the legendary NRW […]
Maybe some people out there never listened to anything else but Death or Black Metal, maybe some people live in a cave or tree house. But I guess most readers listened to Heavy Metal before they discovered the darkside of music. Especially the older ones, because in the late 1970s / early 1980s there were […]
Compilation albums are always a nice way to discover new bands, be they label comps or “real” samplers with rare or exclusive stuff. And in cases like this, they are even produced to do good things. “If A Person Is Ill That Doesn’t Mean Beyond Help?” is a record that should benefit the fight against […]
BLACK BLEEDING is a horde hailing from Belgium that is active since 1999. Their third opus, “A Bright Future”, has been self-released on CD by the band already in 2014 and now gets re-released on tape via Nihilistic Holocaust. The presented eight tracks are a mixture of late 80s / early 90s Death and Black […]
Hejdundrande! The third full-length album of MEPHORASH is a clarion of doom, a cosmic blast, a delirious journey from the deepest profundities of chaos to the highest temples of the four worlds. It’s an amazingly threatening sign of domineering Swedish Black Metal. Oppressive dark art at its best. As soon as you put on your […]
Formed in Portugal, it was a bit weird that they have a name that seems to be in German… and also a song title for an ANAAL NATHRAKH song. This debut album at first impression sounds a lot like many of those “orthodox” Black Metal bands, or to say it in a clear way, they […]
French extreme Metal duo STAV (which seems to be only a one man band now) released their debut album back in 2012 and it is being re-released on cassette via Caverna Abismal Records now. The first thing to notice is the killer Paolo Giraldi cover art. The music is a good mixture of Black Metal […]
You have to give an insane amount of respect to Ván Records as they are one of the top labels churning out some great bands / material. The label seems to be hungry and with that being said we have here the latest effort from SALIGIA. The band formed back in 2006 in Norway. This […]
We’re in the early 90s, a time when the only digital gadget was that watch ’round your wrist and people would have thought of MP3 being a logogram of an preservative in their food. The tide for tape trading was high and the deadliest form of Metal tuned down low and in their heydays. Those […]
When I got this album for review, it didn’t tell me anything at all. Maybe I was curious because of the band name. ALGEBRA suggested some kind of overly technical stuff in my head. And lately, I have not been fond of such a sub genre. I got some more info on the band and […]