In the stream of re-releases Xtreem Music sent recently, there was this compilation of British SACRILEGE featuring their four demos and some rare and live stuff. Shattered over two CDs and in two and half hours, you get plenty to enjoy. What surprised me is that this is the second compilation which features their demos, […]
What we have here is a very nice re-release of SACRILEGE’s classic Crust / Punk / Thrash hybrid entitled “Behind The Realms Of Madness”. Considered a classic among lovers of this style of music, I personally never really checked out SACRILEGE’s material which I now regret because this is a crushing record from front to […]
I’ve never been attached to Black Metal in general. I remember back in 1999 I was listening pretty much to every genre related to Metal and the lesser one I payed attention to was in fact Black Metal. Apart from the melodic Black Metal acts from Sweden, that ruled the mid 90s and the mighty […]
"Grim Catharsis" is the debut by WORTHLESS from Finland. The trio presents a very reduced form of Death Metal. Based on a mid-tempo rhythm-section the riffs are slowly making their way to the listener’s mind, from time to time a guitar-solo makes an appearance. That is, besides some up-tempo parts, all. But very effective, because […]
SHARDS OF HUMANITY is a three-piece from Memphis, Tennessee in the United States and active since 2009. After a self-released EP, the band now releases their first full-length via Unspeakable Axe Records. And this fine output is old school 90s influenced Death / Thrash Metal at its finest. The band has put so many good […]
First surprise – this is an EP. Did not notice this fact until I started writing the review, because full-length albums with a running time about 30 minutes are quite common. But since MORTAL SCEPTER are a new band and only active for three years and just released one demo (simply entitled "Demo") in 2014 […]
Winter takes us into darkness, winter is extreme cold weather, the last winter wasn’t that bad, at least not where I am sitting, it was mild and quite nice, though after such a winter, an EXTREME COLD WINTER follows. So this new entity from Holland might be a forewarning of what’s to come if the […]
Once upon a time there was a small kingdom located on an island. It was a nice island with beautiful landscapes and astonishing shores. But that was just one side of the coin. On the flipside there was that permanent bad weather, strange food and mediocre beer that all together created a constant bad mood […]
I might be wrong, but somehow it seems that Black Thrash Metal is the biggest thing in the extreme Metal underground right now. The Serbian TERRÖRHAMMER are another band that sold their souls to the simple black art of thrashing. With two EPs and a demo to date yet, the remaining duo hired a session […]
Sometimes I love to listen to some old fashioned Thrash Metal like it was played in the 1980s, since I was growing up with this music and even became a little bit grown up with Thrash. Well, just a little bit… Anyway, it’s a kind of music I always had in my heart and mind. […]