"That band… well, I think that only their demos and first couple of albums were good" – this cliché phrase sums up what many fans would say about Metal bands from the 80s and early 90s, rightfully. Some of these bands either changed their direction in the albums and failed to keep up with the […]
Swedish Death Metal monsters unleash their latest full-length album. INSISION (sic) have been around since almost 20 years, and released their debut album with aplomb on the then sub-label of Earache Records, called Wicked World Records. Their sound was much more Swedish and upon listening to the latest one, I was left rather bewildered initially, […]
CRIMINAL ELEMENT’s main lyrical concept deals with the felonies, gangsters, drug deals, delinquents, jail and death. The opposite of the Punk influenced "anti-system, socially aware" Grindcore one is used to. I find the mix pretty interesting, if you ask me. Here we have their third album, "Criminal Crime Time". The line-up for this album includes […]
Vic Records recently released a compilation featuring almost all demo material as well as two unreleased tracks (‘Beyond Morbid’, ‘Full Moon Whore’) by dutch duo Bob Bagchus and A.J. Van Drenth, better (or lesser) known as THRONE. Back in the early 90s both ex – ASPHYX members got together to create a primitive hybrid of […]
The long running Czech Death Metal machine FLESHLESS is now ready with their 8th full-length massacre, entitled "Devoured Beyond Recogniton". It has never been a band that has hit me right on spot, though they’ve done some good things during the years. After the yawning intro, the party kicks off with ‘Dead Never Dies’, a […]
Somehow "Animal Magnetism" suffered from the fact that its predecessor and follow-up albums "Lovedrive" (1979) and "Blackout" (1982) have been so important in the history of the SCORPIONS. The band was still touring quite massively in support of "Lovedrive" when their record company already asked them for a follow-up album, so the material on "Animal […]
While classic bands such as IRON MAIDEN, JUDAS PRIEST, AC/DC, KISS, SAXON or MOTÖRHEAD are all still relevant for their old school fans around the world after all those years, the SCORPIONS definitely lost a lot of ground in the Hardrock and Metal community as soon as they started to write all those wellknown and […]
CLAWED FOREHEAD was a band from Brno in the Czech Republic (with members from Slovakia and Iran as well) that was active since 2006 and has just released their third and farewell album “My Domain” via Metal Age Productions. The band worked over two years on the material but unfortunately main composer Kuba finally left […]
Anyone remember this band from Germany? Probably yes! In the ninetees their moniker popped up in some underground mags, but later on it became so silent (not their mistake) that you’d forget they still existed and still are for almost 30 years! In these three decades the band released 7 albums, of which ”Christbait” was […]
Yeah, the Swedish Black Thrash yobs are back. AGGRESSIVE MUTILATOR, one of the trigger happy bands as far as releases are concerned, have something new up their sleeves. And something surprising all the way either. The last I heard of the guys was the demo “Långrocken” which they released last year already. That tape already […]