Hailing from Down Under, OCEAN OF ZERO is not what you usually expect when it comes to Aussie Metal. That small continent is famous for uncompromising Black / Thrash / War Metal like DESTRÖYER 666 and GOSPEL OF THE HORNS on the one hand and such obscure and even weird stuff like ALCHEMIST, CRUCIFORM, DISEMBOWELMENT […]
Reclined with a tumbler of strong bourbon, staring into the crackling flames, surrounded by a cold wall of dark fir trees… This is the ideal time to listen to this latest record from HELHEIM. To put it more succinctly, the 8th full-length by these Norwegian Viking Metal grampas is a stately and atmospheric listen. Following […]
Italy’s WHISKEY RITUAL were floating beyond my radar, apparently these dirty dogs have released two albums before this one, so they’ve been around, and this was supposed to be just a side project which soon mutated into a full-time band. Their intention here is pretty clear – get wasted, make noise! Imagine later age DARKTHRONE […]
MANIAC is that sort of band you need to witness in a small, fully packed venue. Airless. Sweat dripping of the ceiling. Huge pupils, small beer prizes. Alternatively on a Sunday noon in a backyard at Leipzig Stockartstrasse. Already covered in foreign beverages. Fighting waves of fiends trying to drag you into a serious drug […]
We are getting close to the end of 2015, lots of things have happened this year, from chaotic events to hopeful better days. During the first quarter of the year, Century Media announced the closing of their US headquarters (moving the stock to the new owner and partner in crime Sony Music), so lots of […]
DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN seem to have turned into a serious band and they release their second album now again via Cyclone Empire. The band still consists of Dave Ingram, Rogga Johansson and Dennis Blomberg, who is also active in PAGANIZER or RIBSPREADER with Rogga, so the involved guys are no newcomers and have […]
Vegan Metal from Bangkok, Thailand. The opener ‘War Horses’ starts with some classic Metal riffs and develops into a Doom Metal track with a heavy touch on BATHORY (epic "Hammerheart" era), only the Hardcore chanting (Oi! Oi! Oi!) is a little irritating. The titletrack comes up with clear vocals and more Punk influenced riffing, not […]
The short history of German DARK MILLENNIUM is a little bit of a tragedy. In not even five years of their existence, they released two underrated albums just to split up after releasing the second one. But someone at Century Media Records didn’t forget the band. And now all of their recordings are available again, […]
In 1991 DARK MILLENNIUM released their first demo “The Apocryphal Wisdom“. By that time I faced western civilization in a Mickey Mouse shirt. Impressed by Lex Luger, Turtles and Gypsy Kings. A still terrified victim of the iron curtain. Too young and too scared to face Death Metal. 1992 they released “Of Sceptre Their Ashes […]
While innovation may not be happening frequently in Black Metal, there are some bands like THE NEGATION that keep churning out extremely solid and potent music. The template is basically the Swedish style of Black Metal propagated by the likes of DISSECTION, MARDUK and GORGOROTH, and THE NEGATION here sound like a mix of all […]