Belgium’s GATEWAY is a new band on the scene if Doom / Death Metal. Or should I say: a new project? Up to now, GATEWAY consists only of a guy named Robin van Oyen, responsible for all music and vocals on this self-titled first album of his brain child. And this album is a rotten and […]
You know it, I’m a sucker for releases like this, making hard to get items easy to get hold of, unless I of course have them all myself, then I really can’t find the need for such compilations as this. Though I don’t have any of the releases on this compilation, even though I find […]
2015 seems like it’s the year for terrific initial releases. Viewed from my little rusty tower, I feel, specially the blackest of all unleashed creatures are managing to hit targets quit often this year. Yet another antagonist has entered the sacred space. VERHEERER, a mysterious, clandestine Black Metal project from Flensburg (Germany). Consequently it’s not […]
SCARECROW from southern Finland are, despite their 15 years existence, totally new to me. Therefore it’s some kind of a balancing act to look at those years, and their evolution from here and now. The “Maggot Box” now is a collection of 15 years “Fast, Thrashing, Horror Punk”. What I experience is alternately either, simple […]
SPINA BIFIDA was a band that has never really acclaimed fame or glory during their short career in the early 1990s. After a demo tape, the Dutch quintet released a full-length album called “Ziyadah” on Adipocere before calling its quits in the mid 1990s. Yet, this overseeable legacy was not forgotten by anyone. Some underground […]
Beware! The sounds of Cosmic Death will shake and rattle you to the very core! ZOM are practitioners of Cosmic Death Metal, a sub-genre that is very mysterious to me but I find more and more appealing. They claim to wander the antimatter universe, but the connection to it runs via the dirty underbelly of […]
Anyone out there into brutal technical Death Metal? Good! Because THRESHOLD END from the Colombian capital Bogotá are exactly for you. Started as a six-piece in 1998, the band has unleashed three small releases yet (an EP, a digital single and a demo) and shrunk to a quartet over the years. “In The Jaws Of […]
Wow, I had no idea TYRANNY were still around and jamming. Their last release was the well received 2005 album "Tides Of Awakening" and I thought for sure that was going to be their last effort. Luckily Dark Descent Records was able to awaken the beast from its slumber and a decade later we get […]
INVINCIBLE FORCE is yet another great band spawned from Chile, a country that, in the last 6-7 years, has experienced a revamping in their underground scene, with lots of great bands; too many to mention here. These guys started back in 2007 and have been releasing material steadily since then. I had only heard their […]
This band from San Diego already caught my attention with their split EP shared with the Italian Doom Deathers INTO DARKNESS. Like them, GHOULGOTHA are one of those new bands that mix Doom and Death Metal in a way of their own. Now, after a two song demo and one and a falf 7”es, it […]