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 […]
LUNG MOLDE is a new band from Portland, Oregon. The three band members are hiding behind cryptic names: MS, AD and JH, names that don’t really hint on relations to other bands. So it’s pretty hard to say anything about LUNG MOLDE, except that they’re a band with a mission. And their mission is to […]
Century Media once again takes us back to the good old 90s and make some treasures available again and grant attention to bands, which might be forgotten nowadays. Short-lived DARK MILLENNIUM is such a band, which definitely deserves some more attention even over 20 years after they have disbanded. As Century Media will re-release both […]
ANTROPOFAGO (Spanish for cannibal) is a Death Metal band from France, formed in 2007. Since this was my first listen to the band and their sophomore album "Æra Dementiæ", I went to their Bandcamp site to check their 2011 debut album "Beyond Phobia". Both of them released by French label Kaotoxin Records. Their style hasn’t […]
This is perdition… like falling into an endless chasm… suffocating from invisible hands that will grab your neck and will slowly start to use more strength until you are about to pass away…to then re-awake your miserable soul just to make you suffer more and more… that is what this epic debut release of this […]
Can anyone remember when it started? Can it be pinned down to a designated year, album or band? I am not quite sure, but at some moments it feels like there is a vast number of former Black Metal bands now playing Death Metal. OTARGOS from Greece are a typical representative for this sub-genre. Founded […]