Yes! Finally and about damn time. I have been searching high and low to get a copy of this CD for the past 9 months. Hammer Of Hate Records folded with no luck in finding it for under $50 bucks on ebay. The band told me they didn’t have any copies and didn’t know if […]
Take your guitar and tune it low, no lower, add some distortion, no I said add some distortion, make it noisy, make sound raw, make so low and distorted that the walls will rumble. Find your bass, same procedure thank you. Track down your drummer, slap him a bit around, turn him upside down, headphones […]
The dawn of the new wave of occult Death Metal is far from its end. While Canada, Germany, US, Australia and even Greece have the most iconic (current) wavers of this "dark" Death Metal influenced by early INCANTATION and IMMOLATION, the UK is probably the country that has the most twisted and obscure bands of the […]
Studio album number eleven by Swedish GRAVE. With a history going back to 1988 or even earlier (the direct predecessor CORPSE was founded 1986) maybe not that huge amount. But honestly, I am glad the guys keep on releasing fabulous Death Metal instead of doing something else. The album "Hating Life" (1996) was some kind […]
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 […]