I don’t know how many Black Metal bands roam Portugal, though I know the man behind this band J.A. is involved in a lot of the Black Metal bands that are making noise from Portugal (mostly known DECAYED and ALASTOR), though he is also active in three other bands than this one. A damn creative […]
So, NECROGOD is a new project of Rogga Johansson? Why is he doing side projects instead of concentrating on his own band PAGANIZER? Or am I too stupid to ask? He’s quite a legend for sure!! Nah, forget about it! Let’s just start with the new offering from Mr. Rogga Johansson, the NECROGOD MCD “Inexorable […]
There are things in life that just need to happen. Two bands that love to release split 7”es joined forces to release a… aplit 7”. German Death lunatics REVEL IN FLESH (five splits so far) and the Malaysian war machine HUMILIATION (four splits up to now) did what they love best: entering a studio to […]
Ancient Darkness Productions is a small Danish label and mailorder and mostly offers excellent material. So I was curious to hear the tunes of DEPARTED SOULS from the Netherlands, who were totally unknown to me so far. Formed in 2013, they have released a demo so far and now their first five-track EP called "Barbaric […]
The band’s name and title of the second full-length by this outfit from Italy may be misleading. No clowny Grindcore but serious Death Metal. The only funny aspect are song-titles like ‘Funeral Rites Made To Exceed The Speed Of Sound’ whereas the music offers diversified and solemn Death Metal. The band knows the ropes of […]
DAWNRIDER rises up from Portugal and "The Third Crusade" is already their 3rd album. Haven’t heard them before, although I try to keep up with what’s going on in this scene, so I was curious about this release. The simplest way to describe them is Doom Metal with heavy leanings on the Stoner Rock and […]
The US Metal movement of the 1980s still is a fountain that never seems to run dry of bands and music to be discovered. So many bands released albums in editions so limited that it isn’t even funny for collectors. Sometimes there are debates whether some bands are US Metal or not. Yet there is […]
It should be no secret that the German Thrash scene of the 1980s consisted of more than the (meanwhile) so called “Teutonic Big 4”. Besides the big names, there was a second line of very good bands like DEATHROW, DARKNESS, ASSASSIN or EXUMER who reached a little bit of attention as well. These bands released […]
Anatolij Onoprijenko, born in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, was arrested in 1996 after he slaughtered 52 people within a period of seven years. This rate made him, besides one of the worst mass murderer in modern history, the perfect subject for a Goregrind band like CANNIBE. Never noticed this outfit from Italy, although they have a discography […]
There are two problems regarding this EP by KARBONSOUL from Portugal. The first and most severe one is the music. Gothic or Dark Metal with female vocals without any remarkable trademarks. There are a few atmospheric and musically noteworthy moments, but after listening a dozen times to "3Logy" only the female vocals lingered in my […]