Here we have the new release from a band which we featured long time ago in our humble zine. I am talking about New Zealand based veterans and masters of brutality aka DAWN OF AZAZEL. We featured their very first 7"EP and debut album "Law Of The Strong" which was unleashed upon this rotten planet […]
Illuminating moments: sitting together with friends talking about particular bands and the style they play. While discussing, it won’t take long and you will get lost in a game of helpless genre dropping, trying to describe something you don’t find a box for. Gladly it became harder to label bands. Which to me feels like […]
This split EP, released in 2013, by the Catalan based label Negra Nit Distro is still around and kicking, and if you haven’t checked it out yet, it is not too late, there should still be a few copies around, so get off the chair and get hold of one, if you like what you […]
Finally (to me) the best old / new Death Metal band hailing from Finland is back, now with an EP that is full of obscure and twisted Death Metal played and executed in its own personal way, not copying anyone or trying to sound like anyone else. When “The Poisoned Void” was released back in […]
Another fairly new Spanish Black Metal band rises from the dark crypts with a fresh release. Three years after their demo “Ritual I – Summoning The Abyss", the Catalan four piece NYCTOPHOBIA releases its second strike, pretty logically titled “Ritual II – The Will Of Darkness”. And what do they have to give to those […]
Two rather unknown Black Metal bands do the honours for a joint effort, a vinyl split 7” in this case with one song from each band. CRYPTIC WANDERINGS from Zaragoza, Spain formed out of the ashes of AMNION, taking the name of this band’s only album as their band name. For them, it’s their first […]
When the name ANASARCA appeared on the VFTD mailing list I was immediately alerted. Could it be possible? That a band responsible for three excellent Death Metal albums in the period from 1998 to 2004 being back after a delay of eleven years? A band responsible for "Moribund", one of the best German Death Metal […]
Swedish horde NECROPHOR are not totally unknown in the underground, as they just unleashed their demo number three within only three years of band history. This time, they were not able to record in Studio Sunlight, so they decided to record and mix the demo themselves and "Exterminatus" turned out great and comes up with […]
Something fuckin’ heavy from Caligari again! This time, the gem digging tape label presents us a really new band from France. ABJVRATION started just a year ago, but the three band members are experienced in bands like FUNERALIUM or HKY. Those who know these bands might already assume that ABJVRATION are more on the Doom […]
Debut album of this Ukranian Black Metal band, that for the first impression has a quite disturbing cover depicting the vocalist which has a weird looking waste… well, pass over the shocking cover art, a very macabre sounding intro precedes their songs of a somewhat symphonic style of Black Metal, not far away from early […]