What is the reason for bands to play a cover-version? Maybe they want to pay tribute to their sources of inspiration, maybe they cover the songs they personally like, maybe songs that they are used to play on gigs or in the rehearsal-room. Or maybe a song challenges them, which is pretty far away from […]
From Antwerp, Belgium known the world over for its diamond agencies (and featured in such contemporary films as "Snatch") than any other commodity, also too from this gem capital hail a brutal Death Metal horde known as SUHRIM. "The Cunt Collector" is the second album installment in the discography of SUHRIM and what a follow-up […]
Years after its initial release on CD this awesome split gets a vinyl treatment by American based Bird Of Ill Omen Recordings. As mentioned in the review for the original CD edition released by Singaporean Dies Irae Productions in 1999, STARGAZER offer a unique blend of ferocious Death and Thrash Metal with Black Metal overtones, […]
Even though I’m usually not the type of guy who likes split releases too much, this one by the two Australian underdogs STARGAZER and INVOCATION is definitely a worthy investment. I still remember the name STARGAZER from a feature in TALES OF THE MACABRE zine and with that Costa once more had proved his good […]
D.O.G. Productions returns with another release of unholy blackness (limited to 300 copies), after their successful and now rare collector’s edition Impiety 7" ep of a couple of years ago. There are two words to describe this split-CD; totally cult. Sacrilegious Torment kicks things off with a parade of six tracks of purest Profanatica worship, […]
IMPUREZA, who kick this split CD-R off very impressively, are hailing from France, they play brutal, quite technical Death Metal, have two vocalists in their ranks and their lyrics are written in Spanish (!!). Ooops! But if you already tend to consider this a quite weird combination, then please tell me what you think of […]
Ireland is only a small green island but musical wise it is the fatherland of a handful of great bands with enormous influence on the European scene for years. If it comes to name two Irish bands I really doubt that neither REBIRTH OF NEFAST nor SLIDHR will be mentioned – even if the presented […]
This Canadian outfit delivers us ‘Samurai Crushing Metal’ and I have to say they do their job quite good here. Their metallic assault is riff laden, heavy midtempo Thrash / Heavy Metal with excellent guitar work. This CD-R (like the HUTT stuff also released as tape only) includes five tracks of the band’s album "Incinerator […]
This split CD released on Japan’s Amputated Vein Records will surely make some heads turn, or better said simply cut off, that is. The home of PSYCHOFAGIST is Novara, located in the north west of Italy. According to the info sheet they used to play Thrash / Death Metal under the name of BEDEVILED – […]
First of all, the band PEST we deal with here is the one from Germany, just because many bands are active under the monicker PEST by now as we all might know. "Vado Mori" is the band’s 3rd full-length album after one demo-tape and 2 albums. PEST have attracted me already with their demo "Schwarze […]