Finland has always provided excellent and captivating Black Metal and PEST are no exception. This full-length is actually the compilation of all the tracks PEST recorded from their inception in 1999 until their demise (?) last year (2003, question mark again), in demo and 7" formats. In a time when it becomes extremely difficult to […]
It seems to me, that after all these years Chile’s number one cult act PENTAGRAM is finally getting the treatment they would’ve deserved back in the 80s already. Following the essential self-titled demo compilation CD from 2000, here’s another CD release of Anton & the boys. "Reborn 2001" is a live album which features the […]
The title says it all. "Gothic" was the second album by PARADISE LOST, released in 1991. It was a bold move, both in music and image. Before "Gothic", PARADISE LOST recorded and released their debut "Lost Paradise", and their much famed demos. These latter recordings are pure, unaltered Death Metal, the music that had won […]
Both bands are from Belgium and both bands play Black Metal, so this output may give you a small survey of the Belgian Black Metal scene. First up is PANCHRYSIA, a band which is active for several years by now and the three studio and one live song really surprised me. One main influence is […]
Alright, so here’s a split for misanthropic people who don’t like sunshine very much. Each band presents 3 tracks and Sweden’s OLD BONES start ceremonies off with the primitive Death / Black Metal heavily inspred by HELLHAMMER and WINTER. I like their raw yet thunderous sound, especially the drums, but music wise this is mediocre […]
On this time and age, are split recordings really a necessity or just another tool for the Metal masses to know more than one band in a recording? Hell knows…I mean, it is the dreaded internet era… you just create a myspace thing and then everyone can know of you. Or, on the other hand, […]
Released in late 2009, this split between Hungarian band NADIR, and fellow countrymen DIM VISION, is a wedding of two styles as much as it is a split between talented bands. The NADIR side of the release might strike some die-hard underground supporters as downright unpalatable, but that’s their failing, not NADIR’s. Love it or […]
What a slap in the face! Of course MUTILATION didn’t reinvent the wheel with this album, but if you are out for a brutal slab of PURE Death Metal fashioned in the old ways, you will certainly welcome "Conflict Inside" like a bowl of fresh air! All the ingredients are here to make any Death […]
Necrolucas from Poland’s ANIMA DAMNATA joined forces with a Norwegian guy called Nordra and together they entered Necromorbus Studios / Sweden (e.g. ARMAGEDDA, WATAIN, FUNERAL MIST) in early 2004 to record four own tunes plus a cover of DARKTHRONE’s ‘Inn I De Dype Skogers Favn’. MORD play traditional, raw Black Metal with many thrashing parts, […]
Diabolical Constellation Productions have unearthed one of the best split albums ever released. This was originally released by Killer Elite Records way back in ’86 but now repressed by this newly formed label in noble digipak form. METAL DEADNESS is the testament of two very young pioneering bands that stormed our ears during mid 80s […]