Nuclear War Now does it again. I remember thinking in 1987 when I started my (very) short-lived fanzine "The Black Mark", that I would never be able to review all the albums being released in those days. At the time I worked in a local record store as the Metal / import records buyer (yeah, […]
While other Black Metal bands come up with hard and evil phrases, shitty and wimpy CDs which are passionless thrown onto the market, some others such as WINTERBLUT release really individual stuff, silently but constantly, sometimes as a demo, sometimes as a complete full-length album. The demo tape we deal with here is called "Das […]
Lately the VFTD contributors received an email titled “Poland strikes back”, announcing a bunch of bands from Germany’s eastern neighbor. And if you take a look on recent reviews you will discover a lot of fine Polish Black Metal releases. CIEŃ (the Polish word for shadow) are no exception, although the approach is aiming beyond […]
During the first listening session of this debut by EERIE from Poland I was a little bit doubting. Doubting if there is a need of another Black Metal outfit with a rather traditional and oft quoted approach. But every day this album grew stronger and stronger. Although there are just four songs with a running […]
ORDER TO RUIN from Munster in Germany and their mastermind Denis Pfeffer are restless in following their musical preference, which is called 90s melodic Death Metal from Gothenburg. "The Book Of Nemesis" is already their album number four within three years. Of course, releasing so much material in such a short period of time bears […]
AU-DESSUS from Vilnius, Lithuania are a newcomer and have just released their first self-titled EP "Au-Dessus" via Witching Hour Productions from Poland, who once again show their good taste for underground bands. The five songs simply called ‘I’ to ‘V’ are Black Metal or Avangarde Black Metal / Post Black Metal on a very high […]
The name BESTIALITY is such an obvious choice for an extreme Metal band – no one really took that name for a very long time. Now we have two new bands with this name. There is the German Death Metal band who released their album last year. And there is this Polish wrecking crew. This […]
Are you ready for some Black Metal rage from Poland? Our Eastern neighbours have developed a very vivid scene for this kind of music over the last more than twenty years, including some very unhealthy bands, no denial! And two of the better known bands have teamed up for this release here. On the one […]
Well, this is the third review of this release, which is truly becoming a cult one. Three different versions definitely deserve to be mentioned separately. And it seems that Portugal’s Caverna Abismal Records gave it the ultimate cult meaning in the true sense of this word. The "Profane Cult" tape contains 3 bonus tracks and […]
Wow, what a kick ass EP is this! As far as I know, this is a one man project by Michael Zetterberg from AGGRESSIVE MUTILATOR and he unleashes a 6 minute powerdisplay with the impact of a tornado in the F5 category. In a mix of Black Metal (riffs), Grindcore (drums) and Hardcore / Punk […]