Swedish CAUTERIZER is a quite unknown band among the classic ones from the early nineties. They just released the demo "Then The Snow Fell…" and a year later American Wild Rags Records re-released this demo as a cassette-EP. All of a sudden they disappeared without even getting a real name in the underground. I have […]
Swedeath inside… well, more or less: BORN OF FIRE sounds like a crossover between SLAYER (as expected) and AT THE GATES and they’re actually quite good! How come? Well, there are (ex-) members of UNLEASHED, DISMEMBER and ENTOMBED involved – so by ordering this one you don’t really take a big risk and for the […]
BLACKLACE was a female fronted New York based band that really kicked ass on this debut! Their "On The Attack" demo was proof this band had a nack for writing good uptempo Metal anthems alongside more in-depth guitar playing à la van halen and a great sense for arrangement! Leading off after the ‘spooky’ intro […]
Here we have a new pomising band from Germany. Promising because they play Death Metal, real Death Metal in a way that is quite rare anno 2002. Indeed I have listened to the tape kinda often in my car, showing it to some friends or just let my enthusiasm flow while banging my head while […]
What is underground? Underground in my opinion is to look out for new bands from all possible places on this earth. To review a Thrash / Black Metal band from Bolivia fits to my definition and therefore this is a review highly dedicated to the worldwide underground Metal scene. BESTIAL HOLOCAUST from Bolivia already released […]
Japanese showa-wielding Thrash-master Barbatos (also of Abigail and Cutthroat) unleashes more of his trademark shredding savagery and exhumes the classic At War track ‘Fuckadafi’ for the B-side. Anyone familiar with Barbatos’ "War! Speed and Power" album from last year will know what to expect from "Burning Soldier" – totally out-of-control seething Metal fury. At War […]
I could’ve wished for a couple of tracks from the last album they did in the 90s, simply because it holds a couple of good tunes, despite the fact that "Piece Of Time" and the titanic "Unquestionable Presence" are tide-waves ahead of "Elements" when it comes down to quality. But one cannot really argue when […]
When I received this demo from ANAEL, I originally expected them to be some kind of a SAMAEL clone or something like that. Just compare both names (SAMAEL / ANAEL), their logo looks almost like the old SAMAEL one, same goes for the simple b/w design and demo title which heavily reminds me on the […]
Although some might know that I’m doing the Ancient Spirit Terror zine with Vasili, a friend of mine from Dortmund, I try my best to be objective on this one, since he is solely responsible for this release and thus it is easy to review it as impartial as any other release. It is the […]
It is seldom nowadays that a band gets already a lot of attention without having released anything properly at all. It may of course be that some of the members’ original bands (URFAUST among others) made the name easier spread, but basically just some random MySpace-songs gave them attention, and this Occult outfit was instantly […]