New and upcoming label I Hate Records from Norrköping, Sweden dug out something really obscure with this excellently designed 7" containing two rare tracks of the mid-80s underground Doom band STILLBORN. Since I expect only few people to know anything about this fascinating act I’d like to give you a short overview of their career, […]
Funny, really funny. 2 weeks ago I received a package from the cool vinyl label High-Roller-Records including (amongst others) a fabulous looking gatefold double LP from Finnish Doomsters SPIRITUS MORTIS. A week later I visited Vienna together with my lady for 5 days and guess which event took place in the Metal pub Escape Metalcorner […]
Another fine gatefold LP, a split LP this time with the 2 participants SONIC RITUAL and SANCTUARY IN BLASPHEMY. Both Swedish bands, both related to the Doom Metal genre, in a way at least. SONIC RITUAL offer a mighty powerful and atmospheric carpet with great riffs in the old BLACK SABBATH vein during the Ozzy-days […]
As the German support for the "North American Black Metal Invasion Pt.I" – tour in December, SECRETS OF THE MOON played a couple of gigs in Germany and Belgium with GODLESS NORTH, INQUISITION and KRIEG. One of them, the one at the "Festung" in Bitterfeld, was recorded and now released as a limited live-tape (200 […]
I just can’t be objective anymore when it comes to these guys! To me SADISTIC INTENT is simply THE band that always understood best what real Death Metal is all about. They got the perfect dark image, they have a vocalist with a brutal, yet very charismatic voice who knows that real brutality comes from […]
What is it about Japan’s SABBAT that elicits such a die-hard response from fans? ARES KINGDOM vocalist Alex Blume is one of "those" SABBAT die-hards. Earlier this year ARES KINGDOM played in Chicago with BLACK WITCHERY, SCEPTER, and ANCIENT GODS. At a party the night before our show, a very drunk Alex trapped Scott of […]
Well, the title is a little misleading. This doesn’t sound ‘Black Metal’ the way many, including myself, might think of it. This is primitive Death Metal with horrible production, sounding a bit like VARATHRON’s "Procreation Of Unaltered Evil" to my ears; and that’s its charm. The double LP includes the band’s "Zombie" demo from 1990, […]
After releasing an already excellent demo entitled "Misanthropic Genius" in 2002 (review to be found somewhere on this pages) Swedish TERRORAMA could gain a deal with NWN and now offer their first full-length containing seven new tracks (including a HOLY TERROR cover) of aggressive, diversified Black / Thrash sounding like a mixture of early MERCILESS, […]
This is the first musical sign of life from Sweden’s TERRORAMA after their debut full-length "Horrid Efface" on Nuclear War Now Productions. A classic demo tape, with a xeroxed black & white cover (very old school indeed) that offers four brand new songs (‘Perversion Extol’, ‘Inseminated With Scorn’, ‘The Self-Exorcism’ and an instrumental version of […]
Thrash ’til fuckin’ Death!!! If you like it the primitive old school Black / Thrash way then you should check out Sweden’s TERRORAMA first demo tape. The three songs featured on "Misanthropic Genius" have a fantastic, powerful sound (created by ex-MARDUK member "Devo" Andersson), that provides enough raw feeling inevitable for this type of music. […]