A new TRIBULATION album was on my most expected list of releases. Their debut "The Horror" released in 2009 was a damn impressive take on the old school Swedish Death Metal. Then in 2013 they dropped the best avangarde Death Metal album of the year "Formulas Of Death". So how the hell you follow two […]
Black Forest, Germany. A mystery place, emotionally charged with ancient legends, gloom and obscurity, animating the imaginations from the other side. My personal approach is a rather droll or humorous one, because I always think of traditional costumes and garbs like the "Bollenhut", just google this untranslatable word to know what I am talking about. […]
Apart from releasing new records, Dutch Vic Records earned a good credit for some well compiled re-releases of forgotten gems during the last years. A fine PHLEBOTOMIZED compilation in 2013 comes to my mind rather quick, for instance. With their countrymates MANGLED, they again dug down deep in the graveyard of dead and forgotten bands. […]
One of the uncrowned kings of the Teutonic Death Metal squad (the counterpart of the Teutonic Thrash Titans in my opinion). Lots of people talk about MORGOTH without taking into consideration other great Death Metal bands that came out of Germany in the early 90s say PURGATORY, INCUBATOR, DEAD and the mighty BLOOD. But there […]
The second demo by this Belgian horde, crawling out of the sewers from Brussels dead city, was unleashed on tape by the band in the summer of 2014. Although the pressing of the tape was very confidential, it reached the ears of the Blood Harvest headquarters, a label known for its impeccable taste when it […]
Lead by veteran Maelstrom (DODSFERD, THOU ART LORD among others) and former EXARSIS’ Alex, NIGREDO is part of the Black Metal scene with a new approach. They definitely preserve the old feeling most of the time, but there are those Black’n’Roll parts that are quite popular these days, partly courtesy of DARKTHRONE. However, NIGREDO does […]
The tomb of Caligari Records unleashes another gem of brutality upon us. Those who know the quality of the music this label has put out yet can be sure that this one fits in the line of those excellent releases. With NEGATIVE VORTEX we have a brand new four piece from Oakland, CA in the […]
The record label is praising TARAN as "kult horde in the Polish Underground", but I guess that is just the usual ballyhoo. After 13 years the band is finally releasing a full-length, before there have been only a demo, a split CD with MOONTOWER and a limited cassette called "Live Chaos" with BESATT and DET […]
PERPETRATÖR comes from Portugal, a country rarely associated with good Thrash Metal, but these guys are about to change this perception. This cassette version (limited to 200 copies) of "Thermonuclear Epiphany" which I’m dissecting here was released by Caverna Abismal Records, while Stormspell and Dark Lore Records took care of the CD version. So in […]
I will keep this short, as this album was already reviewed in Voices From The Darkside as a release on the Preposterous Creations label. Apparently it was released in conjunction with the Portuguese label Caverna Abismal back in 2012 and since I got it for a review from them, it seems like this one particular […]