After the "Second Attack" record it was now obvious crossfire was going for more ‘speed’ and less ‘laid back’ moments in the band. ‘Break Out’ opens the events here and it’s heads-down Speed Metal with some great gruff vocals and a great ‘driving’ riff to put your Heavy Metal pedal to the metal! The record […]
I heard quite a lot from this one-man-project and remember that it mostly gets compared to BATHORY ("Hammerheart" and later), now finally I can make up my own opinion. This again great layouted double vinyl in an amazing gatefold sleeve (well-done High-Roller-Records) offers CROM’s first full-length recording called "Vengeance" and includes as bonus the 4 […]
I follow this band already since their great and already sold out split EP with NECROVATION where they offered the song ‘Chain Of Command’ as well as a very good cover version of the MERCYFUL FATE song ‘Curse Of The Pharaohs’. After buying this cool release I had a look on their homepage and downloaded […]
The finish terror-commando returns with their third full-length and nothing changed, still as early-Darkthrone-ish as Black Metal can get, and within all the upcoming trend to sound as DARKTHRONE as possible, this is still my favourite choice. And this band simply does it already for a couple of years. Most of the tracks featured here […]
Another 3-song seven inch from the great Swedish label Blood Harvest Records. It’s hard to believe how many great bands they are picking up recently and CEREMONIAL EXECUTION is by no means an exception. The band was formed back in 2001 and already released a split 7"EP, a demo and planned to release the recording […]
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 […]