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 […]
It’s not really Metal that takes up the headlines in conventional medias these days when speaking of Baltimore, though when writing for a publication that is painted by visions from the dark side, conventionalism is not always the main issue. EXTERMINATION ANGEL is hailing from mentioned city in Maryland, USA, a band name which has […]
Everybody reading these pages on a regular basis should know by now that Rogga Johansson is a guy running a bazillion bands and projects with lots of big names and legends in the Death Metal scene. To list just the most prominent of these bands would already go beyond the constrains of this review. One […]
ERED from Spain already convinced me with their last promo CD but what they deliver with this new MCD called "Incarnated Horror" is simply amazing. The included 5 songs ERED are presenting us are melodic Black / Death Metal songs in the vein of NECROPHOBIC to compare it to at least one band. It’s tough […]
Blackened Death Metal is a genre that expanded a lot in the last 10 years due to some well known acts that took the genre to an “accessible” level (BEHEMOTH…), but there are still bands mixing these 2 genres to create an obscure and brutal assault of punishing music. Dark Descent, Pulverised, Blood Harvest, etc […]
Catalonian horde FOSCOR are no newcomers to the scene and have released their fourth output "Those Horrors Wither" already in late November 2014, but the good thing in Metal is, that music never grows old. To be honest, I totally missed out the band’s outputs apart from their contributions to the KATATONIA tribute album, which […]