Almost everything I had written back when I reviewed the first album of FORTÍÐ could be repeated here with the exception that also almost everything has become better, the songs seem to have more flow, the overall sound is better, especially the clean vocals have a tendency towards early POTENTIAM material which I personally prefer, […]
If I was rude, I’d call this is a cheap copy of early Black Metal-bands since the ingredients like old ENSLAVED (especially ‘Creations’ is so close to their classic ‘Slaget I Skogen Bortenfor’ that it is hardly bearable), TULUS, later DARKWOODS MY BETROTHED are so obvious that we could turn it down with this sentence. […]
Compilations… some of those are legendary amongst Metal fans…"Grind Crusher", "In The Eyes Of Death", "Death Is Just The Beginning", "Metal Massacre"… you name it, but compilations are an important sign of labels that want to expose their bands in a form that only compilations can do. So, now after many years of formation, we […]
This is my first encounter with this Pagan / Folk / Black Metal band originated in Iceland, but now located in Norway, and it’s a great surprise. The band plays an epic form of Black Metal with many references to epic BATHORY, some ENSLAVED with the obvious DARKTHRONE and slight early BURZUM touch. There are […]
Long time since I have seen a split recording. Usually to do this kind of projects, the bands involved must have something in common so the flow of the music although with different bands and sounds, keeps some sort of connection. Spain’s GATHERING DARKNESS who starts the onslaught with 5 songs are in the brutal […]
Sometimes bands come back that nearly no one really missed. The recently revived Dutch DEAD END is a perfect example for this. They released a 7” and three demos during their first time of existence, which was from 1990 to 1993. These recordings didn’t raise too much attention, except for an exclusive participation on one […]
I think it’ll be dumb on my side to even mention who these 2 guys are, but I’ll do it for the sake of the people that might not know it (or have been living under a rock for the last 20 years). Paul Speckmann is the mastermind of such important bands for the early […]
This is what I like about writing reviews. When I saw the title with the name FERAL on it, I just jumped on that review. Reason: simple. I thought it was the new record by FERAL from Sweden (the Death Metal act), however to my surprise it was a different FERAL, this band comes from […]
The name OBTRUNCATION had always caused a certain excitement. Before ever having heard a single song some praising reviews and ads mentioning ultra fast drumming and extreme growling vocals created an almost religious conviction that this band simply had to be awesome. After first acquaintance thanks to two tracks on the DFSA compilation, all expectations […]
After a long hiatus of doing reviews (for Voices and Grinder Magazine) the last months I reactivated my long time passion, thanks to Andres of Grinder, Juan of Mushantufe Prod, Marco of Apocalyptic Zine / Prod, Gabriel of Compilation of Death and Frank Stöver (thanks for trusting me again, man). I’m again in, and started […]