The French outfit OSSUAIRE is a long-time active Death Metal band from Villeneuve-Sur-Lot in the Aquitaine area. But despite the fact that they are around since the year 2000, they haven’t yet released that much of their music. One demo, a self-financed album (“Mortes Fables" in 2010) and one song on a compilation resp. 4-way […]
No matter how many subgenres and bands come and go, NAPALM DEATH is always ready to give you a reality check with their classic and thought provoking work and this new album is the living proof. The legendary Grindcore pioneers present us probably one of their most accomplished releases in their last 10-15 years easily. […]
WITHOUT GRIEF from Falun, Sweden was another outfit, who got caught by the second wave of Swedish Death Metal, the so called Gothenburg style, which had its peak back in 1996 / 1997. WITHOUT GRIEF was one of those talented newcomers, who perished in the storm of good releases, as their former label Serious Entertainment […]
Being unfamiliar with any release of this legendary band after their much acclaimed ”Transcend The Rubicon”, the listening session / study of this re-release was a first acquintance. What immediately stood out compared to older work was the big Thrash / Core influence and the heavily increased aggression. There’s hardly a moment to catch breath […]
You never get a second chance to make a first impression. And when I first time skipped through the songs of Swedish based PREACH I thought of young Metalcore Lemmy Kilmister wannabe teenagers trying to play like a real Metal band. But – fortunately! – every output is examined right down to last detail and […]
Back in 2003, SINISTER announced their disbandment. Two members, Aad Kloosterwaard and Alex Paul, formed a project called NO FACE SLAVE. However, the material they recorded under that name sounded so much like SINISTER the band was reactivated in 2005. This album, "Afterburner," is most of that material. Listening to this it’s not hard to […]
When the first wave of Swedish Death Metal was in full swing in the early 1990s, there seemed to be a bazillion of bands from Sweden that might have been the next “big thing”. Well, we all know what happened to promising and damn good bands like EXCRUCIATE or SORCERY. And these two are just […]
Well, I don’t think it’s necessary to introduce BENEDICTION here in depth. The UK Death Metal institution is already around for a quarter of a decade, their guitar duo Darren Brookes and Peter Rew navigated the band through all the changes of these times and they still are alive and well. And anybody should know […]
Another part of the BENEDICTION re-release mania from Metal Mind Productions. Besides the double CD packages of the first four albums with all the accompanying releases, the Polish label also made the last album of the British Death Metal institution with Dave Ingram on vocals available again. “Grind Bastard” was initially released in 1998, shortly […]
That was simply nothing. I have to admit that it’s been a little while. And to be a hundred percent honest, even more than that. I haven’t listened to BENEDICTION for ages. I regret and vow, that I will change. Because as a huge fan of simple stone-aged D-Beat, and most of the old school […]