My exposure to BENEDICTION was back in 2004 when a good friend of mine was trapped into everything that was coming out from the UK (PARADISE LOST, ANATHEMA, MY DYING BRIDE, DOOM, BOLT THROWER, CATHEDRAL, NAPALM DEATH, LED ZEPPELIN, SEX PISTOLS, KING CRIMSON, RADIOHEAD, BLUR, etc) and showed me this BENEDICTION album called “Transcend The […]
Well, I am not really a lazy guy, it is more that some things in life are more attractive than others. The scientific term is procrastionation, which is defined as "the practice of carrying out less urgent tasks in preference to more urgent ones, or doing more pleasurable things in place of less pleasurable ones, […]
Oops, it happened again. Recently I was asked about my opinion about "Cobra Verde", the second full-length by HIDEOUS DIVINITY and there it was, this oops-feeling. A band, completely unknown to me (and to most other Death Metal fans, I guess) is releasing one of the best technical Death Metal albums in 2014 and nobody […]
While listening to the first tunes of ANCIENT WIND, I would have expected another band from Scandinavia, but not really from the United States. But Black Metal and especially the Scandinavian sourced bastard between Heavy Metal and Black Metal is still quite popular in the States and some bands like BANE or ANCIENT WIND still […]
Back in 1998 I was a younger guy, turning 13 years old (I’m 30 years old now), on the verge of wanting to listen to more underground music as I was already sick and tired of the same old PUNGENT STENCH, MORBID ANGEL, SUFFOCATION, DEATH tapes and CDs I had at home (yeah, I had […]
A band name that somehow screams “Hair Metal” is usually not a good basis for a good review on these pages. But it won’t be fair to judge these Puerto Ricans only by their name, right? Apart from the unfitting name, DIAMOND ABLAZE haven’t done anything too wrong on their first offering “Demonical”. Well, the […]
It is funny how people often tend to point out that Metalheads are close minded people when it comes to their music genre. What those people have not realized is that Metal itself is its own universe these days. We’re not in the 80s anymore when we had only a handful of subgenres and less […]
Once upon a time, there was a band from Sweden that was named CRAWL. They had a demo tape in 1992, called “After Grace” and might still ring a bell in one or two rotten brains of those who remember any band. Yeah, there was… Today, we again have a band called CRAWL from Sweden. […]
Looking back to 2014, this record belongs in my top three albums of the year. DEPHOSPHORUS from Greece is a so-called blackened Death / Grindcore three piece, which is able to redefine that utterly stale label that I just used for them. What you have here is superior to all those bands which were labeled […]
From the Ore Mountains in Germany, the three piece NOTORIUS comes to show how they think Black Metal should sound: hateful vocals, simple and straight songs, yet never too primitive or unmelodious. With “Prophets Of False”, they have a second demo available (after “Empatia” from 2013) that serves as their statement. The opening ‘A Call […]