Ugh! Very raw indeed! DEATHRONATION from Nuremberg, Germany, celebrate Death Metal the old school (including the sound). They remind me of old heroes from the USA or – a little bit – of South America as both songwriting as well as err… everything sounds like from the early 90s. Even the demo comes on tape! […]
These days it seems solid to killer Death Metal (mostly of the old school-ish kind) is being dropped on us as regularly as IS barrages on the poor people in Kobane (the opening track ‘Deathchant Assyria’ inspired me to this tasteless comparison, sorry p.c. folks)! While a lot of releases prove to be forgettable after […]
OBITUARY is a band responsible for many things. One of them is for making Death Metal popular. They can proudly claim that they’ve released what is considered to be the most (commercially) popular "pure" Death Metal album in the history of the genre ("The End Complete"). Of course OBITUARY had to face a slight "problem" […]
OBITUARY is a regular and still warmly welcomed guest on Voices From The Darkside. With this release the US Death Metal legend is presenting their second live DVD within only four years. Mainly due to this very short gap between "Frozen Alive" (via Metal Mind Productions) and his twin brother "Live Xecution" – released early […]
We can actually talk about OBITUARY’s return, as their last full-length release with new material came out 5 years ago. Now they’re back, and they refreshed their ranks a little bit: of course the Tardy brothers are still there (no OBITUARY without them, actually), the original guitarist Trevor Peres, plus two new members: Terry Butler […]
The Polish band VELES COURT performs their mix of Pagan / Gothic Metal on this self-financed debut. With 8 tracks of which some are Polish and some in English it kind of drags on. This is a first acquaintance and I can’t give you much background info (my skills in the Polish language are still […]
NECROWRETCH stands for bestiality, and the goal was indeed to bring more savagery and aggression to the band’s sound. With this "Even Death May Die" EP as an appetizer, one can grant the guys managed to have reached the next step in hostility. The fact of tuning the guitars higher was indeed a smart move. Not […]
I have never understood the sense of album trailers, they never worked for me. It is all right to check out new releases by listening to small snippets of music, but at least I want to be the person who decides what parts I take a listen to, although I never was the guy spending […]
At the turn of the millennium, THE CROWN were one of the hopefuls of the extreme Metal scene. The band, formerly known as CROWN OF THORNS, had already released the album “Hell Is Here” under its new moniker (as well as two under its old name) and smashed me with their year 2000 release. “Deathrace […]
EBAUCHE NOIRE from Belgium is the continuation of ALIENANTE DAMNATION, the project of Adrien Weber, known in the Black Metal underground as Lord Genocide / VOCIFERIAN. EBAUCHE NOIRE has a far more melodic approach. This demo cassette consists of only two tracks with a total running time like a normal full-length. The first track ‘The […]