With their first offerings up to their first album “Trenches Of The Netherworld”, Swedish USURPRESS were real experts in combing Crust and D-Beat with Death Metal. This album was more or less a blueprint of how blending these styles sound best and it highlighted all the smaller stuff they released before. But last year’s split […]
I seriously doubt that this album still needs to be introduced to all those of you who are reading this or like-minded magazine(s) on a frequently base. "Slaughter Of The Soul" was not only the most straight forward, right into your face and therefore fuckin’ best AT THE GATES release, it was unfortunately also their […]
The return… Like if time was nothing… Into oblivion… AT THE GATES was formed from the ashes of GROTESQUE and went on soon to release a demo / EP, with “Gardens Of Grief” and quite soon their debut album “The Red In The Sky Is Ours”, heralded by the more brutal Death Metal fans as […]
Before the year turns to its end, F.D.A. Records sends another group into the ring, to fight for a place in this years top twenty of underground Death Metal releases. ARROGANZ is active since 2008 and ready to unleash their third album over us in November. You can expect a dirty bastard of blackend Death […]
This duo from Finland is not a band that makes it easy for the listener… Their first output “Ne Deus Crede”, an often postponed EP from 2007 that was released in 2012, was completely titled in Latin. On their first full-length release, ATRUM TEMPESTAS name their songs in French. Since most readers probably haven’t heard […]
What comes to mind if you think of Nice and the Côte d’Azur? Mediterranean flair, easy living the French way and sunshine, of course. Well, don’t buy the cliché until you’ve heard DARKENHÖLD! The three piece is exactly from that area, and they sound quite opposite to the region they are from. Instead of celebrating […]
Ancient Death Metal worship, who doesn’t need that? The Chilean Death Metal force THY SERPENT’s CULT is finally ready with their new full-length "Sedition, Sorcery And Blasphemy", the follow up to the splendid "Infernal Wings Of Damnation" from 2011, released by the harbringer of Chilean darkness, Australis Records. The debut was a brutal and relentless […]
Hell, for me this must be the most anticipated Thrash Metal release of 2014! 26 years since their self titled debut album and 23 years since their last release "Vs. The Earth" (featuring Doyle Bright on vocals) RIGOR MORTIS has risen back from the dead stiring up old cobwebs and recording their 3rd (and most […]
Thuringias Death Metal force DESERTED FEAR return with their second output called "Kingdom Of Worms". I must admit, that I missed out their first full-length "My Empire", so I checked out this one first, before I started to review their new album. What has changed within the last two years? The dirty rotten stench of […]
The return of GORGUTS recently had many Tech Death geeks jumping for joy. Some, like myself, however weren’t so thrilled. To the minority of us (I assume), this new GORGUTS showed the band ‘up-their-own-ass’ with technicality. The songs meandered at great lengths without hooks, catchy rhythms, or any trace of bloodcurdling speed (LeMay since expressing […]