Gee, I always loved split releases… You pay for one record and get two bands, and as far as vinyl split 7”es are concerned, the songs are often exclusive songs or rare versions. In this case, we have a split 7” that should wet the appetite for the upcoming new albums from the German bands […]
Well I’ll try to keep it short on this one, because this tape is so boring and mediocre that it should appeal only to total THRONEUM lunatics. I don’t think that THE LIGHT OF THE DARK have that many fans. THRONEUM are a Polish underground Death Metal band, that performs middleclass old school Death Metal, […]
MANZANAR is a German band that roamed the scene around 1997-1998, though never released anything. The only thing they left behind were a couple of rehearsal tapes, which Millenial Visions now has brought to our ears with this self-titled 7" release with MANZANAR’s 1997 rehearsal, together with a track from a 1998 rehearsal on the […]
When I first heard the moniker DEAD ROOSTER, I thought of a Death Metal band with a lot of Gore influences. Oddly enough and past the weird band name, DEAD ROOSTER plays a mix of Doom Metal, Sludge and D-Beat. "Midnight Special" is one hell of an album, actually. I was really impressed by these […]
ATMF are investing all their energy into a possible renaissance of the Italian Black Metal scene – a country which is still in some way the European Power / Heavy Metal fortress. Their latest output is the third release of ABSENTIA LUNAE – a band which is playing more or less a very typical high […]
France – La Grand nation which invented famous things like Devils Island and the Guillotine is since some years not longer a white place for all Black Metal fans.With bands like ANOREXIA NERVOSA and MERRIMACK to name just a few the first wave swept through whole Europe because they try to avoid the well known […]
If it comes to the essential ten commandments of Black Metal the latest Art of Propaganda release is doing it utmost to fulfill as much as possible. Black/White cover, a band logo hardly to identify – thanks to the artist Krieghetzer (the missing letter ‘s’ in this German word was for sure intentional!) – lyrics […]
From hour number one Black Metal was special, it was more than just playing music with your friends in a dark cabin in the Norwegian, Swedish or German woods. There was a ‘certain’ satanic ideology covering the whole movement and in 2010 this basic rule still counts! From this perspective there isn’t any reason to […]
Germany’s NAGELFAR (not to be mixed up with Sweden’s NAGLFAR, for those who still haven’t noticed the little spelling difference…) had a phenomenal start when they released their stunning debut "Hünengrab Im Herbst" a couple of years back. Over the top reviews were the logical consequence and established the name in the underground immediately. The […]
Throughout the last couple of years Germany’s Black Metal hopefuls LUNAR AURORA were quite obviously struggling very hard to step out of the overmighty shadow of their brilliant debut "Weltengänger", which (in my opinion) they never really managed to outdo with any of their follow-up releases "Seelenfeuer" and "Of Stargates And Bloodstained Celestial Spheres". That’s […]