The first album from Italian five piece EPISTHEME gives me a boot back in older days. Those days are the second half of the 1990s, when a lot of Progressive Metal bands came to light that no one really remembers right now. In the wake of then pretty successful DREAM THEATER, bands like SOUL CAGES, […]
AURORA BOREALIS are a long running band from the US, that is the brainchild of Rob Vento, who ran this band for a certain time with only a drummer to accompany him. “Worldshapers” already is the sixth album of AURORA BOREALIS, and I have to admit that I missed out their previous releases completely. So […]
Just when you thought you’ve heard it all, there’s the unexpected just around the corner. This time it is AZOOMA, a band from a country you’d never expect to allow any “Western” music, a country run by an ultra religious Islamic regime. Yes, it’s Iran, the city of Mashhad to be more precise, where the […]
APOSENTO? Never heard of them before? The same goes for me, believe me! This band from Spain was already around during the golden age of Death Metal, having released two demos and an EP, “Welcome To Darkness” in 1997, before throwing the towel. But like so many others, APOSENTO rose from the grave again to […]
Germany has a great tradition for Deathcore bands, that bastard blend of Melodic Death Metal, heavy and brutal parts and Hardcore, often in a fullblown bulldozing manner, leaving nobody behind, besides a twisted mass of decay, broken down with some catchy choruses or melodic parts and guitar leads. ICHOR has been around since 2008 and […]
COFFINBORN is a quite new Hungarian entity, sporting a couple of members from MÖRBID CARNAGE, a thrashing band I think I have enjoyed in the past. This band isn’t about Thrash, though, good old and dusty Death Metal done the brutal way is what they are up to. A good universal mix of old school […]
Back in the good old days the Danish national radio had a Metal show each Monday, I think (I might be a little wrong on the day, as it is quite some years ago). Though in one of those shows the host Bjarke Ahlstrand, which you might know as one of the guys behind Mighty […]
WRONG from Madrid is a two-men project, that came together in the year 2012 a.d., to create depressive Black Metal or Suicidal Black Metal, if you want to name it that way. Since SHINING and old FORGOTTEN TOMB are the names you need to compete against, I simply let the music speak and gave their […]
Whatever happened to BOLT THROWER? The latest album "Those Once Loyal" dates back to 2005, nearly ten years. Some time ago the band explained it is very hard to write new material since "Those Once Loyal" represents the ultimate BOLT THROWER release. But there is a solution for all those longing for new BOLT THROWER […]
I can not exactly remember, but it was a movie sample / intro of a MORTICIAN song. The words were: "Then we got the plague… the living death… quickly closing its fist over the entire planet." During the last months it seems that not the living death, but old school Death Metal is closing its […]