Cleveland’s Speed Metallers are back with a new album – it took them 3 years to complete it, but in the meantime the guys toured a lot, and managed to release 2 EPs, a live album and a compilation, so we can actually say they are in motion all the time. "No Mercy For Mayhem" […]
Aaaaah… how sweet memories for a release so violent! This was the second Metal album I ever bought (in the recordstore of a small Christian town) and KREATOR’s "Pleasure To Kill” was pushed away from the throne of brutality. With sometimes double the speed, shredding riffs and top intensity it was a new found glory. Now, […]
The Swedish workaholics AGGRESSIVE MUTILATOR are back with one more demo with some fresh Black / Thrash rawness. I really enjoyed their “Death Toll VI” demo a few months ago, for it was a fresh, unpolished understatement. But with their newest offering, a demo called “Curse Of The Outlaw”, the Swedes go overboard with understatement […]
In the days of old, MASSACRA along with LOUDBLAST was the spearhead of French Death Metal. Their first three albums, released between 1990 and 1992, are classics of European extreme Metal of the early 1990s. After two more Groove Metal orientated albums in the mid of the decade, the band broke up in 1997 after […]
After a rather surprising, convincing and successful debut album that got lots of praise, VALLENFYRE took the challenge to make another album that sounds more Swedish than the most typical Swedish Death Metal album, with a more massive production than that of their debut. They pretty much succeeded in both cases – "Splinters" has a […]
What we have here is another act from Poland. Seems to me as if our neighbours in the east have an extremely active scene right now – there’s no other explanation for the great amount of albums from Poland in the past few months. And as long as there is one or another nice record […]
At first sight, the cover of EVIL MACHINE’s first album “War In Heaven” is a little confusing, since it depicts two German Stuka bombers of World War II, complete with insignia and swastikas. But checking out this Polish band made it all clear: No Nazi bullshit, since the members of EVIL MACHINE are also active […]
Some of the most ferocious music created in the current century has been created in Poland. Especially, Death Metal has had some well-known names out there. And to keep the tradition going, EMPATIC has just released their second album. Musically speaking, "Ruined Landscape" dwells well into the Death / Thrash realm. The production is perfect […]
DISGUSTOR was a two men project formed in 1998 in Norrköping, Sweden. Drummer Micael Zetterberg is very active in the underground scene and decided to release two of their three rehearsal tapes as a compilation tape, limited to 66 copies. The band played that kind of melodic Death / Black Metal, which was very popular […]
EMBRIONAL from Poland has been perpetually underrated. But the music is so good that Old Temple Records from that country re-issued the band’s demo from 2007. But let it be clear that good music doesn’t have an expiry date. The Death Metal music on the demo is just as potent now as it was back […]