There was a time when Punk and Metal were in the same line: music for outfits, for rebels, that was loud and provocative. And, as many claim, in the beginning there was Punk and then Metal was born. I think that Punk added that touch of speed and aggression to the gloomy more blues orientated […]
It’s always a rare event when an album from Taiwan arrives in my mailbox. This island from the far eastern part of Asia might be in general a white spot on the map of worldwide Metal for most of the headbangers overhere. I suppose most people are familiar with CHTHONIC only who are without any […]
Even though Canada’s own CRYPTOPSY are around for ages, they never really were a top band of the Death Metal genre. And I have to admit, I never really took notice of their music as well. Heard one or another song, but nothing really caught my attention. Listening to their recently once again re-released second […]
BLIZZARD’s latest EP may being sounding like something BLUT AUS NORD may have used on "Ultima Thulee", but they quickly bare their thrashing teeth in less than four minutes. Germany has always been home to some of the best Thrash Metal in history. As it was in the 80s when the country pushed Thrash to […]
This is pure, undistilled dirty Heavy Metal or fuckin’ thrashing Rock’n’Roll!! Any way you call it, Germany’s BLIZZARD go straight for your balls and guts on their new album "The Roaring Tanks Of Armageddon"!! Pure alcoholic madness, blood, vomit, whores and megatomic loud Metal!!! Citing MOTÖRHEAD, VENOM, WARFARE and CARNIVORE as their primary influences, BLIZZARD […]
I suppose, I won’t really have to introduce BLIZZARD to anyone reading this anymore, since this German three-piece has been active since 1998 already. Ever since they have released no less than one demo, two EPs, three splits and four full-length albums. Even if you haven’t been familiar with them yet, it should still be […]
HADES are not the most familiar name when it comes to Scandinavian Black Metal in the early / mid 1990s. For whatever reason, I do not know. Of course the second wave of Black Metal bands never meant to be famous, but HADES was below the level of recognition. Maybe because they released their debut […]
Even now, approx. 1 1/5 years after the release of PUTERAEON’s debut demo "Fascination For Mutilation" I can say that this was the most surprising and still best demotape of the current old school revival. It offers the great Sunlight guitarsound, the typical harmonies of the Swedish Death Metal movement and above all a lot […]
From time to time I wonder what’s so great about Swedish Death Metal? I wonder why I never got tired of listening to bands like old ENTOMBED, CARNAGE, DISMEMBER, GRAVE, UNLEASHED during the years or bands playing a comparable style of music. At times I got tired of regular Heavy Metal, at times I got […]
It’s not a secret that the Swedish style of Death Metal is again very popular right now. Lots of bands adopted this style for their music in the last few years, from all over the world. But also in Sweden itself there are tons of new bands who bring new glory to Metal of Death. […]