This Dutch band has inked a new deal with Cyclone Empire and recorded their 3rd album with a new revamped line-up, which now includes Henri Sattler (ex – GOD DETHRONED) on vocals and Michiel van del Plicht (ex – GOD DETHRONED, PROSTITUTE DISFIGUREMENT) on drums. Their previous album "Razernij" came out in 2008 and from […]
The name was more set for a Deathcore band, and I was ready for such abomination to strike. Instead we are faced with a Post Rock band with Black Metal touches. I have already faced a couple of bands in a similar style, and although sometimes I can appreciate what they do, they are a […]
The cold image of the cover art invokes bands like DISSECTION, EMPEROR or DARK FUNERAL, but that is far from the truth. VANHEGLA which means “desecrate”, plays a very weird form of Black Metal and Post Rock, whereas the main instrument seems to be keyboards, piano arrangements, atmospheric passages, and some distorted guitars and bass […]
As impressed as I was when I reviewed NUCLEAR WINTER’s 2003 demo "Abomination Virginborn" I am when I listen to "Purifying Consecrated Ground" by DEAD CONGREGATION, which is actually more or less the same band. Thus for reasons beyond my humble knowledge the Greeks changed their name, but not the quality and stylistic direction of […]
6 years ago Greek Deathers DEAD CONGREGATION created a rightfully revered, essential opus with “Graves Of The Archangels” which despite its obvious main influences – INCANTATION, IMMOLATION, MORBID ANGEL – was blessed with a fervor, intensity and seriousness that allowed them to quickly rise and become an admired entity within the extreme Metal underground. They […]
Another release by the Polish label Odium Records, which recently released the BLACK ALTAR / VARATHRON / THORNSPAWN three-way split, the debut of THY FLESH and the latest CREPUSCULUM album. So I guess you can anticipate the style of “Behold The Son Of Plagues” – correct, Black Metal. This is the first full-length by AKROTHEISM […]
ORDER TO RUIN is a melodic Death Metal outfit from Muenster, Germany and active in the underground since 2011. After releasing two EPs and one full-length CD, they now present their second self-released full-length "The Loss Of Distress". After a short intro, the opening track ‘Cyber Assassin’ already gives a good overview, over the bands […]
I still can remember the second album "Thrashing Warthogs" by these Upper Franconian Thrashers which was releasesd in 2004 by Merciless Records and got excellent reviews around the globe. Unfortunately I lost them from my radar even though the outfit from Bamberg added an EP to their discography, entitled "Drink, Kill, Fuck, Die – The […]
The Polish Black Metal act KAOSKULT from Zielona Góra (Lubusz Voivodeship in Western Poland) is already around for eight years now. But they only released a demo up to the day their first album “Secret Serpent” was released in early 2014. Was it worth the wait? Not really, unless you’re into second to third class […]
This split release features two Polish acts, a more established one with PERUNWIT and the new project RAUS! featuring Aro from PERUNWIT and BLACK LEGION’s Shadow. The first thing that really stroke my eye was the artwork that picks up elements of Nazi “aesthetics”. Quite compelled by that, I started my researches, just to find […]