It’s time for Norwegian blackened Thrashers NOCTURNAL BREED’s 5th studio album, and we all pretty much know what to expect from it, right? Or we just don’t. There has always been something really appealing to these Norwegians’ strongly MOTÖRHEAD-ish Thrash’n’Roll, ever since they put this act together almost about 20 years ago already. From one […]
THE SWILL are a brand new Michigan based act, featuring guys known from TROUBLE (!), BORROWED TIME, WASTELANDER or HARBINGER. The first two names probably electrified some of you, but hold your horses: it’s a long, long way to go for those guys, as “Thirst For Misery” is a typical release with demo quality. While […]
Dutch Death / Doom Metal patrol MOURNING’s debut album saw the daylight in 1993, released on the small Dutch label Foundation 2000. When strictly talking about some independent and small record labels and the underground Metal of those days, undoubtedly a band like MOURNING vanished quick into oblivion, just keeping in mind they only released […]
More Mexican madness in my face, this time the evil is incarnated as INSEPULCHRAL, a band that delivers blackened Death Metal with a raw and healthy dose of Thrash Metal riffing, yes we did need a band more in this genre. I don’t even want to start guessing of how many bands there is out […]
There was much talk about "Death", the new release of TEITANBLOOD, already before its release. Their label Norma Evangelium Diaboli announced, that TEITANBLOOD "will correct the misconception about Death Metal being music", so it made me a bit curious to listen to their new output in order to find out, what they wanted to point […]
Greece as its own country, has shown its sharp and hungry claws countless times as far as the country’s potentiality for churning out some killer Metal acts is concerned. RESPAWN THE PLAGUE that was started in 2005, plays Death Metal of the most murky and darkest kind, following the same traces that especially such US […]
Italian extreme sounding underground Metal heroes BLACK PROPHECIES never got a proper studio album out before vanishing completely away from the map of underground extreme Metal. Some independent sources tell that BLACK PROPHECIES’ debut album titled "Abominations From The Abyss" was supposed to be released on Wild Rags in 1989, but it never happened (doesn’t […]
Canadian underground Death / Thrash Metal titans SLAUGHTER never really made it big for themselves but instead it’s no denying that they did have a remarkable influence on the underground Death Metal scene movement back in the day – and as it seems SLAUGHTER are not completely forgotten these days either. I mean, everything that […]
4 years have passed by since this Finnish old school Thrash Metal mob in question released the band’s 3rd album, titled "… From Above", introducing the band’s roots in both early European territory of Thrash as well as early American Thrash basically, spiced with some tiny hints of Hardcore Punk sound, which unquestionably has more […]
Welcome to a piece of Mexican Death Metal hell, this album is a furnace of classic South American and American influences melted into a blazing pit of brutality. During the first couple of listens I couldn’t stop thinking of DROWNED IN BLOOD as the Mexican equivalent to the Brazilian madmen KRISIUN, as their pummeling and […]