There are bands that are connected with a certain member in a way that cannot be easily explained… a member that takes the identity of the band as his own even if he might or might not be a founder. MASSACRE is one of those bands, and the name of the man is Kam Lee. […]
Totally not what one would expect from Poland – SLAIN are neither VADER acolytes nor orthodox Black Metal lunacy. Throughout the 8 tracks on this album, the guitar players scarcely ever refrain from the palm-mute, and much chunky-chunkage abounds. This takes me back to the stable of primitive Death Metal bands on JL America, then […]
Swedens horde NAZGHOR from Uppsala seem to be very busy in songwriting and developing their music, as only a few months after their fine debut release "Life Impaled", which really impressed me a lot, they now release their second full-length "Upon The Darkest Season" again via Dead Center Productions. Stylewise they continue with what they […]
GRAVEYARD GHOUL could easily be on the Razorback roster with its kind of festering old school Death Metal dating back to the late ‘80s – early ‘90s ostensibly. It’s not something that would reinvigorate the genre if that’s what you’re looking at. It’s comfortable in its own clichéd vision which is not without its charms. […]
Let alcohol, lust for sex and Satan guide your way into the MIDNIGHT! Oh, yeah, I can feel the VENOM in these veins of anger and hangover to be the main reason for this Thrash’n’Roll assault. If those stories about magic happening after midnight are real, then this must be the reason of people fearing […]
This time, Caligari Records strayed very much off course. At least in comparison to the stuff Hansel released up to now. DEMON HEAD is a pretty young band from Copenhagen in Denmark. Young in concern of its existence, for they started playing as a band in spring of 2012. But the five musicians are pretty […]
Slovenian Black / Death Metal act SAMOMOR has been around since 2008, recorded one EP ("Somnus Stellae") in 2009 and contributed to a split release ("Covenant Of The Undivine") of 4 bands in 2010 with one of their songs. "Ad Te Noctem Increatam" is the band’s debut studio album, containing of 7 songs of somewhat […]
Do samurais still exist? Good question, isn’t it? Perhaps just in some of those people’s wildest dreams in Japan anyway – and whatnot, in a less populated northern country like Finland for instance? Who are you kidding here now? Finland’s four Metal digging samurais in WHISPERED love Japan – and obviously the Japanese history about […]
Writing reviews for Voices From The Darkside is always a stimulating experience. The word “funereal” was unknown to me and first I thought it is foolish neologism, combining the words “funeral” and “reality”. But this is not the case, “funereal” is a genuine term, first known use in the year 1725. 282 years later FUNERAL […]
Kinda brave to kick off an album by an acoustic interlude and flute, I’d say. Well, a Slovenian progressive Doom / Death Metal act MOTHERMOUND doesn’t hesitate to do so anyway. The band’s debut album, titled "The Burden Of Tomorrow", that was released on a small Slovenian label Hollow Earth Records in 2013, contains actually […]