I like to come across new Death Metal bands, especially in these days where the scene is thriving and some of the new bands actually deliver some nice outputs. ABYSSAL ASCENDANT is a new entity from France, hailing the ancient ones and what dwells beneath, subjects that have been touched quite a lot during the […]
I am not very familiar with the Estonian scene, so the debut full-length from atmospheric Black Metallers THOU SHELL OF DEATH was a nice surprise to review a band from that area. But speaking of Black Metal would be too limitating, as these three musicians play a doomed variation of the Black Metal theme, KATATONIA […]
Finnish LOATH is a somewhat freshly formed (in 2013) Crust / Grindcore / Doom act, in which 4 lads share a same musical vision how they want their extreme Metal to sound like. LOATH’s 10-track debut effort, containing of 31 minutes of stuff – despite not breaking any existing genres of extreme Metal a bit […]
NORTHERN PLAGUE… I was honestly expecting to hear some raw and militaristic Norwegian Nazi – garbage propaganda type of Black Metal by just seeing this band name alone, plus the album cover for this release as well. I couldn’t be more wrong about this band. These 4 fellows in NORTHERN PLAGUE come from Poland, and […]
With the re-release of "Justified Genocide", the series of new editions of all THANATOS releases at their new home Century Media gets finally finished. Originally released in 2009 on the small Dutch Deity Down label, this album now gets a major distribution. In comparison to the original edition, the CD bonus tracks (‘The Burning Of […]
The Dutch Metal institution THANATOS is known to be the first extreme Metal band to emerge from the Netherlands. They already started in 1984, released no less than five demo tapes and an official live tape before their first full-length album "Emerging From The Netherworlds" came out in 1990 on the infamous Shark label. After […]
Although the odd choice of the moniker and the quite unimpressive logo seemed to be signs foreboding enough to some to skip this project, it was interesting to check out if there is a chance that it has something really interesting to offer. “The aim of the project is to explore how far one man […]
Established just in 2010, Tokyo based five piece outfit VORCHAOS sounds already quite mature on their debut album "Vortex Of Chaos". The formation blends a lot of various elements and styles, ranging from tradtional Metal, Thrash or Metalcore, together to create their own unique brand of modern Death-Thrashing art (with a Metalcore / Loud music […]
Sometimes hell comes from out of nowhere. For example from the New England states of the US. SANGUS are from Providence, RI, they started in 2012 and released this demo, their first offering, a year after. It’s tastily called "Vengeful Brutality" and features three deadly projectiles. The opener ‘Bonecollector’ is a nothing less than a […]
Some new Thrash Metal from Australia. Well, remembering Thrash from down under, my memories mainly bring some bands to light that didn’t really made it. Neither they are remembered too well, nor they were successful. Except for HOBB’S ANGEL OF DEATH, who somehow became "cult", for whatever reason. But all of them suffered from the […]