Melodic Death Metal with keyboards and violins. Those words will be enough for me to take action and run far away from whatever band can be described with such style. Unless, it is DARK LUNACY. My admiration with the band comes from their first release “Devoid” which compromises of Death Metal with melody and the […]
From Greece we have the second album of these bastard sons of MOTÖRHEAD and VENOM. I could stop here as with those two words there is no need to go further in trying to describe what will you hear here, right? But then again, that is not the point, although if you like those bands […]
Once more, it is time for some Swedish Death Metal. "Again?" you ask. Yes, again! So, read on if you’re into this fine music, or switch to another review if not. INVIDOUS are around for quite a while now, started as KATALYSATOR and recorded two demos under that moniker before they changed their name. Their […]
HEADHUNTER D.C. is again a criminally underrated band from Brazil – while the newcomers in its stead, such as KRISIUN and its followers namely ABHORRENCE, REBAELLIUN and NEPHASTH in particular, went on to phenomenal popularity, few of them could sustain it, with two of the three bands breaking up and others like OPHIOLATRY and IMPETUOUS […]
"You don’t have to feel sorry for me, I wanted you to rape me as well!" could have been a fitting intro to this record, instead we’ll get it a good deal into the album when we hit ‘The Master’s Voice’, though "I was 27 years old the first time I died…" is fitting as […]
If you ask me what’s the main difference between the genuine old school Death Metal bands from the 90s and the newer ones, I’ll say that nowadays bands are more to-the-point and don’t waste time, so they think, on winding song structures. The importance of build-ups isn’t there, everything they want is that hook or […]
Three years after they broke up, the German Celtic Metal duo MORRIGAN is back with a new long player, the seventh in their history. But I never really was familiar with their stuff, just heard a song or two in the past. So I have to get along with the music on this album. And […]
It was just this year that Spanish premier Death Metal band GRAVEYARD really blew me away with their furious album "The Sea Grave". Now they’re already back with new stuff, this time they joined forces for a split album with their country and even city mates KÖRGULL THE EXTERMINATOR. "La Gernandat De La Nit Profunda" […]
Any time a new record is released by the Forever Plagued label, I am immediately interested. Tomas, label capo, has a real knack for finding the most gnarly and twisted Black Metal bands on Earth. After all, the guy released stuff from INCURSUS and DEMONCY. While KULT OF TAURUS are a Greek band, don’t expect […]
After two self-released EPs and participating on one split EP, ESOTERICA from Philadelphia release their first full-length album via Forever Plagued Records. ESOTERICA emerged out of the ashes of CHAOS MOON already in 2011 and present their interpretation of Black Metal. Crossing the borders between Black Metal and Funeral Black Metal this full-length shows the […]