A few years ago, some shitty bootleg featuring NUCLEAR ASSAULT’s old rehearsal recordings was released on vinyl. Here is an official answer to that thing! What you get here is the band’s “Live, Suffer, Die” and “Back With A Vengeance” demos from 1985, as well as rare instrumental rehearsal recordings made in the 80s. It […]
Wo-fuckin’-hoo… something here that is right up my alley: German Black / Death Metallers ANIMA SEMENTIS debut album, "Sermon Of Lies", has a nice Norwegian / Swedish vibe à la GEHENNA, MÖRK GRYNING and OLD MAN’S CHILD incorporated into it, added with something off DIMMU BORGIR’s "Stormblåst" album that I cannot put my finger precisely […]
BASILISK, this Japanese Black / Death Metal trio, is a completely new entity to me. However, they have been around since 1997 and released just one 3-track demo titled "狂蛇 (English translation to this is "Ryo-Ja")" in 1991. So it’s really no wonder why the band’s name has slipped away from my radar completely. "End […]
OVER DEAD IN OVER, is an Italian Metal act that was founded in 2004, and their music could be described as some sort of hybrid of Thrash Metal and Death Metal, coated with a heavy use of modern Metalcore elements, which brings an unfortunate sour taste into my mouth. It’s no denying these Italian lads […]
Symphonic Black / Death Metal from Bavaria, Germany? Anyone? Okay, hands down… I was just thinking this act might interest a small fistful of you at least – and I was right about that. ANIMA SEMENTIS is the name of this unholy union, and these apocalyptic looking German warriors have already released their debut album […]
Vic Records is digging in the 90s Death Metal history for a while now and after re-releasing some Dutch underground stuff Roel van Reijmersdal has now exhumed a real masterpiece of German underground Death Metal. TORCHURE from Uelzen / Lower Saxony were one of the early bands around and started already in 1988 inspired by […]
The good thing is that the capital of Sweden will never run dry of ass kicking Death Metal and those youngsters from SMOTHERED are the best living proof that the heritage of albums like “Left Hand Path”, “Like An Everflowing Stream” etc. will never (!!!) die. It’s not a big deal or you can easily […]
The swamps of Florida are not what you usually associate with the right surroundings for a total Doom / Death Metal band to rise from the grave. Well, DRUID LORD (feat. ex – members of ACHERON, EQUINOX, INCUBUS) is the living proof that death can even crawl slowly out of a heat ridden territory. After […]
CHURCH OF DISGUST is a new band from the US and it doesn’t come heavier than that. Here’s Death Metal coming from the bowels of the earth, reverberating through underground caves and bat-dwelling recesses, reeking of rot and evil. Think HELLHAMMER in the style of crushing early CIANIDE, mixed with the heaviness of GRAVE and […]
LURK is an extremely underrated band, the pick of the lot from the recent or not so recent bunch of Totalrust Music releases – its self-titled debut album was a landmark album and there was nothing quite like it. Yes, the style is Sludge / Doom / Death with dabs of a blackened atmosphere but […]