When it comes to paying tribute to their influences most bands decide to record a cover version. Or wearing shirts from their favourite bands on the booklet photo. In fact, wearing your favourite band shirt is the only reason for shooting a band photo and as a start I always check out what the musicians […]
Are the guys from the Voices staff gone completely nuts now? A band like BLACKFOOT here? Whose only connection to extreme Metal is the word "BLACK" in the name? Yes! And with fuckin’ good reason! During the last years, retro Rock has become pretty popular in the Metal scene. Bands like THE DEVIL’S BLOOD, GHOST […]
Life is full of first times! This is a day like these. SICHGART from the Ukraine do not only present their first album "Do Zbroi!" (translated: "Call To Arms!"), but also the first album I ever heard that is sung entirely in Ukrainian. Some situations demand a little more effort… Therefore I asked Igor, a […]
Yay, the new OCTOBER 31, finally! Sadly only a 2 track seven inch single, with only one new song coupled with the URIAH HEEP cover ‘Too Scared To Run’, but better something than nothing, right? The title track is the typical OCTOBER 31 anthem, right from the border of Heavy and old school Thrash Metal: […]
Many British Speed and Thrash Metal bands from the 80s, have their musical roots deeply into the Punk / Hardcore scene of those days. VIRUS, these originally Brighton based British Thrash Metallers that have relocated to London since their early years, was formed the same year when one of the most important Thrash Metal albums […]
NAZGHOR from Uppsala is another newcomer playing harsh and fast melodic Black Metal, which easily would have fitted in the label program of No Fashion Records. "Life Impaled" seems to be a re-release of 1-2 demo recordings. After a short intro, the opener ‘Black Shadow Of Death’ comes over us with a freezing atmosphere, blast […]
UK’s new Thrash Metal patrol REZINWOLF comes straight through the door, instead of kicking it down gently but smashing it to small toothpick-sized pieces completely. I mean, if I am allowed to use such a metaphor about the band’s debut album "Corruption Kingdom", which is surely one hell of a fucker to cause some wildly […]
“Classic Swedish Death Metal” like sounding bands (both newcomers and the dinosaurs that made a comeback) and splits are some of the most typical “hit and miss” things yours truly could ever think about, but once a release carries the logo of the Swedish INTERMENT – it’s surely worth to check out. My personal introduction […]
“…I rarely do Death Metal, so if I do Death Metal, it only has to be real kick ass bands, like PENTACLE, SADISTIC INTENT and MORTEM.” (Costa Stoios, VOICES FROM THE DARKSIDE anno 2010). Iron Pegasus is without a doubt the last cult label (with the 80s meaning of the word), and that’s not a […]
STRANGEWAYS is the experimental Metal project born from Avi Caspi, an aspiring conductor and video artist Yossi Darmon, who, for the most part, share the vocal, guitar and bass responsibilities on this album. Drums were covered by Nir Nakav of Isreali Death Metal band, SALEM. Their manifesto explicitly states that the music is not meant […]