It’s already largely known that such a big country as Russia is, they also have a high quality Metal scene over there that has produced many great sounding acts for many years already, truly worth our attention. That list is basically endless, so without starting any somewhat unnecessary name bombardment about any of these Russian […]
This TORTURER comes from the Ukraine, and has been around 10 years already. The band is solely a creation of Vitaly Karavaev, who has basically used some session musicians on his previous recordings before – and that has also happened on TORTURER’s 2nd album "Infinity Of Illusions" as well. Vitaly himself takes care of all […]
A combination of old school Heavy Metal and Speed Metal is often a killer combination – and this is also something that this Slovenian act has well understood in my opinion. "Queen Of The Midnight Fire" doesn’t set bridges on fire in terms of bringing something new on the large table of the aforementioned genre […]
"Legion" might be my favourite Death Metal record ever, but aside from that one and the debut, the rest of DEICIDE’s discography really doesn’t hold my interest. The more recent efforts by the band have increased use of blastbeats, which is a good thing in my opinion, but somehow the music sounded like an aging […]
Aaaaaand another full-length DEICIDE DVD… this one features both new guitarists (Mike Santolla and Jack Owen) and was recorded live on November 10, 2006 at the Knitting Factory in Los Angeles, California. In about 75 minutes the band pretty much rushes through a set of 18 tracks (old and new) and honestly spoken, their overall […]
Due to the fact that the Hoffman brothers had left DEICIDE only a couple of days before the band was supposed to go on tour, the line-up on this recording (next to Mr. Benton on bass / vocals and Steve on drums) consisted of the two quickly recruited guitar stand-ins Dave Suzuki (from VITAL REMAINS) […]
Mr. Benton and his warriors in DEICIDE are back with the band’s 11th studio album, titled "In The Minds Of Evil". Glen Benton is known as a controversial person and he’s also pretty uncompromising about the way how he wants to run DEICIDE. If he has a trouble with something, he gets rid of it […]
Three years after their first EP "Witness Of Decay", El Salvadors probably best known Metal band CONCEIVED BY HATE is back with their first full-length album. "Pestilence Reborn" is the name of this bastard of old school Thrash and a little more modern Death Metal of the Gothenburg school. On the first impression, the album […]
It’s not every day that I can put a new pin on my (invisible) world map of Metal. Today’s a day like this. CONCEIVED BY HATE put El Salvador on my map with their self-financed debut EP "Witness Of Decay". Hailing from the nation’s capital San Salvador, this six-piece released a demo in 2005 before […]
Perhaps it’s just me, but my experience listening to Slovenian Black Metal effort, CVINGER, seemed to have raised by blood pressure a few notches. Sure, Black Metal is often noted for having that trademark speed, a feeling like you can’t quite keep up. The percussion, like a beating squirrel heart, clumsily tries to keep the […]