First of all: does MASSACRA need an introduction? If you are a die hard underground Death Metal freak, then their first three albums probably have a special place in your collection (and if you have them on vinyl then you are one lucky bastard). If you are a younger Metal disciple, and you never heard […]
An optimal length for a fast and furious Thrash Metal album is less than a half hour, right? Well, don’t know about that, but in case it’s something like SLAYER’s infamous album "Reign In Blood", then we could be on the same page about some certain lengths of a Thrash Metal record for sure. KAAR […]
The legendary Swedish NECROPHOBIC are back, four years after their last album "Death To All". Even though they are around for about 20 years now, having released six albums, I lost their trace after the debut "The Nocturnal Silence". I don’t know how this could have happened, since that album was a pretty good bastard […]
Post whatever… post Rock… post Black… post Metal. No, I do not get it. I hardly can be related to a band playing post-whatever crap. I maybe can recognize some. Nah, I don’t. Now, do I like the style? That is a different question. I guess some songs will have a mood that I will […]
“Putrid Death Sorcery”, the debut album of these French purveyors of fear and death, is a massive assault of evil Death Metal. It recalls at times the primitive violence of such heroes like KREATOR and MERCILESS with a black magick touch of BATHORY and early MAYHEM. So, after just one album, their nowadays label Century […]
This act comes from New Hamphsire, USA, and plays Death Metal, the modern kind. Just to get some facts straight as for starters, the whole album was written within just 2 weeks, and released 10 months after. The line-up of SOLIUM FATALIS also features drummer Dirk Verbeuren who was working on SOILWORK’s latest album "The […]
I think introducing GRAVE here is just like carrying coals to Newcastle. Their first album "Into The Grave" is concerned one of the defining classic albums of Swedish Death Metal, with great justice. For all those who want to know what paved Gotlands one and only the way to record such a milestone, Century Media […]
According to the biography printed in the liner notes, REPUGNANCIA was active and well connected in the Peruvian as well as Chilean scenes, playing with the likes of MORTEM, DISINTER and ANAL VOMIT among others. Although material clearly existed from the mid 80s until the band’s final end in 1999, it appears this 7" is the […]
Combining Black Metal with Death Metal – or Death Metal with Black Metal (yep, I should stop this nonsense right here, I know), always works for most of us. A hybrid of both aforementioned sub-genres of Metal can create some amazing results whenever done well. French BLISS OF FLESH, have baptized their swords deep in […]
Singaporean extreme 3-headed Metal horde OSHIEGO are just amazing. The band’s 2nd full-length studio album, "The Great Architect Of Nothing", counts on pretty simplistic elements: speed, brutality, technicality, old school spirit and not so much unexpected moments, although there’s even some of that involved with this album. To me, they sound like a crossbreed of […]