Sweden’s REPUKED have all the right ingredients to cook up a smelly, twisted, worm-infested and brain draining Death Metal stew straight up from the AUTOPSY cook book, yet the right ingredients alone don’t always make a superb meal. And so is the case here. As much I love this sort of Death Metal, REPUKED seem […]
Damned! Chris Reifert (AUTOPSY, ABSCESS etc.) must shed tears of joy if he would listen to this album. "Up From The Sewers", the second longplayer of Stockholm’s REPUKED, is absolutely a total prostration to the US gods of rotten Death Metal. If you mix this up with elements of rancid and old IMPETIGO, some classical […]
This is for all those who like to dig in the history of extreme Metal. FUNERAL BITCH is a band the one and only Paul Speckmann started in his youth, 1986 to be precise, together with drummer Peter Thomson and guitar player Alex Olvera, who later played bass in ZNÖWHITE. They lasted for two years […]
Swedes did it again… I mean, whether it’s in their blood or water or Absolut Vodka or whatever (definitely not in their piss water, known as the ‘Swedish quality beer’. Sorry to say, spit this out dear Swedes), Sweden’s Metal music scene has always been full of positive superlatives as far as some amazing Swedish […]
One of my favourite scenes from the motion picture “Scarface” is Elvira Hancock dancing with Tony Montana and after she told him her name he says “Hancock… sounds like a bird…”. Well, here we got WAN and WAN sounds like – at least not like a bird. Perhaps the name refers to the well-known Jedi-Knight […]
All’s well that ends well. After 15 years of struggling (originally CURSED 13 was founded as a solo-project of the band’s master-mind Heljarmadr and later they changed the name from CURSED 666 to CURSED 13) and after two demo tapes, one 7” vinyl single and the split-release with DOMGARD the Swedish based CURSED 13 have […]
An increasing number of technical – or even über-technical and downright brutal Death Metal bands have made their invasion through the entire extreme underground Metal scene over these past years. Without starting any THAT targeted name bombardment in here, it needs to be admitted Mexican brutal tech Deathsters SEROCS have got some interesting things going […]
New music from GRAVE is seldom a bad thing, as I can’t think of a bad GRAVE release ("Hating Life"? – Frank), of course there have been some more interesting than others, though mainman Ola Lindgren knows how to craft a tune and deliver it with conviction and sheer power! "Morbid Ascent" is a part of […]
It’s re-issue time again, my dear people! In case you missed a classic Swedish Death Metal release of the days of very old, you now have the chance (again) to listen to the first vinyl offerings from Gävles very own SORCERY. After three demos between 1987 and 1989, this quintet released a 7" in 1990 […]
It seems to me that every new and hopeful Death Metal band in Germany gets signed by F.D.A. sooner or later. And there’s just one possible conclusion for that: Rico has a brilliant look or better a brilliant ear for this music. Up to now, I haven’t heard any weak album from F.D.A., not even […]