When tracks started appearing online from the Swedes’, then, coming album "The Wild Hunt" I was rather shocked, as some of the first tracks I heard on Youtube was ‘They Rode On’ and the titletrack, not really your off the rack WATAIN tunes. But again, a couple of tracks off the usual Black Metal path, […]
French ATARAXIE ain’t any rookie act to the Doom Metal scene any longer, or Funeral Doom and Death Metal scene to be more precise. Starting out in 2000, and having released a couple of albums ("Slow Transcending Agony" in 2005 and "Anhédonie" in 2008), this French 4-piece has slowly but surely securely been gaining a […]
Whenever some experienced Metal musicians want to put a band together that is musically far away from their either past or current bands, it’s always somewhat exciting – and it can be either a true success or completele fail. Yep, that’s actually THAT easy mathematics really. INBREEDING REDNECKS (a great band name by the way. […]
These guys from Sweden are around for quite a while now. Started under the way cooler moniker GRAVEHAMMER in 2005, they changed their name after five years, one demo and one vinyl 7" to ENSNARED, derived from the title of their EP, "Ensnared In Dismal Blasphemies". Along with the name, they also changed their line-up […]
I don’t know why, but after having been a really strong force in traditional Heavy Metal back in the 80s (with lots of killer acts such as H-BOMB, SORTILÈGE, BLASPHEME, ADX etc.etc.), France nowadays still suffers from a rather weak Death & Black Metal underground scene. The only band I personally ever really freaked out […]
"Nightlights", the 2nd studio album of French Avantgarde Dark / Death Metal band SOLEKAHN, has been 6 long years in the making (in between the years 2006-2012). The album’s big brother, titled "The Great Diviner", was released in 2004 (on Sacral Productions), already set some stars for the right position for this French act, according […]
One of the oldest flag troopers for the Finnish Death Metal scene, NECROPSY, have been resurrected from the dead – and the "Psychopath Next Door" EP is the band’s 2nd release since they collected their bones back together on "Bloodwork"; NECROPSY’s debut full-length studio album that they released on a small Tritonus Records in 2011. […]
After the classic "Sleeping Under Tartaros" 7" and "For The Glory Of UR" (compilation) CD here’s finally another sign of life from the Greek (nowadays in Australia living) ZEMIAL. The vinyl only MLP "Necrolatry" features five songs (‘Eclipse’, ‘Dragon’s Touch (The Eyes Of Fire)’, ‘Nocturnal Witch’, ‘Possessed By Twilight’ and ‘Breath Of The Pestilence’ plus […]
The land of thousands of lakes, drunken dorks and high suicide rates, Finland, seems to produce also lots of quality Doom Metal bands, which isn’t THAT surprising anymore, I guess. The Finnish quintet SOLOTHUS has just been around for about 6 years, and their debut demo, titled "Ritual Of The Horned Skull", succeeded at creating […]
Aggressiveness and filthiness knows no boundaries, I see. Starting out as VIOLENT ASSAULT in 2006, this Italian blackened Thrash Metal bunch continued under the NUCLEAR AGGRESSOR moniker in 2010 after VIOLENT ASSAULT was officially proclaimed dead. After a bunch of demo, EP and split releases the guys finally found a home in Punishment 18 Records, […]