What I really enjoy about the world wide underground scene is that there is always the possibility to discover killer outfits from places which don’t come into your mind first when thinking about extreme music. In our case here I stumbled on this release by chance. The debut album "Pillars Of The Enlightened" by PERVERSION, […]
To be honest, I belong to probably quite a bunch of people out there who discovered the Chilean act PENTAGRAM rather late – due to NAPALM DEATH’s cover version of ‘Demoniac Possession’ some years ago – and am the wrong person to judge if “The Malefice”, the band’s first ever proper full-length which comes along […]
The "formula" for Black Metal (second generation Black Metal, for you purists) was pretty much set by DARKTHRONE’s "Ablaze In The Northern Sky". The album was never meant to be heavy, but a cold, grim outburst of blood frenzy against religions in general. German Black Metal outfit STREAMS OF BLOOD, sets the difference when it […]
Well, I like compilations on which all material of a particular band is assembled and especially in cases where the demos of a band become remastered and rare stuff appears in vast amounts, such releases are extremely valuable. "Beyond The Circle" released by the Singaporean label Konqueror Records covers the whole discography of the more […]
EXCRUCIATE… This name rings a bell. Didn’t this band release a split LP with EPITAPH in the age of dinosaurs? Yes, they did! It was 1991, the old and glorious days of Swedish Death Metal, when you could still catch the gold-rush mood with your hands. Infest Records released this split LP, that featured the […]
ISVIND has returned with their next full-length offering of old school 90s era Black Metal. I have to admit that I look forward to releases from this band and it came as a surprise to me when I came across "Daumyra". These guys seem to have found that spark that they had back in the […]
The first think that I perceived listening to this album was a flashback to 1997 when the second wave of Black Metal was evolving from their grim origins towards a more symphonic edge in many cases, which was due to a heavy use of keyboards and an obvious better performance as musicians. This new German […]
If you are guided by the name of a band, then the name of this Polish trio might make you think of Hardcore. Then again the meaning goes further than that, and it is also released by the respectable Folter Records which has made a name in releasing quality Black Metal. This relatively new band […]
In German I would say “Alter, ALTARS!!!” in a loud, sorta yelling way with wide open eyes and a very stupid grin on my face. All you non-German folks should translate this into a very brief, colloquial eruption of sheer joy over the fabulous debut album by this Australian Death Metal trio. Death Metal from […]
CRUCIFIX, as a gathering of talent musicians, has existed since 1993. As a band that releases music from time to time, they’ve only been in business since 1996, and only then with demos. Not until 2008 did the band finally release a full-length album of material. Not missing a step, CRUCIFIX has most recently recorded […]