Brazilian Thrashers VIOLATOR’s fast and vicious Thrash Metal ain’t necessarily any rocket science so to speak but whenever they do something, the strongest spotlights seem automatically to get directed to them. So happened last time with the "Chemical Assault" album back in 2006, even making internationally known Earache Records interested in these furious Brazilian Thrashers […]
There’s nothing better than Thrash Metal that is destined to keep your neck muscles busy and fingertips relentless, pounding the surface of a table nonstop. Massachusetts based Thrashers RAZORMAZE have got their 2nd studio full-length recording out, obeying the title "Annihilatia" – and containing 8 tracks of catchy and very hooky-filled Thrash Metal that are […]
This Death Metal outfit from Sweden has managed to stay away from the (nowadays so typical) NWOSDM from the early 90s. And it shows perfectly through all their releases. After a 10 year wait, VERMINOUS just unleashed their second album, followed closely by "The Curse Of The Antichrist" 7" EP, released through Blood Harvest Records. […]
UK Doomsters DEA MARICA came to exist in 2012 – and during the very same year the band got a 5-song ‘EP’ recorded, titled "Ritual Of The Banished", containing over 40 minutes of music. The EP gained quite many praising reviews everywhere in the worldwide press, some predicting DEA MARICA to become the next big […]
Luxembourg isn’t necessarily any THAT known hot bed for some intense Thrash Metal, but I guess that’s about to change if this relatively young Thrash act named as SCARLET ANGER can work out as sort of a road sign for some larger and quality Thrash Metal invasion coming from Luxembourg. "Dark Reign", which is SCARLET […]
It’s alive! It’s alive! The return of an old and outdated medium. And I still like it. Surprisingly I got a tape to review. Dutch label and U.S. American band. Excellent. On this supercool release Californian based band RUDE is presenting and brawling a great mixture of old school Death / Thrash Metal. I could […]
Kinda weird to start a re-issue series with its third volume, but from what I’ve heard from Earache recently, this was done due to the fact that "Necroticism – Descanting The Insalubrious" is out of print for quite a while already. So, the demand for it might be a little bigger nowadays than for the […]
Saddening as it may be for the young, who will likely never see CARCASS record another album like "Reek Of Putrefaction", and the old(er), who know better than anyone, what they and the current generation are missing, there is still the record itself which is available once more with the original artwork, the demo tracks, […]
"Swansong", the last album in the history of CARCASS, by no means lived up to the high standards that the band had previously set with "Heartwork"… Apart from the great opening track ‘Keep On Rotting In The Free World’ the whole record pretty much lacked the intensity and aggression of its amazing predecessor and therefore […]
Someone has to tell Jeff Walker and Bill Steer to stop pissing on their early discography. CARCASS may be an institution now, but that doesn’t mean they’re free of error. Contrary to what they’d have you believe over in CARCASS camp, the band did not come into its own on "Necroticism". That was, in fact, […]