“Brutality” is a term unfortunately too much associated with slamming or technical, overly triggered modern “Death” Metal to still be used as a positively connoted tag in a more old school oriented context, BUT Germany’s genre hopefuls BEYOND are exactly that – brutal yet without sacrificing any of the passion, darkness and class every decent […]
I was blown away when I first heard this Norwegian band’s first release "Probiotic", a progressive piece of brutal Death Metal interlaced with sweeping melodies and grandiose moments, without it becoming too much or strayed of the initial path. That together with the quite organic production made the album work in a whole, and made […]
Us first worlders can be a pretty spoiled lot; if a typical greasy burger is not to your liking, you can always get your beef patty sandwiched between two more patties if you like. Fuck standards, options are king! Fortunately enough, Mexico’s ZOMBIEFICATION has spilled enough blood to appease their Aztec overlords and have created […]
Actually I could make it quite short here as the debut by these Danish Thrashers is a must have for all crazy headbangers out there. At least in my humble opinion. After two promising demos (especially "A Necessary Evil") under their belts the quartet’s nine tracker crushes everying crossing its path. The squad learnt its […]
Even though NECROPSY was quite short lived, merely 5 years, as the band existed from 1989 to 1994, we can add 2 more, as an incarnation of the band started out in ’87 as ANXIETY, though how much they did write and record, under that moniker, I’m not sure of. The first demo from the […]
The French Death / Black Metal machine with the Norwegian name is back with its third album! Nearly three years after their great "Witnessing The Fall" album, "Profane" is here to show SVART CROWN as a band that is on the best way to become a monolith in the European extreme Metal scene. Their first […]
Chilean Death Metal – you rule! Once again another gem from this brooding scene hits us and while the band members Nyarlathotep (vocals, guitars) and Cristobal (drums) are also active in INVINCIBLE FORCE and UNAUSSPRECHLICHEN KULTEN the typical scene-incest has not affected the musical quality in any way. Offering four tracks of dark often doomy […]
For serious Death Metal connoisseurs, Holland is home of some of the most unique and heavy bands that this scene ever produced. Whereas countries like Finland and – even more – Sweden had bands with a very similar style and production, Dutch bands sounded noticeably different from each other. In my humble opinion, this diversity […]
Ex – GRAVE DESCENT guitarist George Grant originally started VILE VINDICTION in 1987 and later reformed the band with Jim Nickles, a founding member of MALEVOLENT CREATION. Whether or not they recorded any demos or EPs prior to this one is unknown. As far as anyone knows, this is the first commercially available release of […]
Don’t get turned off by Swiss BÖLZER’s, to put it mildly, rather irritating moniker as it fails to fit optimal to their stunning oppressing Black / Death sound and would have had me thinking of a sludge band or some dull Deutsch Rock like FREI.WILD, SCHMELZOFEN or BRATWURSTBRATEREI if it did not had the Iron […]