I know I’m not always up to speed, so this time around I hadn’t realized that the mad Fin Petri Ilvespakka had been through a small change concerning the expression of his one man band PSYCHOPATHIC TERROR. The last time I had a listen to the band I was being hammered by some heavy Death […]
Darkness… Despair… Faint… Desolation… All of this within the boundaries of the blackest of hearts. What else can I say about this demo? UNRU is a new monstrous four-piece from Germany, bred in the AJZ (Autonomous Youth Center) Bielefeld, a place that has a good standing in the Punk scene for more than 25 dedicated […]
North-Spanish duo GRAVEYARD OF SOULS is bound to make some serious ripples throughout the Metal underground with their debut release "Shadows Of Souls". If you’ve been around in the mid 90s when bands like TIAMAT, CEMETARY (Swe), CREMATORY (Ger) and PARADISE LOST were at the top of their game forging melodic Death Metal with Doom […]
When our dedicated big chief Frank handed the duties to review this one to me, he praised it with the words: "Unoriginal as fuck, but still fuckin’ awesome!!!" These words were prophetic somehow, since I thought exactly the same when I heard CARNAL GHOUL for the first time. They started not until 2013, when Daniel […]
The history of these Nippon Thrashers goes already back till the new millennium set in. They got their bastard breed of relentless old school Thrash started in the city of Nagoya but the squad had to wait about eight years until their debut album finally saw its light of day. Originally released on a small […]
When I saw the chance to review a band called LADY BEAST, with song titles like ‘Metal Rules’, ‘Hot Pursuit’ and ‘Go For The Bait’, I was like, "faaak yeah!" You see, I’m a big fan of the first BULLET LP, as well as (bonehead) lyrics from songs like ‘The Gods Made Heavy Metal’ and […]
Brazilian Thrashers DARKSIDE have a long history as a band: the band has existed since 1991 (in between 1998 – 2000 as HERITAGE), released like 5 demos during their existence – and now this, the band’s 8-track full-length studio album, titled "Prayers In Doomsday", which they got out just last in 2012 (about time might […]
The band, or precisely said project KING CARNAGE is the brainchild of The Left Hand, a.k.a. Patrick Brown. The Left Hand is a San Francisco based guy who formerly played guitar in more unknown bands like LIGEIA (where he did the vocals as well) and NEPENTHE. In his recent band he does everything himself: all […]
With PATRONYMICON we enter the realms of Swedish Black Metal once again. MARDUK and DISSECTION are the first and the biggest names that come to mind within seconds, seminal and overshadowing. MARDUK are still a measure as far as "extremity" is concerned, for their raging full speed attack "Panzerdivsion Marduk". And the influence of DISSECTION […]
I’ve been with BLOOD RED THRONE most of the way, I was reviewing away when they released their first, and only demo "Deathmix 2000" back in 2000, and was blown even more away when the debut "Monument Of Death" hit me straight in the face a year or so after. Then the band switched from […]