Of all the enduring old school Thrash bands that influenced so many of today’s underground heroes, SODOM is the sole remaining representative of the golden era that has never compromised their sound and approach. This is a big deal. And apart from a brief break in the mid-90s, Angelripper has driven this Thrash Metal freikorps […]
When the silence after the nuclear strike hits, when all on earth has withered and decayed, only the sound of cockroaches and DEACYED will sound, the Portuguese will keep on delivering their sonic torture, as they have done since 1990, nothing will ever change that! It will be be a big fat lie to say […]
I find Funeral Doom to be a confining and often alienating classification; I can’t often convince someone who hasn’t heard them that seeing MOURNFUL CONGREGATION is a killer way to spend a Saturday night. What I wish was conveyed better was the genre’s goth tendencies as well as its departure from the Death Metal technical […]
The time has come for the third sonic attack from the Italian one man Black Metal force ARS MANIFESTIA, the first release for the quite new Norwegian label Obscura Lyd Productions (which I presume is Harmful’s own label, as he now is residing in Oslo), whereas the two first releases from the band were on […]
Besides delivering some blistering records, the Bay Area Thrashers from TESTAMENT have left a legacy behind that a good deal of bands are trying to live up to. I was quite surprised when I stumbled across a Spanish band a good while ago, that delivered a good blast in form of the album "Release The […]
When I was watching the VERMINOUS show at Kiltown Deathfest 2012 I thought that it would be really cool if those guys would record a new album. Fortunately they did and the result is overwhelming. Exactly ten years after the killer debut "Impious Sacrilege" those Swedish ghouls unleashed its successor called "The Unholy Communion". And […]
When I first heard of NIGHT TO DIE in 1999 I read something about a combination of technical Death Metal and Spanish folk music. So I was quite curious to listen to their "All Evil Crying" MCD (Repulse Records) because I thought flamenco guitars would suit well to a Death Metal band. So I had […]
After 3 pretty well received demos, I think the Finnish progressive Death Metallers (PSYCHOPARALYSIS)’s debut full-length studio album was just a matter of time. When no other gets interested in your music, then why one wouldn’t form a label of your own as that’s perhaps the easiest way to get your stuff out, without fearing […]
To figure out that the drums on this recording are done by a drum computer isn’t really convincing to me and to be honest the sound of the drums is the negative point on this recording. I mean I’m not complaining about bands using a drumcomputer as long as it sounds as a human drummer. […]
Since all their previous stuff was already reviewed on this glorious site, I don’t waste my breath on the history of ENTRAILS and switch directly to the present. After two extremely fine albums for the always dedicated F.D.A. Records label ("Tales From The Morgue" and "The Tomb Awaits"), Metal Blade now is in charge for […]