Finnish Speed / Thrash Metal band OVERDOZE started out in 2009 as a 2-piece act and recorded 2 demos within the year 2011. OVERDOZE’s 3rd demo, titled "The Last", was done by 3 members sharing about the same vision how OVERDOZE could possibly sound like in terms of churning out Thrash Metal. I don’t know […]
HATRED seems to be a very popular name when it comes to choosing a monicker for musical activities. The HATRED we are talking about here hail from Falerone, Italy and have been around since 2002. "Burning Wrath" is just the band’s debut album within their more than one decade lasting history. One fact might be […]
You thought you’ve heard it all? Better think again! Because this one is unlike anything you ever heard. At least concerning the language used here. Germany’s EASTFRISIAN TERROR from Emden sing in their native language, a dialect called Eastfrisian Plattdeutsch, which is only spoken in a little area in the northwest of Germany, situated in […]
Remember the good old days of Speed Metal in the mid 80s? Those days are reborn with this record! EVIL INVADERS from Mol in Belgium (also the home of Grindcore legends AGATHOCLES) are out to revive Speed Metal. And they do it, as if the last nearly thirty years hardly ever existed. Started in 2007, […]
French Metal act FRACTAL GATES surely quite often gets attention for themselves for their very Gothenburg-ish melo-Death sound; employing cleverly exactly those elements within their sound that once made bands like IN FLAMES, DARK TRANQUILLITY, AMON AMARTH, etc., such winning concepts among the Metalheads worldwide. Add also some small doses from the Finnish Kalevala Metallers […]
Back in 1988, I remember I received my first taste of Belgian Metal via tape trading. A totally underrated album, BLACK SHEPHERD’s "Immortal Aggression" was a furious Thrash Metal attack. Up to day, it remains one of those obscure gems that populate the timeless underground. Curious enough, this review is another Belgian band with a […]
A new infernal storm is rising from the South. I don’t know if I will ever solve the enigma why there are so many high quality acts coming from Chile. PRAISE THE FLAME is another example how great the scene in this country is. If you are into violent, uncompromising and obscure old school Death […]
DORMANT ORDEAL (the name is too much gothic for comfort) have throughout the years evolved from a one man project to a full band, and “It Rains, It Pours” is their first full-length. Being a sucker when it comes to Polish Death Metal, I jumped at once on the opportunity to review this album. Let’s […]
Sometimes you get mislead by an album cover, and how musicians may look like on a sleeve of some certain album’s layout. This happened to me just as of lately with this Polish act called DORMANT ORDEAL that sincerely led me to believe they would be some poppish and avantgarde sounding version from OPETH – […]
Just a few weeks I ago, I proudly presented USURPRESS’ first longplayer "Trenches Of The Netherworld" here. Now the always busy guys at Selfmadegod Records put out another (re-)release of these Swedish Death Crusties. The recordings of "In Permanent Twilight" were originally planned for a split release in 2011. But since this release was postponed, […]