Fans of Norwegian based Black Metal legion SVARTTJERN should watch out here. REPULSIVE AGGRESSION from Oslo has Saether (axe and 4 strings) and ex – SVARTTJERN Holter (in the vocal department) in its ranks. The trio, which was brought to life in 2008, is completed by drummer Nodset from FRAIL GROUND (with whom I am […]
THE OBSCENE MACHINE hails from Belfast, Northern Ireland and despite being formed in 2011 it sounds like these guys have been around for some time. “The Obscenity Within” is a short and to-the-point excercise in brutal Death Metal with some grinding blast beats and slamming parts that doesn’t get too irritating as it gets in, […]
4 songs of old school influenced Death Metal by this one man band from Israel. The old school reference goes to the Florida school of Death Metal with tiny bits of the NY school and the Swedish school. Bands like BRUTALITY, MALEVOLENT CREATION, IMMOLATION and UNLEASHED come to mind while listening to this demo. The […]
An eerie intro that could have easily been stolen from a classic Italian horror flick sets the right gloomy mood before a thrashing riff kicks in and Israelian MORBID TENDENCY take us on a highly enjoyable ancient Death Metal journey. The whole affair reminds me of a hybrid between Sweden’s CREMATORY who flavoured traditional SweDeath […]
Well, I just praised the band’s demo compilation CD and now it’s time to talk about MAVETH’s first full-length recording. Fortunately not much has changed since the demo releases and that’s very positive, because how should you improve something that is almost perfect? "Coils Of The Black Earth" is a fucking masterpiece, no doubt about […]
I have always had an ambivalent relationship with AETERNUS. I have really enjoyed some of the music from Ares’ hands, and on the other hand found some of it very boring. Quite funny how a band can create soulful and catching tunes, and other pieces that seem to lack energy and emotion. Music is of […]
HELLCANNON from Buffalo, New York, plays brutal, filthy sounding and strongly old school-tinged Thrash Metal that neither asks much excuses nor makes apologies. HELLCANNON released an 8-track debut full-length studio album, titled "Infected With Violence" back in 2010 (which truly wiped the floor with many other Thrash Metal releases that were also released at that […]
Japan might not be that well known for its Black Metal scene and I guess always the same names pop up when someone is trying to come up with some outfits from the land of the rising sun. The usual suspicious ones would be in most cases SIGH, TYRANT and ABIGAIL who are also partly […]
Let me grab this opportunity to say the debut of these guys from Finland, "Tenebrous Towers", is absolutely stunning! Released two years ago on the also Finnish Hammer Of Hate Records, it belongs to one of the best albums of 2011. That it didn’t end up in the list of yours sincerely is simply that […]
Sometimes even musical institutions pass me by. The Death Grinders MACHETAZO from A Coruña, in the Spanish area of Galicia, are around for nearly twenty years now and released four albums and billions of EPs and split records during the years. Now they are here with their fifth full album "Ruin", the first stuff I […]