MORDBRAND are back! The band that released my last year’s personal favourite record (the "Kolumbarium" 7") has released new stuff for us! Again it is not a full album, but a 12" EP called "Unmake" that features three new songs and a bonus in the form of a special cover tune. And again they offer […]
This Finnish Speed Metal outfit RANGER is just a fuckin’ real McCoy: on rare – and I mean just on rare occasions one comes across with a band that goes so deep down into the past underground Metal scene that it makes you to check whether you have really placed a right tape into your […]
This is a misleading album, unless of course you are already familiar with Colombia’s GUERRA TOTAL. The cover art, with its undead zombie goats rising from the grave with an inverted cross in the midst, practically screams, “WAR METAL” in the style of bands such as BLASPHEMY, BLACK WITCHERY, PROCLAMATION, and so on. However that […]
Something stinks in the metaldom of Finland… Too many bands for sure for a so low populated country, it is said that walking in the streets of Helsinki or Turku, the people around you are exclusively long-haired and clad in the regular Metal uniform. No wonder then that a lack of quality becomes inevitable. Take […]
Oh no, the boss Frank has given me for review what some call MARDUK Jr. (KOMMANDANT) and son of ENTOMBED (NOMINON)!! Fuck! Nah, that would not be right and to those who say that: shame on you! KOMMANDANT attacks first and they are all accomplished, solid musicians! Fast fast fast and throwing in a multitude […]
Back in the 90s there were many obscure Death Metal bands form Sweden that were abusing the standard Sunlight Sound or ENTOMBED / DISMEMBER guitar tune. I can recall AUTHORIZE, CREMATORY, HYPOCRITE and this one MEGA SLAUGHTER. Let’s say they were the “second line” of Swedish Death Metal, bands that were doing their own thing, […]
The first thing you’ll notice about this band is the number-word play. The album title is, I think, supposed to spell “Phobia” with numbers and letters. Seems clever at first, but then not only are all the songs titled in similar fashion, the music itself seemed broken up between melody and brutality. With little to […]
What’s with this album’s track order? Traditionally, a Metal band will place one fast track, then one slower track, then one fast, etc; to provide crests and troughs in an album’s tragectory. NECROCURSE must have neglected that part of the creative process, because "Grip Of The Dead", at least in my humble opinion, is front-loaded […]
Emerging from one the most active and fertile scenes in Latin America, as it is Chile, we have with us the debut album from these devilish Metalheads called BUTAMACHO and their “Reunion De Brujos”, roughly translated to something like witches gathering. Such work saw the light back in 2011 under the blessing of Pacto Records from […]
Hailing from Dortmund, deep in the heart of the German Ruhr Valley, LIFELESS are around for quite a few years now. It took the band two years to record and release their debut album "Beyond The Threshold Of Death" in 2008, which was later re-released by Ibex Moon. Now they signed with Germany’s premier Death […]