Finally, after three years there’s a sign of life again from the mighty INFINITUM OBSCURE. Their last release was their second studio album "Sub Atris Caelis", released by Blood Harvest Records in 2009. An album that on one hand showed an evolution in relation to their 2006 debut "Internal Dark Force" and the 2009 EP […]
Indeed a nice album title and if you ask me it fits quite well to this energetic outburst of riff-laden old school Thrash Metal. To all experts: don’t start this lame retro Thrash discussion anymore. This topic really bores me to death. Of course this Polish horde neither delivers anything new nor anything innovative. All […]
What the hell am I doing listening to HELLBASTARD while sitting at my desk at my office job? Feeling like I’ve got one hell of an identity crisis that’s what. No worries all, I’m still broke and I’ve got like 10 Excel spreadsheets minimized as I listen to HELLBASTARD’s still gleefully anti-establishment lyrics and punishing […]
The Swedish quartet USURPRESS started in 2010 in Uppsala with the aim to combine the brutality of Death Metal with the hate of Hardcore and D-Beat-Crust… Sounds like heaven to me! Up to now, USURPRESS released a 12", a 7" and two split 7"es with BOMBS OF HADES and PYRAMIDO, all on underground labels. Too […]
In many cases, today’s attempts to revive the golden Thrash days run into a wall of criticism. Too often it’s a soulless mix of clichés, too forced or just too much of this and too less of that… ERUPTION is a band from Slovenia what for some people maybe fuel to burn down a band trying […]
Once again it is time for a little history lesson here. Let’s go back to 1990, the time, when Death Metal and Grindcore were all the rage. Bands like CARCASS, NAPALM DEATH or TERRORIZER were fresh and exciting (well, they still are exciting). Also Japan couldn’t escape from this new and extreme style of music. […]
"Sweet Blasphemies" is the first output from this US of A based old school Death Metal outfit and HORRENDOUS can already convince with this first release. To tell the truth, and you won’t expect something else: HORRENDOUS are plain unoriginal and offering nothing new. It’s Death Metal, played the old school way with huge influences […]
The logo of this USA band truly does justice to their name. It reminds me when I was in high school and I started drawing logos of any evil word I could think of. I am no designer and a lot less an artist with anything that creates a line, so obviously all my logos […]
Portugal’s OSSARIVM is an interesting lesson in terror. They refer to themselves as Horrific Death Metal, which any of us who like horror movies, are obviously going to deconstruct to ad nauseum; to put it simply, the atmosphere and tone have a lot to do with what is truly horrific. Rather than an all out […]
ENSHADOWED from Athens are one of the legions of Black Metal bands from Greece who are less known. Maybe it’s because it took them nearly ten years to release a third full album after "Messengers Of The Darkest Dawn" (2002) and "Intensity"(2003). In the meantime they were far from passive, putting out five split releases […]