CASTLEUMBRA is a new project of Antimo, the Mexican jack-of-all-trades who should be well known from bands such as DEMONIZED, HACAVITZ, PROFANATOR, BLOOD REAPING, DOMAIN, DISGORGE, RAVAGER and some more. I’m into a few of his projects but CASTLEUMBRA is definitely his best work so far. This is dark bestial Death Metal at its best. […]
I haven’t heard anything from this band before. When I got the package from Rodrigo / Blood Harvest Records I found a LP-cover painted in black with a goat on it, done by Daniel Desecrator, a logo done by Christophe Spzaidel and layout-wise nothing to complain about. Judging from the bandpictures and those few inverted […]
In my humble opinion the contemporary so called ‘Brutal Death’ genre is nothing but a joke. Those hyper triggered plastic drums, the Hardcore vocals, the break downs, the lame songwriting and the stupid "we have more beats per minute than you" attitude are ridiculous but definitely not brutal. Bands such as INCANTATION or DRAWN AND […]
THE DESCENT is a quite new band from the Basque Region in Spain. Around since 2006, “Dimensional Matters” marks their debut release. These guys sound like they went to the Gothenburg school of Metal. But they left school too early to find their own way. Bands like AT THE GATES, (early) IN FLAMES or (early) […]
Finnish Thrashers (or Deathrashers?) MY FUNERAL’s debut album saw the light of day in 2010 through Violent Journey Records, and if I can remember correctly that particular record unfortunately left me pretty cold, for exactly not standing out from the pile the way I hoped for. Now, 3 years later, it’s time for MY FUNERAL’s […]
Please excuse if I’m not overwhelmed by ecstasy when Rogga Johansson is part of any kind of project since even though REVOLTING, PAGANIZER, THE GROTESQUERY, RIBSPREADER, BONE GNAWER etc. are definitely most of the time highly enjoyable and reliable deliverers of straight forward Death Metal, the amount of output he tends to throw at us […]
Dutch Death Metal nowadays seems to be the next "target" of labels eager to reissue whatever is old or overlooked enough to be thrown on an overcrowded market which still appreciates yet another sonic journey back in time. Got no problem with that but DISSECT‘s only album “Swallow Swouming Mass” (originally released on Cyber Music […]
Dave Rotten, main man behind the Spanish label Xtreem Music, seems to be one of the busiest guys around right now. Once again, he dug out a forgotten band. This time it’s Spanish Thrash Metal pioneers FUCK OFF, who released two albums ("Another Sacrifice" and "Hell On Earth") and an untitled 7" in their first […]
Out of the ashes of, among others, the underrated and almost forgotten Metalcore pioneers MINION, AGE and still active in other local heroes like MÖRSER or ZODIAC, a new five-piece from my hometown Bremen is on its way to conquer the scene with their interpretation of brutal Metal! The MIZANTHROP started in early 2012, played […]
After their EP "Ars Kha" from 2011, Hungarys Anti-Cosmic Metal force SVOID are now back with their full-length debut and it’s time to get ready for more chaotic art. After working on new material S and his allies chose to walk the path "To Never Return". According to the words of S, still the main […]