The little info I had on this band talks about a Stoner / Doom Metal band. Those words immediately direct me to bands playing slow Rock and Roll with a subtle Heavy Metal sound and a bluesy touch with a hippie approach. But in this case, I would suggest to keep those really unnecessary labels […]
The Finnish Deathsters TORTURE KILLER are back; I mean, back with their 4th full-length studio album, titled simply "Phobia". The band’s 3-track EP, "I Chose Death", which was released last year, also introduced Pessi Haltsonen as TORTURE KILLER’s new lung shredder. Juri Sallinen who handled vocal parts in the band’s previous full-length, "Sewers", in 2009, […]
Pagan Metal. On one hand the term might find a lot of followers…on the other it just means hate from those thinking this is a joke created by drunken Metalheads in Europe while listening to some local Folk music in a old smelly pub. Many times it also means a band that a) has a […]
SWAZAFIX is not a name many will recognize, unless someone out there is old enough to remember the name from an underground fanzine. For the rest of us, however, SWAZAFIX is a fresh dose of old school Death Metal from the Netherlands. The two demos collected on this compilation, the 1991 and 1992 demos, show […]
Ready for a lesson in Death Metal history? Dutch PHLEBOTOMIZED were one of the first bands to combine classical early Death Metal with avantgardistic, doomy and progressive elements and also very early to constantly work with keyboards. This CD is a compilation that features all the stuff they recorded before the release of their first […]
Ever since the industrial revolution, we humans love things that vibrate; from coin-operated beds in motel rooms of the past to the more sophisticated chairs and slippers you’ll find in a Skymall catalog. The idea of a machine doing nothing but servicing us is part of the reason we have technology in the first place, […]
So apparently all 500 CD copies that were originally pressed by Belgian Midian Records back in 1992 are gone and some of them made their way into eBay and selling for top dollar. Well, I haven’t looked there, but I believe there’s a demand for this long sold out split album, especially that ETERNAL SOLSTICE […]
US powerhouse ATTACKER is one of those rare bands that have – more or less tragically, lost many of their band members. Ffirst vocalist John Leone in 1994, followed by guitarist Jim Mooney in 2000, then in between 2009 – 2011 they even lost ATTACKER’s first bassist John Joseph and guitarist Tom D’amico, who played […]
More black-thrashing madness from the Swedish squadron of AGGRESSIVE MUTILATOR. Mikael Holm has been very active since the inception of this project, and it is nice to hear how the music’s quality is taking part and progresses from release to release, even though there can’t have been a long pause, between the writing and recording […]
The Swedish word ‘sten’ means ‘stone’ in English, and as we know by now there are some smaller and bigger stones all over this world. Smaller stones usually – and in most cases, tend to have a lighter weight too – and those bigger stones are normally heavier, and sometimes even much heavier. We cannot […]