Two new tracks by the mighty KRYPTS from Finland. This time the sound might be a bit "cleaner" than on the vinyl 12", but it is by no means a sign of weakening. These lads still manage to come up with high standard Death Metal the obscure and crawling way. Even though it has links […]
Finland strikes yet again with this morose and downtuned slab of old school Death Metal. While I admit this retro trend generally has me yawning, KRYPTS’ debut was a pleasant surprise. Much the way that "Into The Grave" always does, these guys put me into a dour and misanthropic mood; a considerable feat when the […]
If I remember correctly I became familiar with this totally unknown LA Thrash entity for the first time, known better as SCRAPMETAL, when guitarist and songwriter Juan Garcia (ex – EVILDEAD, ex – AGENT STEEL, MASTERS OF METAL) pointed me one of their flyers. SCRAPMETAL had just shared the stage with MASTERS OF METAL somewhere […]
Finnish / British trio SEPULCHRAL TEMPLE are an unholy Death Metal triumvirate musically offering doomy, brain-meltingly heavy dark sounds that combine abysmal Death Metal not unlike a more epic version of classic INCANTATION with a barbaric war metallic violence and highly disturbing atmosphere due to a good sense for dynamic arrangements and the utterly demented […]
Over the years Bazillion Points have built up a superb catalogue of books about Metal, and “Mean Deviation” is not the lesser in term of quality. Jeff Wagner’s idea was simple: to analyze the evolution of Technical / Progressive Metal throughout the years. One can imagine the difficulty to synthesize what is not a musical […]
Five years, one demo, one EP, one split EP and then a very unfortunate premature burial ended the quite promising career of Finnish Doom / Death Metal act ASCENDED whose vocalist Tommi moved over to STENCH OF DECAY taking over bass duties and thus is still active in the scene. "Temple Of Dark Offerings", ASCENDED’s […]
After all I’ve read about this band, I must say (shamefully) that this is my first contact with GRAVEYARD. Coming from Spain, I was expecting some good old blood-soaked Death Metal à la AVULSED / FERMENTO / GSR. Hell was I wrong! It all started as a side-project from members of other Spanish bands such […]
"4 hymns of pure Death Metal based on the late 80s and early 90s European tradition" – that’s what GRAVEYARD are all about. I copied this sentence from the infosheet I got together with this promo CD, therefore please excuse me for my lack of imagination how to describe GRAVEYARD’s sound. OK, I could be […]
Four years after their promising debut album effort “One With The Dead” Barcelona’s GRAVEYARD return with their 2nd longplayer. Boys & girls this is another example that authentic and most of all dedicated underground Death Metal doesn’t need to have Scandinavian, Dutch, British or American origins. Caramba! Spain strikes back. With the same ambitions like […]
Extreme Metal. It is not Death Metal. It is not Black Metal. Neither is Thrash or Speed…and in this case, neither it is Industrial Metal…but then again you know it is a mixture of all this. The Speed / Black / Death Metal parts are OK with me. The industrial part is not. The drums, […]