I was more or less immediately blown away when I laid ears upon GRAVLUND’s first release "Goat Funeral Night", when I reviewed it for these very pages. The time has now come for the band’s second offering, a pro-tape limited to a hundred copies, so you better act fast, if you as well are caught […]
Finally former IN FLAMES members Jesper Strömblad and Glenn Ljungström reunited again and joined forces with Marco Aro (ex – THE HAUNTED, FACE DOWN) on vocals and Chris Barkensjö (ex – GRAVE, KAAMOS) on drums, to sail from now on under the flag of THE RESISTANCE. For myself, I really appreciate that one of my […]
I don’t want to give anyone the wrong idea; I’m probably never going to grow up. I like my Death Metal riddled with enough blast beats to send me into a helicopter hair-twirling frenzy and seek the sweatiest, most teenager filled mosh pit I can find. There comes a point in time, however, where I […]
UK’s Doom / Death Metal outfit, DAMNATIONS HAMMER, makes quite an entrance on the band’s debut studio album, "Disciples Of The Hex". Right from the very first moments I am getting a feel that Mr. Tom Warrior has some secret side project going on of which we haven’t been informed at all. I mean, could […]
Damn, this is absolutely cool… those Italians deliver finest doom laden Metal of Death which is deeply rooted in the early 90s and should be very suitable for fans of ASPHYX, DERKETA, DREAM DEATH and the likes. Although I’m not a big fan of Doom Death this self-titled debut recording from INTO DARKNESS really got […]
SAWHILL SACRIFICE, this savage 5-headed Finnish incarnation of all evil, started out as a Death / Thrash Metal act but little by little adopted a darker and more grim sound for their musical path. "Deus Humana Satanas", SAWHILL SACRIFICE’s debut album, makes that path even darker and blacker for them, employing the entire extreme Metal […]
DEATH TYRANT, a quite new band on the Swedish scene, an offspring of LORD BELIAL, as this is where two of the Backelin brothers continued their mayhem after said band was put on hold. Thomas is the main creator and later on he pulled Anders into the band of brothers, as the drummer and other […]
It’s been a good damn while since I last laid ears upon GRIEF OF EMERALD, it must have been their first or second album, I’m not sure how far I continued with the Swedes back then, as melodic Black / Death Metal with keyboards didn’t really latch on to me, when I was young, restless […]
It’s been a good while since I’ve given the Swiss Death Metal Armageddon squad REQUIEM a spin. They haven’t been much on my mind since 07’s "Premier Killing League", which was a decent pounding Death Metal basher, without making that much noise. They’ve released two albums since, where I am listening to the newest offering […]
It is not often that I come across new Austrian bands to be honest. Though now DEATHSTORM have materialized themselves in front of me with their aggressive and hard hitting 12" EP "Storming With Menace". While DEATHSTORM might be a brand new moniker, the band have roamed the underground for a few years as DAMAGE, […]