The name INFERNAL is not uncommon in the Black and Death Metal scene, since there is more than one band of that name (even Nasty Ronnie of NASTY SAVAGE used to sing in a band of that name – Frank). Here we are dealing with INFERNAL from Columbia, one of the oldest Black Metal bands from […]
Few times an album title fits the music as well as in this case. This is putrid Death Metal with an evil touch of evil magick. First of all this French band has been active since 2008 and under their belt they have a few EPs and demos. In this time and day it is […]
My first encounter with the Norwegian madmen in OLD FUNERAL was when Hammerheart Records released the picture disc "Join The Funeral Procession" back in 1999, a release containing the band’s "Abduction Of Limbs" demo and "Devoured Carcass" EP, a quite nice release that has gotten many spins since then. Now the Dutch label Soulseller Records […]
Florida based Thrashers CYST have obviously remained as some sort of sweet ear-candy only for a small amount of underground Thrash Metal fans for years already. Why that is so then – who actually knows. Perhaps their disappearance of a few years from the Metal scene, has teeny-weeny something to do with it? But one […]
In my opinion it all started from THERGOTHON’s "Stream From The Heavens" in 1994; the band’s trendsetting debut and only album. The Finns had gone shamelessly against all trends, and done something very unique in terms of twisting Doom Metal into something even slower than seeing two snails in a reproduction rite. A horrifying term […]
You all know those days, when you try to say something nice about something you can’t find any nice words for? I had a day like this when I first heard this CD. EXITIUM is another one-man-project, from Poland this time, describing their style as "symphony black metal" (sic). Sounds boring at a first look? […]
My heartbeat is dropping down… I almost don’t feel it anymore… am I dead or am I still alive? That’s how I always tend to feel whenever some Funeral Doom Metal crosses my way. From Adelaide, South Australia comes this incredibly sludg-ish and slowly crawling act named MOURNFUL CONGREGATION, and the band’s 4th record, titled […]
The re-release madness continues, and this time we are heading to Sweden to a band, that we could call the predecessor to first and foremost IN FLAMES, and some years later on HAMMERFALL. Though before all that noise CEREMONIAL OATH started out as DESECRATOR delivering raw and not that ‘bangable raw Death Metal. Time went […]
German-sung Black Metal? Uh, no thank you. I am having some troubles to understand the German language (especially when it’s been sung entirely by using Black Metal type of shrieks and stuff) as my German ain’t in that good shape anymore, you know. Or, wait a sec… this stuff should not make any difference from […]
The Swiss Death Metal mongers DARKRISE have already come to the point when their 4th full-length studio album has now been recorded and unleashed – and it’s waiting for its new preys, full of an ever-growing hungriness. Well, despite bringing absolutely nothing new on the table here, this is actually a pretty entertaining slab of […]