There’s always some room for dark-flavored and smartly played Heavy Metal in my books – and this Finnish 5-piece act DIRGE ETERNAL pretty much reclaims its place in that particular box for the musical achievements that the featured 5 songs on this recording, represent pretty darn strongly indeed. This EP, titled "Lucifer’s Lullabye", which DIRGE […]
Cannot quite believe it’s been 13 years since this goodie came out: "Fistful Of Christ", this 7-track debut record from these Seattle based icon-smashers and blasphemers FUNERAL AGE, worked as a good road sign for what was to come from this vicious sounding bunch about 7 years later (which was the band’s follow-up album, titled […]
Seattle, Washington based Black / Thrash Metal act FUNERAL AGE is one of the most recent positive surprises that have crossed my way over these passing months. These leather, spikes and bullets belts wearing 4 fellows have seriously recorded an album that reeks of all kinds of awesomeness. There’s 8 lengthy songs on "Thy Martyrdom […]
This is one aggressive fucker of a demo, pure intensity from the beginning to the end, delivered in a mix of blasting Grindcore and more balanced Death Metal, with a good bunch of noisy rawness into it. This one man band hails from Ecuador, and takes us back to a time when Death Metal and […]
A grim punch of death, is indeed awaiting whoever puts this record on the player. This Finnish band delivers straight on old school Death Metal, as our ancestors would have liked it, with that certain Finnish dark and disturbing touch, no other country so far has accomplished to copy. This release dates back to 2009, […]
Danish Mighty Music went far out for fishing, and returned back to the home shores with a wide smile being spread all over the face. They found the Finnish Thrashers RUINSIDE being tangled tightly into their strong net. Formed in around 2005, and a couple of demos and EPs later, RUINSIDE’s debut album, "The Hunt", […]
"Skull-splitting Metal…"? Sounds like something worth checking out in my books for sure. RANGER is a 3-piece relentless and very vicious sounding Finnish Metal squad that obviously adores all things nostalgic and retro. Prior to the band latest attempt – this 3-track demo titled "Metal Gear", RANGER recorded their debut demo "Enter The Zone" back […]
Being formed in 1998, the band went more or less comatose, like they wrote on their homepage. After a break for seven years, where the members played in different acts, they got together again and recorded a demo, published in 2006 that directly led to a record contract and now we have the result of […]
R’lyeh, December 2012: Deep down in the boundless depths of the sea the great Cthulhu summons his minions to the enormous conference chamber. Formless beings, grotesquely disfigured and appalling creatures slither and creep from all corners of the hidden city to heed their master’s utterings. Amongst them is one human being, Abdul Alhazred XXVI, who […]
The 3rd album’s title by Spanish threesome GRUESOME STUFF RELISH sums their music and attitude pretty damn well! It is so self-explanatory, just like DISMEMBER’s "Death Metal". You instantly know what you get and in this case you can definitely judge the book by its cover as they say. Now for those in the dark, […]