After a small atmospheric rendezvous with Twin Peaks, the Czech one man band SKON sets in with the doom-laden Metal that paints this debut release "At The End Of A Journey", a quite bleak and gloom title for a beginning. A beginning, that might could turn into something of a monster, within time, as the […]
Refering to the album title you could easily think that this one is another Metal’n’Roll or alike release. But no need to worry here as this little disk is a quite solid Thrash Metal album. This bunch of Thrashers is hailing from the city of Oviedo and has been around since 2005 already. So they […]
THE SEVEN GATES are a quite new band from France, that features Michel Dumas, a French underground legend, active in MUTILATED and ABYSSALS among other bands. His new band is active since 2005, having released two demos and a full-length, “Angel Of Suffering”, in 2009. Since I haven’t heard their older stuff, I have to […]
This one is for old school Death Metal completists! Relapse Records has released a remastered version of the debut CONVULSE album "World Without God" which originally came out in 1992 on Thrash Records. Besides the said album this re-release also got 4 tracks from "World Without God" demo’90 and 2 live cuts – VENOM cover […]
I was rather skeptical when I heard about the CONVULSE reunion and did not expect very much. I really liked the great demo from 1990 and the classic debut album from 1991 (re-released on CD in 2010). Both releases contained rather fine sounding Scandinavian Death Metal. But 1994, on their second full-length, CONVULSE played some […]
Another lethal slap of total brutal old school Death Metal! "The Cult Of The Dead" is the predecessor of the highly recommended "Euphoric Convulsions" album. This EP, released in 2011 by the Polish underground label Defense Records, proves once more that this four piece from Gorlice knows exactly how to create absolute brillant stuff. They […]
This isn’t a terrible album. Indeed, one may say it’s not even close to terrible. There are good riffs, capable rhythms, and decent enough vocals. However it doesn’t quite come across as convincing. Instead what you have is a mish-mash of influences pieced together in a collage. The arrangement is reflected in the artwork, which […]
The great Danes in DEUS OTIOSUS are ready to strike back with their sophomore full-length attack "Godless". The debut "Murderer" was released on the German F.D.A. Records in 2010, and gave us great blackened Death Metal with a raw Thrash Metal feel. The same can be said about this new offering, yet a brutal slab […]
CORPUS MORTALE from Denmark, who’ve been going for 20 years, present their 3rd full-length album (after a 6 year gap from the last one), but I haven’t heard anything by them up until now. Did I miss much? Judging by "FleshCraft" not really. But let’s not get all negative, let’s find some positive display of […]
Polish GRIMLORD have been active since 1993. Their band name suggested some grim black metal and these guys started in such manner, but under a different monicker: VALLACHIA. In years they released a few demo’s and two albums, namely "Blood Runneth Over" in 2007 and "Dolce Vita Sath-An As" in 2009. Because I’m unfamiliar with […]