I gotta admit I really did enjoy the heck out of Serbian melodic Black / Death combo’s BANE’s 2010 debut studio album, titled "Chaos, Darkness & Emptiness". These Serbs’ aural assault of DISSECTION-esque and DARK FUNERAL-esque type of Black / Death Metal appealed every nerve cell of mine – and the band’s follow-up record, "The […]
Doing my personal review of the most impressive record of this year’s releases NADER SADEK come to my mind, although it was already released in 2011. As I do not follow the major Metal press I can only guess if this record was featured properly to its worth and did not just stand in the […]
If you pine for the heyday of the Swedish Sunlight Studios sound such as early Entombed, Dismember and Grave, then these slick demos (released as one disc) will have you wetting your pants in delight. These Spaniards will rock your socks off with charming ditties like ‘Morbid Dawn Of The Deceased’ and ‘Tombs Of Fallen […]
Doesn’t it get boring with all those old school Death Metal bands, sounding too much like old ENTOMBED, old DISMEMBER, old GRAVE, old UNLEASHED…? Fuck no, not as long as the quality is as splendid as on this new 7" EP from Spanish Death Metal band UNCONSECRATED. First up, and I have to take the […]
When we received this album by the Spanish Death Metal band UNCONSECRATED, their bandname didn’t exactly ring a bell. With “Awakening In The Cemetery Grave”, you get hold of their entire discography as this album is a compilation of their first two demos – "Unconsecrated Cemetery” (2006) and "Dark Awakening" (2007) – who were never […]
After their crushing debut album "Deathevocation" earlier this year, Germany’s new Death Metal sensation REVEL IN FLESH is back with a bang. On this vinyl 7", shared with Sweden’s horror junkies REVOLTING, Haubersson and Maggesson present us a new doomy thunderbolt entitled ‘Bonecrusher’. And I can’t understand why this great track was not included on […]
We all know that Sweden is a great source for great music. No other country seems to have more bands than inhabitants. And lots of them are very good. MANIFESTOR is another fine band from the land of the thousand bands. Two hopeful young guys, Hatetriot and Asbest, share their vision of how Thrash Metal […]
The accented intro calls to mind images of high fantasy: Conan the Barbarian holding his blade to the sun, monsters and mazes lying in wait – quite the opener for this German band’s first album. Journeying into a dungeon replete with black magic and foul denizens of the dark sounds like it could easily be […]
Yet a band from Minneapolis to lighten up the Christmas, well, a band more realistic to rip it apart and pound it to dust. This is MALEDICERE’s debut full-length after a couple of demo releases, a split, a live release and a split. "Leave Only What Is Fit To Burn" is a album that is […]
All that sub-par chatter about wheat fields and equinoxes of the moon from the likes of WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM and their unimpressive crowd seems, at last, to have sufficiently angered true Metalheads in Portland, Oregon to assemble and play fearsome, evil Metal. NEXWOMB formed in 2009; their demo, “Militant Heretic Aggression”, was released […]