Thrash Metal is always a good game for everyone whenever it’s well-executed, comes straight on your skin and overall has something special on it that clearly grabs your attention immediately. This Finnish Thrash Metal group named BRAINTHRASH was first formed in 2005 but disbanded in 2007 after releasing a 3-song demo called "Major Mayhem" in […]
The fifth full-length assault from Swedish NOMINON basically follows the path of the the forerunner “Monumentomb” (2010), which means that NOMINON sound nowadays much more indvividual than what you may like to label as classical 90s Swedish Death Metal. So don’t expect any DISMEMBER / ENTOMBED / GRAVE cloning here. No way; I think that […]
25 minutes of pummeling Death Metal from the netherworlds is what this Turkish band delivers on their first release "Through The Eternal Damnation". Low and brutal riffing, ripping raw melodies, blasting drums and a low guttural growl tearing rips in my sanity. ENGULFED is a bastard made in hell, a brutal combination of dark and […]
Svarga Music is a new label from Kharkiv in the Ukraine, which is focused on Ukrainian bands in order to give these bands the international attention they deserve. MUNRUTHEL’s fifth album "CREEDamage" is the third album they released, the first the band did for this label. And I’m not sure if MUNRUTHEL deserves international attention. […]
Sometimes bands are around for ages and completely pass me by. REPENT from Bavaria released their first demo in 1997, and their first two albums in 2000 and 2004. But they never happened to me until I heard their current (and third) album "Vortex Of Violence" these days. I don’t know if it’s a shame, […]
An obscure and occult Black / Death opus of the highest class is what German outfit ALCHEMYST deliver with their first album “Nekromanteion” which marks another proof for the fantastic Teutonic underground scene at the moment. But let’s start with the historical facts: founded in Thuringia back in 2009 and a few notable previous releases […]
Hailing from Chile, a country which is well known for its excellent and outstanding extreme Metal scene, NAR MATTARU delivers an utterly dark and devastating alloy of Death Metal. After having unleashed the demo "In The Black Spheres Of Time" in 2009 (which is also included on this disc) "Enuma Elish" presents some new tracks […]
Formed in 2008 as SHAPELESS and turning into BEYOND in 2010 (can I trust you there, dear Encyclopedia Metallum?), this German Death Metal commando released a demo last year which is now followed up by the highly recommended “Enter Transcendence” 7” EP via Iron Bonehead. Two tracks of absolutely crushing Death Metal in the vein […]
German masters of creepy and lifeless (in a positive tone of the word) Funeral Doom Metal, WORSHIP, have returned back with a new album in their hands, titled "Terranean Wake". The album, that contains 4 tracks only, last nearly 56 long minutes in length though. WORSHIP’s debut full-length studio album, "Dooom", seemed to go down […]
The nice drawn black and white cover illustration brings back some memories from the glorious ’80 to me. The artwork would perfectly fit to one of those obscure US Metal private pressings… you know… Knights and Metal gallore. And apart from it: this MCD deserves it to be pressed on precious "black gold" as well. […]