With members and ex – members of DECAPITATION, VADER and AZARATH, MASACHIST’s second album shouldn’t be a surprise for anyone. I haven’t heard their debut album "Death March Fury". Shame on me. Because "Scorned" honors and excels on the now deeply rooted Polish Death Metal style: razor sharp riffs, brilliant drumming and vicious vocals. Execution […]
Real Metal, anyone? Did I hear a thousand voices screaming "Hell, Yes!"? All right, here we go! Travel back in time into the glorious 80s! And listen to IRON CURTAIN, from Murcia, Spain. If anyone told me, these guys have released their debut "Road To Hell" in 1983 or 1984, I would have believed it. […]
Second full-length album, of this American Black Metal band, that now show a full line-up. Does it really matter from where the music comes from? No. Breaking that chain works a lot in terms of appreciating the music. SHADOWS IN THE CRYPT plays here a very interesting form of Black Metal not far away form […]
Debut album, from this two piece Black Metal band from the USA. First thing that somehow is not exactly my thing is the use of a drum machine / computer / whatever that makes the band to have a “mechanized” sound if you know what I mean. But even with that, the result is quite […]
RAGNAROK from Sarpsborg, Norway, have been around since 1994 and released 7 full-length studio albums thus far, off which this 10-track opus titled, "Malediction", is their latest one – and first for their new home, Polish Agonia Records. Since the band’s 2010 album on Regain Records, "Collectors Of The King", previous guitarist Brygge has stepped […]
Bangalore’s KRYPTOS have traveled a long way since they were formed in 1998. The band has been building up their band profile little by little over the past years, getting more and more international recognition for themselves. Having already 3 albums on their way, the band’s latest record "The Coils Of Apollyon", is also the […]
Uh, I don’t know where to start from – I mean, giving a fair insight into this slab of crap (sorry) that’s spinning furiously around back and forth in my Sony Walkman at the very moment. There’s simply too much stuff in this Greek CROSSOVER’s music; too many different sub-genres, samples, effects, spoken words, etc. […]
So, Greek band EVEROS is being described as ‘a great combination of Black / Death Metal in the veins of DISSECTION and DEICIDE’ by some label guy. Well, I don’t know why on earth these two band comparisons in question are given to us because there’s absolutely nothing in EREVOS that could link them either […]
Polish outfit INFIDEL follow up their 2009 debut album “Ejaculating Chaos” with a 5 track MCD entitled “Eviscerate Yourself” and deliver a vicious and pretty individual piece of Death Metal fuelled Black Metal or blackened Death Metal due to combining mainly fast paced storming guitar riffs and chord bombardments in the vein of MARDUK or […]
I was a little confused at first when I read the description that INSISION drummer Thomas was giving me in the letter he’d included in their promo package: "INCISION play technical and brutal US Death Metal in the vein of SUFFOCATION and IMMOLATION…" Hmm… while listening to their impressive 1999 mini CD "The Dead Live […]