If the reader of this review is anything like me, then that person read the name INSISION in Daniel Ekeroth’s much acclaimed book, “Swedish Death Metal” (Ekeroth was the band’s long time bassist before stepping out in 2008 to focus on his career as a documentary film maker and author). As Ekeroth explains in his […]
Thrash Metal does not leave anyone cold if it’s well and convincingly done, gushing of steaming energy and been pumped up with more aggression than one can handle at one time. The four and hungry (for Thrash) horsemen of Thrash known as ARCHITORTURE coming from Finland, are a quite relentless Thrash beast, have got their […]
Retro-Thrash or get retro-Thrashed… could well be an updated slogan to some other more known slogan among Metal heads, I guess. ARCHITORTURE from Finland, featuring 4 relentless Thrash maniacs armed with a true DIY-attitude, have finally unleashed their 8-track debut full-length studio album titled "Spare No One" – and even on their own label BWK […]
Simple punkish Black Metal that’s heavily influenced by early BATHORY is what Swedish outfit AGGRESSIVE MUTILATOR throws at us from hell’s smoldering abyss and while one definitely has to criticize the complete absence of inventiveness, songs like the opener ‘Blasphemic Lust’, ‘Total Autopsy’ (which was also on the band’s first demo) or ‘War Of Armageddon’ […]
Dutch Death demons SINISTER are still alive and well, even after more than 20 years they won’t give up on feeding their pure and brutal Death Metal to those who know and those who love. "The Carnage Ending" is their 10th full-length album to date and it offers nothing really unexpected. It’s brutal, it’s fast, […]
Here it comes, the Century Media debut of Swedish hard working EVOCATION. Facing the fact that “Illusions Of Grandeur” is already the fourth full-length album within five years and with a closer look at the past touring and festival schedule of EVOCATION it’s more then obvious that “success” does certainly not come over night. EVOCATION […]
So, I take it like something good can come out through some ‘talent shows’ too. Norwegian Thrashers TANTARA, was said to start out as a ‘talent show’ project kind of thing between vocalist and guitarist Fredrik (Bjerkø) and drummer Stian (Sannerud) in the fall of 2009. Since then two more members – Per Semb for […]
I think it’s a pity that the co-operation between Hammerheart Records and one of Hollands oldest Death / Thrash acts THANATOS is over again already. I mean, the label did such a good job on the re-issues of the first two THANATOS records as well as on the re-union album "Angelic Encounters" that I had […]
This mini-CD was already released as a self-financed CD a couple of months ago and now apparently also official. Nothing has changed that much musically when you compare this one to the previous album "Angelic Encounters" as THANATOS still comes up with high-quality Death Metal. Although the band even sounds a little more brutal here […]
Now there’s a cause for celebration! As part of their Death Certificate campaign Century Media signed a deal with THANATOS to re-release their first two albums and here’s what we have on the first one which originally came out in 1990 on Shark Records (long dead by now). New layouts, liner notes, lyrics plus 4 […]