Almost twenty years ago, Brazil’s KRISIUN released their legendary EP, “Unmerciful Order”. Now, along with the split EP released a year earlier with VIOLENT HATE, KRISIUN’s early work is recollected in a single volume, fittingly titled “Arise From Blackness”. “Arise From The Past” is more like it, though. After listening to this brutal old stuff, […]
Starting under a notorious sounding BLACK DEVOUR moniker back in 2006, this 3-headed evil bastard known as NIHIL MORTUM these days, has already put together an EP full of material in 2009; a 5-track EP titled "Masterpiece Of Unknown Art", which seemed to be even a relatively well received effort from them. As a logical […]
Shortly after the release of the impressive third album, SPECTRAL LORE joined forces with (also) Greek LOCUST LEAVES. First off is LOCUST LEAVES. An unknown band ’till now who perform a thrashy kind of Black Metal with a lot of intensity. After 3,5 minutes this track breaks apart to a more dramatic instrumental / spoken […]
From Umeå, Sweden, comes this 5-piece melodic Death Metal act called 6TH AWAKENING, and after 3 demos it’s time for the band’s debut full-length studio album, titled "Psycho Path". What we have here, is 10 songs – this also including a cover song of TYPE O NEGATIVE’s ‘My Girlfriend’s Girlfriend’. When it comes to 6TH AWAKENING’s […]
Is there ever enough quality Doom Death Metal around these days? Well, it could be ‘yes’ to many of us, but then again ‘no’ for some of us others too, whose undying hunt for some emotionally-charged and simply killer Doom Death Metal bands just never ends. A great thing about this so-called eternal hunt for […]
ANGER CELL is a melodic Death Metal band from Finland that has been around since 2007. Having a demo and one EP on their recording roster already, it was just a matter of time when these Finns would record their debut full-length. Well, that has happened now: "A Fear Formidable", the band’s 11-song studio album, […]
Tel Aviv’s SONNE ADAM appear with their first release, a 7" EP, on German Imperium Productions – a nice small (mostly vinyl) label which offered in the past releases as the split EP of ERODED and PAGANIZER, COFFINS’ "The Other Side Of Blasphemy" or the split EP of DEATHEVOKATION and LIE IN RUINS. I haven’t […]
SONNE ADAM in Hebrew means something like "Hater of Man". So don´t make the mistake to think it’s a German band. Because the two words are also having a meaning in the German language. But totally different as in Hebrew. Anyway, these days the guys from Israel are returning with a new album, entitled "Messengers Of Desolate Ways", […]
There was a time when quality Death Metal ruled the world and simply ruled my own world as well… a time when the matter was not to play as fast as possible or growling like if you were transforming into a werewolf. This era happened back in the mid 80s when you had musicians that […]
43 songs, 32 minutes. That’s less than a minute a song. And judging by the cover, the Italian duo seems like another Gore / Death / Grind machine, right? Well, they are. And this is their second full-length entitled "The Mind Is Collapsed" via Goressimo Records. And being a fan of the sub-genre, I was […]