Hammerheart Records is back in business and after having re-issued the first full-length albums of Swedish NECROPHOBIC on CD and vinyl last year, here comes the re-issue of the compilation of all NECROPHOBIC recordings, released before their legendary debut album "The Nocturnal Silence". Is the version released by Regain Records in 2009 even sold out […]
I still can remember when I got the debut album by Spanish Thrashers FUCK OFF in the late 80s on vinyl. It was always a bit difficult to get hold of records from Spain either due bad distribution of the bands’ labels, rather limited quantities or being sold just locally. This Barcelona based outfit was […]
Netherlands’ SINISTER are getting a facelift via a reissue of the band’s early demo / compilation / split EP materials. Originally released in 2009 by Goregiastic Records, “The Blood Past” is a sick Death Metal fan’s dream of taking a look back at the roots of this powerhouse. When a label usually releases a band’s […]
This time, we don’t have new stuff here, fresh from the pressing plant, but an album released in 2010 and even recorded in 2005. THY HASTUR are from a little town in Silesia in Poland and released three albums, "The Ancients“ being the most recent. Looking at the line-up, we find out that the band […]
Really, this band seems to have released more material in a short time frame. I am a bit confused as both this recording and the other one are exactly the same time of duration…and for that, I guess that releasing both together would make a lot more sense than apart. Oh, well. The thing that […]
There is always something when listening to bands from Malaysia. In my eyes, or should I say in my ears, they are closer to what was done in South America 25 years ago than most South American bands. RAKUS, on this EP, sounds like a bastard child of SODOM and SEPULTURA with maybe a better performance, […]
If I am not wrong this is the very first band I have ever heard from Algeria… a place where with the little info most of us get will think Heavy Metal in any of its forms might as well carry the death penalty. Then, to have a brutal Death Metal band with slight Black […]
Not all the Death Metal world evaporated in the mid to late 90s. Bands such as NOMINON, KAAMOS, INSISION and REPUGNANT led the charge, despite the fact that were no soldiers to command, or at least, not as many as there once had been several years prior. Add to your list, KARNARIUM. While not as […]
To be honest, I have not followed Swedish Death Metal act KARNARIUM that much after 2006’s "Deity Of Opposites" EP and only heard their 2008 debut album briefly – something I actually regret by now and will change asap. Now, the band’s second album “Otapamo Pralaja” hits us via Nuclear Winter Records and should have […]
Under the monicker ‘Death Certificate’, Century Media is currently having a campaign where new Death Metal albums are put in the spotlight and old but somehow forgotten classics get a second chance. One of the first old bands they dag up is the Swedish band GOREMENT. Their debut album “The Ending Quest” (originally released in […]