Before some of you might start bitchin’ around about featuring a band like DOWN in Voices From The Darkside, just shut up and listen. Firstly, forget about marketing terms like "all-star band“ or "supergroup“. Such misleading labeling is totally unnecessary in the case of a band like DOWN. It’s only detracting from the music. Who […]
Amazing… I mean, it’s just simply amazing whenever there’s a band crossing your path unexpectedly – and blowing your mind away just like that by that very first impression the kind of bands are able to offer you instantly. Such a band is this Serbian melodic and frenzied sounding Black / Death Metal outfit named […]
London-based Metallers SANITY BURNS have finally got their self-titled 10-song debut album out – and diversity of music seems to be the name of the game here when it comes down to the band’s song structures. SANITY BURNS have clearly pushed some musical limits further for themselves on their debut record that allow them to […]
It’s nearly twenty years ago, that a quite new genre in music compilations started to become more and more successful: tributes to influential or cult bands. It started with bands like VENOM. Many years and billions of (mainly redundant) tributes later, we have reached a quite obscure level of paying deference to an artist: a tribute […]
Alberta’s filthy blasphemers in BEGRIME EXEMIOUS have got their 2nd full-length studio album out – an 8-track opus titled "Visions Of The Scourge", on the highly respected US Death Metal label Dark Descent Records. No matter how all too familiar the band’s raw, unpolished and beautifully captivating Black / Death Metal may sound to some […]
Originally started out in Oslo, Norway in 2004 (under the FROST moniker), Norwegian modern and technical Thrashers IMBALANCE seem to take the world by quite a menacing storm indeed. "Period Three Implies Chaos", which is the band’s debut studio album, was recorded in between 2008-2010, is surprisingly tightly executed, partly groovy Thrash with slight Death […]
It seems this label Dying Victims is fond on old school Speed Metal (not Thrash if I am too bit picky) and it seems to be like a good idea. The essence that I can sense is that of bands that recall early ANVIL, EXCITER, JUDAS PRIEST and IRON MAIDEN. Yes, when Speed Metal was […]
Speed Metal… Heavy Metal on steroids… that was the way to describe it 20 years ago… nowadays we have tons of stupid and useless denominations for all things Metal… one could easily say this is also a Thrash Metal band, but I will stick just with the Speed Metal tag here… DEMONA comes out from […]
"The Remnants Of A Chaos" is the debut album of an obscure band from the land of the rising sun following a three track demo which saw the light of day in 2011. Guitarist Peath2, who is supported by some helping hands to ban his ideas onto CD, is the mastermind behind this outfit. NOXIOUS […]
After "II" from 2007, "Sentinel" is again another impressive work by SPECTRAL LORE. For those unfamiliar, this is a one man project from Greece founded by Ayloss who has already released two albums and a split single with UNDERJORDISKA on CD-R. Namely, "I" from 2006 and "II" from 2007. The style is self described as […]