German Thrash has always had its own distinct sound and varies from the San Francisco area Thrash sound. Both styles are great and really provide a bit of international competitiveness between the bands involved. Enter MORTAL INFINITY who recently released their debut album “District Destruction”. They are from Germany but their sound is very Bay […]
Hailing from Cuba are ANCESTOR, a Black Metal band in the vein of late 90s era MARDUK / DARK FUNERAL. I am not familiar with many bands from Cuba, let alone Black Metal bands so this made for an interesting review. While this particular album was released in 2008, it was recently brought to my […]
Important note as for starters: "The Time Lord" contains the oldest, historic PAGAN ALTAR recordings that the band has in their archives. They have been digitally transferred from multiple master sources onto compact disc to obtain the best possible reproduction. However, due to the age of the original sources, the compact disc format reveals irregularities. […]
This is a special live document, both rare and rabid. BARBATOS is a one man project, run by Yasuyuki Suzuki of ABIGAIL. We all know that Japanese bands tend to be extreme and very simple, yet effective. Mr. Suzuki stands in this line perfectly. What we have here is a recording of BARBATOS from a […]
SQUAD’s debut album from 1989, "Gallinazeous Death", is now re-released by retro specialists Area Death Productions. Included are 6 bonus tracks recorded live in their home country of Chile, also in 1989. Now, the live songs possibly come from a tape bootleg, since the sound is raw and the right channel is really muffled. Anyway, […]
I’m totally into those kind of demo compilation CDs, this is a great thing to present a band’s early material to a wider audience. Especially if that early material is already that cool like it is in this case. ENTRAPMENT is a one man project from Groningen (The Netherlands) and although I’m not a friend […]
After two great demo releases (re-released as a compilation CD via Konqueror Records in 2009) those fiendish Italy based death mongers deliver their debut full-length and this is truly a great and fresh sounding album. Of course ERODED did not reinvent the old school Death Metal genre but they were very successful in cooking their […]
MASTER first made an album with the line-up consisting of Speckmann, Bill Schmidt and Chris Mittleburn, the mix for that recording got turned down by Nuclear Blast head honcho Staiger, Speckmann re-recorded the album with Jim Martinelli and Aaron Nickeas, and again the mix got rejected by the label. Then producer Scott Burns remixed the […]
This 5-piece Heavy / Doom Metal act ALTAR OF OBLIVION from Aalborg, Denmark, has been causing quite a fuss around them, by their genuine crossbreed of both traditional Heavy and Doom Metal. Not only have they been compared to such known acts as CANDLEMASS, MEMORY GARDEN, SOLITUDE AETURNUS and a couple of others as well […]
Bleak melancholic Black Metal from the dark forgotten woods of Hungary. SOLUS is a one man band lead by D, a master of putting grey thoughts and emotions to melodies and ritualistic patterns. The driving force of this demo is the cold and gripping melodies, the three real tracks on this release are a tour […]