Are you in the mood for some melodic Black / Death Metal à la early NAGLFAR, SACRILEGE, IN FLAMES and stuff like that? Bands that you picked up from the already defunct Swedish labels like Black Sun Records and Wrong Again Records? HAILSTONE, however, does not ‘hail’ from Sweden but from Munich, Germany instead. This […]
I didn’t get too much information from the enclosed sheet. Just that this record was originally released on CD in 1991, than re-released as a 7" and now re-released again on CD and 12". So, I visited the website of the band, but there is not really a bio either. What I know in the […]
MARTIRE must be to the Aussie scene what SADISTIC INTENT are to the American; both bands threatened to release their albums for well over ten years. And while we still await "The Second Coming Of Darkness" with unimaginable expectations, the debut album from MARTIRE finally sees the light of day. For those of you who […]
Tornio-based trio THE HOWL is the northernmost Metal / Rock band I can think of at the moment. THE HOWL’s 11-track debut album, titled “Skins Of Our Back”, that was released in 2010, left a pretty positive impression on me for its sort of FURBOWL-ish approach; those heavy, rot ‘n’ roll vibes surrounding me from […]
Some might remember these guys from the land of the thousand lakes (or Finland for those who never listened to AMORPHIS). PURTENANCE released a 7" EP ("Crown Waits The Immortal") and just one fine album ("Member Of Immortal Damnation") twenty years ago on the Spanish underground label Drowned Productions (both re-released together on one CD along […]
I guess everybody who has a favour for old school Death Metal, especially if Scandinavian bands count to your preferences, should be familiar with this ancient bastard from Suomi called PURTENANCE. Their classic "Member Of Immortal Damnation" was a fine slap of brutal Metal of Death and one of Finland’s finest moments in the early 90s. […]
This is, if I am not wrong, the fifth full-length recording of this Ukranian band (which seems to be formed just by one man), which has some connections with bands like NOKTRUNAL MORTUM. As far as I know the band started more into an ambient style, thus this disc is a very well executed form […]
It seems that ultra brutal / visceral / gore / extreme / grinding Metal, can be a scene on their own. And most of the time the music they present tries so hard to be the most extreme thing or the most obscene one that the final result might as well be something of the […]
In the past, AUTOPSY already released several DVDs (for example the one included in the re-release of "Mental Funeral" or the DVD "Dark Crusades") and although they were all kind of charming, they hardly exceeded the level of an ordinary bootleg. "Born Undead" is the first DVD of AUTOPSY where you could say that they […]
Damn, that awkward moment when you realize that what you get is not a new release of a cool band, which hasn’t released anything new for some years, but a reissue of some older release that you weren’t aware of in the past, but it wasn’t really a big loss anyway… So yes, I expected […]