Frenchmen UNSU deliver their third EP of grinding filthiness. Naturally, because Grindcore songs are so short, a multitude of tracks can fit onto a small format. I can’t say I’m mightily impressed with this band. First, they use Kilgore’s famous line from Apocalypse Now: “I love the smell of napalm in the morning”, for their […]
The opening minutes of "Sui Caedere", the second LP by England’s Doom / Death platoon EYE OF SOLITUDE, had me drawing comparisons to the Swedish band DRACONIAN (or DOOM:VS). That is, a mid-paced kind of mournful Doom / Death with a professional production. This impression was improved by the entrance of Daniel Neagoe’s low, guttural vocals, a […]
If a name like ULTRA-VIOLENCE drops you can’t help recalling that classic Thrash Metal album released by a bunch of Bay Area Thrashers of Filipino descent which are better known to most of you as DEATH ANGEL. Anyway, our Turin based maniacs here caused quite a big stir in their local / native underground and […]
Five years after their 2007 demo, Belgium’s DEHUMAN released their debut album, and the applause is less than thunderous, but not totally silent either. That’s because this isn’t an extraordinary album, nothing to cause whiplash in your neck muscles or sold out tours. Nor is it terrible, nothing to cause retching and gnashing of teeth […]
Despite, or in spite of the old saying don’t judge a book by its cover, INFECTED SOCIETY almost faced such judgment. The cover art to their EP looks like something from DESTRUCTION’s forgotten 1998 album, “The Least Successful Human Cannonball”, only cheaper and more digital looking. But, thankfully the music makes up for it. What […]
This is something I have waited for since many many years: a musician from one of the most underrated Swedish Death Metal bands founded a new band playing Death Metal the old way. Here we are not talking about a bunch of youngsters trying to play like their influences; here we are talking about an […]
I had heard BOMBS OF HADES first EP, "Carnivores" some years ago. And I really enjoyed it. It was a nice 5 track EP full of that rotting stench of the early 90s Swedish Death Metal. But, as in tons of other Swedish bands, it fell through the cracks in terms of originality and detail. […]
I love raw and unpolished music, I love simplistic outlashes of rawness, as long as they possess passion and insight. Though when raw and simple music, is raw and simple for the mean of it, when I can’t feel the soul and passion or it just lack talent, I get bored and in time quite […]
Year after year Christian and his crew unleash a new issue of their informative and entertaining print magazine. Therefore I am in the fortunate situation to discover new pearls (at least for me) of musical brilliancy each year. And if you already know the HAMMERHEART mag, you instantly know what to expect, as they follow […]
Apart from PENTAGRAM (no, not the superior and better known Chilean band), I cannot recall having listened to many bands from Turkey. However, Metal is more global than ever now, so the likelihood of a band popping up from Antarctica seems quite high. Branding themselves old school Grindcore, SAKATAT do just that: nothing more, nothing […]