Holy molly… being 6 long years in the process, Finnish Death Metal torpedo DEMOLISHER finally gets its debut studio full-length recorded, titled "Plague District". DEMOLISHER employs MORBID ANGEL type of pompous heaviness, DEMIGOD’s eerie and crawling set of deadly riffs within their partly modern – partly old school Death Metal, also adding a fair dose of […]
Well, the first song, ‘Empty Thoughts’, wasn’t too bad, but after this one’s finished things fall into decay. Maybe it’s due to the style played here, which is mediocre brutal Death / Deathcore that’s abscent from a dark, or captivating atmosphere and only offers brutality. So, this EP turns out pretty one-dimensional in its emotion […]
If rotten, primitive Doom / Death is what you are looking for then you are in for a treat with US cult act DERKETA’s first proper studio album whose crushingly heavy sound will doom you to death just nicely. Originally being founded back in the late 80s DERKETA have achieved a well-deserved cult status as […]
You know the stories how bands start out playing a mix of Death / Black Metal and then as they get better on their instruments they want to explore weirder stylistical corners and branch out. At that point they start to refer to themselves as something like Avantgarde Post Black Metal or just Extreme Metal […]
From Alabama, USA, comes this trio that truly knows their stuff. I mean, if we primarily want to restrict this talk to some dark and heavy sounds of underground Death Metal in the late 80s / early 90s. ECTOVOID is the name of this very underground-ish sounding band – and I believe the guys in […]
Brasilian Death Metal is on the rise if you ask me. And with ESCARNIUM we got one big hopeful. Seriously, listening to their "Covered In Decadence" sends shivers down my spine each time I listen to it. The short introduction to the title track and ‘His Final March’ are great, especially the part used from […]
Dark, crushing and all-mangling Death Metal… like it? Well, at least I happen to know I do in many cases – and Brazil’s ESCARNIUM is simply a good example of how it can be done right. "Excruciating Existence", this 9-track debut full-length studio recording from these Brazilian Death mongers, is basically kind of ‘meat & […]
It’s great to see that this amazing masterpiece by Czech APPALLING SPAWN is now available again for all deathbangers out there. In my humble personal opinion the debut album of this squad, which was originally released back in 1998, didn’t get the attention it deserved and was quite unterrated and neglected both by press and […]
Violent, chaotic and insane Black / Death Metal from the UK that has a primordial approach, where one can listen even to some very violent Punk influences… which in this case is exactly a good thing. The constant use of dissonant riffs, adds a psychotic edge that makes this quite interesting and a challenge for […]
Sometimes the cover art speaks a lot for what the band plays. Yes, that is what in the old times was basic for a band to create a concept of the music in the mind of the headbangers. So, in my book a Da Vinci inspired form with a devil / goat creature, gives this […]