Fourth album of this 5 piece Russian band. In the stream of countless releases it is easy that your everyday Death / Thrash Metal album will go unnoticed unless it is something different. And in a few things this band is different, yet that difference is not exactly in the best possible way. There is […]
Florida in the 90s. That pretty much defines this American duo’s debut album. Actually I would say that this is a bit more brutal. So, it takes also the NY sound of that same era. I can hear an early to mid era DEATH influence, and the style also reminded me of BRUTALITY. With a […]
HATEFUL are a three-piece hailing from Italy, crafting their thrashing Death Metal with strong technical overtones since 1997. Some readers of VOICES may remember the CD sampler “Tworzenia, Resurrezione, Démence” released by Nihilistic Holocaust in 2006 which featured three tracks of the Italians (review here). Finished four years later (yes, another old recording reviewed today […]
From Spain, the land of bull fights, we received a band called MASS BURIAL, which is presenting their debut full-length album "Of Carrion And Pestilence" released through the famous Robert, owner of Wydawnictwo Muzyczne Psycho. What these Spanish dudes bring is a clear evocation of the ancient spirit of what Swedish Death Metal was back […]
Pure grinding Death emerging from Poland in cassete format and courtesy of Wydawnictwo Muzyczne Psycho Records from Poland too. Ok… I’ll try to extract as much as possible as there are only 3 songs on this demo… and being released through a label, this could be considered as an EP tape… ok… but now let’s […]
I guess not many of today’s kids have any idea about a doomy Death Metal band from New York called CEREMONIUM. The band started out in 1992 – and they existed roughly about 11 years – and ceased to exist. However, during those eleven years of the band’s existence, they released 2 full-length studio albums […]
The evergrowing amount of old school Thrash bands nowadays, sometimes makes me question myself how many of their albums will stand a test of time as short as, say, even only 5 years (MERCILESS DEATH (US), HATCHET, many others… do any of them still ring a bell?)… That’s when I also wonder how things would […]
Now something a bit more interesting and different for a change. ALNAMROOD (the name translates to ‘non-believer’, coming from an ancient historical autocratic character, by the way) is a Black Metal band coming from Saudi Arabia; in a country where playing this type of music is highly forbidden – and getting caught by playing this […]
KALKI AVATARA is a one-man project act from Rome, Italy – the side project of Mr. Hell-IO-Kabbalus precisely from such unholy legions as ABORYM, MALFEITOR, HOUR OF PENANCE, etc. This 4-track EP titled "Mantra For The End Of Times", has originally been self-released 4 years ago already by the band but Canadian Shaytan Productions also […]
The Demon Sheen, the one man occultist evoking the dead through silent slithers, chants and mesmerizing Egyptian ambience. The spells are taken from the Egyptian sacred text “The Book of the Dead”. That, as a brief introduction to this 1-man project act hailing from Victoria, Australia. THE HORN has released many albums (volumes) thus far […]