Impressive. That’s the word that comes to mind every time I listen to this tape. And I’ve heard it a bunch of times since I first got it for reviewing purposes. I wonder how Nihilistic Holocaust came across these bands, but they reek the stagnant stench of the 90s. This split has a pounding and […]
R´LYEH comes from H. P. Lovecraft’s short story "The Call Of Cthulhu" and is Cthulhu’s prison as well as a sunken city in the South Pacific. This gives you an idea about the lyrics. Many of you were probably aware of that already. Before this review I didn’t know anything about or from this band. It […]
Although Heavy Metal has an aura, a halo of mystery and darkness over it, more than once some humor is welcome. That humor can be contained within the music, the lyrics or the band name. But then again 20 years ago that was something more or less done as a side effect, especially by Thrash […]
We have recently received a killer album from one of those Polish bands that keep proving the scene in such latitudes is really healthy and loaded with many bands for all the tastes. This time the turn is for HERETIQUE and their brand new full-length album called “Ore Veritatis” released through their country mates Psycho […]
Defunct Death Metallers from Mexico NOCTAMBULISM have recently had 3 of their demos released as a collection entitled "Resurrection Of The Dead" on Dark Recollections Productions. The demos give you a glimpse of a simpler time in Death Metal when it was not all about the 100000bpm drums and guitars. When the music was just […]
Were it not for a friend’s suggestion I may never have heard this brilliant new band from New York. Using a variety of eerie sound effects and haunting wails, OCCULTATION pours out from the speakers like a fog, enshrouding all it touches in a cold, funereal blanket of sound. Though mostly composed of ambient and […]
When I read the name OCCULTATION a couple of weeks ago in Terrorizer mag I first thought: “Peruvian Death Metal”? Reading further I found out we are being offered some Occult Doom here – ritual style! To be honest, female-fronted Occult Rock / Doom / Metal is not my chalice of blood at all – […]
STENCH OF DECAY’s second demo tape, "Where Death And Decay Reign" is the third demo released on the excellent Detest Records label (after the SWALLOWED and MIASMAL tapes) – one of the few labels that seems to be unearthing important new talent in the Death Metal underground. This new Finnish band is certainly on the […]
After a quite good demo, STENCH OF DECAY strikes back with their first EP. The heavy guitars sustain and hooking riffs are still there. ‘Vision Beyond Death’ starts as a typical mid tempo Death Metal anthem. As soon as the voice comes in it spontaneously reminds of DEMIGOD’s ‘Dead Soul’ on the classic "Slumber Of […]
First off, this is a truly great compilation release. A great release in the sense that these 2 demos + one EP have been available in limited formats earlier – and obviously are sold out, or at least nearly sold out by now. We are talking about Finland’s ‘new’ old school Deathsters STENCH OF DECAY’s […]