ALIENANTE DAMNATION is a new band from Belgium; “Le Chantre Du Charnier” their first official recording. To my knowledge there isn’t a widely available demo around, though that doesn’t necessarily mean one does not exist. At any rate, a first glance at this album, and you might receive a mixed message, I did. The mixed […]
VENOM… a word that for some of us older Metallers will always mean the root of all evil… they can be named as the creators of what Black and Death Metal was soon to become, yet in their heart they were a Heavy Metal band… but one that was soon to evolve into darker territories… […]
OVEROTH is a 4-piece Death Metal act coming from Belfast, Northern Ireland – and the band has been active since 2005, and even released a full-length studio album (titled "Kingdom Of Shadows) in 2010 on the Forbidden Realm label. I just got my hands on the band’s 2007 6-track EP, titled "Death Personified" – and […]
This Northern California-based trio having Tyler on guitar and vocals, Pat on bass and Derek on drums, abandoned their original band name DEVASTATOR, and changed their name to BLESSED CURSE in 2010. The band’s 3rd 5-track "Burn The Beast" EP, was recorded and released under the old band moniker in 2008 though, which I am […]
Virginian vicious blackened Thrashers THE DAY OF THE BEAST are unleashing some hell again. I remember liking the band’s 2008 self-titled debut album quite much, really enjoying these fellows’ somewhat straightforward and uncompromising sound of both Black and Thrash Metal. I also remember placing them into the very same category together with such names as […]
From Windber, Pennsyvania, hails this now 3-piece old school Death Metal act called MAUSOLEUM that is full of relatively known ex-musicians from such groups as INCANTATION, MORPHEUS DESCENDS, NECROTOMIE and so on. The band has been around since 2001, and released their debut studio outing, titled "Cadaveric Displays Of Ghoulish Ghastiliness", in 2003. "Back From […]
"Release my demon, crush the gates, disease unleashed. I meet my fate, this is my hell but I don’t crave for heaven, all my life is gone in a second. Dead in a second…" These are the very 1st verses for a song called ‘Dead In A Second’; the opener song for the debut full-length […]
After two impressive studio albums (I’m not counting the two cover releases), the legendary U.K. extreme act is back and it seems that they have really learned a lesson from their previous mistakes as it’s definitively NAPALM stuff that we have here, super fast, intense with lots of dynamics. Barney’s growls / vocal delivery is […]
Considering the influential status of NAPALM within the extreme underground and the number of songs / releases that have seen the light of day ever since the band originally started out, it’s actually kinda strange that a compilation album of their "best" tracks took so long to get released (no, I’m not counting 1991’s "Death […]
I have not heard a NAPALM DEATH album since…since a lot of time I am afraid. If in any doubt THEY ARE the creators of Grindcore. And they created the perfect Grind album with “From Enslavement To Obliteration” one piece of Metal history I am proud of having in its original vinyl edition including the […]