ASPHYX. The cult around this band is remarkable. Being disbanded two times, changed name and not to mention having several line-up changes, but… All falls back on its place like it did twenty years ago, sticking to their guns and as always with much class. The spell just can’t be broken. “Embrace The Death” was […]
Come 2009 and ASPHYX had reemerged to assert their rightful position in the pantheon of crushing Death / Doom. This is a great thing for all die-hard, head-banging, fist-pounding ASPHYX maniacs. To commemorate and honor the triumphant return, their label Century Media presents "Depths Of Eternity" – a re-release compilation of ASPHYX’s self-titled 1994 full-length […]
What can one say about mighty ASPHYX that hasn’t been said already? This band is like the epitome of crushing, slow, ancient Death Metal. "Reviewing" anything by this godly act is useless because everything that they ever produced is over the top quality material and personally I worship even their "God Cries" album. If you […]
I wouldn’t be surprised if this strictly limited ASPHYX 7" box would partly already be sold out by the time some of you are reading this… Even though there’s 5 different versions of it (500 picture discs, 100 copies on white vinyl, 200 on clear vinyl, 200 on clear/red vinyl and 500 copies on black […]
I always loved ASPHYX but I was kinda pissed when I read in several interviews that Martin was talking shit about their former bass player (and vocalist) Wannes Gubbels. That’s a useless and childish behavior, especially because Wannes helped to keep ASPHYX alive when Martin wasn’t in the mood for Death Metal… Anyway, let’s talk […]
The term ‘melo-Death Metal’ usually – and most often, tends to turn me off nowadays. However, as you know there are always some rare exceptions to this rule like Serbian melo-Death Metallers SANGRE ETERNA (‘Eternal Blood’ in Spanish) have proved it to me. This Serbian bunch SANGRE ETERNA reminds me of that harder and more […]
What a strange band name herein… It’s been said that ‘Dylath-Leen is a fictional city in H. P. Lovecraft’s Dream Cycle and appears in "The Dream-Quest Of Unknown Kadath" (1926)’. Alright, do we need to know more about them? Well, this French quartet named DYLATH-LEEN was formed in 1999, and they also have two other […]
‘The revenge of Danish Heavy Metal’ is behind your front door. Dare to welcome your guests in? I did – and don’t regret it a bit. SERPENT SAINTS is a 6-piece Danish Metal act that plays Heavy Metal of the darkest kind, combining the NWOBHM sound with some elements from Speed and Thrash Metal into […]
BLESSED OFFAL hails from Boston, USA and takes us, with this EP, into their darkened universe of heavy, and at places doomy, Death Metal. A juggernaut of an evil release with 5 tracks of relentless brutality. The Death Metal scene is on a rise, it’s been quite some years since I’ve come across as many […]
USA’s misanthropic Black Metallers ABAZAGORATH have returned with a self-titled EP. It has been 4 years since they released a split album and a whopping 8 years since they had their last full-length, 2004’s "Sacraments Of The Final Atrocity". I can say that the wait was worth it. Even if we only get just 5 […]