Texas, there must be something in the water in this state for it to spawn such acts as HOD, ABSU, AVERSE SEFIRA, THORNSPAWN, and IMPRECATION. Dark Modern (some may consider it atmospheric Black Metal) classical piano solo act GOATCRAFT is yet another Texas creation and has been making waves since its inception in 2010. Lead […]
Archaic Black Metal Chilean (although I have heard the band has relocated to Sweden) hell raisers HORNS have been finally able to re-release their long sought after album "Dominvs Umbraes" via None Shall Defy Records. HORNS was founded in the mid 1990s and have spawned 2 albums and 3 demos. The demos were reworked a […]
LORD OF PAGATHORN, originally keeping the band’s headquarter in the north of Finland, Rovaniemi, has been resurrected back from the dead – after 16 long years. This 2-piece Finnish Black Metal band that recorded their semi-legendary debut demo "The Chaos Spirit Among Us" in 1994, has become a 3-headed monster since the reformation – and […]
There are a lot of things these days that plague mankind: a global economic crisis, terrorism from left, right, North and South, all kinds of catastrophes, staggering oil prices and all that crap you can see on the daily news. It’s dark times…, also for us Metalheads as we face such existential conflicts as struggling to […]
THE NIGHTMARE STAGE is a 4-piece Metal act coming from New York – and so far this New York-based band has put out just one album, titled “Free Admission For The Damned”, including 9 tracks in total. Genre-wise, they have managed to cross a couple of sub-genres of Heavy Metal music on their debut album. […]
Within the last week or so, I have been fastidiously compiling my favorite records of 2011 for this webzine. Being the Metal geek that I am, it was almost an obsessive process; the ‘battle between albums’ was constantly on my mind, and some bands on the list exchanged places more than once. Finally, I determined […]
The Finnish Ahdistuksen Aihio Productions just released this debut "Chapter I" from German Black Metal duo AVE MARIA. In 2008 they already released a demo entitled "Doctrines Of Desolation", pt. I on Kult of Nihilow. Since I missed this one, I can’t tell you about any progression on "Chapter I", so here we go. The […]
Skull-splitting, hammering and early 90s-styled American Death Metal… anyone? Hands up! VORE hailing from Fayetteville, Arkansas, has been around since 1994 already – and during their whole existence the band has recorded one demo, an EP and three full-length studio albums, off which their latest record, "Gravehammer", has now been unleashed. A cool thing about […]
When a band plays with a lot of passion, they have won your attention for 50 percent, right? With the amount of passion these gentlemen present their debut "Apocalypse", it didn’t bother that much that the lyrics / vocals from Frédéric Bailly are in French. What I can read from the titles they deal about […]
I should check out the Profound Lore Records catalog more often. So far they have released some pretty unique bands and Canadian ANTEDILUVIAN is one of them. After 3 demos, a split and a comp, they just released their debut album (the European edition is out on Invictus Productions). An impressive one I may add. […]