It’s always great to discover new bands from all over the world and when they come from one of my favourite Metal countries like Sweden, the better! PLAGUE WARHEAD emerged from the underground in 2008, but to be honest: I wasn’t really aware of them untill I got this little disc into my mailbox. It’s […]
Listening to the "Innards" demo by Finnish NERLICH made me believe I was dealing with average Death Metal mixing Thrash parts. Some nice breaks and riffs to keep things flowing and bang away. Something nice for a demo and especially the production made it sound so old school it could’ve been from 20 years ago. […]
Necro-Basement-Death Metal this is. NECROWRETCH, a newcomer from France play old school Death in a vein that resembles the times of tape trading and bad-paper fanzines. The band consists of only two members – Gutsfucker and Blastphemator. The names are put here just to inform you about their intentions. And they are good ones – […]
This demo from the French formation HERPES shows us a copycat version of AUTOPSY. Some traces reminded me of PUNGENT STENCH during their "Been Caught Buttering" album but for the rest this is a mere clone of the "Mental Funeral" masters but without reaching the level. Midtempo muddy Death Metal with occasional Doom parts. The […]
Wow! It really has been 30 years already, since these British rockers released their best album ever: "Hit And Run" in 1981. When I, as a teenager, got my fingers on it in the mid 80s, I totally fell in love with this album… I loved the Punk influenced energy, the songs and the vocals […]
Here we have a re-release of the two NECROWRETCH demo tapes "Rising From Purulence" from 2009 and "Necrollections" from 2010. If you missed the two demos this compilation tape might be interesting for you, but beware – this is really, really raw and primitive primal Death Metal with crappy Black Metal vocals. Damned, I really hate […]
DUNGEÖNHAMMER, whose tracks ‘Primal Blasphemies’ and ‘Infernal Communion’ comprise side A of their split with PURGATÖR, contacted me out of the blue to review this, their second split and second release on Bestial Invasion Records, and boy am I sure glad they did! Their biography sheet proudly lists influences such as CELTIC FROST, BATHORY, MOTÖRHEAD […]
Doubtlessly there is something like a revival of old school Death Metal… and doubtlessly the quality of most of the new bands of that actual wave is pretty good. PUTRIFIED is just another of the countless new bands that hail the ancient gods. This Swedish band was totally unknown to me until Mr Stöver asked […]
If you have been following the Metal news then you surely must’ve heard about this new band VALLENFYRE, formed by PARADISE LOST guitarist Gregor Macintosh who assembled such veterans as Hamish Glencross (MY DYING BRIDE) and Mully on guitars, Scoot (DOOM, EXTINCTION OF MANKIND) on bass and Adrian Erlandsson (AT THE GATES, PARADISE LOST) on […]
Welcome to “The Coven”, a séance of obscure Black Metal that should especially delight worshippers of ancient Greek Black Metal cults such as VARATHRON, NECROMANTIA (all with an “early” as prefix) or Italy’s MORTUARY DRAPE. While these three hooded figures from Finland are conjuring demons during necromantic rites already since 2007 I’ve totally overlooked them […]