The Greek duo of death and mayhem, MISANTHROPY APOTHEOSIS, is back on the warpath, with the second full-length album “Crush The Mask Of Virtue”. They released the first album “Black Death Euphoria” back in 2018 themselves and then the mini album “Against Your Filthy Kind” in 2020 on Repulsive Echo Records. We are now writing […]
BEYREVRA hails from Nuremberg, Germany. The band mixes a couple of genres through their first full-length “Echoes: Vanished Lore Of Fire”, at times they sound like a traditional Black Metal band with brilliant screeches and at times they sound like a traditional old school Death Metal band. On the whole though BEYREVRA sound like an […]
There is no place on planet Earth where someone can sing as easily about death than in Mexico. Since primordial times, before the Catholic scum raped Mesoamerican ideals; Aztec, Maya, Zapotec, Olmec, Mixtec, Toltec and Totonac Cultures, already had the knowledge of the vanished entities. Nowadays, the eternal rest can be found effortlessly in every […]
On this split release, we find two bands from the always blooming Black Metal underground, a rather new one with IKANA from France and DEMONIAC from Saxony in Germany, who are around for ages under different monikers. The first three rather long songs are from IKANA, one of quite a lot of projects of Ëffroi, […]
I’ve been aware of HALPHAS for a while, mainly because of the logo design and the artwork associated with the band. I love it when a band is the whole package, between imagery, overall look and sound. So, all cards on the table, this is my first active foray with their music. Much like the […]
The 20 Buck Spin website says SLIMELORD is England’s most peculiar Death Metal oddity and I couldn’t agree more. SLIMELORD has been on my radar ever since their EP “Miss Contamination”, which I duly purchased upon listening just once. What we have today is however their first full-length, which I cannot get enough of. The […]
Symphonic Black Metal from Norway has quite a long tradition, bands like EMPEROR or DIMMU BORGIR established the heavy use of keyboards / synthesizer / piano elements. PROFANE BURIAL are also moving in this direction thirty years later. First of all: if you did not like this style back then, you won’t like the Norwegians’ […]
Fresh from Southern Germany, we have TRISTE here, who just released their first album after a digital EP three years ago. As it is impossible to gather information on a line-up or even a number of musicians, I skip the introduction here and go over to what said new album “Scapegoats” has to offer. And […]
MEPHITIC GRAVE hail from Hungary and I didn’t know of this band before this generous request from Memento Mori. MEPHITIC GRAVE sounds exactly the way the name indicates, it is a foul smelling record of Death Metal that transcends time. Remember the early ’90s Swedish and Finnish demos? That’s exactly how MEPHITIC GRAVE sounds like. […]
The European Black Metal scene grows stronger and stronger and to follow the flood of extraordinary releases is getting more and more difficult. Especially the French scene is growing and regularly delivers really outstanding albums. Bands like KARNE or SETH really manage to create magnificent pieces of Black Metal art. GRIFFON were unknown to me […]