EMBALMED started as BRUTALITY in Juarez, Mexico back in 1988 if I’m not mistaken, but put out their first demo as EMBALMED in 1992. I recall seeing them play live back then and even though they were an underground band they had a stage show that combined with their music, made the crowd go wild! […]
Enter VLADIMIRS from Cincinnati. Their style has something to do more with Punk orientated bands like MISFITS or DANZIG than Heavy Metal. Yes, yes, I know, my beloved Heavy Metal is without doubt a bastard child of Punk…yet, I have very little tolerance for Punk music, although I can accept there are some competent and […]
For a band formed in 1995 in Slovakia, and this being their 4th full-length release, I was expecting quite something more. Certain styles as brutal Death Metal with deep low vocals can prove limited and hard to create something out of the ordinary. And this is where PERVERSITY falls. Their style of brutal, semi-technical Death […]
MIDNIGHT is one of those bands that have released many recordings and have been active since 2003, without releasing a proper full-length until now. Consisting of the main leader Athenar (Or Jaimie, best know for doing bass for the mighty Speed Metal purveyors DESTRUCTOR on their last album) and two more musicians, there was a […]
We Germans can’t be proud of much: we’ve never won a world war (fortunately, I might add!) and in terms of soccer, well, let’s not even start with that. However, in terms of Thrash f**king Metal we’re still one of the world’s leading nations and apart from our legends SODOM, KREATOR, DESTRUCTION and tons of […]
Off the cuff, swagger drunk feel. Rock beat starts ramroddin yer firkin ass. Raw dog rawk with total Motor-feel and big ballsy sound. Here, the rock is as loud and hard as it gets. It’s dirty classic Metal but it’s kinda Punk, too. The guitar tone is perfect. The performers play it straight and mean. […]
Slovenia’s HELLCRAWLER are here to wrap you in their vision of "post apocalyptic wastelands" on this debut album which sets the dark tone immediately from the opener ‘Devastation’ and carries it on blisteringly through all 10 tracks. Mixing up elements from D-Beat and Death’N’Roll with enough Stoner swagger HELLCRAWLER shows serious intent to kill all […]
Released for the first time in 2004, this quite forgotten piece of deathly Doom was re-released lately by the hellenic warrior Anastasis of Nuclear Winter Records. Knowing the man’s tastes, I was pretty sure that FUNERAL should be a pretty solid and deadly act before I heard its music for the first time. Stemming from […]
Quid Est Veritas Productions has just thrown this split CD with 3 Polish bands on the streets, an album that brings us 3 takes from the Polish Black Metal scene as it seems right now, especially around Lodz as both IUGULATUS and DEEP DESOLATION are from around that area, I’m not totally sure about where […]
I was first introduced to this German Black Metal band when None Shall Defy Records released the second release from DIE TOTEN KEHREN WIEDER MIT DEM WIND "Am Ufer Des Sees" on vinyl earlier this year. None Shall Defy has now once again been digging down in the depths of DIE TOTEN KEHREN WIEDER MIT […]