Wo-hoo… this album really took me by much of surprise. My first impression about this Brit act was, VOIVOD goes Black Metal, sort of. This is a very disturbed, mixed pack of what I call a true form of musical art: Industrial-tinged Black Metal with some Thrash influences dropped in – and all this being […]
Feeling a mild stench of a rotting corpse in your nostrils? Hearing a creeping noise of a living dead near by you, causing cold shivers running down your spine? That’s because MR. DEATH is near; soon knocking at your house’s front door to offer a new plate of cadaver-reeking and maggots-crawling hymns for your late […]
RECUEIL MORBIDE (meaning ‘Morbid Collection’ in English) was formed in 2000, and since then these Frenchmen have managed to get 4 full-length studio albums released, off which their latest 10-track outing is called "Only Hate Left". For those of you who didn’t know, RECUEIL MORBIDE’s playground has always been a brutal, technical and modern sounding […]
The spiked little Satan’s disciples in Norwegian SVARTTJERN (translates to ‘Black Tarn’ in English) have convinced the owner of Polish Agonia Records by their violent and malicious Black Metal – and as a result of this, SVARTTJERN’s first album on Agonia Records (second overall in the band’s own catalogue), "Toward The Ultimate", has now been […]
Greece has always been known for its obscure and mystic Black Metal bands for the last 2 decades at least. NECROMANTIA, ROTTING CHRIST, THOU ART LORD and VARATHRON are just a fair handful of examples from some quality Black Metal acts of the country – and this Greek 5-piece legion of all things occult and mystic […]
Finland’s NEMECIC (meaning Greek Goddess of vengeance, by the way) first started out in 2005 under the CROSSFIRE moniker that – just like many other new bands at their early stages, trusted in the name of playing cover songs only from their heroes from those days, i.e. MAIDEN, PRIEST, METALLICA and so on. As this […]
Having been existing since 2001, the French 4-piece atmospheric Black / Death Metal act LORD SHADES took 2 long years for preparing to record their 2nd follow-up album, titled "The Rise Of Meldral-Nok" that is a sequel to their debut album, "The Downfall Of Fire-Enmek", self-released in June 2008. The word ‘atmospheric’ becomes soon very […]
After a good handful of demos and EPs, MORS SUBITA, this 5-piece Finnish hybrid of both melodic Death Metal and modern sounding Thrash Metal band, was finally landed a deal with Violent Journey Records – and I would say so deservingly even. I personally had never heard of this Finnish Metal band before (not so […]
I actually somehow saw this happening… Finland’s Death Metal crusher squad, FLESHRED, that has constantly been strengthening their profile in the underground Death Metal scene by a couple of well received demos they recorded during 2009, has now got their debut album released, on a domestic Finnish label Violent Journey Records, that has specialized in […]
Old Thrash Metal bands are constantly being reformed… BITTER END from Seattle, is undoubtedly one of the most obscure and unknown US Thrash Metal bands out there as far I have seen this. The band released only one album named "Harsh Realities" on Metal Blade Records in 1990 – and just 2 years from that, […]