Sherbrookian extreme Metallers KORPIUS’ debut album, "Shades Of Black", is a good listen. Do I need to say more? Hah, I guess I do, albeit I’d rather enjoy listening to this than getting my lazy thoughts on the paper about it. By using a tiny shortcut, the right words to describe KORPIUS’ outcome music-wise here, […]
Ireland’s ZOMBIFIED strike out with another EP after last year’s "Outbreak", which was quite impressive dose of US influenced brutal Death Metal. Not much changes here, the band is developing their brand of brutality futher on. You’ve got an intro and five furious tracks, with impressive technical skills showed all over the place, but they […]
Considering the fact that nowadays Death Metal underground is pretty much dominated by technical highspeed brutality an old school act such as San Diego’s fourpiece DEATHEVOKATION easily stands out of the masses. The band’s name seems to be influenced by the classic DISMEMBER tune of the same name, while a Chris Moyen artwork was chosen […]
What we have here is the debut album of ACROSTIC, released in tape-format. Seems quite unusual nowadays, but since the band comes from Chile I guess they are glad to get their album released, no matter which format. Accordingly Infernal Overkill Productions is a D.I.Y. label, focusing more on the music itself than on anything […]
Born as a band in Le Havre, France in 2009, TORTURE THRONE has just put out this MCD, a re-release of their 5 song demo, via Obscure Domain Productions. Their bio states that the band "stands clearly in opposition to any trend and core influences or any other cross genre pollution". So, yes, this is […]
Right up from the very north of Finland, Rovaniemi, comes RAVAGE MACHINERY; this melodic and heavy sounding Death Metal band that has been active since 2004 – and released 3 demos thus far. The band’s latest 4-track demo, "The Dystopian Tide", shows a clear improvement from the band members as songwriters. RAVAGE MACHINERY’s previous, 3-track […]
Louisiana-based Death Metal powerhouse EXCOMMUNICATED was formed out of the ruins of SUTURE, DESPONDENCY and CATHOLIC, featuring Chad Kelly on vocals, Jason McIntyre and Jonathan Joubert on guitar and bass – and David Kinkade (BORGNAGAR, ex-ARSIS, ex-DIVINE EMPIRE – among others) filling up a session drummer’s position on the band’s first studio album, "Skeleton Key". […]
BOMB OF HADES is not an old band but the musicians are veterans of Swedish Death Metal and played in great bands such as GOD MACABRE / MACABRE END, ABHOTH, TRIBULATION (the old one) and UTUMNO. So it’s not a surprise that they play Swedish Death Metal the old fashioned way. If you are looking […]
A one man Black Metal band from the USA. By the title of the songs, and somehow by the structure of the music itself, it can be easy to label his band in the “suicidal” Black Metal vein, although I would say that this not exactly the case. Yes, there is a depressive, almost suicidal […]
Another USA Black Metal band formed way back in 1998, releasing their debut album 11 years after its conception. One would think that all that time would make them to at least have a different approach to what has been done over and over. But that is not exactly the case here. Yes it is […]