This is just awesome. I have no idea why – in the recent years, Death Metal has become so popular in Finland again since the 90s but one thing is certainly sure: I simply love the current state of the Finnish Death Metal scene – bands like SWALLOWED, KRYPTS, STENCH OF DECAY, ASCENDED, GOREPHILIA, DESOLATE […]
SATANIKA is one of those young bands in which what you see on the cover is a vivid image of what you are going to get with the music (‘ol good horned creature holding a cross in his hand with a barren wasteland in the background). This is the debut album of the band, which […]
The original album from this Australian power trio was released by the Quasi Label (was this an inside joke or did a label with that name really exist?) in 1988. With a limited number of copies, this is one of those obscure Thrash Metal releases that, sincerely, I never heard of before. The Chinese Area […]
The US Speed / Thrash Metal warriors in THE HORDE are said to be influenced by such acts as VENOM, CELTIC FROST, METALLICA, KREATOR, SLAYER, DESTRUCTION, CRO-MAGS, etc. – and of course IRON MAIDEN. So, perhaps a question is how well all of their influences have been transfered into their music, and how audible they […]
Despite the odd pattern of giving Spanish titles to their albums, this being their fourth since the band’s inception in 1997, STILLBORN do carry quite few elements in their music common to their native Polish peers. Technical prowess, massive production, blast-beats galore and blazing guitar work are all to be found here, resulting in an […]
UK’s militant Death Metallers SPEARHEAD have sharpened their weapons of destruction and blasphemy in their dark catacombs for 4 years, before coming back to the daylight with some new sadistic intentions to destroy our eardrums. SPEARHEAD’s previous album, "Decrowning The Irenarch" on Invictus Productions, introduced quite a lethal arsenal of weaponry already, bombarding us with […]
This is not necessarily a compilation that I would personally listen to, if I wouldn’t have to for this review… But I bet there’s a bunch of underground maniacs out there who will completely freak out on it, so I will try to give you the most important facts here. "The Dead Pit Compilation" is […]
Founded in 2006 as PROFANATOR this Peruvian Death Metal band started to play covers of such bands as DEATH and MALEVOLENT CREATION. After changing their moniker to ROTTEN EVISCERATION this 5-piece outfit collected their influences altogether and wrote their own songs in the vein of CARCASS, early CANNIBAL CORPSE or TRAUMATIC (to name a few). […]
FATHER BEFOULED is one of those bands you can easily consider as a Death Metal band in all aspects. Take their artwork, the song titles, the lyrics and finally the music which is Death Metal through and through. Dark Death Metal to be more precise, influences by INCANTATION are pure chance. Their newest and 2nd […]
I hate to come across arrogant sounding, but I always thought that I managed to get my hands on mostly all obscure, yet essential 80s Power Metal releases back in those days. But obviously I was wrong as I missed out this little gem, that just got re-issued via Iron Glory Records (how the heck […]