Fans of ORIGIN, SUFFOCATION, "Obscura" – era GORGUTS, later CANNIBAL CORPSE, HATE ETERNAL and VEHEMENCE, brace yourselves. TIMOR are all of these, but with a slightly unfortunate amount of AT THE GATES. In fact, the AT THE GATES influence, at times, seems to completely overtake the others; the elements that do far more to recommend […]
I tell you it never ceases to amaze me the brutality of the South American scene and its bands. The current flood of these acts, "the menstrual flow of a thousand whores", as REPULSION would put it, have me chugging for breath again within the tide! One such clot in that foul bloody mess who […]
Dark Metal veterans THALARION are back with quite a strong album called "Tunes Of Despondency". The record starts off with quite an unusual, happy SweDeath riff, keyboards ‘n’ stuff, y’know. But quickly gets much darker, sometimes reminding me a little of old AMORPHIS. The second song, ‘My Bitter Overstrain’ features an acoustic intro and keeps […]
This is a great one! Not only that TESTAMENT played several shows in their original line-up lately (and didn’t even screw it up like many other bands do these days), they furthermore came up with a setlist, that could easily be considered as an old school fan’s wet dream: ‘The Preacher’, ‘The New Order’, ‘The […]
Yeah, this is the way I like my brutal thrash and death!!! Terror Squad is a really cool Japanese outfit devoted to the merciless, nicely old-school side of aggressive very-metal and some of you might actually remember these sickos from their pretty impressive rendition of the track "Discö Bloody Discö" on the cult ‘Headbangers Against […]
Usually PROFANATICA, BLASPHEMY, BEHERIT-inspired stuff instantly makes me hot but in the case of Germany’s TEPHERET there are way too many things that annoy me and keep me from recommending this demo to worshippers of blasphemous noise from hell. First of all the drum PC is utter crap, the only way to get this shitty […]
Super groups such as the CAVALERA CONSPIRACY and the TARDY BROTHERS are so poorly conceived, they seem less super groups – where the best musicians gather together to craft great music – and more like black holes where creativity is swallowed whole. But, for the super groups who don’t stick their surnames in their band’s […]
Hrrmphhh… a first glance at the booklet seems to say everything as TENEBROSUS’ corpsepaint naughtily lacks any creativity… or have IMMORTAL, MAYHEM and TAAKE moved to Poland and started a new project? Not very likely… What we get on "The Fall…" is grim Black Metal, raw and without any keyboards or chubby opera divas. Not […]
From Medellin, Colombia the home of the infamous drug cartel of Pablo Escobar, appears from out of the shadows of that city the Doom Metallers TENEBRARUM. Their CD, "Voices", unbelievably the seventh album in this band’s history, and a band regarded as "probably the most well known Gothic / Doom Metal act from Colombia" by […]
During the last years, I barely took notice of the TEMPLE OF BAAL developments, until I got this record. "Traitors To Mankind" is the band’s second full-length, and the promo sheet accompanying the disc reports about a considerable evolution in their musical style, I take that for granted then. This record is a rather pleasant […]