Although I had never heard about them, Polish North are not a new band in their country’s underground scene, as they raised with the first wave of Black Metal bands there, just like GRAVELAND, BEHEMOTH or HERMH. I have to admit that when I saw the label "Pagan War Metal from Poland" I immediately feared […]
I remember when this band released its first album through a Spanish label, but I didn’t listen to it, and after that I totally lost sight with them, until this "The Quintessence" (from Polish Pagan Records) reached me, which already released their previous album, entitled "VI: The Satanachist’s Credo". So, when I listened to this […]
NOCTURNAL DEVOTION is a five piece band from Slovakia that has been around since 1999. Their original vocalist "G" came from Scotland and was more of a rock singer, so in the beginning he used to be responsible for the melodic vocal parts while guitarist Mato took care of the brutal growling. After a couple […]
The band from Mainz / Germany had been different from the start and their musical legacy is still outstanding if it comes to the German Black Metal underground. NOCTE OBDUCTA split up in early 2006 despite the fact that their final output "Sequenzen Einer Wanderung" saw the light of the day in 2008 (the two […]
Wow, these guys are getting more brutal from release to release! I actually remember NILE weren’t really extreme Death Metal on the very first tapes that I got some years ago but they have been ever since developing a pretty strong following in the scene due to some massive live-shows and pretty original presentation concept. […]
First of all: thanks to NIGHTSIDE for not “polluting” the air with even more Italian True Metal but instead putting out an interesting mixture of Swedeath in the Gothenburg vein and an even more melodic, sometimes even quiet touch! You can spot elements from Thrash and True Metal on here as well but this CD […]
NEVERLIGHT HORIZON is a band from Belgium, that originally started out in 1999 as BORN OF FIRE (back then still with a slightly different musical direction), but changed name and style rather quick, recorded five songs and released them as their first demo "The Awakening" in 2000. They draw their musical influences from acts suchs […]
Ever since the release of their "Perfection In Murders Art" MCD, Belgium’s NEVERLIGHT HORIZON basically concentrated on playing a whole bunch of live shows, which seemed to be a very good idea as those experiences are pretty good reflected in their more matured sounding songwriting now. In 2005 the band finally returned to the studio […]
This is interesting stuff… I am quite delighted that this output made its way to my desk and I had the pleasure of listening to it in awe. NEPHENZY CHAOS ORDER (NCO) perform an extremely fast, partly relatively technical and dark melange of Black and Death Metal. Well – when it comes to such ventures […]
The old values of nordic Black Metal are held high by more and more upcoming bands these days again. NEHËMAH from our neighbour country France are one of them doing so and they have definitely found the right feeling to convince the listener right away. After the fiery a very moodladen intro ‘The Witch Burns…’ […]