According to the liner notes of this extremely welldone package, there’s supposed to be about 40 (!!!) unofficial MORBID releases out by now… and we’re talking about an extremely young Swedish band that only put out two official demos in their rather shortlived career, of which the second one ("Last Supper") not even featured the […]
Normally I am not so fond of symphonic Black Metal or similar stuff like that. But MOONSHINE’s debut album "Wake Up The Moon" from 2001 surprised me a lot back then. So I kept my eyes open upon the band’s development. Now finally I hold the band’s new album in my hands which is entitled […]
This is already the third time that "In Dark Purity" gets released now and as far as I’m concerned, it still hasn’t got the full attention it deserves! Back in their Nuclear Blast days MONSTROSITY already had to suffer from a lot of business bullshit, but when they signed to Metal Age Records for the […]
British Death Metal became a pretty rare pleasure lately and only DESECRATION, GOREROTTED and of course NAPALM DEATH managed to come up with satisfying releases. Now there is the second full-length of another British Death Metal act namely MITHRAS, but unfortunately it can not be added to the nice albums of the aforementioned bands. MITHRAS […]
What at first sight felt like a release akin to dozens others, slowly developed into something rather well done. Mistweaver play melodic Death Metal, with variation and an added dose exoticism. Frankly speaking, I didn’t notice their origin the first five spins, but I didn’t become surprised to solve Mistweaver’s homeland. Our Spanish Metal friends […]
Blackened sounds from the land downunder – namely Australia is what we have here but wait – this is not the known War Metal out to conquer at raging pace, this time it is something different. "Abysmal Progressive Black Metal" is what this three piece consisting of Malificunt Pope Choker (Arachnid Time Keeper Weaving Webs […]
Bands such as VOIVOD, UMBRA NIHIL and BARATHRUM play vastly different styles, yet they have one thing that unites them all: they’re weird. MISNK is weird, therefore, that strength alone may carry them through the next couple of years. Perhaps if they can equal or surpass this album in the future, their name will be […]
I’m not into German Fun Grind at all, sorry. Basically, the band delivers the keyword for me: "langweilig" (boring)! Yes, one of those CDs with spoken silly German intros. The fact that cult comedians BADESALZ are responsible for this doesn’t really help. And especially for the "epic" last track this is the right vocabulary for […]
I’m sorry, but I could not stand a single song on this CD. Although I do not doubt the Russian quintet’s musical skills, I think their "Chaos Chronicles" is just crap!!! MIND ECLIPSE miscreated blasting, in deed chaotic Death Metal with almost DIMMU BORGIR-like keyboard parts and awful growl / scream vocals, that sounds like […]
Metal from Israel isn’t what we are hearing the most of. There are of course the old bangers in SALEM and MELECHESH, even though the last mentioned moved on to Holland. Besides that, we aren’t getting much news or Metal from the Israeli scene thrown at us, from bigger labels. METALOMORPH is a new acquaintance […]