"Broken Silence", KILLER’s comeback album from 2003, caused quite a lot of controvery among Metalfans in general and die hard worshippers of the band in particular… The reason was the unexpected use of keyboards, which dominated their classic Metal sound a bit too much on that album. Even though I personally got used to it […]
The small label Van has gained quite a reputation within the German Black Metal underground in recent times, due to releases by acts such as GRAUPEL or FUNERAL PROCESSION. And KERMANIA’s debut also received some massive praise already. Unfortunately I can’t join in wholeheartedly. The tracklist with four songs, of which two clock in at […]
This is the full-length debut of the new band featuring Rhett Davis and Justin Christian, both members of the Doom band MORGION. The record serves 8 Doom / Death songs with prologue, epilogue and the short instrumental ‘To Reach Emptiness’. In my opinion the prologue and epilogue are a total waste, because there are only […]
As Metal is illegal in Lebanon it’s risky to send such music via snail mail. So I was approached by the band to download their demo. Actually, the production is pretty good and the band plays with lots of passion. This doesn’t mean they’re bad musicians – not at all! All of them play at […]
Blackdeath with a (very often too) dominant keyboard. Their approach is somewhere between CHILDREN OF BODOM (without the Jens Johansson sound) and STORMLORD. Yet, their hit potential is considerably lower than the COB one. On one hand, this might turn out to be a problem when fighting for new fans. On the other hand, the […]
KAIJU means strange beast in Japanese and this perfectly describes the pretty demented music this US combo presents on "Unwilling Sacrifices". After a demo called "The Gods Are Angry" from 2009 they released their debut "Total Monster Armageddon" which I didn’t check, only the tracks which you can find on their Myspace page and are […]
Some of you can remember the review I did sometime ago about the "Liber Diabolus: 1991-1996" demo compilation CD from this obscure Polish act… Well, after that review and the response from that one, the guy of Witching Hour Productions (the vocalist of HERMH) decided to re-release the band’s only album (originally released on tape) […]
These Japanese Zombie addicted sickos started out back in the Spring of 2003 and go by the cute names of Dr.Hatred (vocals), Alcohol (guitar), Vlood (guitar), Eucharist (bass) and GxSx (drums). Except for Eucharist, who got fired rather quickly due to his laziness, the line-up has been steady ever since (Vlood just switched from guitar […]
People in need of a furious dose of individual sounding Black / Thrash should definitely give ZARATHUSTRA a serious chance. The production is pretty good for an underground release – quite transparent and powerful – the song writing skills of the infernal German quintet have improved as well and varies between storming aggression and almost […]
Unrelenting, aggressive and melodic Black / Death Metal from the back catalogue of No Fashion Records, or Wrong Again Records… would you like to get some? Both sort of cult-ish Swedish labels were releasing killer, top-notch stuff on their roster during the 90s – and I guess each and everyone of you who were following […]