For all those who love to bang their heads without mercy and still worship albums like MERCILESS’ "The Awakening", SADUS’ "Illusions" or KREATOR’s "Pleasure To Kill", there finally is a band again which will take you back to those wonderful days! Really, it’s been a very long time since I have heard such an intense […]
You are bored of Black Metal bands leaving the left hand path? Someone asks you about GORGOROTH and you say you like only their first two, three releases? And if you want to listen to DARKTHRONE you always pick "Transylvanian Hunger" and "Under A Funeral Moon" from your CD / LP – rack? Well, then […]
This is the first time I heard about HERMH from Poland, although "Eden’s Fall" is already the bands 5th album, so I missed out 4 albums and 2 demos. In my case this is not really a pity because HERMH’s music, like it sounds on this release, is not my cup of tea. HERMH present […]
Pagan Records released over 10 years ago some remarkable records, for example the BEHEMOTH debut, the last MORTIIS demo "The Song Of A Long Forgotten Ghost" (as official release) and for sure the last worth mentioning album from greek cult act VARATHORN. But times are changing and the label had mainly been concentrated on their […]
This is a joke, and I am afraid I am not in the right mood to fully taste it. Life is too short, and I have other things to do to dedicate more than a few lines reviewing this crap. Usually I try hard to salvage something of interest in an otherwise bad offering, but […]
When I heard HELLSAW’S first demo "Sins Of Might" first back in 2003, I thought that this band sucks. Too meaningless was the whole music on it. Luckily the band managed to develop and has now put out some fresh recordings under the name of "Spiritual Twilight" (including "Sins Of Might" as bonus) which are […]
To read the letters "raw Death Metal" on the inlet of this LP made me smile! To read that HELLKOMMANDER is a Brazilian band let me hope! To read the other bands HELLKOMMANDER’s drummer Adrameleck is involved in brought me confirmation! Confirmation that HELLKOMMANDER is a great band worth to support. All this was what […]
This was definitely a long overdue re-issue and the timing for it couldn’t be any better as 2008 not only will see the release of Tom G. Warrior’s new book about HELLHAMMER ("Only death is real – The illustrated history of HELLHAMMER and early CELTIC FROST"), it also marks the 25th anniversary of the release […]
Pretty straight, rocking Thrash Metal from Finland comparable to the newest SCEPTER, MOTÖRHEAD or early VENOM offer HELLBOX on their debut full-length CD "Sadisticlaw". The band was spawned in 1998, released four demos and I guess especially on stage their sound kicks serious ass. In comparison to Chicago-based SCEPTER HELLBOX offer more musical variation and […]
To get a copy of this particular CD proved itself a painful task (thanx to my good friend Philippe Vayssière, a legend in his own right within the Parisian underground, who finally find this for me!) I was so eager to listen to this sophomore HELL-BORN album that my expectations were very high, and maybe […]