It’s great to have Morbid Angel back! I missed them in their absence and, oh, wait a minute, my mistake, this isn’t Morbid Angel. This is Heaving Earth from the Czech Republic. Not that there’s anything wrong with wearing one’s influence on his sleeve when you’ve got killer vocals, unusual, dissonant guitar riffing, speedy solos […]
HEADHUNTER D.C. is without a doubt one of the most underrated bands ever to emerge from the Death / Thrash Metal underground. Formed in 1987, they have released 3 full-length albums thus far (a new full-length album is anticipated entitled "God’s Spreading Cancer"). Here we have the reissue of their debut "Born… Suffer… Die" that […]
Ever since their 1989 debut demo "Hell Is Here" Brazil’s HEADHUNTER D.C. have built up a strong worldwide underground following. The overall great response on that tape quickly secured them a deal with legendary Cogumelo Records (home of SEPULTURA and SARCOFAGO in their early days) and as a result two full-length albums were about to […]
Yep, another fantastic band hailing from the Brazilian jungle. But this is not a new one. HEADHUNTER D.C. (D.C. stands for death cult) exists for about 13 years and has already released two albums. So "… And The Sky Turns To Black…" is their third effort and believe me it’s truly a masterpiece of blameless, […]
HAVOHEJ returns with the second full-length 16 years after the well-known debut "Dethrone The Son Of God". Well I never liked that record and didn’t check any following album until this one "Kembatinan Premaster". The pictures I checked of mastermind Paul Ledney, as a preparation for this review predicted something evil and wicked beyond recognition! […]
I don’t want to sound like an arrogant bastard, but there are bands out there that are so awful that it is hard to find non-vulgar words to describe them. In this case the best thing about HATRED DIVINE is their logo!!! Despite that, the German four-piece dedicated to create a mixture of atmospheric Black […]
Imagine the following: you are standing on the stony coast of the sea as suddenly a monstrous wave of foul water is clutching at you. You are grabbing the the rock but the wave is returning again and again and again. While it is rolling remorselessly over you it releases foul bubbles of most hateful […]
HAEMOTH is a two piece coming from the Greater Paris area dedicated to misanthropic and bleak Black Metal. That said, don’t think they indulge themselves in clichés and rehashed ideas. In fact the band appears very original even if they use the easily recognizable elements typical of the Black Metal genre (thankfully). What separates HAEMOTH […]
The noisy Spanyards are back! Shortly after their split CD with DEPRESSION (on Cudgel) they release their new album. Sounding sort of chaotic whenever they start blasting, HAEMORRHAGE are stronger at the slower parts (check out track 13 called ‘Dirge For The Sick’). To put it nicely: the band doesn’t really belong to the same […]
It’s time to raise the scalpels for all medicine students and listen to the apprentieceship of the blood diseases which were musically downwritten in 34 tracks. I think it’s not necessary to say that if you’re a big CARCASS fan then you have to dig four pathfollowers namely EXHUMED, GENERAL SURGERY, IMPALED and fuck yeah […]