As you can easily find out yourself, Edouard was already quite impressed by ESQARIAL’s previous, second release "Discoveries", putting this Polish act in the tradition of technical Death Metal masters ATHEIST, CYNIC or NOCTURNUS. Well, to tell you the truth, when I started listening to the first couple of tracks on this new effort, I […]
Some of you may be familiar with ESQARIAL already through their first offering ("Amorphous"), issued a few years ago on Pagan Records. If "Amorphous" was a good attempt at mixing Death Metal with melodic guitar playing, it is nothing really compared to this one. Indeed this Polish band took their time to refine their ideas […]
Cool intro: "now the worst possible situation has occured!" and then: fist in the listener’s face! Fist? It’s rather fists! I feel like beaten up the brutal Death Metal style! I came across EPICEDIUM through the "Ear Terror Festival" in Emden, Germany where they were supposed to play and although they couldn’t, Bruno sent over […]
I hate ENSLAVED. No, really. If I’m not mistaken, "Vertebrae" is already their tenth longplayer, not counting the now legendary "Hordanes Land" and "Yggdrasil" – splits and I own or at least at some point owned nearly all of them, except for "Monumension" and "Ruun". That’s quite an amount and usually if I spend that […]
Well, well… I must start by saying that "Death Metal Attack 2", the debut album by this American act surprised me greatly for its variety and good musicianship. It included some old school kind of Death Metal with lots of old school Thrash elements interluded in the music and a general old school feeling. And […]
It’s an open secret that Japan hasn’t so much Black Metal bands to offer so it’s logical that not so many emerged from the land of the rising sun. But when you got hold of some releases then you mostly got quality releases from acts like SIGH, FUNERAL RITES, AMDUSCIAS, INFERNAL NECROMANCY, etc. ENDLESS DISMAL […]
When you describe your own band as "an epic tale, timeless vision and a superb recording", I’m afraid you really have to support those words with actual facts which in this case I think EMPIRE AURIGA falls short to say the least. Sure this has a trance-like atmosphere, militant drone, the usual reference to the […]
EMBRIONAL’s debut, "Cusp Of Evil", may quickly be the envy of up and coming Polish bands. Once upon a time, bands such as VADER and BEHEMOTH wrote real riffs rather than triggered their drum kits to keep pace with digitized guitar noodles. EMBRIONAL write music the way their Death Metal forebears once did, and we […]
It’s often strange to recognize why some bands don’t get a deal while others are releasing crappy records one after another. EMBALMED SOULS is one of those bands who easily would deserve a record deal and in a way I have the impression that they already got many offers but simply were not interested. "Temple […]
The new output of the Brazilian Death Metal band EMBALMED SOULS includes their new "Six Rites Of Possession" rehearsal (34:31min) and as a bonus their great "Temple Of Bizarre Cult" demo (see review in the re-release section of the reviews) which makes this new effort almost one hour long with 11 songs of Death Metal. […]