Norway’s avant-garde Black Metal duo EMANCER deliver the open-minded extreme music fan their fourth full-length, which turns out to be a fascinating piece of work for people who enjoy bands experimenting with and breaking the rather strict stylistic boundaries of Black Metal. From programmed drums, spacy, spheric keyboard sounds, clean sung passages to even embedding […]
Never heard of this Norwegian two-piece before, but according to their info sheet, "Invisible" is already their third album, following "Utopian Illusions" (on Extremist Records in 2001) and "The Human Experient" (Black Owl Records, late 2002). They originally started out as UTUMNO, released a demo named "Morkets Rike" in late 1997 and another one ("Syn […]
The temperature has dropped dramatically would be a very suitable start for this review because it’s unavoidable to connect ELYSIAN BLAZE’s "Levitating The Carnal" (originally released in 2006) with their debut "Beneath Silent Faces". Mutatiis second strike has become a much darker creation, the color lightgrey (see the debut review) isn’t appreciable any longer it’s […]
When an album had been released over 5 years ago as an underground tape, 2007 as an official CD and is now re-issued for the European market by our dear friends from Osmose Productions we should be confident that a piece of musical class is following this release. ELYSIAN BLAZE is an Australian project founded […]
This is the third release Asphyxiate Recordings from Australia sent me to review in VFTDS and unfortunately I’m not so happy with this one. I totally enjoyed their two other releases they sent me (MANDATORY’s "Where They Bleed" and CREEPING’s "Funeral Crawl") – check out the reviews somewhere else on these pages – but this […]
Pennsylvania-based Heavy / Doom Metal band SINISTER REALM hit us back with their 2nd album, titled “The Crystal Eye”, introducing 8 new songs on their new opus that – somewhat surprisingly, honestly blows their debut album out of the water, just no matter how good it was. “The Crystal Eye” basically continues from that musically […]
Bottom line, if you guys haven’t heard of Dying Fetus then you are new to modern Death Metal. These guys have been around since at least 1993 although my first contact with them wasn’t until 1996 with their excellent "Purification Through Violence". The original Dying Fetus line up has basically spit up to form this […]
Earthquake Death Metal from the States is what DYING FETUS are offering us on their fourth release "Destroy The Opposition". If you’re in search of ultimately catchy, fast, brutal, extreme and groovy NYC Death Metal with a certain Hardcore touch (well, I guess this goes out for the ideology of DYING FETUS, not the music), […]
Isn’t Black Metal supposed to build up some atmosphere? Well, if you consider boredom as an atmosphere… It’s so hard listening to this album in a row! Are there any interesting songs on "Oris Diabolis"? ‘Black Demon, Shaitan’s Warrior’ makes me think so. For the first five seconds! This song also features one of the […]
1996 marks the year of birth for French technical Deathers DUNGORTHEB who despite the rather strange name are a musically extremely strong act and now ready to attack the Metal scene with their first full-length CD "Intended To…". DUNGORTHEB blend influences of late DEATH, DISINCARNATE and NOCTURNUS in perfection, the guitar play reminds of good […]