It’s getting more and more difficult nowadays to come up with material that still stands out, for the simple fact that we’ve heard almost everything before already. I mean, let’s face the facts: there’s absolutely no way to deliver something more doomy, more brutal, more technical, more speedy, more blasphemous or whatever without sounding ridiculous. […]
Almost three years after the release of DRAGONLORD’s debut album "Rapture", mastermind Eric Peterson (guitar / vocals) proves all those critics wrong who at the time considered the band as just another superfluous side project with no real future or whatever. Next to Peterson the line-up nowadays features drummer Jon Allen (best known for his […]
Sweden’s DIVINE SOULS second full-length CD “The Bitter Selfcaged Man” contains melancholic and emotional melodic Death à la IN FLAMES, SENTENCED, AT THE GATES and fulfils all standards of this genre quite well. There are those catchy guitar leads and harmonies any fan of this genre should love at instant. The vocals are mostly aggressive, […]
Although Death Metal may once again be fashionable, contemporary acts (with the exception of only a few) often seem more intent on merely creating (often simply imitating) a sound rather than crafting a well-conceived song with dynamic parts while also constructing their own sound. In the early 1990s, however, DIVINE EVE demonstrated that both of […]
Some bands were born to disappear at an early stage… and few of those bands are capable of having a legacy that will make an impact in the distant future. Well, that is the case for this Texans Death mongers. This is a collection of most of their material recorded, including their debut EP released […]
Wow!!! I knew from DIVINE EMPIRE’s previous releases that they are able to create some killer Death Metal, especially their first two albums are excellent, but "Method Of Execution" surpasses them all!!! This truly almost an hour long monster (no hidden tracks or shit like that) is more brutal, better produced, more diverse and inventive […]
DISSENTER’s roots are reaching back to the year 1989 when they were founded under the moniker of BLOODLUST. Due to countless problems the Polish Death Metal outfit called it quits in the mid 90s just to reform as DISSENTER shortly after. The band offers a delicious meal of blood and guts á la IMMOLATION, VADER, […]
This is the debut album, re-issued for the European market of this young band native from Puerto Rico. Again the name and title of the album might be tricky, I was expecting full ahead dismal Black Metal. Nope, they are playing an ultra brutal, really guttural form of Death Metal. Their promo info mentions INCANTATION […]
What should you write about a record that everybody knows and hopefully has at home in his collection already? This is the re-release of 1993’s masterpiece of James Murphy’s band, enhanced with the 3 tracks from their "Soul Erosion" demo from 1992. For those out there who didn’t know Disincarnate yet, it’s a classical old […]
Austria’s DISASTROUS MURMUR have quite a name in the scene – not surprinsingly, for this band has been around since 1988! Nonetheless I have to admit that their newest release is my first encounter with their music – somehow they permanently kept on slipping pass my attention for the last 14 years when their debut […]