From the netherrealms of Spain’s extreme Metal underground this infernal band spews forth and delivers a raw attack of CONQUEROR, BLASPHEMY, PROFANATICA, BEHERIT inspired War / Black Metal. It is definitely not perfect, but soundwise very close to CONQUEROR and despite all unoriginality an extreme noise assault fans of the aforementioned bands should really enjoy! […]
DEATHROW are, thankfully, one of the many long forgotten Thrash bands of Germany’s exquisitely bestial scene, that are finally returning to the limelight. Their first album, "Satan’s Gift", otherwise known as "Riders Of Doom", showcases not only DEATHROW’s promising talent, but the health and intensity of the international Thrash scene, particularly Canada and the band’s […]
There was a time when the difference between the American Thrash and the German Thrash was… well, that I liked a lot more the German Thrash! It was more primitive, aggressive and in your face. Whereas most bands in America at some point wanted to show they were musicians, the Germans were happy producing aggressive […]
Old school Death / Thrash in its purest form serves DEATHHAMMER from Norway with this demo tape as they write on their homepage. 3 songs are on this tape but this is absolutely not my cup of tea. The material has no structure, the band is just blasting through the songs with one or two riffs […]
Out of all the albums Chuck Schuldiner recorded with DEATH, only one seems to have received less attention than the other six. That was "Spiritual Healing", originally released in 1990. The early 1990s was a period of dramatic change for DEATH, particularly towards the end of the decade when fans were introduced to "Symbolic" and […]
Since day one, DEATH have been nothing but a band which have written (well Chuck has) genuine REAL METAL numbers, material that has nothing in common with blur bands like CANNIBAL CORPSE, SIX FEET UNDER and three other billion acts deliver. Schuldiner is a pure die hard Metaller and he always made sure to incorporate […]
After a somewhat disappointing third album with "Spiritual Healing", and many, and I mean many hard situations Chuck Schuldiner was facing, so far as to get to the point where the rest of the band with a session vocalist decided to tour Europe without him, well, things were supposed to change. Already there was the […]
DEADMARCH can be seen as the embryonic version of THE PROJECT HATE MCMXCIX… At work we sometimes play the web-radiostation Kink Aardschok and THE PROJECT HATE MCMXIC (first and last time I write these latin number in this review) caught my attention there already. Quite heavy, with a powerful grunt and (therefore) different than those […]
You can’t please everyone… this release already was voted "demo-CD of the month" in the September 2001 issue of (Metal) Hammer magazine, but it simply does nothing to me personally at all. DEAD EMOTIONS is a Bavarian six piece, musically very tight sounding, but still far from what I consider good quality Metal nevertheless. This […]
There is no other band for which I more eagerly await new output than I do for the reigning masters of Esoteric Death Metal, DEAD CONGREGATION. After releasing an excellent MLP followed by an utterly flawless full-length album, DEAD CONGREGATION have returned with two tracks for this split EP. The first of the two, ‘Perennial […]