The ultra brutal Death Metal is on its way up (again), no doubts about that – probably gaining a lot more interest nowadays than ever before! And the fact that an established company such as Metal Blade has signed a band like CATTLE DECAPITATION should be prove enough. The artwork of the band’s third full-length […]
I always had a strange relation with this U.K. band. Having always hated their first two pseudo doomy efforts (how can you seriously play Doom when you have a dog barking on top of your not so inspired material?!), I suddenly changed my mind when I heard "The Carnival Bizarre" and even more when "Supernatural […]
I’m not quite sure what actually lead to the origin of CATASTROPHIC, but fact is that I would certainly have preferred a new OBITUARY album over this here… Why OBITUARY? Well, because CATASTROPHIC is the new home of former OBITUARY / MEETHOOK SEED guitarist Trevor Peres, who joined forces with four ex-PYREXIA members for this. […]
Extremely slow, heavy and crushing Death / Doom is what CATACOMBS stand for. There is no romance or sorrow or any emotion at all here to be associated with Doom – just vast, downtuned heaviness, guitars creating a massive, almost static foundation slowly rolling, drifting on with glacial determination. Tempo changes occur like in a […]
First of all the tolerance of Season Of Mist has to be pointed out here, the fact that they accepted this cover – "artwork", which is nothing more than crap, proves that the guys at that label have great hearts. Turning to the music, in the end we have to live with the fact that […]
This three piece from Paris, France was founded in 1998 and after two demos, "Human Die" in 2000 and "Pepare Your Soul" in 2001, they have now released their debut album which delivers a brutal mix of Death / Thrash Metal with a few Grindcore elements, not very inventive at all, but skillfully played with […]
Yeah Baby, yeah! Those were the times!!! This re-issue is so fuckin’ essential to everyone reading this that I simply had to quote good ol’ Austin Powers here… Anyway, I was just wondering if there’s still someone around who’s not aware of the name CARNAGE yet? Oh really?!! Well, then you better return to your […]
CAPHARNAUM hail from Florida and consist of members of MONSTROSITY, MARTYR and TRIVIUM. Now guess what kind of music they play? Exactly! Polka-Techno with Finnish lyrics! Well, sorry for this bad joke, of course they play technical Death Metal with a certain Thrash Metal feeling. On eight songs they unleash a whirlwind of complex riffs […]
CADAVER INC.? Yes, there is somebody from CADAVER incorporated, namely original guitarist Anders Odden (Nedo). With the help of Czral (ex-DIMMU BORGIR; dr.), Apollyon (AURA NOIR, DODHEIMSGARD; voc.) and LJ Balvaz (HYDRHYDR, pre-CARNAGE; bass) he recorded a typical, yet unusual Norwegian Black Metal album. In addition to the icecold atmosphere, there is brutality on this […]
Ah, yes – so what the fuck is “Stone-Cold Chaos-Rock”?!? THE BLACK LEAGUE return with their 2nd full-length album “Utopia A.D.” and I doubt whether they would have really gotten their deal if Taneli Jarva (ex – SENTENCED and responsible for most of the music and all lyrics) and Sir Luttinen (ex – IMPALED NAZARENE) […]