This is cool! Imagine the brutal Death Metal of NILE’s music combined with industrial beats and drums and you know who THE BERZERKER is meant to be! The heaviness of “Dissimulate” is almost indescribable and at the moment I don’t find any band that is comparable with this monster. By the technical skills NILE is […]
Thuringian Death / Thrashers BURIED GOD’s debut assault is a valuable release for anyone who likes it the raw and aggressive old school way and digs bands like DESASTER, SITHLORD or old DECEASED. Unfortunately there are quite a lot of bands around who give a fuck about trends and draw inspiration from past time legends […]
Formed back in 1995, BURIAL are a five-piece from Massachusetts, and this is their first full-length. The material on offer here was recorded exactly two years ago, but as it is often the case with the underground, the distribution process was very slow, and I was made myself aware of the very existence of this […]
I don’t give a shit if this mini CD fits our musical concept or not, because we have reviewed so many crappy and superfluous Black, Death and Thrash Metal releases throughout the years, that mentioning a great Heavy Metal record such as "Speeding In The Night" should be more than justified once in a while. […]
BUIO OMEGA is a "pure Black Metal" band of BALTAK’s guitarist and vocalist Gorgoroth. Luckily this is better than BALTAK, nevertheless it is not overwhelming impressive. "Pandemonium Unleashed" offers 7 songs (plus intro and outro) of average Black Metal, high at speed interrupted with slower parts that do not open up atmospheres, but contain some […]
From the ashes of the Frisian Death Metal-bands DEFORMED, NECROBIOSIS and BANISHED and including the guitar-player of the Pagan band STOERMFLOOD this band has risen. And all of them have simply returned to their roots, all musicians are more or less 30 or even above, thus the fact that these guys play simply Thrash Metal […]
As with the majority of bands these days who decide to travail in the realms of Gothic / Doom inspired Black Metal, here’s yet another attempt for you all who follow these manic depressives. This time from an Austin, Texas three piece, who try to cross that dark spans of the event horizon into other […]
Blast! More or less accidentally I discovered this four piece as they played a gig in my town and the description sounded somewhat interesting… and BOLZ’N (an abbreviated form of the German word for either "bolt" or "to slam" ) rip your head off, dammit! Technical, hectical, twisted and intense Grindcore / Mathcore of such […]
You didn’t really expect any musical changes from BOLT THROWER, did you? But you were skeptical whether new recruited, and former BENEDICTION frontman Dave Ingram would manage to fill in the shoes of Karl Willetts?! Yeah, same here… Especially because of the fact that I didn’t really like Dave’s vocals in the past too much. […]
And sometimes they return – and if somebody is recreating the glorious times of Norwegian Black Metal in such a remarkable way a band like BLUTVIAL is deserving my deepest respect. The album can be easily summarised as a tribute to the last decade of Norwegian Black Metal – this starts with a typical (in […]