All you primitive Metal barbarians out there cheer up, because here’s another heavy, dirty, bloody and musical hellish lousy masterpiece for you. A release featuring PAGAN RITES-singer Devil Lee Rot is always a delight for bangers and "Tormentorium" is undoubtedly no exception. Numerous simple but killing riffs, the perfect raw, filthy and heavy sound and […]
Even if the glorious times of the French underground label Holy Records are definitely gone (at least since 10 years) their back catalogue bears an enormous amount of Doom masterpieces. Bands like TRISTITIA or YEARNING have established their own musical cosmos and while listening to the third releases of this Ukrainian band lovely memories are […]
Czech Black / Death masters AVENGER could already capture my interest with their debut "Shadows Of The Damned" (Breath Of Night Records), and the follow-up "Fall Of Devotion, Wrath And Blasphemy" (Deathgasm, 2001), which had the same level of excellence as the first assault. Due to their Czech vocals and the varied mixture of sinister, […]
I didn’t expect these three guys to release a new album so fast, or maybe three years are enough, but they needed quite some more time to release the previous one, which was in fact a good thing because I didn’t like their two first works that much and then "Tetragrammatical Astygmata" blew me away […]
Frank already informed me that AVULSED made a great step in the rigth direction and I can’t find anything wrong with this record at all: brutal as hell and absolutely tight, the band composed quite a few impressive songs that won’t catapult them to the olymp of Death Metal but with this CD everything seems […]
"Marching Towards Destruction" is the 2nd output from this Swedish Death Metal outfit, and a killer one! I don’t know what the guys want to say with the intro ‘Marching Towards Destruction (From San Francisco To Stockholm)’, especially with the words in brackets – AXIS POWERS need no further words to explain the meaning of […]
Hell yeah, this is one of the finest examples of "real" Death Metal that has been released lately! Though the band’s name might arouse politically incorrect connotations, AXIS POWERS do not represent any fascist or right-wing ideology, but like BOLT THROWER lyrically predominately deal with war in all its destructive details. Musically "Pure Slaughter" is […]
AZAGHAL hail from Finland and deliver pretty fast and raw ‘Black Terror Metal’ with a heavy dose of melodies. The (debut?) album contains 8 songs plus outro of tight played and fresh sounding fast ‘n’ melodic Black Metal more or less in the Swedish vein. Listening to this album, bands like BLOT MINE or SORHIN […]
All fans of nordic Black Metal can cheer rapturously, because AZAGHAL’s newest full-length CD is out now and it is great! The sound is fantastic, raw and very powerful, the riffing is often very Thrash influenced and the typical Finnish wickedness surfaces as well. The latter manifests in a few passages with clean or slightly […]
A Polish band with members from acts like DAMNATION, BEHEMOTH, YATTERING or WITCHMASTER, playing Death Metal, with a satanic cover and title of the album… Anyone who doesn’t know what kind of music they are playing? Ok, I explain you then: AZARATH is a four member combo playing brutal and dark Death Metal with big […]