Although this raging Canadian trio was founded in 1996 and released a few demos and other stuff, I really have to admit that I have totally missed this band up to now. So I didn’t know what to expect from them when I put this little silver disc into my player. I thought it would […]
ALLFADER come from Norway. They issued a MCD previously on the now defunct Rage Of Achilles label. With their first full-length, the five musicians involved offer us an interesting and refreshing brand of sophisticated Black / Death Metal mostly based on a perfect musical technique. Slick is the first word spreading to mind while listening […]
The 4th full-length album from these "blacker-than-thou" blacksters ALGHAZANTH titled "The Polarity Axiom" basically continues from right there where they left off on their previous album "Orisis – Typhoon Unmasked". I mean, ALGHAZANTH’s savage, violent, occasionally somewhat melodic, keyboard-ridden, blastbeat – orientated and in many ways even atmospheric Black Metal still has lots of musical […]
Relapse is just a damn cool label: they brought us fantastic bands that broke with all conformity and took Death Metal, Grindcore, Thrash Metal and whatever to new shores. And not only! You can see for yourself that the Relapse guys are really into the bands they have signed and give them the support they […]
ALASTOR are a Black Metal band hailing from Austria and have been around for 11 years already although I have to admit that I hadn’t been aware of their existence – too bad, really!! The very strong "Noble North" is their second release after the debut "Silva Nordica" and 3 demos before that. Some of […]
Within the last couple of years there hadn’t been a lot of real Black / Death Metal releases which deserved the title classic (only the ZONARIA debut must be mentioned) maybe due to the unsuccessful resurrection of DISSECTION or the rise of the Pagan cult. After 14 years of existence the German band AKRIVAL is […]
The first thing that impressed me when I got that album into my hands was obviously the way it looked. A simple representation of a harpy (a creature from Greek mythology) in greenish black and the rest in stylish simple black, only including the lyrics (in Finish of course) and the line-up. This is how […]
How fitting that to close out this particular chapter of VFTD – the floodgates close with a few last minute dribbles, and each of these trickling clotted piss pools hail from Belgium, the latter is of course… Black Metal! As I sit here and draw my knives from their sheaths for this review, what blasts […]
"The Merciless Onslaught" is not a new album by AGRESSOR, furthermore it’s a collection of old demo stuff of the band. This horde has been around since mid of the eighties and I think it’s a cool idea of Deadsun Records to release their classic, hard to get early material again. To those who are […]
According to the bands extremely brief band-information, AGMEN must be the most magnificent band in the Black Metal universe. In this very information sheet they state that they don’t play any gay shit but rather create musical "obliterations with an excellent production and musicianship" (quote from the sheet!). Gosh, I was quite curious what they […]