INRI fucking INRI!! Yep, as soon as I heard this CD I fucking had to tell you all about it! It is a project band apparently, led by none other than Alex"Trapeator" Oquendo of the legendary Colombians MASACRE doing his best Wagner Antichrist impression on vocals. And the music, for the most part, is a […]
It’s really sad to see what one of my all time favorite underground magazines has evolved into with their newest edition… I always had a lot of respect for Sindri and Jarne and their unconventional way of presenting themselves and their incredible magazine. COTHURNUS never was (and certainly never will be!) your ordinary mainstream publication […]
One of the coolest festivals for fans of the most extreme form of Metal is the annual OBSCENE EXTREME festival which takes place in Trutnov / Czech. Republic. Curby and the staff of this extreme underground label banned one of their festivals for the first time on DVD. What you get on this double DVD […]
This DVD at least is the ultimate proof how serious VOICES FROM THE DARKSIDE – writers take their job, as one can watch Ramon in the photo pit taking pictures of a CRYPTOPSY – guitarist during his solo, haha. No, seriously, this DVD is a good way to look back on last year’s Party.San festival. […]
Unusual enough for a smaller label, Greek Black Lotus decided to release a label sampler in DVD-format, consisting of 12 videos. To be honest, I never really understood why Metal bands should use marketing tools such as video clips since there’s hardly any airplay for it and due to the low budgets the results are, […]
Just like the excellent ENSLAVED DVD, this one is built around a ROTTING CHRIST (headliner) gig from October 2002 in Krakow, Poland. Excellent photography and sound (Dolby Digital 5.1) in front of quite a big crowd (far bigger than the one in Osnabrück, Germany, I attended). Then there is an opening show from 1996 filmed […]
At the moment the world is drowned in DVDs. Will Maurice Swinkels’ (OCCULT) company Lowlifemedia be able to compete with all those big money projects? To cut a long story short: no, not really, I’m afraid. That’s because I’m quite unhappy with parts of the concept. "To be Thrashed by OCCULT" turns out to be […]
Friends of horror beware! NECROPHAGIA crawls again out of the guts of visual hell to show us what they have experienced there… The DVD is divided in three sections: part one "Necrotorture" is their whole live gig shot on their European tour 2003 in Spain. You get 15 songs from all NECROPHAGIA albums until then, […]
One word review: AVOID. I admit that NARGAROTH’s debut "Herbstleyd" had quite an impact one me when it was released back in the day. Even then some remarks in the booklet (which were removed in later editions, making the early ones quite popular among the internet B.M.-warriors) made it obvious that the person behind the […]
Aaron Stainthorpe doesn’t say much during their performance in Antwerp. Nor is there any interview on this DVD. The result is that the music speaks for itself. My Dying Bride’s doomladen Metal is filled with atmosphere, longing and passion. Aaron sings fine, both when he uses his clean vocal as well as the deadlier one. […]