I was first introduced to the REVEREND BIZARRE world around eight months ago, via their homepage. At that time, I understood (without having listened to a single note from this Finish band yet) that I had found something special. The pictures of this three piece in particular were good hints of what REVEREND BIZARRE were […]
Before writing about the music a few lines concerning special circumstances. This band is from Jordan, a land where people are prosecuted by law and police when they play or just even listen to Metal. They get arrested and possible tortured and stay for years in prison or may never again appear. So the often […]
Hailing from Montreal, Canada these boys take a hefty influence from such acts as old METALLICA, AT THE GATES, SLAYER, TESTAMENT and ARCH ENEMY. The biggest influence you hear on this disc is that CARCASS – "Heartwork", vocalist Arie is a dead ringer for Jeff Walker. With all that being said, QUO VADIS incoroporate all […]
If I would need to advise a picture for QUADRIVIUM’s music a cloudless nightsky with a handful of stars would be a suitable one. The band members are all involved in other projects (not really a surprise for Norwegian musicians) and they started QUADRIVIUM three years ago to channel their more abstract synthesizer ideas. The […]
Hell this is a quite enjoyable deathrashing band from Finland I got to review here. Really, PYURIA sounds tight, fresh, spontaneous and efficient. It is quite much GROTESQUE / AT THE GATES oriented, but a bit less melodic than ATG though, and sounding a bit more modern from time to time, reminding also these new […]
As a Voices reader you should be a defender of the Death / Black cult but we all have a small part in our hearts for the Power Metal section and your head should automatically start to move to ICED EARTH and BLIND GUARDIAN as it moves to SLAYER, MEGADETH, DARKTHRONE etc. Unfortunately good Power […]
Ha! Got it! Finally! The Dutch sickos PYAEMIA had made a big impression on me at the Ear Terror Festival in Emden, Germany. Unfortunately they had run out of CDs so I was left in the rain that night. A couple of weeks later I finally found "Cerebral Cereal" at a DEW-SCENTED gig in Bremen […]
1985… I remember it like it was yesterday… a friend came up with a tape he got from a school mate. This was a copy of "Seven Churches" and this was the first time I listened to POSSESSED and from this day on I was a POSSESSED disciple… I totally loved this raw, brutal, mind-raping […]
Worshippers of the most deep obscurity and other creatures, here you have the album you’ve been waiting for. Portal is an extremely strange Aussie trio obssessed with the vintage mythos of our past century, as you can see on their artwork, which already released a split album with the also highly interesting Rites Of The […]
This is insane! After almost 15 years of disappearance, the legendary demos from the Chilean PENTAGRAM are available again! And it is about time if you ask me, because PENTAGRAM deserve their cult status ten times and the CD format does justice to their music in a splendid manner. I never imagined I could hold […]