Anders Lundemark (KONKHRA) strikes back. For DAEMON he recruited Gene Hoglan (DARK ANGEL, DEATH…) and released quite an intense and aggressive Deathrash album that sometimes reminds me of SEPULTURA. Veryin-your-face, sometimes a little melodic as well (not the kind of melodies we expect from bands like IN FLAMES, though). Hoglan’s drumming helps this album a […]
The story is well known: take a new trend, wait for it getting a little bit sour, and see the underdogs spreading out trying to bite their slice of the cake. Well CYPHER are one of these underdogs, and they play neo -Thrash like countless others now. But I would be unjust to deny them […]
Raising their fist under the banner “Death Metal Munich”, COMMANDER unleash their debut album upon the extreme Metal scene. Provided with an impressive, powerful sound, they pulsate between Death and Thrash Metal. What makes me so excited about this album are the skills of the involved musicians, regarding both the ability to write good songs […]
Jokingly when I was first sent this album. The title alone made me kind of laugh, and I thought with this sort of goofy moniker, that this was just going to of course be another 4th rate Black Metal band / record that I was going to end up reviewing. All I kept thinking was […]
Finally, I got the courage to review the comeback album of my favorite band of all times. Given the fact the promos that were spread in the media had that fucking beeps repeating endlessly and were very annoying to listen, I decided to wait and recently a decent copy landed in my hands. The beeps […]
Quite a stunning package here… Already split-up US Black/Death Metallers CATHOLICON, that was formed in 1994, and ceased to exist in 2009, made one hell of a respectable career during those 15 years when the band was still destroying and desecrating the holy ground by a good bunch of demos, full-lengths and a couple of […]
“Supergroup”, that’s how the label calls the band C-187 because of their bandmembers which use(d) to play in bands such as PESTILENCE, CYNIC, DEATH and MNEMIC. But is a group a supergroup just because of famous members or should the music itself make them a supergroup? Anyway, the C-187 project is initiated by Patrick Mameli, […]
Having not heard a single song of Norwegian BYFROST made this a first acquitance and a very pleasing one. They perform not the Black Metal I expected, but more a modern and powerful Thrash sound with hints of Black, mainly in the vocal department. Their "Byfrostmetal" EP from 2008 received good reviews everywhere, as far […]
Man, this is really a hard one. I definitely tried to like this new sign of life of Florida based Death Metal veterans BRUTALITY and so I listened to it again, again and again. But it doesn’t help. In my humble opinion it surely would have been better to let BRUTALITY rest in piece. I […]
Skull Fucked Productions from France is a very dedicated underground label, specialized in releasing uncompromising underground stuff. BRUTAL JUNKIES features altogether 22 songs by one German and two French bands. Tracks 1 to 5 are by CYNICAL BASTARD (GER) who play brutal Death Metal with many groovy parts. All five songs come from their second […]