It happened that the promo of this record reached me in a time when I felt discouraged before the current state of the whole Death Metal genre, so I delayed the review of this for months. Finding recently the strength to give this CD a spin, I realized that I made an error by not […]
Every dark cloud on the far horizon has the potential to become an enormous storm but sometimes a cloud just stays a cloud. The introduction to the official AUGRIMMER debut is maybe a little metaphoric but if I remember my enthusiasm after their last MCD (“Autumnal Heavens” released early this year – see also the […]
I can say that I like the movies "28 Days Later" and "28 Weeks Later" a lot, but one thing I totally dislike about them: the zombies run, and they run fast, very fast. And that’s bullshit, Zombies don’t run! And here I’m with BROKEN GRAVESTONES and their 3rd song (the 4th if you count […]
For all vinyl lovers this LP is not a bad thing – limited on 500 pieces, gatefold cover, the bonus-song ‘When The Demons Come’ – cool thing, but what can one expect of the music? Well, ATOMIZER’s second full-length contains Black / Thrash / Rock Metal with that typical raw Australian feeling. They have a […]
Where the hell are all these great old school bands coming from? Although one could truly speak of a trend of old school Death Metal I’m really impressed by the immense quality and high class of the majority of those young bands. Sure they don’t reinvent the genre but hey, it’s old school Death Metal […]
My problem with ARCH ENEMY has always been the fact of the cheesy Mallcore / Ozzfest mentality that this band has had surrounding it for years now, like a terrible fart, that just won’t die away. Corroding what cool and promising potential they could offer to the real Metal world and seemingly settling instead on […]
Although their previous album was recorded back in 2000 / 2001, it wasn’t available for other markets than the Japanese one until early 2002, so it seems like this album comes pretty close. The fact is that ARCH ENEMY are here with another extravagance of class, quality and virtuosism. Many [the purists] will say this […]
AMORPHEAD from Italy serves us something different on their first EP called "Psychotic" than what you’ll regular find here. Formed in October 2007, these 5 guys must have worked hard on their material and dealt with several line-up changes before recording the very first release. And why? Well, to bring you some very solid melodic […]
I think with their 2002 release AMON AMARTH may proudly call themselves the Scandinavian version of BOLT THROWER! The Swedish Viking-horde is heavy as fuck, but also as melodic and melancholic as most Swedish melodic Death Metal acts are, except – AMON AMARTH is better than most of them!!! Again they created massive hymns of […]
“Pounding Norwegian Black Metal” are the words readable on the info sheet from Dutch Soulseller Records describing ALVERG’s music and their debut album “Elde”. I can agree on the term “Norwegian” as the origin of this band is more than clear, but I have my “problems” with the word “pounding” as I would use this […]