On their second album (the first one was called "Kill.Fucking.Everything", please notice the thoughtful difference!) WATCHMAKER deliver nineteen songs of straightforward Grind- / Noisecore which start off very energetic, but unfortunately lose drive after a few minutes. That is due to more or less aimless songwriting and a monotonous vocal performance, all good ideas go […]
The licensing deal with Willowtip Records is probably the best idea that Earache have come up with in recent years. With the latest outputs by WATCHMAKER and NEURAXIS we get two stunning examples of bands that keep on stretching the boundaries of extreme music while sporting almost diametrically opposed contents and ideas within their lyrics. […]
Oh God… do we really need this? I mean, the Metal market is already flooded by tons and tons of useless releases, and this one is a blatant example of such. As you may know, WARMEN is a solo side-project (read: ego trip) of Janne Warman, the CHILDREN OF BODOM keyboardist. I don’t like CHILDREN […]
The total destruction of the earth Part IV… Our buddies of WARHAMMER are in the meantime also already a part of the underground Metal scene for quite some years and with "Curse Of The Absolute Eclipse", just released their fourth longplayer. Just as on their previous albums, WARHAMMER sticks to the apocalyptic Doom sound of […]
You probably might ask yourselves whether it really makes sense to have the HELLHAMMER worshippers doing several albums with one and the same idea in songwriting?! I personally don’t think it’s as bad as that because WARHAMMER is actually getting better and better with each record. "The Doom Messiah" is their third full-length and of […]
From the ashes of the Hungarian band MOOD (about which I know nothing, except that they played Doom Metal), please welcome WALL OF SLEEP. I guess the band’s monicker tells the tale enough: yes, you’ve got it right, WALL OF SLEEP is about pure Heavy Doom in the way of BLACK SABBATH. This MCD is […]
I’m sick and tired of all those piggy bands! WACO JESUS even add the violence factor to their immature sex phantasies and seem to find that cool! Song titles such as ‘Punch You In The Cunt’, ‘I Hope He Beats You’ or ‘Fag Basher’ speak a clear language. The band just doesn’t get it that […]
The coverpainting can be considered either as a great piece of art or total bullshit, haha. It’s up to your own interpretation, the music on the other hand can only be considered as fuckin’ killer Thrash Metal, played tight and impressive. “Rites Of Vengeance” is finally available on vinyl although recorded already in 2005 and […]
Featuring ex-members of MONSTROSITY and members of DIVINE EMPIRE in their ranks one could expect WYNJARA to be a kind of "all-star Florida Death Metal group", but though the musical fundament is definitely to be found in the Death Metal department (with strong parallels to DIVINE EMPIRE) WYNJARA have a rather progressive and unique approach […]
Don’t let yourselves be deceived by the aforementioned running time, because the last ten minutes or so of this album are only a blank space, a loss of time if you ask me. Apart from that, and even if I don’t like “Monument” myself, I can’t say it is a bad album. Let me explain: […]