Allright – "Berlin Extreme" is going into the next round. This time they offer a wider variety of genres for they included Hardcore and Metalcore bands as well. Decide for yourself if you like it or not, still it gives a good insight of what’s going on in Berlin’s metallic music-scene. The principle behind the […]
A full decade after the release of "In The Eyes Of Death I" Century Media finally managed to come up with a follow-up compilation and it’s definitely one of the most recommendable ones. First of all, you get 77 minutes of extreme Metal extravaganza, plenty of unreleased material for only around five bucks and secondly […]
Usually I don’t really like compilation albums and therefore very rarely feel the urge to listen to one of them in its entirety. But with this one here it was quite different. "Face Your Underground" got compiled and released by the editors of DeathMetal.be and just like their website, this CD is also dedicated to […]
Two US and one UK – based label teamed up for this compilation to present some of their underground Death / Black / Grind acts to a wider mass. The better known acts on this CD are ACHERON (‘Church Of One’) and INCANTATION (‘Decimate Christendom’), the rest is made up by underground extreme Metal newcomers […]
The THE REAPER COMES series exclusively features underground bands without record contract, offering a wide range of Death, Black, Thrash, Power and traditional Heavy Metal. On this volume 14 bands, mostly from Germany, appear in alphabetical order: AARDVARKS, ETERNAL PAIN, FINAL CRY, GARMENHORD (Belgium), HATRED, MEMORIAL PARK, OPHIS, SANITY, SENGAYA, SLAINE (Switzerland), STEELPREACHER, TREMORS, UNLIGHT […]
Some bands shouldn’t be covered at all and KING DIAMOND is certainly one of them! There’s just too many aspects that made this band so special and that you simply can’t recapture. Of course the main problem while trying to cover a KING DIAMOND song is the unique and unmistakable vocal delivery that no one […]
This is already the 5th edition of this still very impressive sampler series, courtesy of the DeathMetal.be guys. Nothing has really changed compared to the previous incarnations – not for the better, but luckily also not for the worse. You still get a big bunch of very promising sounding brutal bands for a minimum of […]
From the mouth of Bernard Doe / METAL FORCES "Who could have imagined back in the early 1980s when the foundations of Thrash were being laid just what an impact this new adrenaline charged phenomenon would have on the Metal scene? Initially shunned by the mainstream music media as a passing fad, Thrash was the […]
The great Relapse Singles Series has already reached volume 5 by now, this time featuring the EPs by CANDIRU ("Disadvantage Of Surprise" – 2 tracks), MORTICIAN ("Mortal Massacre" – 3 tracks + intro and outro), AFFLICTED ("Wanderland" – 2 tracks) and MYTHIC ("Mourning In The Winter Solstice" – 3 tracks + intro). All of them […]
I missed part one of this METALLICA tribute compilation, so I can’t really tell you whether this part two is any better or worse. But one thing’s for sure: "Overload 2" is (despite a handful of interesting bands that are contributing) another waste of money. None of the twelve cover tunes is able to come […]