TOXAEMIA belong to the first wave of Svensk DödsMetall, starting quite early in January ’89 in Motala, a town in the region of Östergötland, Sweden. Motala, along with Mjölby and Linkoping, were reference points of the most outrageous CARCASS / BOLT THROWER movement of whole Sweden, with many killer acts like SALVATION, SEANCE, TOTAL DEATH, […]
SAVAGE GRACE originally started out as MARQUIS DE SADE waaaaay way back in 1981, changed their name into SAVAGE GRACE shortly after and went through various line-up changes until their break-up in 1992. Before mainman / guitarist Christian Logue took over the vocal duties himself for their 1986 swansong full-length “After The Fall From Grace”, […]
On SAVAGE GRACE’s second album "After The Fall From Grace" guitarist Christian Logue had to take over the vocals himself as former singer Michael John Smith unfortunately was no longer part of the band. But he came up with a surprisingly good result, considering that he was a guitar player in the first place. He […]
Arrrgh, this is excellent! Even though there’s already thousands of brutal releases out there I’m still pretty excited when some of classic stuff gets re-issued these days. And this SATHANAS / BATHYM disk certainly is a REAL classic! Pittsburgh’s SATHANAS came up with a couple of quite good albums after their reunion lately, but to […]
One thing I like are complete CD compendiums of a band’s career, and "Completely Dead" is almost one. Kicking off this deathrashing collection is the criminally underrated "A Thought Before the Kill" 12". As my gushing review of it in Snakepit #4 reflects, I consider this stuff to have been as good as ’90s Thrash […]
The calendar says it’s 2004 approaching, neither 1991 nor 1992, therefore I feel somehow lost in time (why don’t you put it straight and just say "feel stupid" – my inner editor) trying to review the two first PARADISE LOST albums. Especially bearing in mind how much tact and delicacy this task, kindly offered by […]
Once in a long while you get a classic, classic, CLASSIC EP of Metal! You have the legends of queensryche, mercyful fate, then there’s "Haunting The Chapel", "Warhead" etc. and this is indeed a fitting ‘nother for the list in my full moon’s eyes :)! The fucking unbelievably good debut recording from ostrogoth! After an […]
It’s hard to believe that the NOCTURNUS debut "The Key" was already out of print for ten long years. I mean, these guys were the main reason for the acceptance of keyboards in brutal music and all of the ten featured tracks on "The Key" could easily be labeled all-time classics nowadays! So, this re-issue […]
From this day forward those of you who missed out on the original releases by Sweden’s NECRONY won’t be able to come up with any lame excuses anymore why they don’t have this great stuff in their collection! Germany’s small but fine Poserslaughter Records (who already were responsible for the original CDs) have just come […]
Sometimes it’s not so easy to find the right words for a review especially if it comes to an album which is part of my own Metal "existence" ever since the original release in 1997. The German band NAGELFAR is far more than just one Black Metal band, their handful of releases during their short […]