Frank sent me this CD because I am quite interested in the American Black Metal underground and bands like the almighty BLACK WITCHERY, WIND OF THE BLACK MOUNTAINS, THORNSPAWN or GRAND BELIAL’s KEY have released some incredible good albums this year and easily crushed almost everything that emerged from Norway or Sweden! So I thought […]
The musical umbrella of French based label Debemur Morti Productions is not completely limited to one specific style. Nevertheless are all bands followers of the same dark movement. So words like hypnotic, misanthropic or depressive in connection with the terminus Black Metal should be found in nearly all reviews of their releases. INFESTUS are definitely […]
After the long and hard festival season the record companies have returned to the major task, which means releasing dozens of albums to be prepared for the coming festival season. One of the releases which really impressed me from the first minute was the second release of IN TORMENTATA QUIETE, an Italian act with nearly […]
There have always been bands within the Black Metal-scene for whom the limitations of that scene were too strict and they shed those limitations off like snakes their skin. While especially in Norway drastic changes violently proved the creativity of those bands, I like to mention the brilliant ULVER or just MANES as two examples, […]
Ad Arma, Ad Arma people of Singapore – the beast IMPIETY is unleashed again. It’s reassuring that the underground can still count on bands like this wild horde from Singapore (with some Brazilian support on the guitars by Rangel Arroyo from ABHORRENCE) and their ultra aggressive Black / Thrash Metal is so raw that really […]
Whew! What a massive production! Nailed me right to the opposite wall! But this kind of music needs a good production anyway. ILLOGICIST from Italy play technical Death Metal. Obviously their influences are DEATH, ATHEIST, SPASTIK INK, SCEPTIC, etc. Guess they came across the term Jazz as well… ; -) I have to admit it […]
How to define a band which sounds (according to their myspace-page) like a mixture of CARNIVORE, SEPULTURA, MASTER, PRO-PAIN. GWAR, SIX FEET UNDER, RAGE, DEATH, CANDLEMASS and OVERKILL? Perhaps it’s the easiest way for me to say that this comparison fits just perfect. Well, yes and no. Without comparing IGNORANCE to one of the above […]
I am not even going to attempt to pronounce this album’s title. What I will say is that it is the 2006 debut album from the Czechoslovakians of HYPERBOREAN DESIRE. Progressive, Black, Death Metal very much akin to the bands Wrong Again Records used to promote in the mid to late 90s bands like IN […]
Professed as "HUMANE END" by the band mates / creators of their bio… I don’t believe the definition of "HUMANE END" or HUMAN END means exactly what any of these students from Schmalkalden / Thüringen think it does. Disregarding the supposed correlation to the Doom’s Day scenario "end of humanity" or to the rambling psychologies […]
It shouldn’t be a secret anymore that I totally worship these Italian Death Metal maniacs and it’s really a pity that they still have to struggle so much to gain bigger recognition. I mean, a musically quite similar (project) band like Sweden’s BLOODBATH gets praised by almost every magazine / fanzine there is, mainly due […]