Pagan Metal has become quite popular within the last years, a fact which is easily recognizable by the last signings of the big Metal labels. Which started 15 years ago with bands like ENSLAVED, HELHEIM and EINHERJER and further cultivated by the second wave end of the 90s seems to be "Trez Chic" within the […]
This MCD by the German Porn Grind sickos GUT contains 8 tracks of very simple and slow Grindcore, unfortunately without any blastbeats or any other good ideas (can you still call it Grind when there are no blastbeats or even fast parts at all? I don’t know…). Most of the tracks were furnished with electronic […]
Welcome to grinding madness!! Australian label Grindhead Records established their name in the underground with some excellent Goregrind / Death Metal releases and this 3 way split between Portuguese Grinders GROG, PUSSYVIBES and sick Aussie motherfuckers ROADSIDE BURIAL drove the quality bar even deeper into the guts of perversity. GROG starts the party off with […]
The polish band GRIMLORD, having released 5 demos, a debut live album (?) and a full-length back in 2007, released their second album "Dolce Vita Sath-An As" in 2009. Right from the start, I felt this one was going to be a hard one to review. Based on a traditional Heavy Metal foundation, GRIMLORD should […]
GRIDLOCK is another brutal quartet from the land of the rising sun. These Japanese masters of brutality cruising in the waters of brutal Death / Grind and following the path of many of their ancestors. This short four tracker is their first demo output and it delivers a straight forward, fast and relentless sonic assault […]
A band from Russia isn’t really something special these days but still not as common as a Black Metal combo from Norway, so the expectations had been there. GRENOUER are a "cult act" in Russia, due to several releases during the last 10 years and "Life Long Days" is the first release which is available […]
What fucking happened?! That is all I can ask when I listen to this latest disc from Russia’s GRENOUER. Without a shadow of doubt the GRENOUER of 2006 is nothing! relatively close in comparison to their previous record "Border Of Misty Times", that was just reviewed recently within these pages. Granted a decade has passed […]
The "Metal of Death Uppsala" logo stands proud in the booklet of this demotape and GRAVELESS are another young band featuring musicians who are also active in bands as KATALYSATOR / INVIDIOUS, DEGIAL or EVISCERATOR. Knowing the other bands I have to admit that "Condemned To A Nameless Death" is a good demotape but stands […]
Here’s a bit of an irregularity: a Swedish band that would rather not sound so Swedish. Like many of the new, young Death Metal bands from Sweden, GRAVEHAMMER writes music without geography in mind. In some places they sound rather like OBSCURITY – a Swedish band, but one that didn’t sound remotely like any other […]
Alabama’s own GRAVE RITUAL started out not long ago and at the end of 2009 released their first, and so far only, demo tape. This self-titled release offers 3 tunes of Death Metal in the brutal old school American way. American way doesn’t mean this blasting and ultra technical Death Metal of bands as EXHUMED […]