In 2005 Germany’s GEIST already managed to impress quite a few people with their debut full-length "Patina". Instead of playing the typical raw northern Black Metal, these guys successfully mixed the grimness of this genre with lots of ambient and accoustical elements. A highly interesting cocktail, that seemed to work out very well for them, […]
The concept behind this album is great – a Black Metal album about the sea. And since all water in general, and the sea in particular, is one of the great archetypal forces that drives imagination of men in interesting directions I was very excited to hear this album. German band GEIST consists of six […]
Haven’t we all been sitting in a dark candlelit room, with half a bottle of red wine too much in the blood, thinking of downing a bottle more and then finishing it all with the razor blade in the bathroom – all miserable and depressive, seeing no light in humanity or life, seeing no need […]
Starting off from where Ramon Claassen ended his review of GAMA BOMB’s "The Fatal Mission", this, the Northern Ireland outfit’s self-financed debut. I cannot help but admire the push GAMA has made since that review was written. Not to mention the cues these newbies have most assuredly taken from their fellow countrymen MASS EXTINCTION. As […]
Good sound indeed! Very raw. GALLERY used the same digital 8tracker as SENESCENCE and INGURGITATING OBLIVION (check out the studio report). What we get is 3 brutal, fairly straight forward songs (compared to INGURGITATING… where we have the same guitar players). No fan of brutal Death Metal will switch off ‘Instinct’ as the music grips […]
Holy shit – what kind of stupid bandname is this? DER GEWELT certainly does make no sense at all to everyone who’s able to understand the German language, does it? This three-piece from Moscow, Russia probably intended to go for DIE GEWALT (which translated means: the violence), but obviously didn’t really spent enough time on […]
Though BONE AWL have always produced highly polarized opinions, it must be acknowledged that they almost singlehandedly carried a torch during an acutely disappointing period of underground U.S. Black Metal history. Not only with their music, but also with the Klaxon label and the Fall To Your Knees Pissing zine, the members of BONE AWL […]
Trondheim, Norway, is undoubtedly a great place for Metal bands. They obviously must have some special vitamins and other ingredients in their drinking water that make them a bit more superior to the others – at least if this Norwegian 4-piece technical and atmospheric blackened Death / Thrash Metal band SUBLIRITUM can work out any […]
German True Metal label Pure Steel Records has almost recently been divided into a couple of other sub-divisions off which Pure Underground Records seems probably to appeal me most roster-wise (at least on the paper). One of the first signings to the aforementioned label is Italian progressive Thrashers ANNIHILATIONMANCER whose debut album, “The Involution Philosophy”, […]
The second album from Ukranian Black Metallers BALANCE INTERRUPTION, “Era II: Deserts Of Ashes”, is a complex stained-glass work of fury, borrowing from a variety of heavy sources. The first thing to attract my attention were the VOIVOD influences, apparent in tracks such as ‘II. Mutation’, some of its parts sounding so much like robots […]