I was a little worried at first when I got the information that the new FUNERAL PROCESSION MCD would only include one single track with a playing time of approximately 20 minutes. Ok, the band already did something like that before (with their “Schmerz Aus Licht” EP) and other acts, such as LUNAR AURORA or […]
After 2 demos and a split – EP with ENCONIUM, we have the fourth official release of Germany’s FUNERAL PROCESSION here. And to bring it to the point, FUNERAL PROCESSION’s music is not meant to be beautiful or be worshipped by the average Metal-music-lover. "Legion Cymru", as well as the band’s previous releases, is primitive, […]
16 minutes, one song, simple riffs, BURZUM, BEHERIT drawing down the moon, old school, non-trendy Black Metal, clean and icy sound, evil, mean, torturing screams, freezing winds and cold rain, slow and epic beginning, then fast and aggressive, slow finishing. You know how this sounds like? Possible! But do we need stuff like that? Well, […]
May BAAL, MARDUK and TIAMAT all devour my mortal soul when this topical output of FUNERAL PROCESSION is not difficult to be judged fairly! First of all, I can state that this demo does not correspond to my (relatively high) standards (as a musician who is also actively de-composing tunes…). But I think when it […]
When compared to the other sub-genres of Metal, Doom has not received as much attention despite its equal diversity in musical composition. Norway’s FUNERAL occupy the highly contestable Melodic Doom / Death slot and, as far as I can tell, live up to their classification fairy well though there is little Death Metal detectable in […]
Loosely translated the title of this CD is "The Last Rays at the Horizon" by the German one-man Stahlgranate FROSTFINSTERNIS (or better understood in the king’s English, FROST DARKNESS). Honestly not much is known about this act. No bio-sheet accompanied this disc, nor any real information printed within the black’n’ white booklet that actually did […]
Old school time! This MCD by FROM BEYOND from Belgium offers pure 80s Thrash Metal in the vein of early DESTRUCTION / SODOM / KREATOR, nothing less, nothing more. On four songs (plus an acoustic outro) two former members of the Black Metal band MORIBUND indulge their passion for the good old times. The riffs […]
From the band’s own bio I borrow…"Risen from the ashes of Thrash Metal act Denata, Tomas Andersson and Roger Blomberg teams up with Mique Flesh (ex – Witchery / Seance) and invokes new musical spirits summoned in hell’s fire. The idea and hunger for a new project soon formed into what now has been unleashed […]
After looking at FORGERY’s MySpace page (who have now changed their name to HELLBRINGER, but since the release is under the name FORGERY, that’s what I’m going to call them…sorry if it’s confusing!), I was amazed that not once did they list SLAYER as their heaviest influence. Hell, I was even more surprised that they […]
Good ingredients indeed! Doom / Death from Sweden with flutes and violins, extreme and clean vocals… 3 songs, 30 minutes. Hell yeah! Shall I say more? All right, the biggest influence seems to be MY DYING BRIDE, but FOREST OF SHADOWS use more acoustic instruments, like the aforementioned ones. I’m not too happy with the […]