When I heard that Tom G. Warrior finally decided to perform the legendary songs of his first band HELLHAMMER live on stage, I was quite a bit excited. Yet this project turned out to be a tribute band with only one original member, using the moniker TRIUMPH OF DEATH (probably the band’s most formative song) […]
The rousing sound of the early HELLHAMMER numbers that evolved and transcended its journey from bunker to lousy venues, the most recognizable vocal that only prey, and Tom’s placing of the hand on the chest as the crowd shouts “UGHHH!” makes listening to this performance spine-chilling. Even though I had that experience while watching TRIUMPH […]
“This has got to be the grossest, most appalling pile of shit in metallic history… it serves as a testament to the worst group in history…” This is what Dave Constable wrote about HELLHAMMER’s “Apocalyptic Raids” EP in Metal Forces magazine back in 1984. Around the same time an old friend of mine was making […]
Does a HELLHAMMER live album make sense in 2023? No, since HELLHAMMER doesn’t exist anymore and this is a TRIUMPH OF DEATH live album. This is a very important statement since it allows us to understand what we have in our hands. Tom Gabriel Fischer once declared that it was pretty awful that HELLHAMMER’s songs […]
Death’n’Roll. I remember that hell broke loose once some Scandinavian bands like ENTOMBED, DISMEMBER and DESULTORY (just to name a few) made this subgenre known to the global underground with their respective albums. Since then, it has been controversial to say the least. Now, BURNING THE BASTARDS’s “Sinister Rhymes” is promoted as a Death’n’Roll album […]
Finland doesn’t play around. Sure, Finnish Black Metal is usually furious with screeching vocals, and has that sound of wasps burrowing into your ears. But believe it or not, there’s Finnish Black Metal that sounds a little different than that, especially when there’s a little Death Metal thrown into the mix. WITCHES HOLLOW is a […]
An intro of air raid sirens, the sounds of gunfire and heavy machinery bursting through the barrage and the cacophony, is something we all have heard many times before as an introduction to Metal albums. I will admit on first listens I was a tad bored and nothing really jumped out at me. Still, I […]
I can still remember when this album was originally released in 1995 and I can still remember back then I thought it was pointless noise. And even now, 28 years later, I can not find anything that changes my opinion that this album is a waste of resources. “Blood, Vampirism & Sadism” is the second […]
I hadn’t heard any albums by these Germans, and this is already their fourth release on German Democratic Recordings. They pleasantly surprised me. They have been active since 2016 and they have been quite active performing “live” with bands like BENEDICTION, MASTER, GALVANIZER, MORBIFIC, CRYPTIC BROOD… We can see that their music has evolved over […]
It’s been five long years and a hard wait since the last SULPHUR AEON album “The Scythe Of Cosmic Chaos”, a time only shortened by the live album “Unausspechliche Kulte” three years ago. But now it’s time to praise The Great Cthulhu again with “Seven Crowns And Seven Seals”. The German masters of dark Lovecraftian […]