I don’t know if you have read my review of "Incorrigble Bigotry" ARGHOSLENT’s 2002 release, because then you should already know what this band is about. The US horde plays a rousing, driving mixture of raw Death Metal and traditional Heavy Metal à la MAIDEN, NWOBHM, but doesn’t drift into those awful melodic Death regions […]
There are albums which need a long introduction and there are albums which only need one word to summarize the essentials – SLAYER, SLAYER, and again SLAYER. The Hungarian band ARCHAIC recorded with "The Time Has…" an album on a technical unbelievable high level especially if you keep in mind that we are only talking […]
Hailing from Cremona, Italy here we have Apostolum a very young band along the lines of late ANATHEMA / KATATONIA and just a little bit of early SAMAEL which translated to simple words portrays a band wandering somewhere in the Black / Doom realm. This MCD starts with a promising mood with the song ‘Dark […]
After DEVASTER and HELLWRATH, here is another excellent surprise coming out from Italy. This young act formed in 2004 offers a rather pleasant form of blasphemous Death / Thrash (no trace of Black Metal despite the band’s claim), certainly lacking in originality but generous in energy and conviction. Also, the tracks present an old flavour […]
IN FLAMES, CHILDREN OF BODOM maniacs listen up! Although you should not ask me about my subjective opinion on this type of music I guess that aggressive melodic Death fans might love this demo from Spain. The four songs I am listening to right now were recorded towards the end of 2002 and offer well-crafted […]
One of the most powerful and convincing demos in recent years has been released by Canadian duo ANTEDILUVIAN. "Under Wing Of Asael", their fourth release following two demo tapes and a split with NUCLEARHAMMER and LIGHT AM I offers four very impressive compositions of filthy and cryptic blackened Death Metal with a bizarre and psychedelic […]
This four song opus of darkness is actually the re-release of one of the demos of this Brazilian band on MCD. They play a mid-tempo form of raw, yet somehow melodic Black Metal, with really pissed off vocals. Comparing this to DARKTHRONE is probably a good reference. Although this was recorded for a demo, the […]
"Forgotten Rites" is the third release from this Peruvian horde called ANNIHILATE and is more or less the tapeversion of their 2nd demo, a demo CD called "Beginning Rites" which was released in June 2009. Death Metal from Peru is still kinda unusual and new to me and with the exception of HADEZ and mighty […]
Well guys, don’t expect a positive review here, because a band that forces me to look up every shitty symbol of their EP’s title (have a look up!) in the Microsoft Word Symbol collection has a fucking tough act to follow! ANGEL HAMMER emerge from New Zealand and they play a mixture of Hardcore, Groove […]
Usually I find compilations pretty useless and boring as they mostly feature wellknown material of a certain band, enriched with a couple of rare / unreleased tunes so that the label can still cash in on all the die hard fans anyway. But in this case it’s fortunately quite different. "Iron, Blood & Blasphemy" combines […]