In all honesty, I am greatly impressed by this first offering from this French five piece. Formed back in 2001 under another moniker (AMALEK, a wise move to have changed that if you ask me…), AGNOSYS play a form of melodic Death Metal almost forgotten today. I am referring here to the fantastic wave of […]
As the end of the year approaches, many magazine outlets, including your friendly Voices From The Darkside, have begun retropspectives – compiling the best and worst of the last year or so. Before the year ends, I want to submit AETHYRVOROUS to the "Best Of" list. AETHYRVOROUS is an Australian band, but their punishing demo […]
This is the first MCD from Belgium’s AEONS OF OLD, but the core of this five piece already started in 1997 under the name ANAEMICA. To make a long story short: AEONS OF OLD simply perform cool 90s like Death Metal, which doesn’t sound typical Swedish or US based. You simply get all elements of […]
After a long hiatus of six years ADRAMELECH return to the public again and I am glad they did so, as they are one of the few bands still around that have their roots in the classic way of Finnish Death Metal consisting of pure, brutal chords and underlying harmonies in minor keys. The year […]
If you checked out the ACT OF GODS interview feature on our website, you will already be aware of the fact that this new French band consists of ex-members of the legendary MUTILATED, who used to release two killer demos back in the late 80s, early 90s ("Psychodeath Lunatics" and "Resurrected"). After the split-up both […]
Great songwriters will make their songs sound good irrespective of the instruments they use to record them. We all know how few bands can strut their stuff, especially those ones that claim to play old school Metal. ACERO LETAL is a Chilean band who can do what so many bands can’t: play well. Their sound […]
When I first saw the artwork Chris Reifert designed for this split CD, it immediately caught my attention: twisted stuff that it’s almost alive. How did he come up with that? Great visuals for a start! Now onto the music. ABSCESS side is Punk oriented Death Metal. In my humble opinion, the band is a […]
Brutal Death / Grind from Germany one more time… And no, surprisingly NOT from the East Frisia area in this case. ABRASIVE are from the Southern part of the country, but still deliver some very intense shit. This MCD is the follow up release to their 1999 debut "Victim" and features seven tracks – three […]
Even though I like this record a lot, I’m not quite sure about the real intention of it. VARGSANG is the solo project of the GRAVEN vocalist Vargsang and "Call Of The Nightwolves" didn’t turn out more experimental or any different from his main band (so, where’s the point of releasing a solo record then?). […]
KRISIUN beware!!! A new deadly force named ABHORRENCE just unleashed a helluva blasphemous debut full-length by the name of "Evoking The Abomination"! These guys are young, they are hungry and they easily take brutality to the next level. Straight after having released their two demos ("Ascension" in 1997 and "Triumph In Blasphemy" in 1999), the […]