On June 22, 2010 "the big 4" (ANTHRAX, MEGADETH, SLAYER and METALLICA) finally managed to get together on the same bill, for the very first time in their career, at the Sonisphere Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria. Even though I’m not really the biggest fan of all of them anymore these days, I still gotta confess […]
To tell you the truth, with garbage like this to review, I don’t see my future as a contributor of this site as granted. This type of record is precisely the reason I am now moving away from the crappy "extreme" scene of today. Some people should buy themselves a brain and stop to consider […]
Aarrggh! Completely sick and evil Death / Thrash (think "Hell Awaits" era SLAYER, "Pleasure To Kill" era KREATOR and POSSESSED – like vox and structures), released on noble vinyl only, by Utterly Somber Creations out of Chicago. Some of you may be familiar with MORTUARY from their classic thrashing debut album "Blackened Images" released in […]
Well… to you all you Groove-hungry Metal bastards who can’t get enough of modern extreme Metal à la SOILWORK, AS I LAY DYING, SHADOWS FALL or even late PANTERA I guess here’s another excellent CD for you! 2 TON PREDATOR’s third full-length release is a monstrous grooving yet aggressive CD that blends the drive and […]
It is well established now that Norway redefined the concept of Black Metal at the beginning of the 90s, to the point this peculiar music style will forever remain associated with that country. But with the years passing by, we have witnessed more and more declination of the initial paradigm written by such legendary bands […]
Two years after the their second demo 9th Plague return with a new CD-R titled “Triumph Of Diabolism”. As to be expected, the band did not move one inch away from their way of satanic Death Metal with strong references to MORBID ANGEL during their first three albums. I would say that on this demo […]
“Short but sweet” says an old M.O.D. song, “short but bittersweet” would fit in case of 9TH PLAGUE, because whereas musically and lyrically the Swedish blasphemers know exactly how to create dark, satanic Death Metal à la old MORBID ANGEL, the weak vocals add the bitter to the sweet. The band’s first demo in 2002 […]
I guess the Swedish underground is pretty much alive again, especially US-inspired Death Metal is almost booming. Bands like SPAWN OF POSSESSION, IMMERSED IN BLOOD or 9TH PLAGUE perfectly prove this in my eyes. Although the latter differ from their Death Metal comrades by musically referring not to SUFFOCATION, but the almighty, once gods of […]
Urgh, due to the name (now I know it means Black Heresy) and rather dumb (in my opinion) title I expected this to be a mediocre / weak retro thing… well, the album definitely is retro (and seems to be somewhat tongue-in-cheek) but it is not weak, hehe. To make it short, the band plays […]
One of the main candidates for the newcomer of the year is for sure ZONARIA. Their first album “Infamy And The Breed “had been one of the best debuts for years and – even if it had been released over a year ago – it’s still an essential part of my ‘Bang your head wake […]