“Diary log, somewhere in the early 90s in a remote secret laboratory in Sweden… the experiments have been successful… at least in a way, they do. The virus we have created proved to be resistant to the outer environment, although grows better in colder lands… the first infected creatures were given names of Apocalyptic visions… […]
ZEMIAL is a sore spot of contention with me. I have wanted to like them since I first heard their band name mentioned in passing from friends in Germany. Thought the name was killer for a band, their logo just amazing and so memorable. Many months later I finally caught a flyer for the “Necrolatry” […]
From the mainly black lands of Norway comes ZEENON: three long-haired women on vocals, bass and guitar together with one short-haired man on drums bring you technical, tight and fast Death Metal with a clean but heavy production for again long-haired Death Metal lunatics. Doesn’t that sound dramatic!? Unfortunately ZEENON’s music is not as dramatic […]
To tell you the truth, I was ready to shred this record to pieces. After all, Gabriel Wolf was already responsible for the infamous FINNUGOR release I reviewed in these very pages some time ago. And my first random listen of this one left me in a state of annoyed perplexity, to the point I […]
Between great bands such as TEITANBLOOD and NOCTURNAL VOMIT, Spain seems poised to threaten the world once again with an armada of hell’s ships. For reasons I can’t identify, YSKELGROTH, the loudest and proudest addition to Spain’s war effort, are classed as a Black Metal band. Nothing could be further from the truth. This band […]
“Scandinavian Death Metal!!!!!!!” Hm, I wonder what I have to expect from a band which exactly printed this sentence on the booklet of their promo CD? Well, perhaps music inspired by bands like e. g. Dark Tranquillity? Ahh, I just have to go on reading the backside of this booklet: “Fans of In Flames, Dark […]
I was never fanatic about that “heathen” thing from proud Thuringia, and it was due to one reason: the music! Of course, a sentence like heathen Black Metal was ever a paradoxum per excellence to me, too. But the music: most of the time it was nothing but ordinary lala, more than often sounding too […]
The mighty Suomi has proven to be one of the most innovative countries in the 90s when it comes to harder music. Most of the bands have nonetheless invented an own style but they were somehow outstanding in what they were doing or in their development. And I am still astonished how many good bands […]
I hate to say this, but when it comes to new bands / releases in the traditional Metal genre, I mostly don’t care anymore these days. It simply bores me to death to hear all these bands that either have never really understood what Metal originally was all about or try so hard to follow […]
Doom. Doom… and doom again. Doom Metal can be a special kind of music. Most will take Doom for “slow” and which this might be true in a sense, real DOOM is more than that. It feels like a weight on your shoulder, like a dark evil shadow in a room, like a pain from […]