Sometimes a few words are connected with a band, words which got constantly repeated when reading reviews and interviews or talking with friends about the band. In this case the words have been old school Thrash Metal, eighties, SODOM, KREATOR, DESTRUCTION, up-tempo, cliché. Now WITCHBURNER are back with their fifth full-length release and guess what […]
It’s unbelievable how many releases this German five-piece has been unleashed by now… apart from the regular albums a lot of them weren’t even recognized by me. There’s various EPs, split EPs, a picture disc 10″ and so on… And their next, fourth full-length “Final Detonation” is also already ready to hit the stores again […]
With such a name one can think this is: a) some kind of Folk Metal band or b) some sort of evil necro Black Metal band. In this case none is true. This is a bare bones old school Death Metal band that reeks in sound the very first DISMEMBER guitar tone along with heavy […]
WINDS OF TORMENT are a self-proclaimed melodic Death Metal band from Saint-Etienne, France. After listening to the CD a few times melodic Death Metal just doesn’t quite describe this music accurately. This stuff is all over the place. Take the song ‘The Other’ for instance, following an acoustic interlude all of the sudden the music […]
Nice short title for a CD, but what does it mean? Probably it’s the year 1184, the band comes from Norway… any ideas? I guess so, but let’s look it up. In 1184, Sverrir became king of Norway by defeating Magnus V. He drove out the clergy and repudiated thereligious reforms and privileges. Therefore he […]
Well, this is definitely nothing for kids, but feminist’s and censor’s newest potential target. Whether it’s the comic-style artwork (front cover by Jake Karns, inside layout by Mike Diana) or the nasty lyrical atrocities this US-based three-piece comes up with, WHORE are the incarnation of tastelessness. Victims of their assaults are usually women and children, […]
These guys are trying really hard to sound unique and even though I’m not exactly into their material myself, it definitely deserves a lot of respect! WHISPERING TEARS is a band from Paris, France that originally got together back in 1996, but nowadays consists of nine (!!) members. The actual band comprises of three guitars, […]
WHIPLASH went through many problems in their rather long career, having started as a real promising Thrash act, then lost part of their momentum following the addition of a full part vocalist, then breaking up, reforming and releasing two albums that had almost nothing in common with WHIPLASH… And finally re-reforming again with the original […]
Sometimes the exact musical definition is far away from being important and the terminus Metal is the most suitable one for such releases. One of these releases is the third album from the American band WHILE HEAVEN WEPT. After 20 years of existence they recorded an album which is tearing apart any kind of style […]
Be careful. This is not the well known German Gothic band as I thought before, but a band from Norway. After a short, not really impressing intro you get 08/15 Gothic Metal with female vocals. The songs have all the same kind of structure. Every song starts with a short piano / keyboard intro and […]