You can blame it on good ol’ Laurent from Snakepit Magazine that I finally checked these guys out as he was praising this album like crazy in the magazine’s latest issue (#11). He even put “Aftermath” in the same (major) league as alltime Metal classics such as ANVIL’s “Forged In Fire”, JAG PANZER’s “Ample Destruction”, […]
This Finnish band with the quite distinct and rather obscure name WISDOM THROUGH AGONY INTO ILLUMINATION AND LUNACY, abbreviated into W.A.I.L. (which of course also have other meanings as a word) released their self titled debut album back in 2009. Though the album had such large qualities that the label Ahdistuksen Aihio Productions now has […]
Recorded in 1998 ”In Dusk Apparition”, the final chapter of Vulpecula’s story (the fox, btw) gets closed. The band around ex – Order From Chaos man Charles Keller released some quite extraordinary music. I guess some of you can remember their “Fons Immortalis” 10” album, released back in 1997 by German label Merciless Records. Charles […]
After a demo in 2001 called “Sermons Of Impurity”, VORKREIST from Paris now release their debut album “Sabbathical Flesh Possession”. VORKREIST unleash a straight assault of old-school Satanic Death / Black Metal, inspired by the likes of MORBID ANGEL, ANGEL CORPSE, IMPALED NAZARENE, early IMMORTAL etc., free from any experiments as female vocals or keyboards. […]
I postponed the review of this album for much too long, for reasons beyond my control. I regret it now, because VORKREIST have obviously a lot to offer to Death Metal devotees, and I am greatly surprised this fact still stays unsuspected until today. “Sabbathical Flesh Possession” is a very peculiar album as it was […]
While other Death Metal acts more and more tend to focus on highspeed brutality or technical extravaganca, Arkansas based VORE still prefer to stick to their rather midpaced, rhythmic and simplistic style. Really a wise decision considering the big amount of releases that totally sound like HATE ETERNAL, KRISIUN or similar acts these days. “Maleficus” […]
Some of you may still remember this band from the rather weak SEPULTURA tribute “World Of Pain” which came out on Dwell Records a couple of years ago. Well, even though that album mainly sucked pretty badly, VORE was an exception to the rule and definitely stood out. I still prefer their crushing version of […]
Consistency speaks volumes more than originality sometimes. We often forget that Metal is supposed to kick our asses, not necessarily change the way we think about the music as a whole. To that end, bands like DISMEMBER and VOMITORY have committed themselves, the latter probably more so than DISMEMBER. Though both from Sweden, VOMITORY has, […]
The Forshaga Death machine returns with its already fourth full-length (the second one on Metal Blade). Every fan of this Swedish fourpiece won’t be disappointed. “Blood Rapture” is an intense piece of Scandinavian Death Metal with great vocals. Yeah, bassist Erik did a fucking great job. His voice is fantastic, he grunts very deep and […]
To most of you VOMITORY won’t be strangers anymore as they are around already for quite some time. I just have their album “Raped In Their Own Blood” which got released on the small label Fadeless Records, but unfortunately I missed the follow-up “Redemption”. With Metal Blade they finally found a record company which could […]