VIETAH – “… the old moon of Belarus” is another band which is confirming the fact that the East European scene is getting stronger and stronger. With “Zorny Maroz” the band is presenting their tribute to the dark night sky and the five songs are an atmospheric bastard of their Ukrainian brothers NOKTURNAL MORTUM (but […]
The band was formed in 2002 as an extreme music project without any special aim to be labelled, but not trying to innovate either. Influences are taken from Black, Death and Heavy Metal. Their lyrics are sung in their native Catalonian language and deal with different poems of a Catalonian poet. You can expect a […]
I’m sad to inform you that Xtreem has signed a few lesser good bands. However, with the Spanish Vidres A La Sang they’re onto something. Basically this album gives us Death Metal which lacks the necessary originality to be considered among the better bands. Their sound is powerful and sure gives us the aggression Death […]
Another round in the proverbial bullet belt of Denmark, is Sjern based VICTIMIZER, a melodious thrashing foursome that have, unfortunately, decided to call it quits with this their debut CD now being released, aptly titled “The Final Assault”. A band I never heard before today or who has been seen within these pages. And as […]
Never heard a tune, not even recognized the name of this Death Metal band from the USA, I was really surprised by this album. The history of VICIOUS CIRCLE goes back to the year 1989, they released a few demos and “The Art Of Agony” is their third full-length album. Since I do not know […]
Once playing in a Death Metal band, always playing in a Death Metal band. That could be the reason for a couple of members in this unholy 5-piece band as it carries persons from bands as ENTOMBED, GRAVE or DARK FUNERAL to name just a few. Besides some well-known musicians here the first thing you […]
VICIOUS ART was founded in 2002 by Matti Mäkelä and Robert Lundin who both used to be in DARK FUNERAL. In 2004 another big name joined the band: Jörgen Sandström (GRAVE, ENTOMBED) took over the bass from Jocke Widfeld who is now concentrating on the vocals entirely. Second guitar player is Tobbe Sillman. And their […]
Germany’s uprising brutal Death Metal act VERMIS basically evolved out of the ashes of CRUCIATUS, which in the year 2000 used to be the grim Black Metal outlet of Markus Zeitz (guitar, drums & vocals) and Marco Boms (guitar, bass, keyboards) besides their main band OBSIDIAN GATE. Due to lack of inspiration and the fact […]
Filthy Death / Black Metal remembering the days of cut and paste layout and xeroxed demo covers from Sweden. Even their website is designed that way which is really cool – at least for me, hehe! These guys play as if Gothenburg never existed, so to say. They started out as DELVE, who released a […]
After a already promising album in 2004 called “Untergang”, the German (Black) Metal outfit VERDUNKELN come up with their second full-length album “Einblick In Den Qualenfall”. To clear some line-up questions first, VERDUNKELN consists of GRAUPEL’s guitarist Gnarl and its drummer Ratatyske, but except for the music’s quality it is really different to GRAUPEL as […]