VINTERRIKET might be known to some of you who are also into ambient styled music. VINTERRIKET is a one man project that is around since 1996, but started to release anything not before the first demo tape in 2000. Since that time CZ, the man behind this project put out a huge number of releases […]
What Sunlight Studios and crushing Death Metal was for the years ’90 – ’92, Dan Swanö’s Unisound Studio and melodic Black / Death Metal was for ’94 – ’96. Both times had its great moments, and the Unisound recordings back then definitely dropped out some classics like e. g. Katatonia’s “Dance Of December Souls”, the […]
Very first official release on CD for this album (not really – there has already been a Japanese CD version a couple of years ago – Frank) originally issued in 1986 which has reached the cult status over the years mainly because singer Carl Albert joined VICIOUS RUMORS later. VILLAIN delivered some strong Heavy Metal […]
After two demo tapes “Unearthed” and “Vile-ation” the debut album “Stench Of The Deceased” was originally released in 1999 by the band itself and it’s already sold out by now. So it is the right time just after the release of the band’s second full-length “Depopulate” to re-release this awesome piece of brutality. Although I […]
Don’t let yourself be fooled by this band’s name – its music has as little to do with so called Viking Metal as the latter has to do with real vikings and Metal they preferred. What this Californian VIKING used to deliver back in late 80s was fast and furious, first-class Thrash full of aggression […]
Another band with a strange name which makes some people (including me) think they are getting too old (and too cold?) for Metal. Referring to the band the name is of Scandinavian origin and could be translated with the term “outlaw”, accordingly it is a honour to the founder(?) of Normandy, namely Rolfr Utlagr. The […]
It seems like one of these tracks has turned into one of these slogans that somebody just can’t interpret, but simply has to live for word by word. I doubt that it is USURPER’s meaning behind the track, but some were recently killed, and maybe they were killed for Metal, for all that I know. […]
It didn’t really take Chicago’s death squad USURPER very long to get their name out in the underground after the release of their classic “Visions From The Gods” demo back in 1994. In those days they happened to be lucky enough getting picked up by Metalion’s small, yet very fine cult label Head Not Found, […]
I liked their debut “Diabolosis” and “Skeleton Season” and I don’t have any problems with “Necronemesis” either. USURPER stick to their guns and still deliver mostly mid-tempo old school Death with lots of ‘uh’s’ (greetings to CELTIC FROST) and that’s good. Nothing really to mock about here, maybe just the fact that they had better […]
French solo artist Meltear strikes into your heart with his vision of catastrophic Black Metal and gives us five songs of war, vice and the betrayal of the human race via a made-up written character wandering through time and space and other mystical dimensions. Sound intriguing? I really have no idea if this is true […]