When it comes to Danish Death Metal mostly three names appear: INIQUITY, EXMORTEM and ILLDISPOSED. But our neighbour country has much more to offer than the aforementioned killer outfits. One of these hordes are USIPIAN which have been active in the underground already since 1995. This squadron released some quite impressive stuff in the past […]
URTO are the first band from Sicily I’m stumbling across and I’m pretty pleased with their debut. They play good old Power / Thrash Metal, strongly influenced by Bay Area heroes like FORBIDDEN, TESTAMENT, VIO-LENCE and later EXODUS, while the vocals remind me of Switzerland’s POLTERGEIST. Ranging from six to ten minutes, all of the […]
URSKUMUG are hailing from Letvia, released a CD-R called “Pareja” and some song-features on compilations prior to this album. “Am Nodr” offers basic, at times technical, Black / Death Metal music with tribal rhythms and percussion woven into the soundscape. This is also where the lyrical concept of URSKUMUG is heading to: baltic, pagan / […]
The reviews for the very good and / or the really bad releases are in some way the easiest ones. The German newcomer URSCHREI are releasing their debut EP via Asatru Klangwerke and even if I know that we are talking about a young band is “Heidenzorn” the worst release I’ve had the pleasure to […]
Again ATMF, again a Latin title – but this time a completely different story. On their latest album “Iter Ad Lucem” URNA are starting a voyage to the bottom of the human soul. The band is part of the Italian underground since 2004 and even if the band had been unknown to me so far […]
Some of you Black Metal lunatics probably still have URGEHAL’s most current full-length “Goatcraft Torment” on their shopping lists, as it was released only a couple of months ago… But due to the fact that the band celebrates its 15th anniversary this year, Agonia Records have put out this compilation of rare and partly unreleased […]
I always thought that URGEHAL was the case of a band that enjoys recognition mostly due to the fact that they come from Hønefoss (Norway), formed in 1992 and know how to play traditional Black Metal the Norwegian way. I haven’t given them any chance in the past so when Frank asked who would be […]
One reason for my activities for Voices From The Darkside is my personal interest and dedication to the acts which intentionally destroy all style limitations to reach a new musical level. For years the so called Black Metal cult is more a product which needs to follow certain rules (to become commercial successful) than a […]
Putting out a release nowadays from a completely unknown band with a crappy packaging like this is either a rather stupid or a financial suicide decisicon (in this case probably both). No bandlogo, just ordinary computer fonts, very poor layout and a b/w drawing that other bands wouldn’t even dare to put on the sleeve […]
Finally, after a lot of work preparing and recording their first full-length album, these four guys from Pontevedra (Galicia, Spain), including an ex-member of ABSORBED (cult old Spanish technical Death Metal band that released a demo on Drowned Productions and a split together with UNNATURAL and DISMAL), unleash the perfect continuation to their previous 2003 […]