An observation… Viking / Folk / Heathen / Pagan / Battle / Sword / “whatever-you-wanna-call it!” Metal has undoubtedly become a big fashion thing at least in a vast area of the European Metal scene nowadays; especially many youngsters from such countries as Norway, Sweden and Finland, have been keen on mixing together Metal with […]
TRIPYTKON is the next logical step in the musical evolution of Thomas Gabriel Fischer, better known as Tom G. Warrior, who unfortunately had to quit CELTIC FROST again due to personal differences after their 2006 reunion album “Monotheist”. Next to Tom, the TRIPTYKON line-up consists of drummer Norman Lonhard (from now defunct Century Media labelmates […]
With the release of two highly acclaimed albums since 1998 TRIMONIUM has became a well established part of the German Black Metal underground. The band played several tours and international festivals over the years and I remember their good performance at the Open Hell Festival (Czech Republic) in 2003. But since then the musical focus […]
Call me childish or prejudiced, but as soon as I found out that the line-up of Chile’s TRIMEGISTO features former DOMINUS XUL guitarist Claudio Salinas (who also takes care of the vocals nowadays), I already knew that I was going to like the nine tracks on “Subterranean Streams”… To understand this, I probably gotta tell […]
Sweden, a beautiful country somewhere in the north, was 15 years ago the birthplace of so many great Death/Black Metal bands. They often consisted of the same band members and released their masterpieces mainly via two record companies – No Fashion and Black Mark. No Fashion disappeared completely at the beginning of the new century […]
During the search for the band’s website I first found the page of a German band with the same name. But these Trendkillers are a band from Norway. So be careful. There are a lot of Norwegian bands with equal names to German bands out there these days. Also the band seems to be a […]
What a filthy treat, a true surprise. The sad fact of the matter is, ever since the retro craze began, hardly any band has reproduced the 80s vibe convincingly, not even bands who paved the groundwork for that special sound. TRENCH HELL is different. Haling from Australia, home of SADISTIK EXEKUTION, THE WIZAR’D, MORTAL SIN, […]
I think I have heard this band before… with 6 albums in their history, this one man band (with the help of some session musicians) releases their latest opus. The general ideology of this German unit is “Death to the human race” so in a way, it can also be labeled into a suicidal form […]
Of the Polish technical Death Metal band TRAUMA I knew only their “Daimonion” album (1998) until I received this one. I listened to their sophomore full-length, “Suffocated In Slumber” (2001), but I didn’t buy it because I found it inferior to their first (which featured also some very interesting demo material). And I have the […]
Nope, this ain’t a new album of the legendary band that released the “Scratch And Scream” full-length and that METALLICA’s Cliff Burton (R.I.P.) used to be part of in the early eighties. This is a Polish fourpiece that has been around for an almost equally long time. They originally started out as THANATOS (for obvious […]