The combination of a Polish band and a Japanese label is certainly an uneasy one, as I doubt this album is available on many distribution lists. A shame really, as “Old Death’s Lair” deserves a large exposure, mainly due to its freshness and total originality. The THRONEUM’s music could disconcert at first, but believe me […]
After a split release with IDHAFELS, Germany’s THRONDT come up with their selftitled debut full-length album. All in all we get a solid Black Metal – like album, but also THRONDT face the problem that its music sounds too average, too common, just like so many underground Black Metal bands these days. They all sound […]
This second album by well experienced musicians from the Swedish Metal scene offers old school Death Metal with a few Grind, Thrash and Crust influences here and there. What I especially like about this album, is that THOSE WHO BRING TORTURE don’t try to be the hardest or the fastest, but opt for memorable riffs, […]
Members of RIBSPREADER, KNIFE IN CHRIST and TAEDEAT decided to form a new band, and shortly, after just one week of writing and recording, THOSE WHO BRING THE TORTURE are releasing their self-titled debut album. Midpaced Death Metal with many Grindcore influences may describe the style in a few words. Honestly I am little bit […]
Pretty interesting new stuff here. The first song on this CD reminds me a lot on faster THE DUSKFALL tunes. Quite straight Swedish sounding Death Metal in the Göteborg-style including fast-forward drumming combined with great riffs and a brutal voice. Besides that there are some fantastic melodic riffs included, too. A very good beginning and […]
This veterans of the US Black / Death Metal scene return with probably their rawest record to date. With a very raw sounding production (man those guitars sound like recorded directly to the board) which make everything to be a lot in the high treble side, they attack mercifully with 8 new songs and an […]
I have a soft spot for non – Scandinavian Black Metal bands because they often bring a healthier approach to the genre. One can only admit that the infamous Norsecore bands are currently killing the scene with their artificial modern sound and silly experimentations. Fortunately enough, some other bands exist that maintain the black flame […]
Even though THORNS mainman Snorre W. Ruch probably won’t label his band with the term “Black Metal” (anymore?!), his long awaited and way overdue first full-length is still more evil and true to the bone than the majority of bands that are polluting this genre nowadays with their nice keyboard sounds and mainstream productions (not […]
In times before the light (and this time I’m referring to the worldwide internet revolution) the THORNIUM debut – “Dominions Of The Eclipse”, released in 1994/1995 via Necromantic Gallery Production, was one of the real rare / limited / bad distributed jewels of the second wave of Norwegian Black Metal and it took me nearly […]
THORNGOTH is another German representative of the traditional type ‘S’ nordic Black Metal. The letter ‘S’ stands for Sweden and maybe also (as a small tribute) on behalf of famous cult acts like SETHERIAL, SORHIN etc. Their second album “Rauhnacht” is for sure not suitable for the next sunday tea party with your girlfriend’s parents […]