Stefan’s review on SUMMON’s previous album “And The Blood Runs Black” was so enthusiastic already, that it definitely should’ve forced me to check these guys out after all… But for one reason or another (too many releases, too little time) I forgot about it again… Shame on me, cause as soon as I listened to […]
SUMMON’s new CD begins with an atmospheric acoustic guitar intro and I would have never guessed that after such a nice piece of music there would follow a sonic onslaught of aggression and intensity that can be called a new genre standard!!! Black / Death Metal has found its new masters – US warlords SUMMON! […]
Also U.S. based SUMMON still have to learn their lessons in originality. First of all, why the fuck do these guys use the same front cover artwork as HATE ETERNAL’s “Conquering The Throne”? That’s truly innovative: also musically SUMMON are beyond good and evil. They have some very cool tunes which remind me on ANGELCORPSE […]
Formed in 2000, this is the second album for this Norwegian Death / Black Metal combo. The first band it resembles is MORBID ANGEL and to also to later EMPEROR. Maybe I could also compare them in the same style as country mates ZYKLON. This is well played, well produced extreme Metal, which has a […]
On their 5th release German Black / Death band SUIDAKRA present themselves as a naturally matured act. No cheap German sounding parts, just pure music. Nowadays they don’t have to hide from international acts. What makes them special are the acoustic, sort of ‘medieval’ parts they integrate quite skilfully. ‘Emprise…’ doesn’t have a real hit […]
This is already record number four of these guys from Sweden. They got together back in 1992 and are already wellknown in the Death Metal scene, still serving old school Death Metal with influences from Thrash and Black Metal. After the intro ‘Slowly We Frost’ (a little hint to two wellknown bands), which starts slow […]
It’s not too often that you stumble upon a live-record by some rather small act deeply rooted within the underground. Even more so when it’s documenting a show you visited. Which is actually the case for my humble self with this new effort by Swedish Black-Thrashers SUICIDAL WINDS. As the album title subtly suggests it […]
The Swedish masters of raw blackened Thrash are back with a new MCD and it is a really great release. Although the playing time is not that excessive, the four new songs, the fantastic cover of one of Sweden’s finest – GROTESQUE – and a dirty live version of ‘Ashes From A Past Life’ are […]
The next official toe-tag in line for these Belgian masters of Death, their third album of blood soaked brutality! I tell you it is so refreshing to hear a band that has all its pistons firing at the same time! Incredible! As I used to think that only the gods of old who were releasing […]
After reading this band’s biography and the subsequent 7 demos that this band has released since 1991, the mere fact this act might of called it a day before this debut album was recorded and put to market, could have simply been the natural course of things. SUHRIM might easily have been lost to annals […]