I had good references from SPELLCRAFT, a band from Aragon that features one ex-member of OUIJA, as I had read positive reviews of them, so my expectations were partly positive, even if one negative one could be that I’m not a big fan of OUIJA and the most typical Swedish Black Metal. But the best […]
I used this phrase already a few times before and will use it again now as it fits this recording, too: some music is meant to be on vinyl! That’s the case for “Raw Deal” from SPEEDTRAP and I assume that this release would sound kinda outdated to listen to on CD (the CD-version was […]
Right from the very first opening riff of the album’s title track, something akin to a riff I believe nicked from METALLICA’s ‘I Disappear’ single featured on the “Mission: Impossible II” movie soundtrack. Straight into a MOTÖRHEAD-ish rock section, I knew this band was going to suck. By the second song, another homage to MOTÖRHEAD […]
Solid band name, good logo and with these attributes the fire of relentless Death Metal played throughout that makes me proud to now know of this UK four piece, for sure England’s answer to ANGELCORPSE! Of Jeroni Sancho’s review of SPEARHEAD’s previous album “Deathless Steel Command” within these pages I was expecting something more akin […]
“Deathless Steel Command”, the first album of this British act, is a recording dating from 2005, but for some different reasons it didn’t see the light of day until September 2006 on Invictus Productions. I had heard these guys were quite violent (musically speaking) and the cover reflecting an empty battlefield gives you an idea […]
We can make it short here: fans of DISSECTION and like-minded acts can add the name SPAZMOSITY to their list. “Storm Metal” is the third demo of this Stockholm – based fourpiece, released as a MCD. What you find on this recording is dark Swedish Black / Death Metal with some dramatic melody lines, partly […]
“1.400 promos send to all media” (printed as “sales point” on the info sheet of the promo-CD) – fuck, is that normal today? I have no clue how many promos a label has to send to all kind of magazines but I wonder where Neurotic Records sent these promos to, because I haven’t read one […]
Most technical Death Metal bands that recently came up with new efforts (e.g. HATE ETERNAL, INTERNECINE…) had one major problem: the complex musical arrangements simply destroyed the songs! Especially “King Of All Kings” was definitely a disappointment, at least to me. The album was totally brutal, but there were no songs – everything went down […]
The new SPAWN album sounds more professional than “Systems Full Of Victims”. Absolutely solid but also kind of unspectacular. The beginning of the opener ‘Fear The Just Revenge’ reminds me quite a lot of mighty BOLT THROWER, the rest of the album bows to CANNIBAL CORPSE a lot. Didn’t they even cover CORPSE live on […]
And yet another no-mercy death metal act from Berlin that worships the “untrendy” US-brutality! I still recall the band’s early demo material and I must admit that these 5 guys made a huge step forward musically and in terms of songwriting for this 10-track debut (s)platter. Sure, you can always figure out that Spawn truly […]