I didn’t recall SOULREAPER sounding that American… actually, I wasn’t too enthusiastic about their debut in 2000 anyway. Somehow I didn’t get access. This time, the band obviously wants their album to get into my mind by any means I guess: the mixture of DISSECTION and MORBID ANGEL has shifted towards the latter direction even […]
Östersund is a small countryside town in the north east of Sweden which you actually don’t have to know? The only thing I remember from travelling there is the fucking camping place. Well looking through my Swedish music collection I rush into names like SETHERIAL, AEON, DEFACED CREATION (R.I.P.), SANCTIFICATION or IN BATTLE heading from […]
Speaking critically on a purely instrumental register, SOUL DEMISE are alright; they know their AT THE GATES, their IN FLAMES, their SOILWORK. All well and good if you like your Death Metal with a nice pink bow. One could tolerate a listen or two if the album were only instrumental all the way through. Sadly, […]
This German five-piece (originally founded in 1997 under the moniker ORANGE LIQUID) offers eight dark yet melodic Death Metal Songs on their first self-financed CD that remind me a lot of old Swedish Death Metal as well as ancient British Death. Unfortunately the sound quality of the whole CD is extremely bad and ruins a […]
Now this really caught me off-guard. Having never heard of this outfit hailing from the land of Hummppa, Eurovision-Hardrock and Teen-Metal before, I was quite surprised to experience such a first class Death Metal offering. SOTAJUMALA are not exactly following the path laid down by all the legendary finish acts back in the early nineties […]
And the Finnish Death Metal invasion continues… “Death Metal Finland” as the title of SOTAJUMALA’s debut full-length hammer, obviously doesn’t need any introduction of these death troopers’ musical approach on the album… or does it, ha! While I have been listening to “Death Metal Finland” with my damn curious ears, I guess it’s not even […]
“Some music means something” are only four letters – but for our cult more important than everything else. Black Metal is more than music and during the last years a lot of old and new bands seem to forgotten the true essence of our art. But sometimes new bands with spirit, power and soul in […]
“Armed To Their Grinning Teeth” is the debut album by this young brutal Swedish Death Metal outfit which was formed in early 1999. After having released a 7″EP called “Death” in 2001 and a selftitled CD-R EP in 2002 the masters of Forensick Music took care of these youngsters and offered them a contract to […]
Formed in 2003 after the demise of SEEDS OF DESOLATION this Scottish quintet already released a first demo entitled “Bloodblind” only one year later and now has its first full-length ready to rip via Retribute Records. This slab of conventional brutal, contemporary Death Metal easily comparable to the sound of SUFFOCATION, CANNIBAL CORPSE or VILE […]
The Death Metal brutality and technical approach of bands in the CANNIBAL CORPSE / MORBID ANGEL vein, mixed with the twisted vocal sickness of early CARCASS and a couple of disharmonic elements à la old VOIVOD (‘Path Of Disgrace’, ‘Redwork’) – that’s kinda what you get from SONS OF CHAOS, another rather brutal outfit from […]