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SORDID – Armed To Their Grinning Teeth

“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 […]

SONS OF SLAUGHTER – The Extermination Strain

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 […]

SONS OF CHAOS – Redwork

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 […]

SONNE ADAM – Transformation

I’m really wondering why a label such as Century Media signed SONNE ADAM (well, actually the band is signed to Imperium Productions… Century Media “just” takes care of the CD edition of the album – Frank). Sure, the music is undoubtedly great but I don’t see a commercial value for such a big record company… […]

SONIC REIGN – The Decline Portrait

This is SONIC REIGN’s debut-mini with four songs that are the actual recordings plus a song from the upcoming full-length, to be released in 2005 on Supreme Chaos as well. And if I am totally honest I must say that there are albums I’d rather look forward to than the full-length of SONIC REIGN. This […]

SOMBER SERENITY – Singular

Sadness, depression, melancholy… if that’s the type of mood you musically feel most comfortable in, you definitely should check out SOMBER SERENITY’s debut full-length album “Singular”. This four piece from the southern part of Germany has been active since 1995 already and released a couple of demos previously, but – apart from a bunch of […]

SOLITAIRE – Rising To The Challenge

I can almost hear the complaints: “Sounds like we had this 15 years ago” and they’re right! But I don’t give a damn! People buying CDs with the Iron Glory logo know what to expect: home of the gods MANILLA ROAD, re-releases of early HELSTAR demos, etc. – old school Power and Thrash Metal is […]

SOLEFALD – Pills Against The Ageless Ills

“Spartanic” is an understatement when it comes to Century Media promo albums: just a plain CD is usually all you get, so I can’t give you any information about this band, sorry. SOLEFALD offer a fresh approach to extreme music: first of all there is Black Metal, then we have melancholic Metal songs I can’t […]

SOLAR DAWN – Equinoctium

SweDEATHrash with a slight scent of Black Metal. SOLAR DAWN’s first full-length (well… 35 minutes) turns out to be quite enjoyable. Of course many people will ask themselves: why yet another IN FLAMES clone? Well, it’s not that bad at all! Christian Älvestam’s vocals are a little more extreme than what we usually get within […]

SOLAR DAWN – Frost-Work

I’m not sure if it makes a lot of sense to spend money on a rather short, only eleven minutes lasting mini CD by a Swedish newcomer act. SOLAR DAWN already put out the featured three songs as a promo CD in early 2000 (back then it was still entitled “Desideratum”), but as it was […]

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