It’s hard to believe that SLAUGHTERED PRIEST is already three years old. Formed in 2007, these crazed Greeks were just in time for the Thrash revival. While critics of the movement (myself included) contend that the so-called return to Thrash is nothing more than nostalgia-fueled hype, there were stand outs who wrote good music. I […]
SLARTIBARTFASS’ debut from 2007 is a further release from the German Pagan Metal specialist Trollzorn. “Nebelheim” is a tribute to the misty German Donau delta, the home of the band and quite a nice start for this really young band. Think that 15 years ago the album has definitely been released as a demo tape […]
SLAINE come from the Czech Republic and play well played technical / progressive Death Metal with some cool ideas. But what’s missing here is a good and challenging sound that underlines the ideas of the band. The sound isn’t really bad but it sounds too weak for this kind of music. Especially the snare drums […]
I was anxiously waiting for this release, as Black Hate Productions has done an incredible work with GRÄFENSTEIN and the great MAKE A CHANGE… KILL YOURSELF. In fact, this release is more related to that last band, meaning it is more orientated towards the suicidal side of Black Metal. Few things I know about this […]
The mysterious SLAGMAUR from Norway have recorded a trilogy called “The Three Protocols Of Forsen”, and “Svin” is a part of this trilogy (the two other parts are “Skrekk” and “Domfeldt”). Originally recorded as a demo and now published via Black Hate. Since I do not know the other two parts of that trilogy I […]
If you love melodic, aggressive Metal like CHILDREN OF BODOM, BRIMSTONE or FINNTROLL you should make sure to get a copy of this album, because meanwhile SKYFIRE have become a serious concurrence for those acts. Although I personally absolutely despise this mixture of melodic Power / Progressive Metal with keyboards and emotionally screamed vocals, I […]
SKYFIRE is a pretty new Swedish band which luckily doesn’t walk the path of this typical, aggressive Swedish Death / Thrash Metal which so many of their colleagues walk these days. After a pretty bombastic intro, the real opener ‘Fragments Of Time’ already gives a pretty good idea where to place SKYFIRE. If you could […]
I’m not quite sure why I took over this review when I was approached by the band. Somehow their style doesn’t quite fit into the drawers of Voices From The Darkside. Whatever. Their music rocks. It’s pretty aggressive: a bit like PANTERA or MACHINE HEAD but with a slightly old school feeling at some points. […]
Yes, I like brutal Death Metal and yes, I also like blast beats and growls. And this new record from the Belgian Death Metal combo SKULL COLLECTOR has all these trademarks. But the sound is bad, the guitars are scratching through the songs without something like a structure. On top of it you get the […]
Sometimes there is really something to be learned from promo-sheets. The good people at Relapse, who usually seem to know what they’re talking about, proclaim in the “overview” that accompanies this promo, that SKINLESS are considered “on of the worldwide forerunners on the New York Death Metal sound, which is the most widely popular sub-set […]