The Dutch premier Death Metal band SINISTER had its musical peaks with the crushing debut “Cross The Styx” (1992), the hit “Bastard Saints” (1996) and the excellent kind of a comeback album “Aggressive Measures” in 1998. But several vocalist-changes, which finally lead to OCCULT’s Rachel joining the band, have undoubtedly weakened the musical force SINISTER […]
SINISTER is back with their first album for the new millennium, with a new record contract and new line-up. I have never been a dedicated fan of the band in the past, because I saw this four piece always coming with cool but somewhat run of the mill material. It is true the band have […]
Metal Core / Modern Thrash Metal may be the right description for the style performed on “Disease”. There are many bands around playing this sort of Metal, but most bands in this genre did not manage to write any good songs, which means for me personally that those bands are winding up in mounting riff […]
SIKFUK are a gore Grind band hailing from Minnesota (can’t be many of those around… INCINERATE maybe?). With an album title like “Teabagged At Birth” and song titles like ‘Fucked With A Dildobong’, ‘Snowballed By Grandma’ and ‘Tits Covered In Dickhole Sores’ you can tell right away that these guys don’t take themselves too seriously. […]
SIGNS OF DARKNESS from Belgium come up with some well executed Black Metal which occasionally crosses the borders to traditional Heay Metal (‘Portraits’) as well as to Death Metal (‘Winters Dying Day’). That’s okay with me although especially the Death Metal riffs used to puzzle me at first. So the music doesn’t get boring easily […]
I had quite a hard time listening to this promo CD-R because it was burnt without care – too much speed, I suppose. Almost half of the songs are at least getting on my nerves because of strange click-noises that definitely don’t belong there and the last 2 tracks finally drove me crazy. Unfortunately, the […]
Japanese scene-veterans SIGH have always been a different breed. Bandleader, vocalist and commander-in-charge Mirai Kawashima is one of the very few composers in Metal whom I believe to have a profound knowledge and craftsmanship in music far beyond the limitations of the genre. Mind you that this fact alone doesn’t necessarily compliment their achievements. Their […]
This album kind of turned back the clock for me, for it is musically pretty much along the lines of all those Crossover / Hard- / Grindcore acts of the mid eighties that I used to listen to in my search of even more extreme music back in those days. Think of bands like THE […]
This four piece act hails from Cordenons, Italy, and has sent us its first professional release (previously they released a demo tape), a 4 song mini album entitled “Dimlight”, where song titles like ‘Last Vision Of A Dying World’ or ‘Black Light Of My Sun’ don’t say so much about what the band is performing. […]
Four sick French musicians decided to create some twisted and sick form of extreme Metal. Take for example early EMPEROR and then add a bit of TERRORIZER, with some late PESTILENCE (“Spheres” era), some symphonic Black like DIMMU BORGIR and then some brutal Deathcore like in CRYPTOPSY. The final result might end sounding like SIDEBLAST. […]