Black Metal again, but this time more interesting than usual. Vocalist / bassist Winter and guitarist Void seems to be Irish, but they recorded this MCD in Norway, with guest appearances by Norwegians musicians, namely Trym (EMPEROR / ZYKLON) on drums, together with Sanrabb (GEHENNA) and Dolgar (FORLORN) both doing some vocals. And precisely the […]
Everybody who’s a bit familiar with the Dutch Death Metal underground scene will probably know this Lumburgian Death Metal band. In the past, they already released a fine mini-CD, “The Light Of The Shadow” and already opened for rather big bands like for example IMMORTAL, MAYHEM and DEICIDE. “Only Shadows Remain” is their long-expected debut […]
Ooops, did Gothenburg move to Japan recently and I didn’t even notice?! Listening to the Osaka based fivepiece SHADOW you could easily come to this conclusion. The band plays a perfect blueprint of what’s been going on in Scandinavia throughout the last couple of years, with a focus on the melodic Death Metal movement in […]
This recording was originally released by the Swedish label Carnal Records back in 2005, here I got the LP version to review which was released in February 2007 by Temple Of Darkness Records from Spain. So what forces a label to release a vinyl edition of an already two year old release? The leading force […]
Although SEVERE TORTURE’s discography has been tended to quite suitably within these pages, this CD, SEVERE’s sophomore effort on Earache, their actual forth studio album, is the first chance meeting of this band and my pen. From the past reviews herein this band seems to definitely be making substantial technical leaps between album releases. Early […]
The new addition to Earache’s label band roster is the Netherlands – based band SEVERE TORTURE. They have been perturbing our senses with decently penned Death Metal since 1997. Their fourth album “Fall Of The Despised” has just been recently released with the highest media expectation I’ve seen for a relatively young Death Metal nowadays. […]
2002 turns out to become quite a busy year for Dutch Death sickos SEVERE TORTURE: “Feasting On Blood” re-release, several festivals (e.g. ‘Fuck The Commerce’), “Butchery Of The Soul” mini CD, US tour, new album now and a tour with the CANNIBALs yet to come! On “Misanthropic Carnage” excellence keeps shining through all the time: […]
Now that SUFFOCATION are deceased, there seems to be a glut of underground bands out there will to try and pay homage to their fallen heroes in some shape or form, SEVERE TORTURE being of no exception here. The Americans always did seem to have more musical proficiency than us Europeans but this now seems […]
I was really looking forward to check these guys out as Stefan already praised their previous release “Forced To Bleed” in quite a big way (as you can easily find out for yourself above). And damn, he was absolutely right! SEVERED SAVIOR is another proof of the healthiness of Americas brutal Death Metal underground. No […]
I’ll be damned if SEVERED SAVIOR aren’t going to become one of the new “hopefuls” in the brutal Death genre. They skilfully mix musical influences of DEICIDE, SUFFOCATION and PESSIMIST and come up with their own powerful, aggressive brutal cocktail of death. The eight songs on this EP include a 2001 and a 2000 recording […]