If you’re into heavy and grooving Texan Death Metal, with a more than healthy dose progression and technical show off from the musicians, you must already know SEVERANCE, a band that has been a stable deliverer of that exact blend since the mid-nineties. It isn’t that the band has been putting out a lot of […]
I remember Severance from some years ago as their first full-length (“Whatr Lies Ahead”) had to be released by Repulse Records, but it was just in the moment when they started having troubles and finally ended closing up, although I think the album was finally released (perhaps it was the last release of the label?). […]
I can’t believe that this album is finally done! Texas based SEVERANCE must be one of the laziest bands in the whole Death Metal scene ; -). They started out (still very dedicated, haha) way back in 1989, released their first rehearsal demo (“Procreation”) in 1990, followed by a real studio demo (“Afterbirth Of Infamy”) […]
At first instance the few seconds into this debut album of Frances’s THE SEVEN GATES was not exactly that exciting. It sounded like I was in for a massive does of brutal Death Metal with certain technical aspects. But soon, it hooked me. Hooked me like the way a serial killer puts its victim just […]
Be cursed of all my holy vultures… Finland’s 1st class hell division SETHERY took me by a somewhat big surprise as far as their debut album titled “Kholera” is concerned. I had already heard some demo songs from them earlier this year, and I was rather positively impressed by them already. But it’s the band’s […]
While a certain Norwegian band takes the world by storm thanks to a formidable commercial war-machine, I am afraid this new album by SETHERIAL could stay unnoticed, despite its amazing qualities. But believe me, “Endtime Divine” is another masterpiece in a so far faultless discography. To me SETHERIAL are simply the best Black Metal band […]
It was thanks to the review section of the printed version of Voices From The Darkside that I was first introduced to the SETHERIAL dark realm. I remember pretty well Frank’s enthusiastic review of the first album of this Swedish Black Metal act (“Nord…”) and I bought the CD not long after. Since then, I […]
This new album by French Black Metallers SETH caught me totally by surprise at first because of the radical change of style they have chosen to follow. While their previous effort (“The Excellence”) was still deeply rooted in the Scandinavian wave of classic Black Metal, with “Divine-X” the band did a sort of quantum leap […]
Florida ultra brutal Death Metal attack squad strikes! First impression is Brazilian, like KRISIUN or ABHORRENCE! Domineering blast drumming expressed through a clear, drum-heavy production. Brutal through and through, fast and solidly played. It’s still a treat to hear Florida Death Metal done right – especially with total speed influence like early DEICIDE and DIABOLIC! […]
On the cover one can see an army of immortals unleashing a merciless attack and this scenario reflects the music perfectly. For nearly ten years SERPENT OBSCENE are torturing the world with their uncompromising Thrash / Death Metal. They simply manage to mix up the best elements of the two genres to build an unbending […]