Ok, I gotta admit that these guys used to be completely unknown to me prior to this album, so I can’t eally tell you much details about them. But as it’s a selftitled release I suppose this is SERPENT OBSCENE’s debut full-length – and a really promising one! These five Swedish youngsters deliver a very […]
Well – let’s divide this review into two dimensions. Firstly, I intend to express my viewpoint concerning this release in a proper journalistic, thus objective way. That’ll be the first approach to tackle this CD. Then, I shall express my personal, thus subjective point of view. OK, let’s hit it … this CD definitely is […]
Formed in 1999 by two ex-THE CHASM members SERPENS AEON completed their line up with ex-DRAWN AND QUARTERED skin basher Matt Cason in 2000 and after a couple of shows they finally deliver their first full-length album “Dawn Of Kouatl”, which offers excellent morbid and twisted old school Death / Thrash Metal. While reminding a […]
What more needs to be said about a utterly satanic Black / Punk / Thrash Metal band from the gutters of upper New Jersey, that was formed on the most evil of pagan holidays… Groundhog Day 2002?! Fuckin’ plenty! SERAPHIM SLAUGHTER with the right handling and direction could easily be the S.O.D. of Black Metal. […]
Due to Spanish Repulse Records bankrupt some time ago the Californian brutal old school Death Metal outfit SEPSISM’s first album turned into a sought after gem of late 90s Death Metal and I can tell you from my own experience that this CD was not easy to find at all (as it is with a […]
Well, what do you have? Actually, I never got into the styles Sentenced have turned into after their amazing “North From Here”. So, I was very sceptic when I decided to write about this swansong. I suspected the album would be… if not boring, at least Metal with a rockish attitude I don’t like. I […]
If I’m not completely mistaken, Vineta is the name of an ancient island which according to the legend drowned in the baltic sea some thousand years ago. Kind of a nordic New Orleans if you will… Since this was my first association when I first received the second longplayer by SEMEN DATURA I expected something […]
SEKTARISM from France have chosen to walk the path of pain & sorrow and this release gives the term without doubt a new definition. Since SILENCER I really can’t remember a band which transfered their physical pain so convincing into any kind of recording. The obscure release is offering one 17 minutes track of ‘Satanik […]
In my opinion the term Death / Black Metal gets used way too often nowadays… Mostly by record labels or journalists who are a bit uncertain how to categorize a band’s music in an appropriate manner. Fact is that the majority of those kinda bands not necessarily delivers a product that comes up with elements […]
Since nearly 15 years I’m a close observer / fan / supporter of the German Black Metal underground but even after all those years only a few German bands are considered by the world-wide Metal community as a so called cult act. Next to LUNAR AURORA without a doubt SECRETS OF THE MOON are one […]