It seems that the call for label support that Stefan included in his review on SCENT OF DEATH’s self-financed MCD “Entangled In Hate” ended up being pretty successful after all, cause in the meantime Spain’s Bloody Productions has picked up the band and released their first full-length (after another company had to back off for […]
The guys in the Swedish four piece SCENTERIA still look pretty young on the pictures that accompany their debut full-length “Art Of Aggression” and therefore I didn’t really expect to like this record – as stupid as this may sound. It’s just that the majority of younger musicians that are around these days have a […]
This might be a great album for people into MESHUGGAH, SOILWORK, STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, DARKANE or IN FLAMES, the production is excellent and heavy, it sounds modern and musically SCARVE vary between fast parts including a couple of Death/Thrash riffs and diverse vocals shifting between screams/growls and clear parts. Personally I feel not a single […]
This is the sophomore album by this French sextet, and I must say that I listened their first album with distracted ears two years ago because the music did nothing to me, so I can’t comment on their evolution (or lack of) until today. Of course I carefully listened to “Luminiferous” from the beginning to […]
There is really no title imaginable that would be more inaccurate for this record since there are absolutely no traces of blackness or progress to be found therein. If anybody would pay me to praise this piece of junk I’d probably label it as the prototype of how modern Metal has to sound era vulgaris […]
Brazilian Thrashers SCARS were put together in 1991. They released their debut album “Ultimate Encore” via Encore Records in 1994. SCARS played over 500 concerts in their career before they disbanded in 1998. Guess what – they reformed in 2004 and I have to admit I can’t find anything wrong with that. Their old school […]
Three song demo tape from this new USA band, which features band members that have been related to other bands like DECREPITAPH, SHROUDED, TOMBSTONES (USA), FOREBODING, ETERNAL SUFFERING, STONE EVIL, SKULLETON, SCUM BITCH, SKINCRAWLER, BASTARD CROSS, PROCREANT, FESTERED, BLACK PENTAGRAM CULT, BEYOND HELL and ENCOFFINATION. No, I am not kidding relating all those bands, which […]
This band is currently signed at Dark Horizon Records (USA), their debut has been released via this label as well. This band left me awe-struck so to speak. SAURON play hyper-fast… hmmm, let’s call it WarDeathBlackMetal. Like that, guys. For some strange reason they remind me of ANGELCORPSE with a stronger emphasis on the Black […]
The type of material contained in this album has been in between the war of words of the more purist Black Metal breed and the ones who defend the radical shift in Satyricon’s musical career right after getting into the big label league. The tunes contained herewith do not represent a big progression or even […]
The new SATYRICON album is, besides the fact that it is the first Black Metal album to be released on a major label, musically a quite bizarre experience. It is definitely nothing for the Black Metal maniacs out there who think of Black Metal as an elite, 1000% underground phenomenon, because “Volcano” breaks these laws […]