Düsseldorf based Thrashers RAVAGE are back with their second strike. The new outbreak is entitled “Get Fucking Slaughtered” which is a high explosive mix of merciless Thrash Metal and some lethal Death Metal parts (and it totally kicks ass). Mostly this apocalyptic squad plays as swift as an arrow and the tracks have the same […]
This 9-tracker is already the second full-length effort of Finish Doom rockers of sweet melancholy. Unfortunately this is my first experience in listening, even though I tried hard to get ahold of their debut album “Futile”. Hence I cannot compare both their albums with each other. Anyway, if you are into KATATONIA’s “Brave Murder Day” […]
This is a release I have on my list already for a couple of weeks to write a review about. What happened that it took me so long? Perhaps the fact that I’m not sure how to describe the quality of this band. Again it was the great compilation “Resurrected In Festering Slime” which brought […]
Take some of the haviest crunchiest riffs from some of the best San Francisco Bay Area Thrashers, some wild but precise drumming and vocals as if Steve “Zetro” Sousa himself had been kidnapped and taken to Mexico city to do vocals for this truly evil and unholy Thrash Metal band! The drummer handles the vocals […]
Gosh, this output really surprised me. When I stated my interest in reviewing RAKOTH’s debut CD “Planeshift”, it was just the name that somehow intrigued me. But I didn’t have a clue what their music is all about. This formation consists of three ambitioned, young musicians from Russia, one guitarist, a programmer (they use a […]
If a band chooses as moniker the title of a known, classic record, it means, or it can mean, that the members are enthusing to that kind of music, they are fans of that music. That’s the case with this young Swedish outfit too. They were formed in 2008. Prior to this record, they released […]
This couldn’t have been more surprising given the slightly discouraging name (sorry, Latin is one of my pet peeves). QUINTA ESSENTIA have been around since 2004, and have evidently spent most of that time listening to BAL-SAGOTH and ABSU. The latter I can do without most of the time. BAL-SAGOTH, on the other hand, are […]
Though produced by THE CHASM’s mastermind Daniel Corchado and featuring several current and former members of the band, Death Metal is not what you can expect from Mexico’s QUESTION OF MADNESS but soulful, well-played and at times truly mesmerizing epic Heavy / Doom Metal in the vein of SOLITUDE AETURNUS, WHILE HEAVEN WEPT. Consisting of […]
Echoes from the past – the name says it all. It’s music of the past for those still living in the past exclusively. Music with no future? In a way yes, I’m afraid, for we are a dying breed. No wonder this CD is pressed in 1000 copies only, maybe that’s the exact number of […]
Yeah!!! I’ve been waiting for an official release from PRIME EVIL since 1988. Many thanks to King Fowley from Battlezone Records for releasing this posthumous collection (also thanks to Andy for sending a copy to me). And this does not disappoint. PRIME EVIL were one of my favorite bands in the late eighties and early […]