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 […]
This is the kind of release on whose account I have strange feelings… Back then that whole new wave of so-called U.K. Speed Metal merchants (COBRA, BLOOD MONEY and PREYER) all got signed by Ebony Records and while having a look at the photos of the musicians, it’s clear that they looked much more like […]
After almost 10 years since their debut album, this Brazilian band returns with their second full-length. One thing that really takes my attention is that their previous work, the EP “Raising From The Dead” was all in English, they decided to again record in their native Portuguese language. Also their more modern sound was left […]
When I, as a young headbanger, returned from the record store as a proud owner of POSSESSED’s second opus “Beyond The Gates” back in the 80s and put the vinyl on my turntable I was blown twice… firstly because the music was so damned cool and secondly because of the amazing fold out sleeve… It […]
I actually listened to the first album of this Aussie monster after their split and the second album, “Outré”, as these two pieces of apocalypse totally blew me away. “Seepia” was released in 2003 by Black Talon Media, and then re-released in 2008 by Profound Lore, but Osmose Productions is now unleashing it for Europe […]
Ahhh POISON… Remember these guys and their MTV smash hits ‘Nothin’ But A Good Time’, ‘Every Rose Has Its Thorn’ or ‘Unskinny Bop’ (to name but a few)? You really do? Well, then this is obviously the wrong website for you, cause the band we’re dealing with here has nothing to do with the American […]
WOW, what a mammoth release this one! Spanish Xtreem Music slapped all demos / EPs / promos by now defunct (?) Finnish band PHLEGETHON on a double CD, so rejoice if you’ve worn out their tapes and been dying from nostalgia. First thing that strikes me listening to this material is that PHLEGETHON weren’t really […]