If you are a serious Voices reader and don’t already own PENTACLE’s “Under The Black Cross” album, you should stop reading this very instance and go get it, no excuses here!!! For the rest of you, loyal PENTACLE worshippers, what we have here is the much anticipated re-release of the classic (by now) second PENTACLE […]
Before doing this review I had never really listened to PARADISE LOST. I knew who they were of course and that they were a celebrated Metal band, but I never had sat down and listened to any of their releases. Since I was going to be reviewing “Drown In Darkness – The Early Demos”, which […]
Are demos back on the line of development for a band? I really hope so. Although the tape format has suffered the most in recent times, it seems a few ones have the valor to still release demo tapes as it was the rules of the old school. PYROPHORIC from Mexico released this, their second […]
“Fascination For Mutilation” is a killer demo and one of the biggest surprises of this year. That’s how I want Swedish Death Metal to sound like. Because of this first output from PUTERAEON I was really excited when I received their 2nd demo “The Requiem”. High expectations so to say, but did the demo fulfill […]
THE PURITAN (hailing from Finland, a land that oozes depression from every pore of its collective folk soul) is a new band of Albert Witchfinder, previously known due to his activities (bass / vocals) in REVEREND BIZARRE. Therefore you can expect nothing but a heavy wall of a guitar-sound and an immaculate Doom Metal at […]
Our dear friends of War Anthem Records take the slogan “support your local underground” quite serious these days and developed a real fetish for the few survivors of Germany’s former Death Metal underground. Only some weeks after the latest POSTMORTEM manifest they are offering another cult act the return from the shadowlands. I still recall […]
After four years and some line up changes PURGATORY return with the follow up to “Luciferianism” which was released in 2004. Considering that the band is around for 16 years already and gained a reputation as a powerful live act, PURGATORY should be known to most readers, if not all Death Metal maniacs. The band […]
“Luciferianism” is already the fourth full-length album of these German Death Metallers, and… they are really doing fine with this album. It’s dark and brutal Death Metal preferentially performed in upper tempo and a production going into rawer directions. All of that sounds usual, doesn’t it? But what makes this album really enjoyable in a […]
I have to confess that I never ever managed to get my hands on any of PURGATORY’s previous two albums (their 1997 debut “Damage Done By Worms” and the 1998 follow up “Bestial”), so this newest full-length is my personal listening premiere when it comes to this German fourpiece. “Blessed With Flames Of Hate” delivers […]
This is the second effort from this Swiss band, and it comes as a good surprise. While not exactly an original band, they deliver a powerful form of melodic Death Metal with a lot of Thrash Metal parts. The vocals are shared between two of the members, while one sounds like an angrier Mikael from […]