PAIN CONFESSOR from Finland started out as a side project to a modern aggressive band in the vein of MESHUGGAH. Then they added an old school thrasher on second guitar and a keyboard player. The outcome sounds a bit like old SOILWORK on Thrash: aggressive, catchy and kinda happy. But unlike some other bands of […]
Devil Lee Rot and his bunch of old school Black / Heavy Metal are back with a new album and it is definitely the band’s best produced release ever, although it does not bring any new elements into PAGAN RITES approved mixture of early MAYHEM, VENOM and catchy Heavy Metal parts. With the unique sounding […]
Thanx to Costa at Iron Pegasus Records all those of you who prefer the CD over vinyl (or who are too lazy to do tapetrading) will also get a chance now to check out the rather legendary Swedish act PAGAN RITES. This CD ain’t a real album of the Swedes, but a compilation of various […]
Swedish Death Metal musicians are in general nice and friendly people but if the management of Vic Records is again distributing promotion CDs with a wrong band name on the cover and furthermore an incomplete playlist they should avoid dark streets during their next Swedish holidays. The limited first edition of PAGANIZER’s sixth release is […]
Sometimes it’s really a cool thing to receive new releases for free, especially if it’s of records that you otherwise certainly would never have checked out… In my case Swedish PAGANIZER is a perfect example for that. Even though the band already calls quite an impressive back-catalogue their own (“No Divine Rapture” being their 5th […]
Well I think that the “back to the old school Death Metal thing” has meanwhile grown somewhat trendy, because almost every month another mediocre so called old school Death Metal CD is released and besides highlights like BLOODBATH, KAAMOS there is also disappointing 08/15 stuff like BLOOD RED THRONE, the lame new GRAVE or FLESHCRAWL. […]
In times of underground support via laptop and the internet old formats like demos and EPs have become like an innocent priest in today’s church – extremely rare. But there are still enough persons, like our dear friends from Genocide Aesthetics, which can’t get enough of true Black Metal on true black vinyl. The young […]
I thought this French black horde was long dead and buried… well, things have not changed, it is only that this compilation of their early recordings is seeing again the light (or darkness as you prefer)… old school Black Metal with at times heavy use of keyboards… not exactly my definition for what Black Metal […]
This is my first and last encounter with this band, that I can tell. Before releasing this, the OVERGARVEN guys should have questioned their abilities to compose and deliver good music. What you can find on this promo-CD (three tracks) is a poor mix between stale Heavy Metal and traces of depressive Doom / Death. […]
ORODRUIN is the brainchild of John Gallo, also known to run a fairly conceived website dedicated to the Doom Metal genre (www.born-too-late.com). Formed in 1998, ORODRUIN is now a stable four piece after some line up adjustments. Not surprisingly, “Epicurean Mass” comes out as a fine slab of Doom Metal, played by the book with […]