In June 2002 members of the Belgian acts SEVENTH SEED and BROKEN NECK officially started a new brutal unity, that they named ORB OF TORTURE and that guitar players Marlon and Tristan already had written and recorded songs for since early 2001. Even though all five members have different musical influences, their common goal was […]
After ten years in the scene this band released their first full-length CD with nice Scandinavian influenced melodic Black Metal. The band are a bunch of great musicians that plays on a really high technical level what they show in the great mixture of really complex and technical parts, hooked up with great double lead […]
These guys are lurking around since 1986 and according to themselves they have been the first Punk band in Singapore. But of course their style nowadays can be more pictured as a gross mixture between Hardcore and brutal, riff based Thrash Metal, like PANTERA used to play on “Far Beyond Driven”. The music benefits from […]
My nice hometown Hamburg is for sure not really a blazing light at the night sky of extreme Metal. From the glorious Heavy Metal days of the eighties bands like GAMMA RAY are still the ruling force in town but newcomer like the deadly dedicated Doom fanatics OPHIS are maybe in the position to change […]
I can’t help it… I simply love OPETH. I am aware of the fact that such an exclamation doesn’t correspond to a serious journalistic evaluation of a band, but hey… I don’t give a fuck! Loving a band doesn’t mean that you’d take anything. Opeth have done a brilliant job once again. The recording has […]
Personally I heartedly disagree with the ambition ONE STEP BEYOND try to convey with their music, which is “originality through diversity”. Well, I do not think that more different stylistic elements combined make better or more fascinating music – it is the song, its structure and feeling what really counts! And I still do not […]
If Johan Lindstrand, THE CROWN’s “Satan from hell”, comes up with a new band, expectations are high. His work with the above-mentioned Über-orchestra is hailed as one of the most impressive within the Metal-scene of the last decade by many. So does this new effort live up to their achievements? I’m undecided. “21st Century…” is […]
After an impressive debut EP entitled “Slave Under His Immortal Will” in 2001 and a highly acclaimed first full-length with 2003 released “Draco Sit Mihi Lux” on now defunct Selbstmord Services label, the time has finally come to unveil the band’s second album to a wider audience. And well, I dare saying that it is […]
Fanatism is the word that describes this long awaited piece of art the most; the first surprise for me was their beautiful 10” EP named “Slave Under His Mortal Will” which made me reconsider my view on the Swedish scene / sound / bands a bit… What the hell, it does not sound swedish at […]
Melodic Death Metal has become over the years for sure one of the best selling Metal genres and in the class of 2008 the scene majors IN FLAMES and DARK TRANQUILLITY are sitting next to younger bands like THE DUSKFALL or OMNIUM GATHERUM. The band from the land of the thousand lakes is on the […]