The happiest time of the year with singing and dancing around the Christmas tree is finally gone (and how we all will miss these times!) and we can start to concentrate again on the most important thing – Heavy Metal. The cult act OFERMOD is for sure not an unknown entity in our dark cosmos […]
Seeing that GRAVEYARD who share two members from OF DARKNESS recently got featured here made it clear that I finally had to finish my review of “The Empty Eye” after long delays. This delay was not the result of an uninteresting or dull recording, quite the opposite actually… it is rather safe to say that […]
Whew! OF DARKNESS were founded in 2004 in Barcelona, Spain. These extreme Death / Doom loonies recorded this 2 song demo (!!) shortly after (take a quick look at the playing time). So this is mainly low tuned guitars and deeeep growls plus some spheric synthies. For my taste they simply overdo their approach. Well, […]
With relief I found out about ODIUM IMMORTALIS cause these Germans don’t give a damn about Black Metal clichés. I mean, nothing wrong with clichés as long as you’re either true to them (are they still clichés, then?) or you’re aware of your image and don’t take it too serious. ODIUM IMMORTALIS are into philosophy […]
Internationally speaking ODIOUS MORTEM is still a pretty unknown four piece hailing from Santa Cruz, California that has just delivered its debut full-length “Devouring The Prophecy” via Unique Leader Records. But considering the quality of the records that the label is constantly releasing their name will certainly be established rather quickly as well. Unfortunately I […]
The first thing that struck me when I listened to this new output by OCCULT is the fantastic sound it comes along with. The drums are really brutal and indeed… they are bound to thrash you if you are not careful enough. OCCULT perform blackened Black / Thrash Metal, and it’s great fun listening to […]
It’s really sad to see that Holland’s OCCULT quite obviously still have to suffer from constantly dealing with the wrong record labels… Their 1994 debut “Prepare To Meet Thy Doom” as well as the 1996 follow-up “The Enemy Within” both came out on the small and rather inexperienced Foundation 2000 label (probably most famous for […]
Since I received the promo CD of the previous album of the Lithuanian OBTEST, “Is Kartos A Karta”, I’ve had them in my personal Pagan Metal top favourites, together with PRIMORDIAL and DRUDKH, as the three bands represent all the different spectra we can see in that style. Without any doubt their announced new album […]
Heathen War Metal from Lithuania that gets even more interesting by the use of their mother language (I don’t tink it’s Russian what they speak in Lithuania nowadays, but I wouldn’t bet my ass on that). The fact that they don’t use real extreme vocals supports this effect. Actually, the singer reminds me a bit […]
Sorry for stating the obvious again but the German Pagan Metal scene has lost their true underground touch years ago and the booming market of hardly achieved musical progress and success is furthermore the starting point for the beginning of the end. But an act like OBSCURITY – with 14 years of underground dedication – […]