In 1998 the solitary project of THE HERETIC’s bassist, Nexusseis (I’m speaking both about the person and the band), saw the light, and was quite far from what we could here on its main band, as it was a pure futuristic Ambient album, inspired by the cult movie “Blade Runner” (if I’m not that wrong, […]
After a one minute intro (btw, I hate intros), the Scottish NEXION start off with ‘The Final Revelation’, in my humble opinion, the best song off their 5-song self titled debut EP. Next best song could be the epic ‘Under The Earth’, where the band actually manages to keep their intense attack through 9 minutes […]
Does anyone remember the band PAX MORTIS from California? When PAX MORTIS fell into the grave the mid-nineties the drummer of that technical Death Metal band extricated his corpse from that strewn pile of bones, clawing his way to higher ground, and thus with the help of a few of his friends put together another […]
By far musically, this record from NEVERMORE, that is untimely in review here as it was originally released in 2005 (however as I just got the promo for it, so it must be still “new” in the eyes of publicity at Century Media eh?) is exactly what I have been waiting on NEVERMORE to record […]
The latest record by Canadian Techno-Deathers NEURAXIS arrived here together with the WATCHMAKER promo. While the sound of the latter embraces primeval chaos and destruction, NEURAXIS seek to express exactly the contrary with their music. “Trilateral Progression” hails the limitless possibilities of the human mind and the constructive powers of intellect, wisdom and belief. This […]
NEURAXIS from Montreal, Canada, are the missing link between (progressive) brutal US Death and melodic Swedeath. I’ve never heard a melodic band sounding that brutal and complex at the same time! Recorded at the studio of Pierre Rémillard (GORGUTS, CRYPTOPSY), ‘Truth Beyond…’ offers an excellent sound and a modern cover artwork by Mike Harrison (DYING […]
Even if the majority of the material presented here dates back from 2002, this first release of this one-man-project from Singapore is issued only now, on a very obscure new Spanish label. Don’t think of ABHORER or IMPIETY regarding NETHEREALM, because band master Night is obviously fond of the Scandinavian school of Black Metal. His […]
Last week I’ve closed a review with the following words “nobody in this world needs the 787th copy of a true Black Metal album…” without the knowledge of the forthcoming doom in form of the debut from this Swedish band. NETHERBIRD also have a logo created by Christophe Szpajdel (yes the EMPEROR logo creator) and […]
Be not deceived. This album is not the prog affair it appears to me. In fact, the NETER album is quite the reverse, being an agile and young hybrid of ATHEIST and DEATH. As such, listeners should expect a roller coaster of standard Death Metal drumming and guitar riffs that zig zag up, down, and […]
Crushing everything on its path here we have the 3rd assault of one of the most outrageous and dirty Death Metal bands the yet legendary Brazilian extreme Metal scene has to offer under the name NERVOCHAOS. One thing you can instantly realize by playing the CD is that this is just plain and simple old […]