Being heavily influenced by the first METALLICA and EXODUS albums, NATIONAL NAPALM SYNDICATE from Finnland was founded in 1986/87 already but split up due to constant fights in 1991.They reunited in 2002. “Resurrection Of The Wicked” turns out to be a Thrash album both old school Death/Thrash fans as well as more modern Thrash followers […]
Passion is something which can be identified not only by the music itself but also, even if it had become seldom in these days, through the overall presentation of the release. In the case of the debut of the Belgium Black Metal horde NATAN the plain but nevertheless very impressive digipak is the proof that […]
Obviously it was not a wise decision by NASUM’s mastermind Mieszko Talarczyk to spend his Christmas vacation ’04 on Phi Phi Island… his body was found some weeks after the Tsunami. So sadly the fourth album of this Swedish Grindcore maniacs will be the last one. NASUM were quite active and also released some 7″es […]
Now the term “true Metal” has been used and overused lately either by new acts who don’t know what the fuck real Metal is or by older acts who has erased the meaning of this term of their fucked up brain. But fortunately to feed our never satisfied hunger, some acts haven’t forgotten what real […]
Well, I do not know who exactly is to blame for inventing a hollow and meaningless term like “Viking Metal”. The Vikings simply did not play Metal. Be this as it may, the debut album “Zwischen Horizonten” by NASTRANDIR features traditional Metal with all its different facets, plus the so-called Viking elements, in this case […]
Some people out there will call Belgium’s NARTVIND debut CD horrible, primitive noise, but at least in my opinion Black Metal should not sound too clean and produced. This kind of music is at its best, when it sounds spontaneous and unpolished, because only then Black Metal creates this intense, authentic feeling I love about […]
14 years after the official band founding – and official means in that case ignoring the myths around the band in favor of the pure facts – is NARGAROTH still a very special band. In some way they replaced their anti idols MYSTIC CIRCLE if it comes to the most discussed band within the German […]
So, this is it: my first encounter with a complete record of Mr. “Blackmetal ist Krieg” Kanwulf’s one-man band NARGAROTH. The NSBM rumours back then made me just ignore this band. But now I thought I’ll take the chance to see for myself. Imagewise nothing obviously “brown” can be found on this release so let’s […]
It took me a while to get accustomed to German NARGAROTH’s newest effort and honestly spoken my first impression was pretty negative, but after rotating several times in my disc player “Prosatanica Shooting Angels” exposed its true qualities manifesting in original cold and harsh riffs, Kanwulf’s maniacal screaming and the ultra-raw sound appearing as “retro” […]
The third full-length album by German Black Metal-act NARGAROTH concentrates even more on the musical side. This time, we get six songs (though it is quite fair by the label to advertise the album only as a four-song-album since the first song is an intro, and one song is featured twice in different versions of […]