All those of you who thought they would already own the entire MESSIAH recordings from the band’s early days after they had purchased the Massacre Records re-releases of “Hymn To Abramelin” and “Extreme Cold Weather” might be suprised to find out that they also need this one in order to have their collection complete. Yes, […]
Many may agree with me that MASSACRA can be considered as one of the best Thrash / Death Metal bands of the early nineties together with fellows AGGRESSOR or Swedish MERCILESS. When the old gods started to lose the grip and started humilliating themselves releasing worthless crap, MASSACRA entered the picture and gave us a […]
French MASSACRA released another classic after the hellish good debut namely “Enjoy The Violence”, their most brutal effort. Also the band’s following releases had their unique qualities (especially “Signs Of The Decline” was a cool piece of Death Metal) yet MASSACRA left the paths of Death Metal on “Sick” and “Humanize Human”, the latter being […]
I always wondered why the German Death Metal scene over the years wasn’t that strong compared to the Death Metal scenes from other countries, but it’s a matter of fact that Germany doesn’t have the quantity of great Death Metal bands, still some German bands offer great quality. MANDATORY is one of those which blew […]
The reason for another review of this release in Voices From The Darkside is simple: I got the promo of this re-release from their Australian label Asphyxiate Recordings and I just want to pay something back, which is a pleasure for me with a release like that. As you can read it in the other […]
MYSTICA hails from Belgium and this debut album is my first meeting with this band. And a nice one it is indeed. MYSTICA plays some kind of a combination between Death and Black Metal. No hyper speed kind of Black / Death Metal but more mid-tempo stuff with a lot of variety. Therefore it is […]
MYSTERIA play a decent, but quite derivative and flat blackened Death Metal hybrid popularized by their bigger and nastier countrymen, BEHEMOTH. There is no truly bad track on the album, however neither is there anything truly outstanding. To their credit though, MYSTERIA sound surprisingly in touch with a variety of styles. One moment they play […]
The previous MYRKSKOG effort, “Deathmachine”, created a minor sensation two years ago due to its high quality, and “Superior Massacre” only confirms the obvious talent of this Norwegian outfit. This album is the best Death Metal opus coming out of Norway since DARKTHRONE’s “Soulside Journey”. I suppose by saying that I could have stopped the […]
I think we can keep this quite short: despite the hopes I had in this since I have never been disappointed by a band from Iceland (POTENTIAM, SOLSTAFIR, CURSE…), this is simply mediocre mid-to-end of Nineties Swedish sounding Black Metal with everything you expected from such a release: very melodic approach, “ultra-evil”-Satan-lyrics (and don’t get […]
Even after more than 15 years the Voices crew is still worshipping the cult of Swedish Death Metal – and releases like this one are the best prove for our dedication. After a long break MY OWN GRAVE are finally presenting their second full-length “Necrology” (the MCD “Unholy” also released via Pulverised Records in spring […]