MY DARKEST HATE is a new promising act from Germany. They come up with simple structured but quite effective old school Death Metal in the vein of BOLT THROWER or SIX FEET UNDER. In most cases the musicians behind this band aren’t any strangers anymore as they are involved in a (wellknown) German Power Metal […]
Judging from their sound I’d probably call MUSTAN KUUN LAPSET Pagan Metal but that’s a tricky, possibly wrong label: MUSTAN KUUN LAPSET sing in Finnish so I can’t say anything about the lyrics. I think it’s a good decision, though, because it sounds “exotic” and the singer isn’t getting on one’s nerves with a possibly […]
Don’t let yourselves be disoriented (or repelled) by the strange moniker of this band who come from Finland (and from where else?). This four piece claim a span of existence of ten years now, but “Suruntuoja” is only their first release. Imagine the classic era DARK TRANQUILLITY playing sophisticated Black Metal and you will get […]
Until this very moment in time, I had never heard of MURW or “mellow” as I hear the moniker’s title actually means in Dutch. From Den Haag, The Netherlands, hail this off-shoot group (all the members except the keyboardist) play in the melodic Death Metal band INTESTINE that is currently still active. Like INTESTINE this […]
One-man project bands are always lotsa fun to listen to as the history has proved many times before. Well, actually they are only fun to listen to if a) they are seriously well-done and have a drive to sound like a full-fledged band b) you get some strange inner satisfaction to tell people how worthless […]
Finally a release from No Colours which is not totally worthless but generic! Not that this record will not end as beer coaster but when one receives buckets of insipid crap passed off as music on a regular basis one starts to appreciate the nuances I can tell you. Being totally grim and possibly misanthropic, […]
How many techno-brutal Death Metal bands do we really need? I used to like a few technical elements in music, until I found out that too much was, well, too much. Technical Death Metal, Mathcore and such things, are good to show off how good a player is… but at this time and age, where […]
It took them an incredible long time to release an album, that’s for sure! MURDER SQUAD is a side project of DISMEMBER and ENTOMBED members and has been around for ages already. I still remember rehearsal tapes of the guys that were circulating many years ago and that (almost?) exclusively consisted of AUTOPSY cover songs. […]
After the hundreds, if not millions, of bands who took the three-word-band-name idea and wound up sullying a once good idea with mediocre, wimpy crap, THE MURDER INDUSTRY rolls in to the rescue. Looks can be deceiving, as any smart music fan knows. They may not look like a whole lot on the outside, but […]
Formed by former TREBLINKA / TIAMAT members, one could expect mystic old styled Black Metal due to the background of the aforementioned band. But instead MR. DEATH with such a silly name delivers a powerful breed of ancient Death Metal that owes their sound to that one of early GRAVE, UNLEASHED and DISMEMBER. Crunchy Swedish […]