MR DEATH is another example of the booming Swedish brutality, leaning on the Stockholm-sound. Before I heard this first full-length “Detached From Life”, I blinked my eyes a few times aware of the line-up. To discover former TREBLINKA / TIAMAT and EXPULSION members Stefan Lagergen and Jörgen Thullberg gave me hope for a resurrection of […]
Haven’t heard a real Death Metal recording done at Sunlight Studio from a newer band in the Last couple of years, right!?! So don’t miss this one cause in terms of feeling and sound this four tracker is something like a real reanimation of some classical early 90s Death Metal sins. You already read about […]
I first heard of these miserable Irish fuckheads via the last issue of the unforgotten Moondance zine, where their demo was chosen as demo of the month. Not the worst reference, especially since the guy responsible for that magazine at the time seemed almost wholly consumed by Neo-Folk and the likes and despised most Metal. […]
The Irish Death / Doomsters have turned into a quite productive act within this genre and deliver their third opus with “A Murderous Circus” after the fantastic debut “Dust” in 2001 and their second effort “The Sullen Sulcus” in 2002. While musically retaining more or less the same formula as on “The Sullen Sulcus” the […]
There have been changes in the house of MOURNING BELOVETH! They left their old label Sentinel Records and went to Norwegian Aftermath Music, but did this affect their Doom / Death music? Well, musically there are only minor differences between “Dust” and their new release “The Sullen Sulcus”, they still play powerful Doom / Death […]
As already Beavis & Butthead constantly pointed out: Lemmy rules. There isn’t much to add except for: so do Mickey Dee and Phil Campbell! Their latest output is called “Hammered” but it doesn’t quite satisfy the expectations a Voices reader might have when hearing the title as this new CD sounds less aggressive than “Snakebite […]
MOTIVE, for those of you unacquainted with them, are a Thrash / Heavy Metal band fronted by Steve Buschart, previously of TRAVAIL. They’ve released a steady stream of material since 2001, a noteworthy considering that particular style wasn’t exactly in vogue. Their EP begins with a NWOBHM inspired lick, and pound into Buschart’s vocals, a […]
The East German Thrash legend MOSHQUITO is back with their second album! Founded in the mid 1980s in the communist part of Germany the band released their debut album in 1998 and the follow-up proves that long experience pays out. But if you remember their early demo songs like ‘Mosh In Moscow’: forget it! There […]
Containing a former member of the much acclaimed LUNAR AURORA, MORTUUS INFRADAEMONI are a Black Metal band firmly entrenched in the spiritual and arcane. With many a serpentine tremelo riff similar to NIGHTBRINGER or, perhaps, DARVULIA, the band waste no time erecting an ethereal world very much their own. One can almost see the panoply […]
Sadly this is yet another Black Metal release that doesn’t really offer anything noteworthy. It’s not that it is bad or anything, it’s just that too many of this kind have tried to justify sales without really running the whole nine yards… which after all ain’t that long. I mean, if you don’t manage to […]