I admit that after listening to MORRIGAN’s “The Damned” and reading a couple of reviews on their past releases, I realized that I was into a somehow strange position. It seems that all previous reviews somehow “apply” to the last album as well and the reason is simple: MORRIGAN have forged a pure, epic, BATHORY-like […]
Considering the fact that “Welcome To Samhain” is already MORRIGAN’s fifth full-length album, I hope that there’s no longer need to introduce this German two-piece to anyone of you. What impresses me about them for quite some time now is the fact that they have never betrayed their musical roots and constantly kept their quality […]
What comes to your mind when you think of MORRIGAN musically? Yes, BATHORY – like, epic Metal hymns. And that is what the new album “Headcult” is about again. While the first two albums “Plague, Waste And Death” and “Enter The Sea Of Flames” have not been overwhelming impressive in my eyes (or better ears), […]
Well, in one way I agree with Roy’s opinion. You can’t deny the fact that MORRIGAN would probably not exist if there wouldn’t have been this certain “band” from Sweden… The Quorthon influence is simply too obvious! But then again – even though BATHORY have been the first to come up with this epic / […]
Let’s just say it at once. Bathory! OK, now to the actual music. “Hammerheart”! In my book, Morrigan do the same for Bathory’s “Hammerheart” as Warhammer did for Hellhammer’s “Apocalyptic Raids”. Even those normal vocals are so close. Morrigan speed up in between, but “Celts” is mostly a mid-paced Metal album. You can’t avoid the […]
Ugh! Not an easy one. I guess this is what happens to some bands as soon as they consider themselves to be grown up. In this case I’d rather call it “without direction” – the title definitely stands for the contents: “Pieces…”! The times of “Tusen…” are definitely over as the band adds fragments of […]
It is always great to discover bands you can trust and rely on. But it is far greater if you find a new record of a band of that particular kind that has been regarded as “dead” for a couple of years. The same goes for MÖRK GRYNING. After a break of around four years […]
The amount of extreme Metal bands from exotic locations is increasing day by day and the white spots on the Metal globe are in 2009 more than limited. The Heavy Metal ‘disease’ has spread from the Australian desert (STRIBORG) to the Russian woods (NOMANS LAND) but a Turkish Black Metal combo is still in some […]
Nothing new baking under the sun – just some corpses and body parts in various stages of decomposition. This more or less sums up my impression after giving various listening sessions to the output of this American five-piece. The thirteen tunes here are a somewhat old school – influenced hybrid of Deathgrind and Grindcore to […]
After a few demotapes “Überrealistic” is the first official release of this Polish outfit and it is rather strange that the recording line-up is completely different to the current line-up (both are printed in the booklet). I wonder if this is only a project or a real band? Well, perhaps the guys just changed their […]