Referring to the band, so-called “Sadistic Black Metal” is served. Sadistic? Yes, because it is quite painful listening to music that has been played by countless bands… MARDUK, GORGOROTH, DARK FUNERAL, early EMPEROR to name just the most known. Back in the first half of the 1990s Osmose was some kind of highly reputable trademark, […]
MORBIUS, a mostly overseen US-based Death Metal act already spawned in 1990 that made its first steps within the underground scene with demo and vinyl releases until in 1994 the band’s first album “The Shades Below” was released on Last World Records. Badly promoted and marketed MORBIUS debut was a total failure on the business […]
When the first riffs from Czech’s MORBIDER filled my room I had to check if this is the right album playing, because I could swear this is some DISMEMBER material I’ve never heard before. Or GRAVE. Or old UNLEASHED for that matter. Or maybe DESULTORY? Aah, no, this must be CARNAGE. No?? What do you […]
In the info sheet that was sent along with the promo for MOORGATE’s debut album “Close Your Eyes And Fade Away” this Swedish bunch gets compared to melodic Death Metal acts such as AT THE GATES, IN FLAMES and DARK TRANQUILLITY… Pardon? I really wonder if the guy / girl who wrote that really listened […]
There is a reason why my own record collection includes each and every output of this Finnish act. The explanation is MOONSORROW’s outstanding musical dedication and their breathtaking releases which are the main reasons for their leading role within today’s Pagan Metal scene. For a couple of months the album has been eagerly expected (after […]
Actually each package by Spinefarm / Spikefarm has yet offered at least one pearl – and so it was this time again. Finnish pagan band MOONSORROW unleash their 3rd effort – if you include their re-recorded demo “Tämä Ikuinen Talvi” on Sagitarrius Prod. – and although I am no longer that much into the pagan […]
I admit that I somehow miss the fact that there is no good “mainstream” Death Metal around anymore. Before cursing me for my opening statement let me first explain myself. I believe that there was a time where some former underground Death Metal bands managed to break the underground barriers only to enter the “mainstream” […]
This could be the easiest review I ever did. I mean, what can you say about a perfect Death Metal album? Review finished. Buy or die! Okay, I’ll give you just a little more: for those of you who already liked “In Dark Purity”, “Rise To Power” is not going to let you down for […]
Third strike of this band from the Netherlands, and due to the name, I was expecting a brutal Death Metal assault all the way. On one part, I was correct for the brutal Death Metal part, which can be compared to early CANNIBAL CORPSE with a bit of early MORBID ANGEL, but then, a good […]
Even if I hadn’t read the band’s infosheet, I certainly would have been quite sure that THE MONOLITH DEATHCULT ain’t no newcomer to the extreme underground anymore. And indeed, the band consists of former members of the two Dutch acts ALTAR and DEAD HEAD, delivering a pretty furious debut full-length here. Their label already compares […]