How nice: MELIAH RAGE are still around! But what’s this: did Mike Munro finally learn to sing? Nope, the new singer’s name is Paul Souza. Sometimes he sounds a bit like the guy from MOLLY HATCHET, sometimes like Luther Beltz (ex-WITCHFYNDE) and sometimes even like James Hetfield. His vocal lines are pretty much NWoBHM-influenced and […]
Sometimes the fact when you’ve done something is much more important than the fact itself and especially in the Black Metal circus / cult it seems that some groups can’t differ between true and truth anymore. Nevertheless it is quite difficult these days to omit the fact that our cult is marching towards total annihilation […]
Bands of real importance are very rare these days. MELECHESH are one of them. Their previous offering, “Sphynx” showed a lot of talents and musical ambitions. Quite logically, “Emissaries” goes even further, redefining one’s perception of brutal Metal. It is not that the basic formula MELECHESH have made us accustomed by has radically changed on […]
MELECHESH managed to impress me with their previous effort (“Djinn”), but it is nothing compared with this one. I am not afraid to say that “Sphynx” is an album of the most exceptional quality. Absolutely all is perfect regarding this release, be it the production (handled this time by Andy Larocque), to the visual concept, […]
MELECHESH originally started out as a solo project of Melechesh Ashmedi (which should explain the rather strange band name) in Jerusalem (!!) in 1993. Over the years it has become a real band that recently relocated to the Netherlands and also features ABSU drummer Proscriptor in their line-up now. “Djinn” is already their second album […]
It took damn long until Swedish Death / Thrashers MAZE OF TORMENT’s fourth strike finally could be released. Problems with Necropolis Records financial mismanagement made the band choose to change their label and now they are signed to Blackmoon’s Hellspawn Records. After an almost one year delay the album is unleashed upon all Metalheads worldwide […]
Sweden’s MAZE OF TORMENT have come a long, hard way ever since the band’s origin several years ago. Their previously released two albums “The Force” and “Faster Disaster” unfortunately had to suffer from the lack of professionalism of their old record labels and therefore didn’t reach as many people as they probably could have. But […]
Ex-MORPHEUS DESCENDS / ex-INCANTATION bassist Rob Yench and former members of Pennsylvanian band NECROTOMIE teamed up to unleash a morbid old school assault in the vein of early DEATH, DR SHRINKER, MASSACRE and most important AUTOPSY. The four guys do a great job, but unfortunately the production disappoints. Since the songwriting is excellent, the musical […]
“Mandraenken” is the second album of the German band MATHYR. Well, what can I say about that album. The musical skills of the four members stand above any doubt and with those skills they offer a bastard of Thrash, Death and Black Metal on “Mandraenken”. But in my eyes this does not work. While listening […]
One of the most hyped and talked about Metal bands nowadays is definetly MASTODON (except in Germany perhaps). Their fluent, aggressive and convincing mixture of great 70s Rock à la THIN LIZZY and RUSH, riff monsters like old METALLICA (“Master Of Puppets” period), un-cheesy twin guitar melodies, intelligent rhythm-changes, a great portion of own ideas […]