“Mind” is already the fourth longplayer by this Austrian outfit which is around since 1992 already. Honestly spoken I’ve never heard about them before and given the slightly irritating name of the band expected some crude porngrind. Fortunately enough I was proven wrong since the ill-natured quartett delivers some really fresh and aggressive Death Metal […]
The second full-length by Austria’s Grindcorers MASTIC SCUM is entitled “Scar” and not a bad at all release. The music is good and it’s well played but the thing is what they do is something very similar to what NAPALM DEATH did on “Diatribes” or “Inside The Torn Apart” (the kind of Grindcore more based […]
Death Metal veterans MASTER need no introduction. Although they have remained loyal to their original Death Metal ideals and although being one of the oldest bands around, they have never managed to appeal to the number of Death Metallers one might expect taking into account the band’s history. Somehow I fall into that category as […]
I really have no idea whether it’s Paul himself or the responsible record-label people that he’s constantly dealing with that are choosing the coverart for each new MASTER record… Fact is, that with such dull looking motives no one should be surprised about the fact anymore that a lot of people stopped caring about MASTER […]
I honestly never thought that this so much traded recording over the years which has incontestably influenced a bunch of Thrash / Death acts on this planet back at that time would finally surface officially, but From Beyond Records has done it. All bloody fuckin’ power to them for such a miracle! If you are […]
Paul Speckmann played a key role in the Death Metal formative years, with bands like TERRORIZER and ENTOMBED acknowledging him and MASTER as a major influence. And both MASTER’s first effort and the one and only DEATHSTRIKE album could be considered classics even today, thanks to their intensity and to a simple but effective song […]
Yeah, Massive Assault, old school, Massive Assault, Death Metal! It’s old school time again and MASSIVE ASSAULT’s first full-length CD convinces in everything. Old school Death Metal in the vein of early ENTOMBED (the first 15 seconds in ‘Come With Me’ are a slight rip off of the opening sequence of ‘Left Hand Path’ if […]
After 2 demo tapes in 1993 and 1995, 2 albums in 2003 and 2004 plus a split album in 2004, Norwegian Black Metallers MASSEMORD come up with their latest full-length album “12 Years Of Mass Murders”. Most songs on this album go in the typical northern Black Metal direction, except for the opener ‘Myers’ Revenge’ […]
It’s kinda strange that it took so long until these classic recordings officially were made available again via CD, especially considering the fact that already almost every third-rate underground act re-releases their demo(s) this way. Florida’s MASSACRE are a legend though and without a doubt one of the forerunners of the whole Death Metal movement, […]
It doesn’t really matter if you like ’em or not, but you definitely gotta respect a band that’s been around for 17 years already and never sold out to the mainstream! Colombia’s very own MASACRE (not to be mixed up with the Florida bunch that gets spelled with a double “s”) is one of those […]