Another Black Metal band under the name MARTYRIUM. This one’s from Malta and the members obviously have some old CRADLE OF FILTH records at home! Their second album called “The Carnage Lit By Darkness” does offer other influences, though. Surprisingly, I made out some sort of modern brutal Death parts on ‘Androgynie Somnium’ and on […]
Listening to Bremen’s MARTYRIUM I had to think of SUMMONING instantly. But compared to “Minas Morgul”, for instance, there is more rage but also more spheric atmosphere. This album is lighter, too as it doesn’t have this bombastic marching approach. Very dominant keyboards and good songs but what I really can’t stand on this CD […]
Actually when I listened to this piece of Black Metal lunacy the first two or three times I considered to only state in my review that this output is utter bullocks and crap in general. But I changed my mind. MARTYRDOM are so crazy and frantic – believe me. Y’know I am really into blasphemous, […]
Now I guess being the only Canadian reviewer on this site it seems right to me too keep all the Europeans up to date with all Canadian Metal releases. MARTYR hail from Montreal, Quebec Canada the same birthplace as such acts like CRYPTOPSY, KATAKLYSM, GORGUTS, QUO VADIS and many more. MARTYR do not stray away […]
Listening to this four track affair was a true torture to me, and I am glad to have the opportunity here to spare you such an ordeal. This is awful beyond belief, a masterpiece of bad taste and I only hope this “band” will end their career very soon, if not at once. What we […]
MARDUK is without a doubt one of the most influential bands of the whole Black Metal cult and releases like “Those Of The Unlight” and the follow up “Opus Nocturne” and / or “Nightwing” offer so many cult songs that the famous word ‘cult’ is this time more than applicable. But empires fall and even […]
“La Grande Dance Macabre” was at least in my opinion a relatively disappointing album after the fantastic brutal “Panzer Division” masterpiece. Now the Swedish Black Metal flagship attacks once again with their newest album “World Funeral”. As soon as the aggressive opener ‘With Satan And Victorious Weapons’ shoots out of the speakers it is obvious […]
With “La Grande Danse Macabre” one of the leading Black Metal bands of today already delivers their seventh studio full-length in their steady ten year existence. It’s the first real MARDUK album ever since their devastating and most uncompromising “Panzer Division Marduk” offering from 1999, which was (as most of you probably know) a total […]
I think most of you know MANTIC RITUAL and their debut album “Executioner” which was released in February this year by Nuclear Blast Records. So this is the LP version which was released by High Roller Records in May. For those who don’t know the band, yet, MANTIC RITUAL are nowadays three guys from Pennsylvania, […]
Three years have passed since the previous album of this atrocious creature called Manticore from Lakewood, Ohio, although they released a split EP with their warbrothers Morbosidad in 2005. For the ones who don’t know this combo of three blasphemous warriors, they play a kind of mix of old school Black and Death Metal (near […]