This record starts with no remorse right from the beginning, at least that’s what the first song seems to say. Modern Death Metal with core elements or maybe Deathcore or just extreme Metal is what the guys from Glasgow serve us. I only have the myspace page so I don’t have too much information about […]
This LP was recorded live on air at the KMUW radio studios in December of 1979 and contains 5 songs which were never released before. But I have to be honest, I don’t know too much about MANILLA ROAD or their music. I know their name but never really listened to them. So maybe this […]
I contemplated the possibility to acquire some studio albums by this Czech band, and I regret to not have done it sooner simply because they have a special and fresh way to deliver their Black Metal. So I am glad to review this, a posthumous (the band unfortunately split in 2001) testimony of MANIAC BUTCHER’s […]
MANGLED are a part of the Dutch underground scene for already quite some time, but unfortunately never made it to a really wider audience as for example SINISTER did, which is mainly caused by the rather small labels who put out their releases so far. On this second full-length album, almost everything is right and […]
MANES… a quasi-legendary name for all addicts of what has been done through early 90s Norwegian Black Metal. Legendary? Yeah… the word actually isn’t that strong for this duet formed by Cernunus and Sargatanas at the dawn of ’93 has incessantly cast massive black music, slow as a decomposing corpse and intense as a vortex […]
Many bands with a focus on heathen themes seem to be attracted by the idea of recording a pure folk-album at least once in their career. Examples range from now classics like “Kveldsanger” or “Nordavind” over similar efforts by acts such as FINNTROLL or SKYFORGER in recent times to the announced all-acoustic record by BORKNAGAR. […]
“Vredens Tid is a pure dedication to the wrath in every man and womans art…” – Yes, and DARKTHRONE is for all the evil in man. Despite the self-proclamation mentioned above the music of MANEGARM isn’t exactly what one would label as “christraping”, but some really powerful and refreshing Pagan Metal instead. What makes them […]
Well, this is not a new album of Swedish Viking Metal-act MANEGARM but a compilation of their early demos, which I suppose sound a lot different to the band’s today’s sound, otherwise I would not necessarily call this act Viking Metal at all. The first four songs, of which the original demo “Vargaresa” consisted, are […]
I have never ever heard of this band before to be honest. Considering the booklet’s design I could sort of guess what kind of music this might be. On this design you can see a burning ship on the sea, two warriors observing its distancing. So what kind of music is this then? Majestic Viking […]
I was eagerly awaiting MANDATORY’s debut full-length “Adrift Beyond” for quite a while already as I heavily enjoyed all of the band’s previous releases and the fantastic cover artwork by SV Bell in combination with the great MANDATORY band logo looked very promising already. But all in all my expectations were obviously a little bit […]