Would you like to fuck the same woman over and over again? Would you like to eat pizza every single day? Well, if the woman was incredibly beautiful (in your eyes), or the pizza was amazingly good, could be. But, would you listen to gory Death Metal equal to other bands in the same genre? […]
A “short but sweet” brutal Death Metal effort is Finnish KATAPLEXIA’s debut “Morgue’s Reality”. Contemporary Death / Grind vocals à la DISAVOWED meet with straight old school Death Metal drive and some slower / mid-tempo passages one can also find in older DYING FETUS or the earlier SUFFOCATION, but of course there are a lot […]
Talking about being old school I think nothing is more old school today than when ordering a demo in the year 2007 to receive a demo cassette instead of CD. Man, I was really surprised and didn’t expect anything like that. Honestly, I had serious doubts if my tapedeck on my stereo still plays cassettes […]
Northern hyperblast Death masters have recharged their batteries to unleash a new opus of grinding devastation. It’s been two years since their widely popular “Serenity In Fire” and honestly I must admit that I was one of the detractors thinking that this band could not get any better than what they did on the last […]
After their last magnificient album “Prophecy”, KATAKLYSM are finally back again. That album crushed in many ways, blast beats galore, grind riffs, vokills and melodic parts. On “Epic” they continue in that fashion but up the ante. There are more blast beats, more grind riffs and sicker vokills and even deep growls. Another thing that […]
Holland has been spitting out countless of talented brutal bands throughout the years and KATAFALK from Groningen is certainly no exception to the rule. These five possessed maniacs have managed to mix good old Thrash insanity (SLAYER / KREATOR) with the aggression of brutal Death Metal and are blasting through their debut full-length “Storm Of […]
I don’t know what’s currently going on in Sweden? All of a sudden there are plenty of amazing Death Metal bands around sounding like those classic ones from the early nineties. Guess you, as regular readers of Voices From The Darkside (hehe), are already aware of the music of NECROVATION, DEGIAL or KATALYSATOR? Add KARYBDIS […]
Formed in Sweden back in 1998, it is until now, 11 years after, that they release their debut album. I suppose it is one of the longest waiting times for releasing an album, given the fact that the band was never considered dead, but dreaming… I mean on hold. Previously a couple of promos and […]
Another very special outfit from Italy. It seems our southern friends have always something special to offer, it was already true in the 70’s, and it remains true today. KARNAK are heavily involved into Techno-Death, as their music is extremely complex while being brutal. I can cite ATHEIST, later days DEATH and MEKONG DELTA as […]
Sometimes Swedish, often Finnish sounding, KARKADAN from Germany offer rather slow melodic Death Metal although they’re frequently crossing the boarders to the Black Metal genre, especially when blasting. Singer Robby Beyer delivers pretty strong, sometimes a little monotonous vocals. What I like quite a bit about KARKADAN is – apart from their skilled songwriting – […]