It was about time IMPALED NAZARENE indulge themselves into the perilous exercise of a live recording, considering they have toured Europe and beyond on a constant basis since their inception fifteen years ago. The actual recording of this live compilation was done last December (2004) in the IMPALED maniacs native country, Suomi, after having been […]
Even though I used to like a lot of stuff by these Finnish weirdo’s in their early days, I didn’t really care for IMPALED NAZARENE’s more current releases for quite some time now. Because of that ignorant attitude of mine I almost missed out on this album, which luckily ain’t a typical new studio release, […]
After last year’s excellent full-length autopsy “Mondo Medicale” US CARCASS-loving pathologists IMPALED deliver another bloodbath. This time it is a MCD filled with new songs, live tracks, cover versions and some bonus material stolen from the 2001 release “Choice Cuts”. Although I do not understand why the “Choice Cuts” songs were reissued here, I have […]
One of the hardest and demanding fates for a relatively young band, like IMPALED, is to be defamed as an everlasting copy – in IMPALED’s case this is of course the almighty fathers of cynical and brutal Death / Grind Metal CARCASS. While most bands already fail when they start to take their first steps […]
The CARCASS legacy lives on, cause America’s very own IMPALED not only go for a similar shocking / provoking visual side (if you dare, click here to check out their completely over the top cover art) as the legendary UK grinders, they also write their songs in a pretty similar manner. Being quite obviously influenced […]
Not bad… not bad at all! On their debut album, IMMORTAL RITES from Germany deliver some high class melodic Death Metal that successfully avoids the Gothenburg cliché! The CD was recorded as a demo at Mastersound Studio by ATROCITY’s Alexander Krull in winter 2002 / 2003 already and both Mr Krull as well as Liv […]
December 2001… our country suffers from frost, rain and cold. King winter is reigning… IMMORTAL couldn’t pick a better time for the release of their new studio-album. With a bit of luck, 2002 could even become the year of IMMORTAL: besides their switch from Osmose to Nuclear Blast – which will help them to make […]
Even the biggest IMMOLATION critics will have to confess now that these guys slowly but surely managed to establish their very own unique style throughout the last couple of years. Let’s face the facts: there’s absolutely no other brutal Death Metal band around nowadays that could be compared to IMMOLATION’s vision of this dark and […]
The present avalanche of mediocre releases makes this album even more precious. I use the term masterpiece very scarcely, but this time I can do it without any second thought. IMMOLATION belong to the elite of the Death Metal bands, I see for now only NILE being able to rival them regarding originality and musical […]
IMMOLATION is still one of the most underrated Death Metal acts worldwide and their fourth album “Close To A World Below” proves this thesis. Ross Dolan, Robert Vigna & co. came up again with the most evil, eerie, obscure, haunted and bewitched ghost Death Metal you can imagine. Songs like ‘Higher Coward’, ‘Father, You’re Not […]