Italian Horror has supplied Metal with easily as much inspiration as H.P. Lovecraft. For Finland’s HOODED MENACE, the “Tombs of the Blind Dead” saga provided all the thematic groundwork they needed to craft their unholy Doom masterpiece, “Fulfill The Curse” released just this year on Razorback Records, the same label that released the debut ACID […]
Hey man, that’s awesome! HOODED MENACE’s first recording, a demotape called “The Eyeless Horde” offers a mix between Death and Doom Metal which I haven’t heard for a long time. It reminds me a lot of my old favourites of CATHEDRAL (“Forest Of Equilibrium”-era! I can’t tell how much I enjoyed the song ‘Ebony Tears’!!!), […]
Well, Phil Fasciana (MALEVOLENT CREATION) seems to have not enough work with his band, because he is the A&R and vice-president of Arctic Music as well and has signed the Greek Death Core act HOMO IRATUS. Now their first release for Arctic (the second, Stefan – see above – Frank), the MCD “Knowledge… Their Enemy” […]
Even though I have no real evidence for it, I suppose that the four lads of HOMO IRATUS are hailing from sunny Greece. The names of the bandmembers (Kostas, Argyris…) and the fact that they already supported many international acts in Greece (NAPALM DEATH, MALEVOLENT CREATION, IMPALED NAZARENE, CHILDREN OF BODOM etc.) simply lead me […]
“Dependent On Beauty” is the debut demo by HOMICIDAL. This infernal duo hails from Algeria and delivers us here a lethal dose of brutal Death Metal. The six tracks on this disc remind me a little bit on the Death Metal scene in the early 90s and it’s quite obvious that the US underground (early […]
What do bands like SODOM, KREATOR, DESTRUCTION and HOLY MOSES have in common? Well, all 4 of them are great German Thrash Metal bands from the good ol’ 80s. And what don’t they (have in common)? I guess HOLY MOSES is the only one that manages to remain interesting to me after all these years. […]
Sabina’s world! Party time! Excellent! HOLY MOSES’ first full-length album after the reunion turned out to be enjoyable indeed. Of course it’s Thrash the MOSES style: not too brilliant but extremely catchy with those unique vocals. Not too many of their old fans should be disappointed, except for the guys who keep on glorifying the […]
I haven’t really followed HOLY MOSES’ career after their one and only and kinda overproduced major full-length “The New Machine Of Liechtenstein” back in the 80s, which I wasn’t too impressed by. With this new MCD they have returned to a more crushing and devastating Thrash sound of “Finished With The Dogs”, with influences ranging […]
Honestly spoken I never heard about Swedish Death Metalcoholics HOLOCAUST, but their debut shortplayer “Hellfire Holocaust” is a real surprise, because these Swedes come up with an almost perfect combination of melodic Death made in Sverige and the brutal American style. Musically there’s absolutely nothing wrong with HOLOCAUST, but judging the pretty monotonous vocals there’s […]
I still remember the great era of the Austrian extreme Metal scene; the time when Napalm Records was completely bound to the different shades of ‘extreme’ Metal with a strong focus on bands from their neighbourhood. But these times are unfortunately long gone – a fact which is applicable for the Austrian scene and Napalm […]