It’s a huge pity that I have missed HELRUNAR when they played live here in my surroundings together with BEHEMOTH about 2 weeks ago, as I’d be interested how this threepiece comes along live. Anyhow, it took me quite a long time to start writing this review, not that I think that this album isn’t […]
After a demo (“Grátr”) and their contribution to the limited split CD single with NACHTMAHR (‘Hauch wird Sturm’) we’re finally able to experience the first HELRUNAR full-length album via the fine and always very quality oriented Lupus Lounge label. And it was definitely worth the wait as “Frostnacht” impresses with a very professional production, tasteful […]
This band from Italy revealed itself a so much a good surprise that I can’t help but to find this three tracks offer a little unsatisfying in terms of duration. In fact I would gleefully scream for more, because “Anger Words” appears more than simply convincing! On this HELLWRATH rekindle with the tradition of evilized […]
Formed back in 1984, it is hard to imagine that the band up to this day has only released two full-length albums. The first time I came in contact with the band was through a compilation and their song ‘Torture Chamber’ which is not that hard to forget due to their weird composition and the […]
Coming by way of Poland is HELLVETO’s fourteenth full-length album since 2002, “Wiara, Nadzieja… Potepienie”. It is comprised of 2 discs, the first being Pagan Metal, and the second, of an entirely symphonic nature. I’ll be direct, disc 2 was a tedious exercise in ‘epic’ keyboard music. 3 tracks, none under 20 minutes – this […]
Formed in 1995 this is their 13th release… wow… almost a record to be released every year. This is not my first encounter with this band. I have somewhere their “966” album, and have also heard some more releases and very few things have changed. This is, to start with, a one man band… project… […]
The Polish Black Metal scene has become smaller and smaller over the years. The main reason is that the few Polish acts which can advise an international status “realized” their Death Metal roots and left to conquer MORBID ANGEL territory. HELLVETO are part of this traditional scene since 1996 and honestly speaking “Neoheresy” is my […]
What is Hellveto? Hard to tell, maybe it has something to be related to “Hell” or something. Come on, this is pagan Black Metal, it has to be something occult, diabolic or something; just read the title of the album and it is almost 666 or 999. Ho many releases are there before this one? […]
This is already the fourth full-length release in 2006 of the Polish atmospheric Pagan Metal band HELLVETO. It’s quite impressive for a band (furthermore formed by only one member) in only one year, or perhaps just the contrary if we think about quality. I already said in another review that I’ve never been too impressed […]
One more release which shows how huge the influence of BEHEMOTH was (and still is) on the Polish Metal movement during the last years. HELL UNITED are another band which takes many details from BEHEMOTH’s work of the last couple of albums. For sure it is obvious that they can’t match with the uniqueness of […]