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 […]
Texans HOD exemplify an ancient trait in that windswept, desolate region for dark, malicious, blasting Death Metal crafted for those with an appreciation of what makes that style so awesome. Venomous, tight, powerful, these are appropriate adjectives to describe this relatively new assemblage of long-embattled Metal warriors who claim ties to such notable acts as […]
It has been twenty years since I had an encounter with HIRAX. I was in high school and I was expelled from a class with another guy. I don’t clearly remember why, probably I was speaking loud or whatever. The other guy was the one with long hair, black t-shirt and a SLAYER pendant, who […]
HIRAX are a phenomenon: they belong to the first wave of the US Thrash Metal movement and influenced many succeeding bands, but unlike SLAYER, EXODUS, MEGADETH or METALLICA they were never blessed by financial success. Maybe the extreme underground attitude, especially personified by their mastermind and vocalist Katon W. De Pena, and their connection to […]
The times when every Norwegian newcomer has been praised and warmly welcomed are definitely gone and so it’s no surprise that a lot of record labels are working with far too big names to introduce their new bands. HINSIDES are a relative young band (founded in 2005 with only one demo release “The Forthcoming Of […]
If it comes to Pagan Metal it’s still more than astonishing that a ‘small’ German band called FALKENBACH had been such a source of inspiration for a whole new generation of bands. After the OAKENSHIELD debut midth of this year the Greek band HILDR VALKYRIE is presenting their powerful FALKENBACH inspired debut via the Russian […]
New stuff from my fave German Blackies! After Twilight picked up their “Abstract Maelstrom Paragon” EP which had been highly praised by the big German Metalzines, they also put out this full-length release. As much as you’ll have to read my other HIDDEN IN THE FOG reviews and buy those CDs, there is no way […]