It’s more or less a fact that within the last couple of years a lot of very good, means very unique German Black Metal bands had faded into dust (NAGELFAR, LUNAR AURORA) and only very rarely their musical legacy can be “touched” by the next generation of bands. HELFAHRT are one of these bands and […]
It was in 1988, that HEATHEN released their debut album “Breaking The Silence” on the much missed Combat Records (I know a couple of years ago Combat Records were supposed to release a bunch of screamo garbage, but forget that) and the way I found out about ’em is that a buddy of mine brought […]
The Bay Area crunch masters or better known as the Bay Area Metal gods have finally returned with a vengeance after so many years of silence. “Recovered” is still not the so much awaited comeback album from those geniuses but at least it gives us a chance to introduce something new to alternate between “Breaking […]
The Death / Black Metal world is such a serious place with so many bands which are more interested in their (nevertheless vague) image than their musical performance. But there are also guys from just around the corner who – by recording one good album after another – are showing the world their way of […]
Melodic-Death’n’Rollers HEARSE from Stockholm, Sweden are striking back with their 4th studio album “In These Veins” and new label Dental Records. What? You never heard about this damn cool three piece before! What an omission. HEARSE features legendary vocalist / frontman Johan Liiva (former CARNAGE, FURBOWL and ARCH ENEMY). This man is a living legend […]
John Liiva’s band HEARSE returns with a second album, entitled “Armageddon Mon Amour”. If that title is inspired by the movie “Hiroshima Mon Amour” directed by Alan Resnais is beyond my knowledge. Anyway: this band reminded my a bit of the second FURBOWL output. Somewhat groovy Death Metal elements, a slight punk edge, melodic hooks […]
Although HEARSE are definitely not the type of music I dig, I have to admit that their mixture of traditional Metal / Hardrock riffs with raw and dirty vocals à la newer ENTOMBED managed to fascinate me especially at the beginning of the CD. HEARSE are the new band of ARCH ENEMY vocalist Johan Liiva, […]
Somehow I already knew that this album would blow me away before I even had listened to it for the first time. Brazil’s HEADHUNTER D.C. have been around for so long by know and never ever betrayed the roots of old school Death Metal that I would’ve been really surprised if they all of a […]
This is a tricky one, cause there’s several bands under the HAVOK banner around. In case of this self made EP we talk about a four-piece, based in the Swedish town Lund. The band already collected some promising reviews in the wellknown Swedish Close-Up Magazine, but let the music do the talking for itself. HAVOK […]
Phew! I had quite some trouble getting into the new HAUNTED material. Although it takes off with some doomy part totally in the good old SLAYER vein, “One Kill Wonder” is less straight forward than its predecessor. The only track I loved right from the beginning is the instrumental ‘Demon Eyes’ which instantly reminded me […]