As live albums go, this is a masterpiece. Normally, we gloss over live recordings unless they belong to a cult band who didn’t have much material to begin with. Only “Unleashed In The East”, by JUDAS PRIEST, sold as well as the studio recordings. It’s with good reason that live albums are often ignored: poor […]
From the outskirts of Warsaw, Poland hail another version of BEHEMOTH! However not nearly as proficient, blindingly fast nor as internationally acclaimed, called HATE. And even though this band has been around since 1990 you can and would not even know this had I not mentioned it, as the musicianship doesn’t warrant an accolade as […]
Formed in 1990 Polish HATE for a long time stood in the shadow of the national Metal scene leaders VADER and lately highly successful BEHEMOTH. To be honest, I perceived HATE always as nothing more than a good alternative to VADER because their MORBID ANGEL inspired fast, dark and straight-forward brand of Death Metal had […]
This is the fourth HATE album so far, and I think we can say that this Polish act grows better and better with the time! I knew their two first albums “Lord Is Avenger” and “Victims” re-released under the name “Holy Dead Trinity” on Blackend Records, but even if the HATE trademark is still here, […]
Until now, HATE are certainly Poland’s best kept secret, because of a lack of proper distribution outside their homeland. The proof is that I had to wait at least six months to finally get this album, which will be distributed in the western hemisphere only on July 23, through World War III Records for the […]
This Death Metal band is from Poland and their debut album “Holy Dead Trinity” is already on quite a high level. The record company’s info sheet says that fans of DEICIDE, VADER and MORBID ANGEL will worship this band and especially the weird solos remind me a bit of MORBID ANGEL indeed. Not quite on […]
HARMONY DIES now with Morbid Records, eh? Compared with their new label mates PROSTITUTE DISFIGUREMENT, HARMONY DIES have a weaker production – but it’s still okay. “Narcotic” starts out with a funny “Power Metal” scream – yeah, these guys are best known for their more or less funny sides. I’m not their biggest fan as […]
Yes, finally a new sign of life (or death, to be exact…) from Berlin’s finest in terms of US style death metal! Harmony Dies have been around for a while already, sacrificing their efforts for the glory of Suffocation-Style music and “I’ll Be Your Master” is again nothing but a very recommendable item for your […]
I’m glad you are reading this review as I was not sure if anyone will check it out because of the name of the band. HARMONY is or better was a shitty name for a Death Metal band and I guess that’s one of the reasons why the guys changed their name to MAZE OF […]
Thrash Metal from Norway… yes, Thrash – and not Black Metal this time. Not that Thrash Metal hasn’t been done in Norway any earlier, but since this country of breath-taking mountains and fjords has mostly become known for its infamous darker-than-black acts from the very beginning, it’s kind of easy to get Norway associated with […]