A latest signee to the Moribund roster of Black Metal horror. “Grim Canadian Black Metal heralding civilization’s end! Imagine early Judas Iscariot mixed with the melodies of Thy infernal, brutalized with a Ross-Bay (or modern Finnish) Black-Metal Inverted-Cross!” Featuring members from the pre-internet days of Black and Death Metal scenes…” vocalist/guitarist Barbarous (i.e. Ace Gestapo […]
I am not familiar with the two previous efforts by this Swedish outfit (“Nightspawn” and “Malformed Seed”, also to be found on Listenable), so I can’t discuss here how the band has evolved with the years passing by. Yet I can say for sure that “Christian Termination” is a massive offering!GRIEF OF EMERALD play a […]
From the webmaster of GRENADE…”Regrettably, GRENADE has experienced a series of changes that has led to three of the four members leaving the band. Nigel, who is the founding member of GRENADE and the band’s songwriter, intends to continue GRENADE in the future. What form this may take remains to be seen, at this early […]
GREENFLY from Spain are somewhere between BOLT THROWER, Swedish old school Death and grind attacks. Some parts (especially the melodic leads on ‘Crossbreaker’) even remind me of HAMMERFALL and the likes! Strange combination that might work if only I wouldn’t find their singer’s voices that bad! Monotonously he’s barking on the same level all through […]
Sixth album of these long time purveyors of filth. And much to my surprise, there is a few signs of evolution in their music. Few. For once this American duo, has always kept their tradition of playing under produced, very basic Death / Doom Metal, which owes a lot to CELTIC FROST and VENOM as […]
GRAVEWÜRM has been around for 20 years and apparently this is their final album. Honestly, they could’ve packed it in much earlier, because this is the lamest, most boring and dull band I’ve ever heard in the realm of Death Metal. Citing NUNSLAUGHTER, GOATLORD and such as their influences, GRAVEWÜRM plod through their material without […]
Whining bitterly over better days past never looks good, and I do try to keep my own nostalgic wails to a minimum. Yet when any Metal fan in his sane mind is accosted with this rubbish, one can’t help but lament what once was. We’re never without good bands, but there was a time when […]
About three years after the release of “Perished And Forgotten” GRAVEN’s former member Vronth has resurrected the already buried and rotten corpse and delivers a new album, with a totally different line-up though. As you all probably know, GRAVEN used to split up back then, which resulted in two highly recommended full-length albums by Vargsang’s […]
These guys already caught my attention about two years ago when I noticed a small ad for their “Of Misanthropic Spirit” demo CD somewhere. Without hearing a single note, I somehow knew that this band was worth checking out because their whole visual presentation and attitude proved a lot of taste already… Unfortunately I lost […]
GRAVE DESECRATOR’s first full-length recording “Sign Of Doom” is like a punch in your face. It’s brutal, it’s raw, it’s a typical Brazilian Black Death massacre and far more than this. The sound (mastered by Andy Classen at Stage One Studio) is killer for such a chaotic form of Metal – wonder what he thought […]