The first and last thing that strikes me with this album is that it is outdated. You just know you’ve heard this numerous times before, naming bands such as Unleashed, Bolt Thrower, Entombed, Dismember and, ahem, Grave. Of course, if you desperately need other song-titles I guess ‘Last Journey’, ‘Bloodfeast’ and ‘Trial By Fire’ should […]
Fast and furious Black Metal with lots of Thrash Metal influences from this German band. This is actually their second full-length, and a powerful one if you ask me. The first thing that strikes is the intensity of this recording. The sound of the album, recalls the sound of the MAYHEM debut album, specially the […]
“Silence Endless… Dark Endless – a MARDUK reference in the title?” was my first thought when I received the debut of the German duo GRÄFENSTEIN (its name supposedly taken from a castle ruin even though I found the url of a dog school first). Well, certainly no references to the early sound of that Swedish […]
After their last album “Once Was Not” CRYPTOPSY are back again and as usually this album features a brutal mixture between Death Metal and Grindcore, executed once more in a superb way and – wait, this is not the new CRYPTOPSY release, it is the debut of the French based band GORYPTIC. But it could […]
There are two things about this album that may catch the listener by surprise: the band’s name, GORY BLISTER, and the poor classification some Metal Archives user gave them. If anything, GORY BLISTER play modern Death Metal with old school leanings, rather than technical Death Metal, which is what the aforesaid person claimed they play. […]
I think you heard already quite a lot of good words about GORY BLISTER, some even call them the successor of DEATH. Hm, I wouldn’t go that far, though I have to admit that these Italian guys are definitely on the right way. This is their 2nd release and includes 13 songs + a cover […]
South American Metal needs little description beyond “evil.” The entire Southern hemisphere, it seems, plays Metal in the most demented fashion possible. GORHOTH is no exception to that long standing rule. Now active again after a long hiatus, GORHOTH originally began in 1993. This CD, which collects their material between their formation in 1993, to […]
After a 3 year break these Candadian tech-Death Metal mongers return with their 4th album in 10 years. Many of you will remember their classic albums such as 1990s “Considered Dead” and 1993’s “Erosion Of Sanity”. After that they were dumped from label Roadrunner and were left to explore other options. After a 5 year […]
Regain Records is the most Swedish label of the world based on the fact that the company is located in Sweden but on the other hand the label also has summoned without exaggeration some of the best Swedish bands under their banner to justify this title. This year they released masterpiece after masterpiece (NECROPHOBIC, MARDUK, […]
So here it is finally, the album during whose recording the band GORGOROTH split up, or more correctly, split into two parts. While in my opinion there is only one legitimate party to continue with that name – Infernus’ part of course – this is nevertheless a rather pointless release, of value only for completists. […]