I’m tempted to call this band the American VADER, they sound so alike. However, much as I like a good, solid VADER album, if you’ve heard one, you’ve practically heard them all. FRACTURED INSANITY, I fear, copy a band that likes to copy itself. A copy of an original that also copies itself over and […]
Pinch your nose, the smell of hell wafts from deep below the earth’s crust. FOUL STENCH, the appropriately named band in question, got their start in the early 90s, a golden age to all serious Death Metal fans. Like their bigger, hairier brothers PUNGENT STENCH, REPULSION and SKELETAL EARTH, FOUL STENCH played a sort of […]
I’m not really sure how many Spanish Black Metal bands I know, one of the most professional ones are surely FOSCOR. I’m kinda impressed what I hear on “Groans To The Guilty”. This album is already their third full-length recording and the first one for me. It’s some kind of avantgarde Black Metal what those […]
After the happiness of reading the mail of Fiar, singer of the band, telling me they had already sent me the promo of what would become their second full-length (the first one impressed me quite a lot and put them on my top list of Spanish Black Metal bands), I knew I wouldn’t be able […]
After reading the promo-sheet I was quite curious, because the band emphasizes their Canadian heritage, or to be more specific, the tradition of Québéc. So what would it sound like? Something like all those Scandinavian bands with their so-called Viking influences? Or something completely different? Well, the specific Canadian aspect runs out in the lyrics, […]
I saw THE FORSAKEN opening for NILE and THE HAUNTED in Hamburg and I wasn’t really impressed. There wasn’t much action on stage (okay, if you know the “MarX”: there isn’t much space on stage anyway) and the sound wasn’t good, either. Consequently, I didn’t buy their debut album. Reading a couple of quite enthusiastic […]
Another represent of this new breed of Swedeath hate Metal is THE FORSAKEN hailing from the Malmö area! This five-piece (featuring members of EMBRACED and EVERGREY) already attracted my attention with a magnificent three-track demo-CD “Reaper”. Two songs of this aforementioned release (namely ‘Truth Of God’ and ‘Deamon Breed’) are also available on THE FORSAKEN’s […]
Doom. Doom METAL. Yes, with capital letters. I have been following the career of this band from Malta for very few years…I mean back from their “Requiem” demo in 1991 I received from them… and now, in 2009, I have been exposed to their latest album, actually their fourth one, and I am blown away. […]
Bands who make heavy use of melody are in a precarious position. Either they succeed at winning over scores of fans, or they fail miserably and re-enforce the long held notion that a band with melody is a wimpy band. It seems that only a handful of such adventurous bands, like UNANIMATED at AT THE […]
This band comes from Cork (Eire) and this is their first full-length. FOR RUIN was at first a one-man band project, but mercifully this developed up to become a proper act with a full line-up. “December” comes out as very good surprise among the legions of bands / projects / solo things that flood the […]