With this new album Denmark’s EXMORTEM is not only getting really close to the qualities of the latest American Death Metal releases, they even managed to leave all their country mates behind pretty easily! Forget about all those Hardcore infected pseudo Death Metal lunatics such as KONKHRA, ILLDISPOSED, GROPE etc. – this is the real […]
“Without any doubt, this is definitely the fastest Death Metal band on this planet”, says the label’s info sheet. On which planet? On Mars? Hey, Brazil is on Mother Earth as well, man! Apart from that, EXMORTEM from Denmark are racing in the Formula 1 of Death Metal indeed. Strong production: the double bass pushes […]
These sickos probably have released more stuff in their nine year existence than almost any other comparable band so far. Or do you know anyone else who can name no less than five demos, eight (split) 7″EP’s, two split CD’s, two compilation album appearances, one split live tape and two full-length CD’s their own? I […]
EX DEMENTIA, among a handful of other select bands from the United States, have never failed to craft convincing music. Though still young, they can boast to much greater achievements than many bands who predate them. It seems but yesterday that their first album, “Thou Shall Repulse”, was released in 2007. But, thanks to the […]
Although the band was very active in the late eighties I heard of them for the first time now. “Angels To Some, Demons To Others” is the reunion record after 13 years. It’s hard to categorize the style of the music, maybe a little bit of Crowbar with some Death / Thrash influences. Really heavy, […]
It is somehow absurd to see the amount of people that seem to be interested in Death Metal nowadays. I remember (almost 10 years ago) when -classic by now- albums such as “Feeding On Angels”, “On The Wings Of Inferno”, “Rides The Moonstorm”, “Diabolical Conquest”, “Gods Of Creation, Death And Afterlife” and “Blood Must Flow” […]
An American band on a Polish label, I expected something special here and I got just that fortunately. This four piece is dedicated to blasphemous Death Metal and they play it by the book, so don’t expect originality and musical experiments here. But the result is devastating enough to make “Superion” a top-priority purchase because […]
I’m not really sure what made me buy this LP. Was it the attractive title written in exactly the same style as their famous logo, or nostalgia for those times when EXCITER was at the forefront of then just upcoming Thrash / Speed invasion and could compete with SLAYER for the last slot on the […]
This is the fourth full-length album of EWIGES REICH from Kassel (Germany). We get what I call typical German Black Metal, music which is floating through the ears without leaving anything remarkable. The problem is that this could also be album number 1 or number 10 from band XY, it somehow all sounds the same, […]
After millions (well, almost…) of tribute albums, the California based Dwell label finally comes up with another new “real” release. And what a tough one… This seven song record by Americas EVOKEN lasts about an hour – but to me it somehow seemed three (or more) times longer! The band delivers incredibly slow, ultra Doom […]