This side project featuring Kaiser W. (godly pseudonym!!!) of the controversial AD HOMINEM and Sad of the split up CANTUS BESTIAE is despite the dubious reputation of one of its members a very good, raw and traditional Black Metal album. Sometimes quite melancholic chord melodies and furiously thrashing elements melt with interesting misanthropic, hateful lyrics […]
This band from Germany likes Death Metal from Florida, like DEICIDE and especially CANNIBAL CORPSE – from their first album “Eaten Back To Live” to “Vile”. The singer likes George Corpsegrinder alot, yes! Especially the screams sound veeery much alike (well copied I would say). The songs are well played and quite technical (of course […]
Another two years have passed since the release of “The Immortal Kind”, EQUINOX’s last 6 song mini CD, but it seems that nothing has really changed for this great Florida Deathers ever since, unfortunately… The band is still struggeling quite a bit to gain international recognition and once again ended up on some small underground […]
Due to a bunch of business related problems it took Florida’s EQUINOX quite a while to get this album out (the recordings were already finished way back in September 2002!), but now it’s finally here and the result is definitely worth the long wait! Still Dead Productions’ label owner Julius adviced me to listen to […]
Once again Proscriptor has disembarked to stranger shores with his ritual music project Equimanthorn which saw an official review in 1993 with “Nimdinugga Nimshimshargal Enlillara”. Unfortunately I cannot compare the actual record with its predecessor but “Second Sephira Cella” definitely goes into the ambient / ritual direction with some ethnic Near Eastern influences, traces of […]
First of all: no, this isn’t the German band EPICEDIUM! However, this 1996 founded and California-based quartet is to be filed under “Death Metal” as well, “killer Death Metal” if you ask me! Taking influences from acts such as CANNIBAL CORPSE, SUFFOCATION, MORBID ANGEL and adding to that some nice melodies as well as a […]
Whew! Crazy stuff from the mysty mountains (= EPHEL DUATH, from Tolkien) for Black Metal loonatics! This is EPHEL DUATH’s debut album ‘Phormula’ (including 2 remixes and 3 tracks from the demo sessions). For me their music is hard to follow because of the songs’ complexe structures (usually not that hard for me), strange synth […]
This album should be labeled with a warning sticker: attention, this CD is empty, it contains nothing. This is what the music of ENTHRONED is nowadays, empty, lifeless and soulless. It should not be a secret that good songwriting makes an album special. Pounding drums and some shrieky vocals (which in case of the first […]
It’s been quite a long time since I last heard a release by Belgium’s ENTHRONED. Well, to be even more precise, I already lost track with them after their Evil Omen Records debut “Prophecies Of Pagan Fire”… Two more albums, some line-up changes and a shitload of liveshows followed until they finally went back into […]
Here we have the third full-length by the Norwegian Black Metallers known as ENTHRAL performing a quite happening form of contemporary Black Metal including several strong Death Metal overtones concerning rhythms (some blasting passages in the opener ‘Earth Left Behind’ just for example) and riffing. Occasionally keyboards are added played by Stan Aarsted, formerly in […]