The effective use of repetition is an art lost on many practitioners of Death Metal. All too often the assumption is made that the intricacy of Death Metal is predominantly related to the level of technicality employed by the musicians. A distinctly different form of richness can emerge, however, through the use of repetition. This […]
A real underground jewel is the second full-length release of this Norwegian outfit. A friend of mine taped me their debut album “In My Dreams… I Am Armageddon”, which was already a quality release, but the follow-up “The Birth” is even better. It’s not that easy to categorize the music of THE EMBRACED, but they […]
The second album of this Slovakian Grindcore outfit is primarily ruined by a muddy, crappy production and despite the obvious musical abilities (especially the drummer is not bad) an absolute superfluous release only total Grind diehards might get high on! EMBOLISM have the classic influences of early NAPALM DEATH, CARCASS, are fast like hell, but […]
Even though EMBEDDED’s origin already dates back to 1994, with a self-titled demo release in 1996, the nucleus of the band unfortunately splitted up in 1998 because of musical differences. But luckily guitarist André Danowsky decided to give the whole project another go, with three new recruited members, already one year later. This line-up recorded […]
Swiss EMBALMING THEATRE play straight forward, good produced Grind Death that combines the heavy groove of MORTICIAN or IMPETIGO with the drive and intensity of old school legends like the almighty REPULSION! Although one can debate about the quintet being original or not, it’s a fact that the 20 songs offered on EMBALIMING THEATRE’s first […]
This CD definitely is a masterpiece of intensive Metal arts. Well, ELYSIUM’s style is kind of comparable to that of SEPENTIA, another highly melodious act on Metal Mind Productions. But here there is something discernible in the music that really enthuses me. ELYSIUM play melodic Death Metal in the vein of acts like – and […]
“Witches – Salem (1692 vs 2001)” is already the third full-length by ELVIRA MADIGAN, a Swedish one man project lead by a guy named Marcus Hammarström. It is the follow-up to his self-titled (yet unreleased) “Elvira Madigan” debut and 2000’s “Black Arts” album (the latter featured most songs of the debut as bonus tracks and […]
ELUVEITIE offer the same music like their label-mates of Royal Anguish. So, this is also a pain in the arses of all ordinary Metal guys. It is fine and nice that they get inspired by the legends of old Celtic mythology, but that is fukkin’ worn-out to me and more than boring. I think, they […]
Before inflicting an almost seventy minutes long record onto an unsuspecting audience, you have to be pretty damn sure your music is worth the effort. This kind of question the four musicians of the French band ELLIPSIS didn’t ask to themselves obviously, how much their first full-length is uninspiring and dull. Even their label doesn’t […]
An exact definition of the term Pagan Metal is quite difficult to find these days, the music is raging from dark trolls out of the land of the thousand seas to ulveresque nature Pagan Metal from the United States. ELIVAGAR from Germany is a further Trollzorn band which wants to conquer the Pagan community with […]