Frosty guitars, hateful screams and a boat full of ruthless souls heading from Norway to conquer whole Europe – sounds familiar in some way even if the surviving Viking / Black Metal bands had become a rare species in their cold home country. Listening to ELITE is like a trip to old abandon shores right […]
I have not listened to this album’s predecessor “Kampen”, so “Bifrost” is my first encounter with ELITE, but this is just to make clear that I cannot compare those two albums. However, what we have here is a fine album of Norwegian Black Metal with the emphasis on “Norwegian”. While musically not too close to […]
Influences from BURZUM, DARKTHRONE, JUDAS ISCARIOT or NARGAROTH mixed with a Pagan concept was the first description that came to my mind when I listened to “Kampen” for the first time and I think it is still appropriate. Despite the band’s rather boasting name, musically they are absolutely convincing, intense and skilfully blend aggression with […]
This band sends a (in capitals) FUCK YOU to “fake Black Metal, all modern core bands and all polished turd music from barely capable musicians” among other fuck you’s, haha. Wise said and capable musicians are those guys. This album already got released on CD through Suffering Jesus Records and Ukragh Productions. Man, I lost […]
After the successful re-release of nearly the whole ELFFOR back catalogue via Northern Silence I was expecting outpoint number five via this ‘official’ channel but only band member Eöl decided to keep the underground alive by self-releasing “Frostbitten Pain”. So some things will never change due to the fact that all former ELFFOR albums had […]
Uuuh, this one gives me a hard time. On their debut album Finnish ELENIUM deliver very melodic Death Metal with complex song structures, some relaxed moments and variable vocals, so far so good, BUT they use keyboards in a disgustingly obtrusive way. Almost every approach of entrainment is suffocated by “bubblegum” keyboards. I wouldn’t say […]
You would think with a name like ELDERS OF THE APOCALYPSE we would have total BLASPHEMY worship by these guys, but no. We have some touches and flourishes of those ultra violent canadians BLASPHEMY with the utter violence and ferocity of “Illusions” era SADUS; the attitude, not the sound; it’s more of an ANGELCORPSE like […]
EKRON CULT is originally from Paraguay and relocated to Chile. And besides a self-released demo tape in 2007, I cant find any more info on the band. But I can tell you something: “Queen Of The Luxury” is a total homage to the mid / late-80s South American sound! This short beast of an album […]
End of April 2010 the sky has turned black again because Germany’s finest extremists EISREGEN are ready for the next deadly strike to show the surrounding government institutions that there is no limit to the limit. Several years have past and EISREGEN have survived further attacks to return stronger than before. Needless discussions are surrounding […]
“Listening to EGONOIR is like being in a German forest, where you can step any minute on an old bomb shell” proclaims the info-sheet. Well, my humble knowledge about the poor remains of forest in the area in which I live tells me that there actually aren’t that many old bombs lying around, since most […]