The most surprising aspect of “Crimson II” has to be the lyrics. Though, not the lyrics in themselves but the fact that Clive Nolan from ARENA wrote those. Oh well, the lyrics can be whatsoever if the music doesn’t work. Judging from Dan Swanö’s Edge Of Sanity I really have to read the lyrics because […]
This album took me completely by surprise, because let’s face it, I was totally unaware of the existence of this Danish quartet dedicated to pure Death Metal before. And believe me, I am more than happy for having discovered this band, because “Oppressed” offers all that a rabid fan of classic Death (like me) could […]
Debut album for this Polish trio with quite a sick name… oh, well. As much as I worship Death Metal, sometimes I feel that most bands just fall short of what they can really do. That’s the case with EBOLA’s style of Death Metal. It is quite well played, it does possess a good recording […]
This is one of the better Death Metal album since, well, “Clandestine”. The sound is very reminiscent of the good old Swedish Way Of Death Metal. Even the vocals are somewhat reminiscent to Nicke’s on the mentioned album. And mind you, this is not a drawback because such vocals do certainly fit into the brutality […]
I’m a kind of late-comer to extreme Metal, because I started to enjoy Death and Black Metal around ’94 / ’95, when the good days were just over and I was too young and too poor to buy all the cult stuff of that time. Especially bands, that released only one or more demos, but […]
Obscure and rarely heard Metal bands is always nice to become familiar with, coming from such countries that necessarily don’t fill the headlines on a daily basis – like in some other countries tend to happen every now and then for several reasons, both in good and in bad. DRAKAR, this somewhat mystic Metal band […]
This band was formed by Chris Reifert and Danny Coralles from AUTOPSY after they had split up, together with a killer vocalist / bassist Petri ‘The Boogieman’ Toivonen. And it could as easily be a missing AUTOPSY album with a different growler! There are 9 pummelingly fast, bowel moving mid-tempo and psychedelically agonizing slow Death […]
A band that suffered a too silent and too premature death is without any doubt DISSECTION (formerly NECROPSY) from Lithuania. Don’t let this one pass you by for the simple fact this isn’t the Swedish namesake! You’ll miss something great like, let’s say an European equivalent to GORGUTS. The re-release of this two demos showcast […]
This re-issue unfortunately is overshadowed by the current activities of mister Craig Pillard in another musical project, which I’m not going to mention here for it is too braindead to be true. Already back when “Prelude To Apocalypse” originally came out he got some negative attention because of some stupid interview statements he made… But […]
“Supreme Evil” is (still) the one and only full-length by these four longhaired maniacs (the excellent “City Of The Dead” MCD is just a re-issue of DIABOLIC’s legendary demo with two bonus tracks) and features classy Florida Death Metal, totally uncompromising and brutal as fuck, with lots of intensity, MORBID ANGEL – like leads and […]