Five years after foundation the German band DIVINE NOISE ATTACK are now ready to present the debut “Torn Apart”. Five of the twelve songs are taken from the demo “Soulless Something”, so in fact you just get seven new songs, but I guess most of you do not know that demo so this should not […]
Ex-MALEVOLENT CREATION vocalist / basser Jason Blachowicz’s band DIVINE EMPIRE was another victim of Olympic Records going bankrupt and being bought up by Century Media, because it resulted in the delay of DIVINE EMPIRE’s anticipated third album “Nostradamus”. Where “Redemption” (1998) was traditional US Death Metal, “Doomed To Inherit” (2000) expanded DIVINE EMPIRE’s repertoire with […]
More American Death Metal with little character and interest! Displaying, once again, a high level of musicianship, DIVINE EMPIRE hit the Death Metal nail on the head quite well and quite hard but once you scratch beneath the surface, it feels like another US Death Metal record you could perhaps have done without. There’s nothing […]
The third strike of this Lithuanian unholy trio was expected by yours truly with a lot of expectation. DISSIMULATION was for me one great discovery and a fresh breath of air in this otherwise stagnant scene. They evolved from a more primitive blackened Metal attack in their debut “Maras” to a great old school Black […]
I still can remember their excellent debut album “Maras” in 2002 which made a very strong impression on me. Now after some years of silence DISSIMULATION are back with their new effort entitled “Prakeikimas” (which means “Damnation” in English). The first I noticed was that the band enhanced their Thrash Metal influences quite a lot […]
Well, I’ve never heard a band from Lithuania before, but DISSIMULATION’s debut CD “Maras” (= “plague”) proves, that good and orginal Black Metal can emerge from such a small country as well. DISSIMULATION sing in their mother-tongue, which definitely adds an exotic note to their stuff. Musically they do not try to orientate like many […]
A-W-E-S-O-M-E – fuckin’ awesome! This is without doubt one of the best Death Metal albums I heard since a long time and can easily compete with the established Death Metal acts around. Here we have everything: fantastic sound (mixed by Jean-Fancois Dagenais who already took care of KATAKLYSM, MALEVOLENT CREATION or MISERY INDEX), great layout […]
Releasing a self-titled album often indicates a new beginning in the career of an already established act. In the case of Sweden’s DISMEMBER it’s in fact the first album without drummer / founding member Fred Estby. But with all respect to his contribution to DISMEMBER in almost 20 years, I can’t really see the need […]
This album took quite a while to get completed, but luckily all that didn’t result in a clean and polished production. It’s actually more the opposite around! DISMEMBER anno 2004 sound much more honest and true to the roots of real Death Metal than during a certain period of time when they were still with […]
For a retro Thrash band from California, the heart of it all, DISMANTLE are far and away, among the best of their kind. All of the problems that plague the other bands are at a minimum on “Satanic Force”, their debut on AreaDeath. Such cringe-worthy shortcomings like obvious pro tools production values, unimaginative songwriting clearly […]