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Review: Vrykolakas “And Vrykolakas Brings Chaos And Destruction” [Dark Blasphemies Records]

By Stewart / Phalanx Inferno

May 13, 2021

Vrykolakas has returned! Entering into an ominous thirteenth release, the Singaporean Death Metal warriors prove the caliber of compositions once again. This eight tracker is to be put ...

Review: Antologi “Chronicles Of Catastrophes” [Vrykoblast Productions]

By Stewart / Phalanx Inferno

April 28, 2021

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We seldom hear about underground Thrash bands from Asia. There are great underground bands from this part of the world that await discovery and these guys in Antologi ...

Interview with Paul Speckmann of Master

By Stewart / Phalanx Inferno

October 27, 2020

Written interviews

Hails, Paul! You have been through the path less traveled and witnessed the changes and evolution of Thrash and Death Metal since the 1980’s. It is no secret ...

Interview with Ludo Lejeune of Melek-Tha

By Stewart / Phalanx Inferno

October 16, 2020

Written interviews

There are many composers and musicians world-wide within the realm of eerie and dark ambiance synth music. For some people, it is hard to contain creativity, even if ...

Interview with Bobby Tufino of Dialogia

By Stewart / Phalanx Inferno

October 10, 2020

Written interviews

Dialogia is a word one seldom hears, In fact, I have never heard the word until recently. If the term seems to lead one to focus on the ...

Interview with Kai of VRYKOLAKAS

By Stewart / Phalanx Inferno

October 8, 2020

Written interviews

VRYKOLAKAS needs no introduction to those in the know of the Asian Metal scene having been released a long, dedicated and steadfast path of demos, split eps and ...

Interview with J.P. Brown of Hellwitch

By Stewart / Phalanx Inferno

October 6, 2020

Written interviews

You joined Hellwitch in 1994. How did that come about? I was 18 years old, in Kendall, Florida, looking for a band to play in. Scouring the local ...

Review: DeathEpoch “Abysmal Invocation” [Putrid Cult]

By Stewart / Phalanx Inferno

September 7, 2020

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I didn’t know what to expect at first – the intro/1st track came on. A tribal dance drum beat as if an orgy of a thousand cadavers… The ...

Review: Eggs of Gomorrh “Outpregnate” [Krucyator Productions] + PROFANE ORDER “Slave Morality” [Sentient Ruin]

By Stewart / Phalanx Inferno

September 1, 2020

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Eggs of Gomorrh “Outpregnate” [Krucyator Productions] I have never heard of this quartet from Switzerland before so, being that I rarely get to hear Swiss stuff, it seemed ...

Review: Blackdeath “Phantasmhassgorie” [Heidens Hart Records]

By Stewart / Phalanx Inferno

September 1, 2020

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BlackDeath has been around forever (well… 1998) and has never drifted away from the calls to Metal they make and hymn creations they invoke. Soundwise, they discovered that ...

Review: Proscrito “Llagas y Estigmas” [Memento Mori]

By Stewart / Phalanx Inferno

September 1, 2020

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Proscrito are located in Spain and play a no-frills form of mid to slow Death Metal. “Llagas y Estigmas” (translation: sores and stigmas) is their second output but ...

Review: Yaldabaoth “That Which Wets the Saccharine Palate” [Aesthetic Death]

By Stewart / Phalanx Inferno

September 1, 2020

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Yaldabaoth (Alaska, US) is embedded in influence by 50% Black Metal inspiration and 50% progressive chord surf. While not what I would call “symphonic” and they are not, ...

‘3 from hell’ Review: Witchcraft / Aske, Unsilent, Walls Of Hate

By Stewart / Phalanx Inferno

August 11, 2020

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Witchcraft (Finland) / Aske (Finland) “Dead Christ Prayer” [Nuclear War Now! Productions] After a plethora of demos and splits, Finland’s Witchcraft returns to the fields of burning seraphim ...

Voice review: Death the Leveller “Death the Leveller”

By Stewart / Phalanx Inferno

October 10, 2017

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Death the Leveller “Death the Leveller” https://www.facebook.com/deaththelevellerdoom/ https://deaththeleveller.bandcamp.com/releases ...

Interview: Juha Saikkonen from MISTRALTH

By Stewart / Phalanx Inferno

October 4, 2017

Written interviews

Interview with Juha Saikkonen from Mistralth about their new opus, “My Grief” out on GS Productions. Hello Juha, let’s start with what is Mistralth, how did it come ...