A solid effort from what seems to be a one-man band from Australia, the mysterious Eurkuh take us on a 19-minute black metal tour of his native New ...
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While plenty of early death metal bands are often lumped together in the old school death metal category, it’s pretty obvious that sub-variants quickly started to emerge over ...
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Comments Off on Review: Master “Master” [Nuclear Blast]
This may not be the most interesting album you’ll ever hear, but it does have some real energy that makes it easy to get through, and pretty thrilling ...
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It’s been a while since I wanted to talk about this album, and it’s one of those albums I have indeed spent a lot of time with since ...
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The Finnish progressive band Simulacrum has got the deal with Italian hard/AOR/prog-oriented music label Frontiers to release their third full-length album “Genesis” after seven years of silence. Adorning ...
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The Canadian core/metal scene this year was expanded by one more new name Wych, presenting this February their first ever record EP “Agony”. Balancing between the heaviest metal ...
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Slavonic slayers Batushka’s stageshow is undeniably impressive. Full of gothic splendour, embellished with arcane Russian Orthodox mysticism running through their elaborate and impeccably observed rituals, the masked brigade ...
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Comments Off on Review: Batushka ”Царю Небесный (Carju Niebieskiej)” [Witching Hour Productions]
If you’re looking to blow away a few cobwebs after the past year of interminable lockdowns then Cannibal Corpse are indeed a safe bet to do just that. ...
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Comments Off on Review: Cannibal Corpse ”Violence Unimagined” [Metal Blade Records]
Intra Ecclesiam Salus Non Est… this particular album really caught me massively off guard. So much so, it was actually a very distressing feeling. When I had listened ...
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Comments Off on Review: Vicarivs Filii Dei “Intra Ecclesiam Salus Non Est” [Darker than Black Records]
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 ...
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Comments Off on Review: Antologi “Chronicles Of Catastrophes” [Vrykoblast Productions]
The brand new band from Germany Aschenvater this year has released their first ever record – EP “Landungsfeldmassaker”; and this April Dead Center Productions has released it, also ...
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German deathsters Death Chamber this year have released their first full-length album “Experiments in Warfare” after the series of singles; and after one month Dead Center Productions have ...
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Although progressive/power metal veterans Saber Tiger have been doing their thing since the early 80’s, it took them 11 years to finally release a debut (which is also ...
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Only their first full release since their inception in 1992, Chile’s Torfrom bring us their very long-awaited debut LP, Culto Al Terror, a 40-minute death metal sludgefest. Opener ...
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Nazxul is a black metal band spawned in Australia in 1993, and to date they have released 2 full lengths in 1995 and 2009. Here we see their ...
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Comments Off on Review: Nazxul “Irkalla” [Seance Records]
Getting into the more obscure branches and scenes of death metal appears to me as a bit challenging. A genre as specific as progressive death metal, to me, ...
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Comments Off on Review: Xenolith “Obscure Reflections” [Careless Records]
The debut full-length album “Fallen Anthems” from German band Dawn Ahead was released this spring by Art Gates Records, known for loyal attitude for all the modern metal ...
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This April Dead Center Productions has re-released digitally the debut album “Rock n’ Roll Possession” of Columbian speed metal band Witch Hunt. And this perky record is like ...
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Is metal in your head? It will be, by the end of this enjoyably epic and over-the-top heavy metal album. What can you expect from this album? Lots ...
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Comments Off on Review: Wizard “Metal In My Head” [Massacre Records]
By the time the 80’s were over, several death metal bands tried to take death metal one step further and although bands such as Atheist and Death managed ...
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Comments Off on Review: Pestilence “Testimony of the Ancients” [R/C Records]