This delves right into the meat of it: scornful deathgrind with fat power chord grooves, high-energy tremolo picking over blasts, riddled with technical riffing often of the experimental variety. ...
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Hatesphere are one of these Nordic bands that contributed to what could be considered the second wave of Euro melodic death metal after the first wave from the ...
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Comments Off on Review: HateSphere “Ballet of the Brute” [Scarlet Records]
The history of Evildead is quite similar to the history of Possessed, except the tragic incident, of course: Evildead was also formed in the middle of 80s, released ...
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Comments Off on Review: Evildead “United $tate$ Of Anarchy” [Steamhammer/SPV]
I found Godsnake accidentally in some Telegram channel, dedicated heavy music: someone had posted their video from the debut album Poison Thorn with acrimonious words “Metallica should find ...
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Comments Off on Review: Godsnake “Poison Thorn” [Massacre Records]
All aboard the bandwagon. The year is 2003, and everybody wants a piece of the trending melodeath sensation. In places like North America bands were mixing only elements ...
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Comments Off on Review: Callenish Circle “My Passion // Your Pain” [Metal Blade Records]
Max Cavalera and Alex Newport trade vocals and influences on an album that sounds somewhere between new Sepultura/early Soulfly and mid-period Godflesh. It’s basically a mix between the ...
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Comments Off on Review: Nailbomb “Point Blank” [Roadrunner Records]
How about some occult and evil blackened thrash? With some heavy riffs, weird vocals and satanic rituals? There is a definite heaviness and evil atmosphere in this album. ...
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Comments Off on Review: Black Sun Brotherhood “God & Beast” [Metal Blast Records]
The new project of musician JP Damron BleakHeart, which subsequently became a full-time band (with the members from such bands as Dreadnough or Across Tundras), has released their ...
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Comments Off on Review: BleakHeart “Dream Griever” [Sailor Records]
The brand new Swedish duet Consumption this September has released their debut album “Recursive Definitions of Suppuration” through the Mexican extreme label Iron, Blood and Death Corporation, presenting ...
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Comments Off on Review: Consumption “Recursive Definitions of Suppuration” [Iron, Blood and Death Corporation]
Give everyone their due: this here is definitely intense. At least at first, before the initial effect and hopeful expectations wear off and the facade drops. The album ...
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Comments Off on Review: Morbid Angel “Formulas Fatal To The Flesh” [Earache Records]
On their first full length Sacramentum make an offering to the metal world in the form of melodic extreme metal somewhere between the sorrowful drama of early Swedish ...
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Comments Off on Review: Sacramentum “Far Away from the Sun” [Adipocere Records]
What would you do if there were six men in the band initially but now it’s just only two? Gathering a new line-up? Put the band on hold ...
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Comments Off on Review: Mors Principium Est “Seven” [AFM Records]
Italy’s Athon impress with a stunning debut of their take on the stoner doom genre. Right out of the gate, you can tell this band is up to ...
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Comments Off on Review: Athon “Athon” [Argonauta Records]
At the turn of the millennium, Immortal releases this quintessential black metal classic, often considered the band’s most eminent record along with the later ‘Sons of Northern Darkness’ ...
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Comments Off on Review: Immortal “At the Heart of Winter” [Osmose Productions]
Get ready for some magic and despair, never-ending melancholy, haunting music, sweet singing and desperate screams, because this is what this album sounds like. Draconian play the slow, ...
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Comments Off on Review: Draconian “Under A Godless Veil” [Napalm Records]
The last Hell:On‘s longplay to date, Once Upon A Chaos was released in far 2015. Three years later the band mentioned in some interview that they work on ...
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Comments Off on Review: Hell:On “Scythian Stamm” [Hell Serpent Music]
Way back during the earliest days of death metal, bands were looking for ways to produce the most extreme brand of music that would foreshadow the darker era ...
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Comments Off on Review: Atheist “Piece of Time” [Active Records]
This autumn after two-year gap the German/British band Leaves’ Eyes has presented their eighth full-length album “The Last Viking” in a long-term partnership with a German label AFM. ...
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Comments Off on Review: Leaves’ Eyes “The Last Viking” [AFM Records]
This year the French label Music Records has re-released for the third time the album “The Man of the Three Islands” from young French band MoSKowa. Originally it ...
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Comments Off on Review: MOSKOWA “The Man Of The Three Islands” [Music-Records]
Way back in 1986 during the early stages of metal, Florida was not known yet as the world capital of death metal but there was a band called ...
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Comments Off on Review: Crimson Glory “Crimson Glory” [Par Records]
