It would be tempting to write Dream Death off as a Celtic Frost worship band and yet, I’m convinced that Dream Death have more personality than that some ...
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On 28th October Norwegian black metal veterans Dimmu Borgir have released the remastered and remixed version of their legendary album Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia via Nuclear Blast Records. Originally ...
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On the Wings of Inferno remains one of those unexpected albums that’s more impressive than you would imagine. Think about it; the year is 2000 (not exactly a hot ...
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Comments Off on Review: Asphyx “On the Wings of Inferno” [Century Media Records]
The correlation between thrash and death metal is an interesting one. Not because the most brutal and early variants are easily associated with another, but rather how the ...
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Comments Off on Review: Necrodeath “Fragments of Insanity” [Metalmaster Records]
Imagine the following: after writing In the Pandemonium, Tom Warrior decided to take a trip to Brazil and met some members of Mutilator and Vulcano. Mutual respect for each ...
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Comments Off on Review: Panic “Rotten Church” [Woodstock Discos]
Three Ukrainian bands: 1914, Stoned Jesus and White Ward will play at Hellfest 2023. Hellfest 2023 will take four days, from 15 to 18 June, 2013 at Clisson, ...
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Once one has become familiar with the big thrash metal bands and decides to dive into the underground, finding quality bands can be a challenge. Deathrow are an ...
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Comments Off on Review: Deathrow “Raging Steel” [Noise Records]
The trends of the music industry dictated that bands needed to fit a weird set of standards in order to sell more and more. As expected, Metallica was ...
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Comments Off on Review: Metallica “Metallica” [Elektra Records]
Let’s continue the reviews of gothic metal reeditions! This new release of Type O Negative’s last album isn’t as good as Lacuna Coil’s new version of Comalies, and ...
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One fascinating aspect that made many thrash metal bands great was their ability to evolve within a style that clearly has its limits. Sodom started with their outbreak ...
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Comments Off on Review: Kreator “Coma of Souls” [Noise Records]
When I think of Brazilian black metal, or South American extreme metal general, I usually think of music that sounds extremely barbaric and primal. It almost seems to ...
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Comments Off on Review: Patria “Hexerei” [Dawnrazor Records / Ketzer Records / Helvete Records]
What’s the deal with the dramatic side of doom/death metal and pretentious album titles? I’ve stumbled upon Desire’s Infinity… A Timeless Journey Through an Emotional Dream and Love History’s The Astral ...
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Comments Off on Review: As Divine Grace “Romantic Beatitude of Faded Dawn” [Folter Records]
Generally, bands go through their classic phase as they often release a series of goodies before changing style or watering down by becoming shadows of their former selves. ...
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Comments Off on Review: Kreator “Extreme Aggression” [Noise Records]
Just in time for the kick-off of their nearly completely sold-out tour with Lorna Shore, cinematic extreme metal masters ABORTED have released ‘Infinite Terror’, their first single in partnership with ...
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Pittsburgh’s Mantic Ritual return after thirteen year absence to grace out ears with an album of classic thrash tunes. Heart Set Stone is a rather quick release of ...
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The resurgence of Thrash metal in the last decade or so has certainly had a lot of buzz in the metal community, and you could say that the ...
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Comments Off on Review: Hatriot “The Vale of Shadows” [Massacre Records]
Life is pain. In both immeasurable atrocities and mundane disappointments, there is only acceptance that no one gets out alive, no one escapes without scars, and no one ...
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Comments Off on Review: Sidus Atrum “Spiral of Life” [Kvlt und Kaos Productions]
The Scum are just about exactly what you think of when you read “The Scum”. This is ugly, visceral, right-up-in-your-face death metal, with elements of grimy crust punk ...
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Comments Off on Review: The Scum “The Hunger” [Rotten Records / Satanath Records]
Since In Grief’s An Eternity of Misery has recently come out, I decided to revisit the EP that I had heard years ago, but back then had quickly forgotten about. ...
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Comments Off on Review: In Grief “Echoes of Doom” [Ablaze Productions / Ripping Storm Records]
Unlike several other countries, Norway’s contribution to the development of doom/death metal has been limited, but that did not mean that the country’s been without important figures. Bands ...
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Comments Off on Review: Syrach “Silent Seas” [Autonomy Productions]
