While I’m certainly not a huge technical thrash metal fan to begin with, certain albums remain wonderful to me and as far as I’m concerned, you can’t get ...
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Comments Off on Review: Coroner “Punishment for Decadence” [Noise Records]
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There are a few albums out there that marked the harsh beginning of several bands that seem to be underrated, or perhaps underappreciated nowadays. Think of Therion’s Of Darkness…, ...
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Comments Off on Review: Tiamat “Sumerian Cry” [C.M.F.T. Productions]
For some reason I was convinced that Darkness Death Doom was the Runemagick album that changed the band’s dynamics for the worst, but fortunately I was rather mistaken. Yes, the ...
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Comments Off on Review: Runemagick “Darkness Death Doom” [Aftermath Music]
There are a few misconceptions that people who are new to metal usually make. One includes the assumption that anything slightly slower than a sub-genre’s usual trademarks would ...
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Comments Off on Review: Mystic Charm “Shadows of the Unknown” [Shiver Records]
Cemetary are one of those weird bands to me; not because of their stylistic changes (since those weren’t uncommon in the 90s to begin with), but more because ...
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Comments Off on Review: Cemetary “Black Vanity” [Black Mark Production]
After eighteen years of silence Norwegian black/death/thrash metal legends Vulture Lord have returned with their second full-length album Desecration Rites through underground label Odium Records. And considering the ...
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Comments Off on Review: Vulture Lord “Desecration Rite” [Odium Records]
In late June American melodic death metal band The Absence has released their fifth full-length album Coffinized via M-Theory Audio. And again they have stayed true to their ...
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Comments Off on Review: The Absence “Coffinized” [M-Theory Audio]
Tiamat are certainly no favorite band of mine, but I can’t deny that there was something unique about their early records… for better or worse. Even the occult ...
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Comments Off on Review: Tiamat “Clouds” [Century Media Records]
Here’s a vicious piece of blackened death/thrash metal, with some interesting ideas but a rather uneven set of songs. This album has an interesting title, and starts with ...
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Comments Off on Review: Expunged “Into Never Shall” [Hells Headbangers Records]
Although it would take Vicious Rumors three years to release a second album, Digital Dictator would be the definite album of this band and it’s easy to see why. There’s ...
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Comments Off on Review: Vicious Rumors “Digital Dictator” [Roadrunner Records]
Stormnatt… a band that I have been aware of, since earlier this year. I never knew that Antimessiah was ever even a part of this band, initially. I ...
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Comments Off on Review: Stormnatt “The Crimson Sacrament” [Ashen Productions]
There are two things you can be certain about when it comes down to Metal Church. For one, they retained a sense of integrity over the decades. Second ...
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Comments Off on Review: Metal Church “Hanging in the Balance” [Rising Sun Productions]
Like an ugly, yet captivating painting that somehow manages to capture’s one attention, Rain upon the Impure is one of those things that could only fall under the category of ...
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Comments Off on Review: The Ruins of Beverast “Rain upon the Impure” [Ván Records]
I’m not sure why, but I can’t help but think that Metal Church’s later period has been rather overlooked. A shame, really, as I’ve recently dived into the ...
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Comments Off on Review: Metal Church “Masterpeace” [Nuclear Blast America]
While I’ll clearly call myself a Paradise Lost fan, Drown in Darkness – The Early Demos wasn’t something I was necessarily looking forward to. Lost Paradise still ranks as the worst ...
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Comments Off on Review: Paradise Lost “Drown in Darkness – The Early Demos” [Century Media Records]
This band describe their music as “tortured blackened death metal”, and indeed, this is a great way to describe this eerie, heavy, strange and experimental album. So get ...
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Comments Off on Review: Withered “Verloren” [Season of Mist Underground Activists]
Cryopathic Thanatology is a newly formed death metal project by Karnatorh (guitars, bass & songwriting) and Ossilor (vocals) or by their own words: „A death metal project formed ...
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Comments Off on Review: Cryopathic Thanatology “Untold Stories of the Morgue”
One thing I find really amusing with this Progressive Black Metal outfit from London is how they manage to change their sound for each album without losing their ...
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Comments Off on Review: Code “Flyblown Prince” [Dark Essence Records]
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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Comments Off on Review: Torfrom “Culto al terror” [Australis records]
Here is a nice little split disc, where although you wish there was more music to get your hands on, what actually is there is fairly satisfying. The ...
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Comments Off on Review: Taake / Helheim “Henholdsvis” [Dark Essence Records]
