Gama Bomb er et band jeg ikke har ofret for mye tid tidligere, men nå hadde jeg bestemt meg for å sjekke ut hva bandet erg ode for. Ny skive kalt «The Terror Tapes» er ute og nå skal den til pers. Det første som slår meg er vokalen til Joe McGuigan. Den er for…
We currently thrive on internet closeness- where recommendations can come within your fingertips. Checking out the roster on Noisehead Records thanks to one of my editors, I came upon this Italian avant- garde progressive death metal band Eloa Vadaath- and then learned that members of Australia’s Ne Obliviscaris also speak highly of this quintet. This…
Doro Pesch took me by suprise this friday evening at John Dee. Everyone (almost) knows about Doro and her time in the now defunct german heavy metal band Warlock. They where forerunners of the German heavy metal scene in the early 80´s and influenced both young boys and girls to pick up their guitars and…
2. mai blir det kalaskonsert for fans av Iron Maiden i Bergen, for da kommer både PAUL DIANNO og BLAZE BAYLEY til Hulen.
Straddling the lines of thrash and death with a bit of low tuned rhythmic groove, the third album from Dutch quintet Mortal Form "The Reckoning" could appeal to a diverse metal audience who like things raw and fierce with bursts of musical melody enhancement. "At Fever Pitch" contains a thoughtful lead break in more of…
Å få gamal (1988) intens blodåresprengjande US Thrash på vitjing er ikkje småtteri; ein må henta fram Deathhammer for å få varma seg upp til slikt. (No er det ikkje dermed sagt at nokre (få) andre band her i lendet rundt Oslobygda like so gjerne kunne ha vore support, men) Når det kjem til desse…
(…this article is in English…)IN VAIN (Nor) er for tiden aktuelle med sitt tredje album kalt "Ænigma". Eternal Terror skribent Matt Coe likte skiva så godt at han gjorde et intervju med gitarist Johnar Haaland og her er resultatet fra deres kommunikasjon.
For de som er glad i gotisk rock, er Fields of the Nephilim et essensielt blad. Jeg kommer litt fra sidelinjen, og bandet har vel havnet noe i skyggen av The Cure og Sisters of Mercy. Konserten på Rockefeller viser likevel hvorfor bandet har den posisjonen de har, da de greier etablere en svært seig…
A double live album from the Fabio Lione fronted version of the band (as the split with guitarist Luca Turilli means we have two Rhapsody bands furthering their market share, his known as Luca Turilli’s Rhapsody), "Live- From Chaos to Eternity" contains 24 tracks and 106 minutes of symphonic power metal entertainment. Recorded on their…
A time of transition for this French progressive extreme metal act, as Hacride on album number four "Back to Where You’ve Never Been" gain new label support and break in two new members with drummer Florent Marcadet and vocalist Luiss Roux. This is my first chance to take in the quartet, and their blend of…
Heretic has to be one of the most widely used names for a metal act, so I should start by saying this is the Dutch Heretic and "Angelcunts and Devilcocks" is their fourth full-length. Those with finely honed deductive skills will probably have guessed the lyrical content from the title and cover artwork – Satan,…
Lee Dorian and his compatriots in doom metal icons Cathedral feel the time is right to put the band away, after 24 years from their first rehearsal days in 1989, numerous tours and festival dates, plus nine previous full lengths. "The Last Spire" is an 8 track, 56 minute journey into the land of stoner/…
Årets NEUROTIC DEATHFEST er lagt til den første helgen i mai og nå en uke før festivalstart er endelig lineup og tidsskjema klart. Med 44 av de beste death metal banda på kloden på plakaten, kan ikke dette bli noe annet enn et kalas av dimensjoner. Øverst på plakaten i år står DEATH TO ALL, CARCASS og UNLEASHED, men man regner nok med at band som POSSESSED, EXHUMED, CRYPTOPSY, CENTURIAN, DECREPIT BIRTH, NECROPHAGIA, IMMOLATION, REPULSION, OBSCURA, DEVOURMENT, DECAPITATED og MORBID SAINT også vil trekke fulle hus til 013 i Tilburg. Siden Neurotic Deathfest har sitt 10 års jubileum i år, har vi dratt inn festivalboss Ruud Lemmen for en prat.
Leaders of the new UK thrash breed, Evile return for their fourth full length album "Skull"- not content to streamline their riff assault in the hopes of major commercial breakthroughs. And why should they? Lead guitarist Ol Drake has an open invitation to perform with Germany thrash veterans Destruction on their albums (and live if…
They say you have a lifetime in a band’s career to refine and retool your debut album- and then half that time span (or shorter) to get a follow up out. Jacksonville, Florida traditional, melodic power metal band Artizan impressed this journalist right out of the gate with their debut album "Curse of the Artizan"-…
Swedish melodic hard rock band Saffire has been plugging away at their sound since 2005, recording a couple of demos and dealing with the normal lineup changes that often take place in getting a band off the ground. Their debut album "From Ashes to Fire" is a testament to 70’s and 80’s hard rock- engaging…
The four-piece Swedish death metal act The Resistance consists of some well-known musicians within the metal ranks. Guitarists Jesper Stromblad and Glenn Ljungstrom of course had ties to Hammerfall, Dimension Zero and In Flames, with vocalist Marco Aro formerly involved in The Haunted. Drummer Christofer Barkensjo is the relative unknown, but if you do a…
Undergrunns plateselskap finnes det noen av her i Norge og enkelte av dem tilbyr vinyl. Derfor er vårt tredje kapittel i «A Dive…» med utvalgte personer i slike plateselskap. Vårt offer denne gangen er Ole A. Aune fra Terratur Possessions.
Formed out of the ashes of Lord Belial, Sweden has a new black/death metal unit to appreciate with Death Tyrant. Their debut album "Opus De Tyranis" contains 9 songs of aggressive black metal screams, equally extreme riffing and rhythms that recall the best mixture of the two genres from Scandinavian lands. The band intertwine this…
Dark Descent records is a brilliant label at finding and releasing metal from obscure bands all over the world and even though Desolate Shrine is not exactly an newcommer to the genre, their death metal sophomore album "The Sanctum of Human Darkness" from late 2012 is a perfect example of the quality Dark Descent delivers…
