US three piece Horrendous follows up their brilliant debut "The Chills" with another masterpiece. "Ecdysis" is a modern death metal masterpiece, enough said.It has "almost" everything required to satisfy hungry DM fanatics eager to hear something new and fresh. The sound, the arrangments, the vocal, the formidable riffs. It´s all here on "Ecdysis" and after…
"Redemption Waves" is the debut album from Belgian quartet 23 Acez, and it’s very much in line with a lot of the modern melodic rock that you would expect coming out of the radio airwaves in North America these days. Guitarist Zors Willaert has an engaging, ear-pleasing vocal delivery that has the right grit and…
Primordial´s heart and soul lies within the chest of frontman(mastermind) Alan Averill. His unique take on black metal with celtic influences from his homeland of Ireland has kept the listernes on their toes every time a new album have been announced and there was no exception on "Where Greater Men have Fallen" Primordial´s eight full-length…
The album is built up in a very special way, and it is easy to choose favorite parts. The backside of the medal is that most other parts seems a little bit dull and uninspired at times. It would maybe be a smart move for "Satan" to wait a bit longer with his next release,…
An hour long odyssey, Italy’s Caronte displays expert appeal in all things doom metal related on their second full-length "Church of Shamanic Goetia". The average track length at almost 9 minutes per (only "Black Mandala" has a conventional 5:32 timeframe, its low-tuned boogie arrangement possibly the most accessible song of the seven), the quartet live…
There’s something about Finnish gothic metal/rock that embeds itself deep into all your emotional crevices, bringing shadows and thoughts to the light, exposing areas that need attention for the betterment of life. Scapes is a duo in the recording studio (expanded to a quartet for live shows) and on their debut album "One:Unseen:One" revel in…
2004 ble både et godt år og et dårlig år for Cadaver fansen. På vårparten av året kom "Necrosis", bandets fjerde album ut, bandet spilte konserter og alt var bare fryd og gammen. Men bare et lite halvår senere kom nyheten om at bandet takket for seg og moroa var over for godt. Jeg hadde gleden av å se dem selv to ganger dette året. Først på releasekonserten på Garage i Oslo og senere i Trondheim. Jeg gjorde også to intervjuer med Anders "Neddo" Odden den gangen. Det første var i forbindelse med plateslippet av "Necrosis" mens det andre (og siste) var i forbindelse med pressemelddingen om at bandet takket for seg. Begge disse intervjuene ble publisert i 2004 men savnet etter bandet er her fortsatt og derfor velger vi å publisere begge disse intervjuene samlet nå.
Self-described as purveyors of ‘stadium metal for the masses’ according to their Facebook page, Neonfly on their second album "Strangers in Paradise" straddle the melodic metal and modern hard rock platforms through this 10 song effort. Occasional symphonic keyboard flourishes on "Heart of the Sun" give the style a little more pep, but the choppy,…
Italiensk grindcore type Rotten Sound. Kjapp grindcore med skrikevokal og masser av drivende riff. Slitsomt for den vanlige mann og kvinne, sikkert konge for blodfansen. Selv ble jeg lei etter halvspilt skive. Slet meg gjennom to hele runder og det blir det jeg kommer til å høre fra denne skiva.
Islands metalstolthet SOLSTAFIR skal legge ut på en ny Europaturne i begynnelsen av 2015 og Norge er beæret med en konsert i begynnelsen av februar. Dette skjer på Rockefeller i Oslo. Datoen er 6. februar. BLACK DEBBATH spiller også denne kvelden.
Genital Putrefaction er et polsk death metal band, og dem er det en del av i Polen. Men dette bandet har i motsetning til de fleste av sine landsfrender valgt en mer svensk oldschool approach til sjangeren og stiller med nedstemte gitarer og null trigging. Me like. Minner mye om tidligere Grave, Dismember og Entombed.…
Five albums in, a controversial line-up change and a death in the family. So how are Slipknot holding up? The answer isn’t entirely clear. For the first half of the album, it seems they are in the best form of their lives. I haven’t seen as high a blastcount from the masked marauders before and…
The French black metal entity known as Noctem.Cursis unleashed its debut album containing 9 songs a few months ago. Musically speaking, the album, which is entitled "Nocturnal Frost", draws pretty heavily on some of the old Norwegian black metal titans and releases dating from the blackened 90s. Noctem.Cursis performs symphonic, epic, and melancholic black metal…
Skelethal play their death metal as if it was 1992 and they were going out to support Entombed on some Earache sponsored tour. The guitar sound and the chosen pathway evoke the early days of the DM genre so closely. It is not just the doom-heavy guitars but the whole approach reeks of the scene…
Hva har Tom Angelrippel, Dag Ingebrigtsen, Zakk Wylde, Billy Idol og Ronnie James Dio til felles med Pink Floyd, Gehennah, Korn, Coffin Fuck og Laserguys? De har alle spilt inn egne versjoner av julesanger. Eternal Terror kjører på med 24 julesanger av nevnte band og artister. Mye bra og mye moro og noe tull og tøys.Og 24 er det ikke 😉
On first stepping into "Where Greater Men Have Fallen" I felt the gentle tug of disappointment. It sounds so much like ‘Redemption at the Puritan’s Hand’ and ‘To the Nameless Dead’ that it looked as if the Irish five-piece had made no effort at all to push the boundaries of their sound into new territory.…
Starting out as a Gamma Ray tribute act before writing their own original material, Italy’s Deimos has a little of that German power sound in their debut album "Beyond" for certain. Differentiating themselves from the norm is drummer Massimo Goletti, who performs more of a progressive shuffle style amidst his double bass and standard metal…
The sixth album for this Danish sextet, it’s obvious to those who have followed Raunchy’s career arc that their sound has transformed from its early roots to current incarnation. If you own the early Nuclear Blast albums "Velvet Noise" and "Confusion Bay", they definitely came from more of a modern thrash/ groove background in line…
Annihilated is a brutal death metal trio from Los Angeles, California – starting in 2010 and releasing an EP entitled "Injected" in 2012 prior to this 11 track debut album "XIII Steps to Ruination". Lyrically tackling open thinking and hard hitting topics on "Global Enslavement", "Eradication Profits" and "For the Ignorant" differentiates them significantly from…
Ute for å dø; myrketid, lumske vetter, attgangarar og anna ufryskje. Eit ubestemmeleg ondt drag i lufta, fjernt frå sol og varme, noko frå the derelict tracts der nede. Eg kulsar medan eg dreg meg opp bakken til musikkbula Revolver. Frå det eine myrkret til det andre. Nede i kjellaren er det tjukt fullt stappa…
