Once again Zombi take us into the minds of the movie star murderers. The keyboards and the drums are the trench coats and the smoking guns. Tight ropes, bloody knifes. It’s easy to forget yourself while listening to this remembering lost scenes from movies you, perhaps, haven’t watched in years. If you’ve heard Zombi before…
Press play and it’s on! Your head is a castle door and Spearhead is the battering ram. Resistance is futile, the door will crack! Spearhead will winn! Ever since "Deathless Steel Command" Spearhead have been making their violent Death Metal more deadly and catapulting more people towards their fan base. Any hesitations I had about…
I missed out on Haeresiarchs of Dis’ debut album but I caught the second one when it was released by Moribund late last year. My take on that album was that people should think of Emperor during their early days, Arcturus in minority and Fleurety playing Irish folk music. Things are just as far out…
Gone are the screeching vocals I remember from Forgotten Woods. Now there’s a depressive feeling all around, like if somebody made Cranes very depressed and gave them a harmonica. High on garage. No barn photos. Wait a moment. De Profundis Domine. One point fourty. Return to past? I’d like it. Raw as fuck. Classy as…
In my opinion Invictus released one of 2010’s darkest Death Metal albums with Witchrist’s “Beheaded Ouroboros” and this year they might claim the price again if Antediluvian continue on the path they set out on in 2006 and release their debut this year. “Watcher’s Reign” follows the band from its beginning and gives you the…
Does man bring death once more? Does man bring doom once more? Indeed he does. The man being the four-headed beast known to us only as Necros Christos. Occult metal ov doom this is, pure and simple. Humble incantations. Divine tradition. www.darknessdamnationdeath.comwww.van-records.de
A bit of the classic, a bit of the old. Perhaps not something completely unexpected from a band that’s been slaving away for the last six years in a dank basement in New Jersey, USA. Abacinate offer a slab of unrelenting musclebound Death Metal which seems like it’s been made just to get you off…
Bands like Svartsyn need a bit of an introduction. Svartsyn has always been there, lurking in the shadows, releasing an album when we least expect it. Through the years there’s been the core of Ornias & Draugen but on "Wrath Upon the Earth" things are different. Draugen has left and Ornias has recruited two members…
Fen: An UK act formed in 2006 which is 3/4th Skaldic Curse, 1/4th Wodensthrone. De Arma: A Swedish act fronted by A. One letter, one man. Fen start things out with a heavy Enslaved feeling in “Soilbound”. As things progress it’s a smörgåsbord of Black Metal, shoegaze & a hint of a lot more. De…
"Darkness" is for the people that enjoy in your face Death Metal with a heavy Anti-christian / Anti-religious vibe. If you’re looking for an album where ancient grimoires are being recited you need to look elsewhere. When I got this album last year it didn’t sit right with me. Perhaps my expectations were too high…
If Sargeist has gone past you until now rectify it! "Let the Devil" in is a an album with few faults and will do well with anyone with a soft spot for mid paced Finnish Black Metal with more than occasional outbursts of speed and general madness! Everything flows very neatly here so it’s more…
What’s happening in Poland right now?! Moon reformed, Magnus reformed, Mastiphal reformed and Nergal of Behemoth swinging the axe against cancer! To the people in the know there are no surprises here! If you are familiar with Cezar’s work with Christ Agony as well as the previous Moon albums you are betting on a sure…
The kings of New York Black Metal have returned! Profanatica have quite the history. Following a dispute with their previous label Osmose the band split and their supposed debut was released under the wings of Candlelight Records as the debut of Havohej, Ledney’s main project at the time. Since their reformation in 2001 the band…
Magnus, by the bliss of it all, was one of the first bands from Poland I heard about. An amusing fact considering the fact that "Acceptance of Death" is the first time I hear the band’s music! Magnus is one of Poland’s old hordes, formed in 1987. Like many of their generation they hit the…
