The Netherland’s Bloodphemy is back with their fourth full length album, “Blood Sacrifice.” Continuing on their path of heavy death metal, the music here is fast, grim, yet clear enough to enjoy in the vein of the likes of groups such as Immolation or mid era Morbid Angel. While there isn’t anything new here, the band opens with ‘Last Cry for Human...

29/09/2021

From hot and sunny Spain here is this duo dedicated to a death / brutal with multiple grindcore hues. Metator arrive at the first full lenght giving it the name of the first incarnation of the band, with whom they made themselves known in the previous decades and with whom they recorded a first demo in 2006. Metator do not go much for the subtle...

28/09/2021

Svneatr are a Canadian black metal group that try to avoid the traditional gimmicks of the genre and go for a more straightforward, yet atmospheric approach. On their second album “Chinook” the band continues that kind of folk black metal theme approach but don’t quite go the folk black metal route by adding in a lot of acoustic instruments or keyb...

27/09/2021

Polars Collide is a metal band from Denmark the five headed group is making music for a few years and already independently released EP’s and singles for a while. They are know for their unique groove metal style combined with death and progressive metal elements. With their first EP "One To Rise" in 2017 the band became known in the European metal...

23/09/2021

Today we are back in Australia in order to give you some details about the next LP from the band Runespell which is entitled "Verses In Regicide". As usual the sound is rotten, to believe that the more the sound is rotten the more it gives you a certificate of authenticity, it is a disease which is enormously current in the musical discipline of...

22/09/2021

Lvcifyre is a black/death band from England which is active since 2007. They've released their last stuff on September 10th, 2021. A pure black-death metal album which brings you chaos and you can feel anti-social and riot in each track. it gets you to the 7th floor of the hell. "The Broken Seal" includes 9 tracks and it a magnificent album if you...

21/09/2021

Axedra is a band that was formed in Russia in 2008 by the brothers Ramil Garipov (guitar/vocals) and Ilnur Garipov (guitar). At some point they moved to Vancouver, Canada which is where they release their debut full length album "Mass Deception". With the help of Logan Charron on bass and Daniil Volovik on drums, the Garipov brothers have create...

20/09/2021

Second official album for Monument Of Misanthropy, a band that includes George Wilfinger on vocals (Disfigured Divinity) and Cédric Malebolgia (ex Swart Crown / Putridity) on drums. "Unterweger" is a brutal death metal album like it hasn't been heard in a long time. In the 11 tracks that make up this work (the twelfth is a cover of the great Mor...

14/09/2021

Having formed in 1998, it makes sense that Portugal's Biolence are still obsessed with the old-school death metal crossover thrash sound, as presented in their 2021 EP release of "Enslave, Deplete, Destroy". If you're a genuine death metal fan, there's literally nothing disappointing on this twenty-four minute long release other than it may be too...

13/09/2021

It is done I decided to spend part of the year in Finland, the country not only that of 1000 lakes but also of 1000 metal bands and as you will understand your humble servant will review an LP of a... Finnish band! Surprising, is not it? There are so many talented bands over there that you could get lost! However, I am starting to find my way ar...

09/09/2021

Short intro and then all hounds of hell are unleashed upon the poor listener. Unaware of what will follow, you stay as you were, comfy in your chair, until these ravagers from Turkey hit the first notes. “Ethereal Realm” is the first full length of Gore Dimension and this is what we call “Stepping in the right foot”. Swirling riffs, bringing in...

07/09/2021

Melting Eyes is a new death metal band from the Netherlands but its line-up consists of experienced musicians who have played in bands like Warmaster, Compos Mentis and The Impaler. "My Final Resting Place" is their debut EP in which they offer six tracks of first-class death metal. The first two tracks 'Bringer Of War' and 'My Final Resting Pla...

06/09/2021

Well, yes I am again in Finland, I will end up going to live there as my boss makes me review bands from the land of a thousand lakes! Yes yes it is also the name which one gives to this small country, large not by its number of inhabitants but by the quantity of talented bands which reside there! If France can boast of being the world champion in...

02/09/2021

One cannot talk about Bulgarian death metal scene and not to mention the name of Concrete. These Cannibal Corpse-worshipping death metal psychos started the band in 2011 and "Ethereal Atrocities" is their fourth full-length album, released by the German RTM Productions. What you'll find here are nine tracks of pure old school death metal in the vei...

01/09/2021

Militaria are a military themed metal act from Gold Coast Australia. Except some brutality and skill that is certainly unique to the act. Militaria's newest album entitled "Remains With Pain" is a different kind of album then I'm used to predominantly about war times the whole album adds brutal realism to blast beats and guitar skill combined wi...

31/08/2021