Surprisingly a nice album from this Czech band. Sacrosanctum plays a diverse mixture of metal styles filled with atmospheric elements, clean female vocals, violins and capturing melodies. But on the other hand you can hear influences from thrash, doom, gothic and just metal. Hard to describe the music but the call it themselves innovative and maybe...

26/02/2009

This is a solid death metal act. I would compare them to U.s. hardcore acts such as Hemlock and Pro-Pain. Very heavy thrash riffs with groove. The sound of their music is raw and firey. The songs on this EP were done in 2005 and two of the three are to be included on the soon to be released full-length "Storm The Walls," which should be a skorchin...

26/02/2009

20 years of Torment (Germany) completely over the top, 20 years of thrash 'n' roll lalalala.... This is easy rocking trash metal the German way... Simplistic catchy guitarriffs with influences of old hardcore, thrash and old school rock and heavy metal, dirty raw bassguitar sound and party thrashing drums. Vocals and lyrics are raw, crazy and "over...

26/02/2009

This disc is from 2003 and is my acquintance with the Dutch band Vermin. Professional looking disc with a CDROM track and that already earns some points. But the music is the important part of the disc. It starts with an intro from a torturechamber and runs over in a brutal death metal song with some thrash influences. Deep growls with some screams...

26/02/2009

This Dutch band send me their first recording after I wrote two nice reviews of their latest efforts. Although I had no intention to write this one but money made me think different. So the disc in my Apple and hit play. First I looked at the cover... yum yummy, and totally forgot what I heard, haha. So listened again and damn... I ran out of beer....

26/02/2009

This is the third disc of this black metal band from Ohio (USA). The band has released this by themselves and comes in a 6 page digipack with booklet. So the band has put effort in the layout. But have they also put effort in their writings? I must say they did. Their black metal is woven with death metal which leads to aggressive and heavy song...

26/02/2009

This young Finnish band won their countries Battle Of The Bands and Spinefarm picked them up. Here in 2007 their release their debut album "The Back Of Beyond". 11 Tracks that could end up in the alternative rock charts as they have a high MTV touch. Sing a long potential and danceable tunes make this album for your wife who is fed up with your col...

26/02/2009

Finland must be a terrible country to live in. Life is expensive, you have a lot of lakes, it is cold and no great soccer players. Maybe that is the reason why there are so many doom bands overthere. Depressed Mode is such band and started in 2005 and two years later they release their debut full length. 9 Tracks of mid tempo with heavy and slow gu...

26/02/2009

Dorn is symphonic black-death metal, elements of folk thrown in there. Teutonic black metal of the diabolical variety -- who do they sound like? Rammstein meets Falkenbach - I don't know. Maybe I'm the wrong person to ask but that's what I'm hearing. The album "Spiegel der Unendlichkeit" is the fifth full-length album by Dorn which began as the...

26/02/2009

Erythuria comes from Malta and was formed back in 2003, and if when mentioning about this country you're thinking of Maltese highlights Beheaded and Abysmal Torment, well, you're not far from the truth, as Erythuria includes also vocalist Melchior from Beheaded and former Abysmal Torment drummer Max Vasallo. "Annihilate to Repent" is their debut MC...

26/02/2009

What can you expect when reading the bandname, album title and soundtracks? Right! Unrelenting and uncompromising brutal death metal. In the 4 songs they manage to create an aggressive sphere with guttural vokills, stampede bassdrums and carving guitars. Tempo of the songs are high but with breaks to mid tempo but rapidly go back to full speed. Mel...

26/02/2009

Latest release (digipack) of Liholesie, an one man band with the sole member Sever. On the digipack you see images of a forest and on the inside you see not only his face laying on the ground but also a pic of an Amanita Muscaria. Maybe he ate that thing otherwise how can your mind create such atmosphere? Or maybe you have to eat it too to understa...

26/02/2009

This band comes from Norway and is playing a own mixture of styles. You find gothic, doom, thrash for instance. The vocals are done by a female with a wide range to tones. But it is a voice you like or don't like. It is not really doom as they are playing to fast for this but the atmosphere is sometimes dark. The songs are diverse and can be emotio...

26/02/2009

From Sweden and playing melodic death metal with doom parts this is Pandemonium. The guitars are heavily in front and determing the melodies, the drums can hammering and the vocals are different. And I mean they use 3 different vocal styles which add a nice and rich dimension to the music. The 7 songs have enough variety to entertain the whole 40 m...

26/02/2009

Black metal of the old school variety but with a twist. You've heard this type of thing before -- but not comin' from Southeast Asia, am I right? Hearing the raw distortion skorching through your skull like blasphemous flames burning through the black forest -- sure hope there wasn't a church built there -- feeling the hot hiss of serpent's breath...

26/02/2009