After 2 years Shattered Realm is back on the track with a new album. A mixture of metal and hardcore. Metal can be heard in the guitarriffs and hardcore you can hear in the vocalstyle. Blending together in stamping rhythms with a raw sound. Thrashy songs with typical breakdowns that resulting in moshparts. Songs that vary from 0.55 seconds to 2.58...

26/02/2009

Started as a cover band it took 3 years to form Steel Assassin in 1983 with their own tunes. The band is hailing from Boston and is heavily influenced by the European heavy metal scene from that era. The band disbanded in 1985 but after a reunion in 1988 they came together in 2005 to write new material. And almost 25 years after their start the alb...

26/02/2009

The intro is a real calm downer. Than the 67 miutes you hear songs that they call Gothic Wave. This album follows their debut and shows a lot of progression in songwriting, playing and production. Melodies like The Cure, melancholic parts like Katatonia and touches of Pink Floyd, Anathema and Paradise Lost. Not really an album that makes you crazy...

26/02/2009

New album of Arckanum and the name Trulen means trolls in English. This album is actual a re-release of the 1994 tape release. The last 3 songs are unreleased. The quality of the sound is recorded on a 4 track deck and therefor sounding primitive and raw. Cold and grim vocals, hars riffing and drums are sounding too far away. Also hearing other ins...

26/02/2009

Fifth album from Bethlehem. German lyrics ofcourse on these songs that walk a path of dark, gothic rock metal. The melodies are floating on melancholy, the tempo is from doomy to mid tempo rock. Vocals are sounding various and like a bard sometimes. When suddenly with track 6 they start to play more black metal and then back to doom. And when you l...

26/02/2009

After their 2003 release "Mass Emission" is became quiet on the death metal front. Playing around kept them alive and in 2007 they release a 3 track promo (also downloadable for their site). With this they are seeking a label as they recorded 8 tracks for their second album. Caedere plays brutal US death metal with mid paced and fast parts through...

26/02/2009

Evil And Passion is the third release of this Italian band. Dark Secret plays death metal on the Swedish style but mixed with US style. The songs are brutal but with feelings for melody. The technical skills are there to play the songs in a passioned way. Nice focus on the guitars with good leads. Vocals are straight from the grave and could some m...

26/02/2009

4 Tracks from their upcoming new album. Fornication plays brutal death metal and they continue their rage after their previous album. A bit faster and tighten than before but still hard as a rock. Vocals are deep growling, very fast and prominent drumming and raw guitars. The songs have enough melody to tickle your senses. So after hearing these 4...

26/02/2009

After their stunning debut "Disturbance" Italian death metal monsters are back. "Pageantry For Martyrs" just continues the killing. Fast and furious songs. Variation with breaks and even faster accelerations. Deep and brutal vocals, flashy guitarriffing and intense drumming. 10 Songs that are having great production and identity. Hour Of Penance is...

26/02/2009

Insaintfication is one more band baiano that executes Thrash Metal fast, aggressive and killer. The band threw a single with two songs with the objective to pré-publish the debut album that will be thrown. The production is great, Thiago Nogueira (Ungodly) was responsible for it, and the graphic art was made by Ricardo Sanct (Veuliah). If you are o...

26/02/2009

Nasoni Records is releasing this debut album as it was original released on vinyl and is sold out. Mos Generator from the USA and is playing a mixture of stoner, psychedelic, rock and blues. This combination make the songs unpredictable and attractive because of the diversity in the tracks. It is powerful and atmospheric, clean vocals, rocky guitar...

26/02/2009

An interesting if not arduous slab to review, especially at a time when NILE’s position over the years has been attained by challenging a death metal scene that reacts from one extreme of acknowledging NILE in their monolithic stance as shapers of things to come, to on the other hand a section stressed out by their over-the-top vents of creation. E...

26/02/2009

Sad Eyed Angel is from my neck of the woods, Chicago, IL. They claim on their myspace page that they are influenced by the blues but I do not hear it in the album Buried Face Down much (it is there a little). Instead, I hear grind style musical voicing and a solid scream-growl vocal. Ryan' O-myte (think that might be a pseudonym?) has a throat that...

26/02/2009

On this split you find two Finnish bands. The first one is The Carnival who play the first three songs. Short songs in a raw old school metal style. It bends towards death metal with some black touches. The first track is fast while the second is more midtempo and the last track leans on Hellhammer/Celtic Frost. Enormity has the honour to close...

26/02/2009

Old School Death Metal from this dutch outfit. Torment Engraved have crafted 6 songs of brutal and technical perfection. These songs are played the old school way with there own twist, capturing the essence of our forefathers Death, Cannibal Corpse, and Grave. Brith-Faliure-Death... before you get to option 3, you have to check these guys out. This...

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