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...

26/02/2009

This is the way I like to hear death metal. Fucking pure brutality, fast hammering drums, aggressive vocals, furious riffing with leads, tempo changes, short songs etc. Well can't make more of this rather than this is a very nice album for the fans of aggressive death metal.

26/02/2009

From Lyon, France, Kemet play really fucking cool dark gothic metal. "The Rules Of Equlibrium" is 9 songs of somber soundscapes thats remanicant of bands like Katatonia, Type O Negative, Borknagar and Tiamat.  Provocative, and spell-binding, a must hear for anyone who enjoys charismatic, emotionaly driven music.

26/02/2009

If Vital Remains and Darkthrone had a child, Aguynguerran would be it's magnificent unholy abomination. I was blown away by this cd and the sheer chaos and evil of it. I can describe this cd is one word: Extraordinary. But one word doesn't give it justice, there's too much good to be said about it. Perverting the Nazarine Cult starts out with a ver...

26/02/2009

Dutch extreme band Collision is mixing grind with hardcore and thrash. What you get is a violent straight in your face wall of sound that swings. Yes it swings because the short songs have melody and groove. Combining it with the two vocals give it something extra. Collision doesn't take everything serious as you can see in some titletracks. You ca...

26/02/2009

Depression is definitely not an appropriate name for this german band that delivers raw well powered death metal in Ein kakophonischer Lebenshauch. Recorded in 2007 in front of a live audience, Depression has been around since 1989. This band dishes out an assortment of songs from their long span as a band. I truly believe in the need for more live...

26/02/2009

Doro Pesch is a German vocalist who is showing her talents for almost 25 years. And I am not only referring to her looks... She started with the band Warlock and released some albums before she went solo in 1988. Under her own name she released several albums, EPs and DVDs. This EP comes in May 2007 and contains 5 audio tracks and also 5 videoclips...

26/02/2009

The obvious that after Volume 1 there is volume 2. The first one was released in 2003 so lets see what they found in the last two years. Again a wide range of musical taste of Italian bands. Three bands I know (Disease, No Reason and Sudden Death) and the rest is totally new for me. The bands I like are Cruel Face Of Life (metalcore), Plasma (punk/...

26/02/2009

Another nice band on Anticulture hat releases a new album. Gutworm is also from the UK and plays modern extreme metal. But Gutworm take their metal into an old school alley and add moderness to the sounds. Screamy and grinding vocals, fast tempo with drum blasts and piercing guitars in aggression and brutality. Or you can call it death grind if you...

26/02/2009

Stygian Crypt Productions is a label from Russia that is releasing bands fromthat area. Bands that play death, black or doom but this release is totally different. Liholesie plays folkish darkwave and is totally instrumental. It is like you are listening to medieval folkish music you can hear sometimees in movies. But maybe that comes more close, i...

26/02/2009

From Germany this is Mausoleia with their first full length. Death metal with influences of thrash and black mostly sounding like an aggressive attack of an obscure disease. Powerfull songs with a lot of variation in drumming and a good example for tightness and technique. Guitarriffs sound thrashy and old school like driven by demons with massive...

26/02/2009

Is this still called nu-metal? Don't know if nu-metal still exists? Panic Cell plays metal with rock touches and other classic metal influences. Clean male vocals but yet a bit aggressive, hacking guitarriffing and mid tempo songs. Not afraid to put some slow atmospheric parts in the songs. Sometimes remind of bands like Pantera indeed. The sound i...

26/02/2009

This album is rated as unique metal and with this kind of words you have to be careful. To be honest I don't think it is unique. But hey, no band is unique these days, Quadrivium was started as a side project of musical composer Erlend Antonsen and vocalist Lars Jensen somewhere in 2005. Because they got so many ideas they decided to compose a tri...

26/02/2009

Guitarist Curran Murphy is a former member of Nevermore who now has his own project Shatter Messiah in which his guitar virtuosity is given the opportunity to really shine. "Never To Play The Servant" by Shatter Messiah is a well-produced hardcore death metal album with melodic flare and plenty of technical briliance to boot. Shatter Messiah vocali...

26/02/2009