A new black metal act from Poland that is releasing their debut in 2003. 12 Tracks on this disc but with 3 intros there are 8 tracks that must prove their capability. Fast, furious, surprising, darkness, heroic and hatred. Nice drumming. Also the use of keys and not only as a background support but duelling with the guitarriffs. The velocity of the...

26/02/2009

Italian thrash-core metal band Kernel has released their 2nd demo called "Escape Or Kill". 6 Tracks that go straight forward with the meaning to hit you in the face. Well, they don't succeed completly. They use shouty vocals, short thrash riffs in up tempo songs, adding breaks but it ain't faceblasting. It is not bad at all but it could be a bit mo...

26/02/2009

Ahnenstahl is a project from Falagar and Chester. Their demo album "Zweilicht" was released in 2003 and now in 2006 their debut full length is out. 7 Tracks in a pagan black metal coat. The concept of the album is dealing with human mortality and consciousness over death. Sung in German but often almost narrated lyrics with a heroic touch. Melancho...

26/02/2009

Seems like living in Russia is depressing for lot of people because a lot of doom bands stand up these days. A sub genre for doom is funeral doom and Comatose Vigil is a part of it. Released this full length in 2005 while a new EP was released in 2006. 4 Tracks of utter slow tempo, deep growling vocals and a bit of atmospheric guitars and keys. Ver...

26/02/2009

Suffer Productions is an underground label from Germany that has it roots way back in 1987 by a metal guy called Marc. During his activities in the underground the label developed and is now up to its 5th release. If you want to read the whole story you have to visit the website. On this 5th release there are two bands. The opening band is Depress...

26/02/2009

Powerful guitar riffs interwoven with bittersweet melodies and somber piano accompaniment, beauty and beast passionately vocalizing tales of love and loss, war and peace -- that is the sound of Draconian. The Burning Halo is a mixture of doom and goth that serves as a brilliant follow-up to their previous release "Arcane Rain Fell" from 2005. This...

26/02/2009

Swedish style death metal from the Netherlands. On this totally self financed album there are 9 tracks that have a great focus on the guitarriffs but where are the leads? The songs are melodic but have some aggressive angles. Vocals are clean brutal but could use some variation. Tempo changes enough in the songs preventing the dullness. As a bonus...

26/02/2009

H-George is a self taught guitarist from Italy and because his bandmates were unreliable he decided to go his own way. So H-George is not only his name but also the name of the band. On this MCD he got help of drummer Carlos and vocalist Trevor (Sadist). The music you hear on this MCD is labeled Alocoholic Thrash Metal and this is explained in the...

26/02/2009

Lincoln Love Log again are spewing out an album to the grindfreaks on this wicked earth. And again topiced by BBQ and porn this disc is 33 minutes of wicked distortion. Musically you can mix grind and noise together and top it of with a BBQ sauce.The soundquality is between over the top and wet basement recordings. The album is split up in 8 studio...

26/02/2009

Baltimore is the hometown of Maypole and most of you won't know them. neither did I. But this album was originally released in 1971 and according the infosheet it is a classic. On this re-issue on CD you also get 2 bonus songs from the pre-Maypole era. The songs on this album are a hard rock version with psychadelic touches. Multiple vocals and hea...

26/02/2009

After a peaceful acoustid guitar intro all dirty hell breaks loose. The mexican band (2 necrocryptpusgrinders) with the most ridicilous name and the insane titletrack names plays gore grind. Hyper blast drums, ferosious guitars, brutal vocals all in compact songs with tempo changes and combined with sick lyrics make this album a wanna listen one. O...

26/02/2009

A brutal death metal band hailing from Sweden, Quest Of Aidance started early in 2004 and released their first demo Human Trophy, mastered by Unmoored's Thomas Johansson, in the fall. From then, Roy Yeo of Unmoored expressed interest in signing them to Pulverised Records. When Yeo was sent a copy of Human Trophy, a deal was struck that culminated i...

26/02/2009

From Canada comes this four pice metal band. Shatterpoint is playing is energetic and aggression. Started as beerdrinkers they quickly turned to serious songwriting. Performed live with well known bands gave them a promising name in the Toronto scene. On this MCD there are 6 songs in midtempo but with powerbreaks and accelerations. Vocals are diver...

26/02/2009

First my compliments about this self financed debutalbum. It looks very pro and made with lots of dedication. Now the music because that is what counts. SOD (hey...) plays death metal with melody and atmosphere (keyboards). Grunting vocals, guitars than change riffs frequently but where are the leads??? And the drums sound very powerful and have a...

26/02/2009

True metalheads from London. This is there 2nd album and as I don't know them before I enjoyed this one. Ten songs that are played well, tight and powerful and variety in melodies. Vocals are clean (sometimes too clean) and a guest appearance of Tomas Lindberg (ex At The Gates). Guitarriffs are intense and with some great leads. Really like the agg...

26/02/2009