Mourning Beloveth - The Sullen Sulcus

This type of music (doom) is so depressive you wanna cry or maybe, better to kill yourself. Mourning Beloveth plays 6 tracks in 65 minutes! In those minutes you get the whole thing you paid for. The songs are well written and structured. The tempo is slow but there is enough variety to keep the tension in the long duration. The vocals are deep, mel...

26/02/2009

Nocturnal - Arrival Of The Carnivore

Ahha, what have we got in the blender tonight? Well, it taste a bit to Destruction, with a flavour Exodus, a nip of Sodom and a touch of Kreator. You need it shaken but ot stirred in a Nuclear Assault glass and you get this cocktail Nocturnal from Germany (were else?). Do you still drink your beer with your fist in the air, wear bulletbelts, leathe...

26/02/2009

Salacious Gods - Piene

Third album of one of the most destructive black metal bands from Holland. With adding a second guitarplayer the musical direction is much aggressive than before. The songs are raging on a continues high speed level with few mid tempo breaks. But the guitars are indeed heavy and with full force. Vocals are hellish and raw and with some titles in a...

26/02/2009

The County Medical Examiners - Olidous Operattas

The County Medical Examiners are a rather sinister brand of goregrind who have a knack for giving listeners the feeling of being toe-tagged and body-bagged!!! The good doctors are heavily influenced by early Carcass and one of them is rumored to be a former member of the band Exhumed. The musicians in TCME go by pseydonyms and their true identities...

26/02/2009

Total Death - Desolate Recollections

Total Death (Ecuador) is existing since 1991 and made 2 full length albums so far. On "Desolate Recollections" the band is exposing nine tunes in a melodic death metal collection with dark doom touches. Mostly mid tempo songs with breaks to faster parts. They even use a more of acoustic way to play. Raw vocals that are narrating, screaming or real...

26/02/2009

Vicious - Vile, Vicious & Victorious

Debut CD from this thrash death metal band from Sweden. The songs they play are a nice blend of the different styles and resulting in heavy, aggressive and melodic songs. Variation in tempo, dominating guitars, low vocals and clear production make the album energetic and it could no harm to check it out yourself. Don't expect some new inventions bu...

26/02/2009

A.I.D.S. - Syndrome Of The End Approaching

"Syndrome Of The End Approaching" is an album released on vinyl only. So when I say "album,"I can really mean it! This album is replete withcatchy anthems, razor guitars, expert drum work, and vocals with an old school ferocity. The first comparison that comes to my mind is Xasthur, as "A.I.D.S." like Xasthuris a one-man black metal tour de forc...

26/02/2009

Concours Circuit 2007 Rock Dur - Compilation

Compilations can be a great way to discover new bands... or they can be a really bad source of forgettable tunes. This is the latter. When a band does the screaming verse/soft chorus I am immediately turned off and think that someone in the studio wants to show the world that the group is capable of radio success... It's tired, boring, uninspired p...

26/02/2009

Desaster - Angelwhore

Hello, it's the evil motherfuckers from Desaster (Germany). Blackening the earth since 1998 this is their new release called Angelwhore. As you can see this is definitely not a commercial release. This disk contains the haunting thrashing blackmetal you can expect from a band like this. Mostly old-school riffs in between mid and up tempo varying fr...

26/02/2009

Drain Of Impurity -Sordid Acts Of Torture

Drain Of Impurity is a side project from Batu of Turkish Cenotaph. If you are familiar with Cenotaph you know what to expect. Ultra sick death grind with no respect for your existence. 7 Songs that totally erase your respect for humanity. If you are into the sick and twisted than contact Batu to get this piece of torture slaughter! No more words ne...

26/02/2009

Eternal - Satanic Templars Of The Dark Age

Spawned in the winter of 2001 these brutal French death metal band has now risen with this MCD. 4 Tracks of unrelenting death metal. Deep growling vocals, bass drum attacks and furious but yet melodic guitarriffing. Almost 20 minutes of devastation. Tempo is high but with slamming mid tempo breaks. Very nice MCD and curious what they are doing now...

26/02/2009

Haemorrhage - Haematology

Haemorrhage is a pathological grind band from Spain and they released a lot of stuff. Think of singles, splits, EPs and albums and it is almost impossible to have them all in your collection but now you can come close. Power It Up Records released "Haematology" which contains their singles from 1995 till 2005. So on this collection you find 34 song...

26/02/2009

Litham - Dhal Ennar

This is the first time I hear a band from Algeria. And it surprises me. Litham plays metal with a combination of Algerian music. The metal is technical, brutal and various and the traditional music gives it a pleasant touch. The technical skills are good which proves in the songwriting and great guitarparts. The band takes a risk in their country s...

26/02/2009

Meatyard / Maggots - Split

Another split release of No Escape Records. This time Meatyard from New Zealand and Maggots from Holland. Meatyard kicks off with 6 tracks on their first official release in their 10 years of existence. Is this negative or positive? Both. They play old school gore deathgrind in a very nice way but it is nothing new. The songs are oke but they miss...

26/02/2009

Parricide - Patogen

Awesome tight as hell percussion, and intelligent use of the whole drum kit, vox that are a storm of gastro-intestinal malaise and heavy riffage, all the better to bludgeon your nervous system with. Parricide are a fine example of brutal death-grind at its brutal finest. There is a lot going on in every track to keep you from getting bored upon rep...

26/02/2009