Here's the dark souls from Dargonlord with their black wings of destiny. This is dark symphonic metal with elements of death and black. Heavy guitars playing massive riffs or fast melodic attacks. Drums are either pounding or raging more uptempo with double bassdrum parts. The heavy mid tempo parts are supported by keyboards to create an even darke...

26/02/2009

Starting in 1991 and after several changes they deliver their piece of death metal to the masses. Technical death styled metal with melody and great guitarleads that are a pleasure to listen to. Maybe this is a new step in the death metal scene to combine the brutal stuff with guitarsolos like Joe Satriani and Steve Vai. From the 10 songs there are...

26/02/2009

Fucking sick bastards these spanish pathology freaks. Under the lyrical guidance of Luisma a battery of grind noise terrorizes you for half an hour. Insane drumming, bizarre guitarleads and grinding voice leaves the marks in your ears and showing that Haemorrhage is one of the great grind bands around these days. For this result that can play the F...

26/02/2009

Formed in the nineties these guys are now ready to deliver their debut. On this disc these Danish metallers remastered their previous demos to let us part of their attack. Lipid plays nowadays metal but with some links to the old thrash legends. The songs are based on strong melodic guitarriffing, some good guitarleads (track 3), heavy drums and ag...

26/02/2009

Me and Him Call it Us is a three man band from Atlanta, Georgia. They already recieved good word of mouth from their four song demo, which lead up to this masterpiece album called "Loss". Simply titled, but a beautiful mix of complex songs. Me and Him Call it Us is easily considered a noise/grind band, but have just the right bits of melodic parts...

26/02/2009

The third record of the Czech experimental band represents a crossover of different styles from aggressive hardcore, viking riffs to funky even jazz pieces. It is more violent than the previous ones but it keeps melodic structure with nice clean guitars that go mad to distortion, blast-beats and growls. Bizarre, atmospheric male and female vocals a...

26/02/2009

Out of the dark comes this 4 piece band Quinta Essentia. Reading the press sheet and esing the artwork I am convinced that this band is dealing with the occult and transcedental magic. The songs are long but containing so much beauty. Musically it is on high technical skills and putting force out of thrash, death, doom and black metal. Tempo is int...

26/02/2009

The debut of this gothic, based on speed, metal band is an album with 9 tracks where the emphasise is on the guitarriffs, not strange when he write the music. The drums are creating a nice double bass wall of sound. The keyboards are there to give that extra touch but not overwhelming. The songs are changing their structure and tempo frequently. Th...

26/02/2009

Political Heavy Metal / Experimental Metal / Power Violence / Grindcore / Hardcore / Black Metal / Satanic Metal / Clown Metal / Vacation Metal / Stompcore / Anthem Metal / Stadium Metal / Circus Metal. This is what Stevie says about the Comp. I couldn't have it done better. This Comp is about freedom and that it is taken away from the government....

26/02/2009

Xcarnation is a project from Turkey combining electronic beats with heavy rock. Songs are based on modern rhythyms and beats, technological sounding guitars and cosmic keyboards. Songs have catchy rock character with listenable singing vocals and some experimental sidesteps. Variation and suprises are provided by pianoballads and traditional turkis...

26/02/2009

Another death metal band hailing from the Netherlands. Blasting death metal! Good focus on the guitars (I like the early guitar leads in the opening song, great!). Songs taht son't clock longer than 4 minutes. Clean brutal vocals, the aformentioned raving guitars, freaky basslicks and ramming drums. Tempo of the songs is fast but containing breaks...

26/02/2009

Australia is delivering a fucking nice band again. BTBG is a band formed in 2004 and now releasing a 4 track EP. A heavy mixture of grind and death metal and I mean furious! The songs are short but full of overwhelming power. Not only blasting with fast parts but also some melodic mid parts or a balladwise intro in the last track, although the begi...

26/02/2009

From Finland Callisto are spreading their philosophy abroad with this mix of sludgy hardcore and melodic stoner/doom. A story of apocalyptic darkness versus the light at the end of the tunnel. From the depths of depression and melanchloy build up instumental songs climaxing into an outburst of intense emotional aggression screaming at you from the...

26/02/2009

The band Darth from Germany started in 1995, had their live debut in 2001 and released this debut full length in 2003. Seeing the cover and the title (which have no connection together) it could be a grindcore band. But it is not true. Darth palys old school death metal with a touch of Bolt Thrower or old Obituary. Guitars that are melodic riffing,...

26/02/2009

Forteresse are two guys from Montreal (Canada) who started in 2006 a hommage to ancient traditions of patriotic and epic black metal. Moribond is handling all the instruments and Athros can be heard as the shrieking voice. On this album you get 6 songs and an intro like you are on a folkish beerfest, haha and you hear such intro with 2 oher songs....

26/02/2009