Callenish Circle - [Pitch.Black.Effects]
Latest effort of this Dutch band. On this album Callenish Circle expands their boundaries. Not only are the songs very strong but they also add some industrial sounds to it. But the majority is an effective mix of thrash and death metal with passion and melody. Vocals are sung in various styles, tempo is going up and down and the guitars are that t...
26/02/2009
Darkthrone - The Cult Is Alive
Already the 12th release from these Norwegians. Darkthrone started as a real raw black metal band and throughout the years they changed. Is it still black metal? I think so as it is still heavy, sinister and raw. But nowadyas it contains punk and rock n roll influences. Think of a mixture of Sodom, Celtic Frost, Venom and Bathory. The songs have a...
26/02/2009
Forseti - Erde
Forseti is a one man project from Andreas Ritter and he gets help from various people. Forseti is not metal but more medieval folk music with German language. In the songs you can hear instruments like violin, flute, cello and accordeon. And beside the male vocals also female. The songs breath an atmosphere of the middle ages and the German languag...
26/02/2009
H-Tray - Distressing Report
Step up and getcha pull of this french Quientet! By far "Distressing Report" is one of the best and most original albums I have heard this year. H-Tray take the best parts of Thrash, Hardcore, and Death Metal, and produce sonic fury. In you face clean to gutteral vocals, Insane Chops, A skilled rythmic drummer that Gene Hoglan himself might even...
26/02/2009
Insider - Simple water drops
This is a piece of psychedelic spacerock performed by Insider. Very much guitar oriented music based on fuzzy grooving guitarrrifs with cosmicclear or eardrumshredding leads floating above. From mid to more uptempo the atmosphere is set by straightforward songs with heavy and catchy riffs, dynamic yet basic drumming and victorious 70's hardrock voc...
26/02/2009
Mourners Lament - Unbroken Solemnity
Maybe you don't know this Chilean band but most likely you know the name of the Candlemass song taken from the "Nightfall" album. Keeping in mind that there are only three songs on this EP but the running time is 32 minutes. So any idea what kind of style they play? Right, they play doom with a touch of death. Low growling vocals on a whispering...
26/02/2009
Noctifer - Manifesto Superbia
Full length from Noctifer (Italy). This is an attack of pure raging blackmetal with straightforward and very much blasting drums, dual melodic blackmetal riffing, and hatefilled screaming. Songs have straightforward structures with some inventive rhythym variations and tempochanges and have hypnotizing effect also due to very clear and clinical pro...
26/02/2009
Sahg - II
The three Norsemen also known as Sahg is existing since 2004 and made one album sofar, simply called "I". Why spend a lot of time thinking about an album title? And so their new album is called "II". The band is playing a mixture of stoner and doom. Songs that have their inspiration in the bands like Black Sabbath, Trouble or Spiritual Beggars....
26/02/2009
The Classic Struggle - Feel Like Hell
The Classic Struggle delivers their Metal Blade debut in May 2006. An album containing 12 tracks in a modern thrash/death mixture. Songs that are compact and aggressive. Pluspoint is the drummer Tyler who fires rapid bassdrum blast throught the songs and pounds everything locked. Vocals are that metalcore/screamo and could be more thrashy. Riffing...
26/02/2009
Torture Incident / Brutal Insanity - Split
Split CD from two brutal noise grind acts. Torture Incident is the first one and comes from Malaysia and is ramming 16 songs thru your slitted throat. Hellish screamer, hammering drums and crashing guitars. Just sick songs with some weird intros. Brutal Insanity is more known and only delivering 5 songs of their raging violence and that is inclu...
26/02/2009
Vexed - Destruction Warfare
Italian thrashers that are helding the 80s banner high. Dressed like the early thrash bands and also playing it. And when you see they play a cover of Destruction you know what to expect. Aggressive vocals, up tempo and fast songs, screamy guitars and solos, warrelated lyrics. An album that gives you 40 minutes of pure thrash metal and with a beer...
26/02/2009
Key Of Mythras - Demonspeed Metalstorm
The driving force behind this band is Duncan who gets help from other musicians (Vargsriket, Sanguis, Darkfall) to create his metalness. Raw black metal at high speed with tempo breaks, grim voices and possessed guitars. The songs breath metal and if you hear some references it ain't a shame. All tracks are easy listening and don't get bored. Maybe...
26/02/2009
Ahumado Granujo/Utopia - Split
On this split you find the two mentioned bands. Both play the grind style of metal. Ahumado Granujo takes the most space with 21 songs including covers, bonus and special termixes. The songs are uptempo with the grinding vocals. The guitars are thick and building the wall. Also worth mentioning are some funny titles. Utopia plays on a higher speed...
26/02/2009
Commander - The Enemies We Create
Commander comes from Germany and they’ve been around since 1999. For 7 years they’d been working on their music and tried to make their name known by supporting live bands like: Six Feet Under, Dew-scented & Equilibrium. Finally they release their 1st full-length “Worlds destructive domination” in 2006. Now, the album I have in my hands, is...
26/02/2009
Deranged - Plainfield Cemetary
Listen to this total psycho album and you know why Deranged is one of my fav band in the extreme scene! Again the play the no fucking trendy shit but just straight ahead extreme stuff with deep and brutal vocals, sharky guitar with some sharp leads and the inhuman drums without effects! No more words needed than to tell you to buy this master piece...
26/02/2009