What do you expect when you hear the name Hour Of Penance? Right - extreme Death Metal. If you´re familiar with the bands previous offerings, you certainly know what will await you. If not, let me tell you, “Paradogma” is a vicious and very intense release. These four guys from the Rome area blast and shred their way through your auditory canals. B...

26/12/2010

Swedens Interment is another Death Metal band that was exhumed a couple of years ago. The whole thing started back in 1988, but the band didn´t release anything until 1991. Within the next three years, Interment launched a few demos (“Where Death Will Increase”, “Forward To The Unknown” and “The Final Chapter”) before the guys called it quits and w...

16/12/2010

Founded around 1999 and consisting of (amongst others) former Edge Of Sanity and Incapacity members, Facebreaker is already a well known name within the worldwide Death Metal scene. “Infected” is the current addition to the back catalogue and if you´re already familiar with the bands previous stuff, you can imagine what to expect. Don´t know who ki...

25/11/2010

Swedens Torture Division contains 3 familiar names of the Death Metal scene: Jörgen Sandström, well known for his participation in Grave, Entombed and The Project Hate MCMXCIX, Lord K. Philipson of (among others) Dark Funeral fame and last but not least Vomitory drummer Tobias Gustafsson. The band seems to concentrate on releasing demos, because si...

01/11/2010

The history of Evocation began back in 1991, when a couple of young Swedish musicians joined forces to play their favourite music: Death Metal. After two demos in 1992, Evocation already had loyal supporters and was considered as one of the most promising underground acts. Due to musical differences, the band split up in 1993 and was put to rest. B...

01/11/2010

At first I have to mention that I´m not the biggest Black Metal fan on earth, but I´ll try my very best to be fair and honest as usual. Forgotten Forest is a rather unknown band crawling out of the dungeons of Ibbenbüren, Germany. If you take a look at their history, you´ll easily imagine this self financed EP isn´t the first sign of life. These wo...

27/10/2010

Consisting of e.g. Impaled and Phobia members, D.I.S. unleash a blistering blend of D-Beat violence and Thrash Metal. “Critical Failure” is the bands debut album and contains about 26 minutes of music. Pretty short and the combination of Thrash Metal and Crustcore isn´t very innovative, too, but the guys of D.I.S. know how to blow you away with the...

25/10/2010

Hailing from Tampa, Florida, Diabolic is a constant in the fast moving underground scene. Formed back in 1997, these worshippers of the horned guy already released four full length releases as well as a demo, two EP's and a compilation. At least by now you should know this band is no unknown quantity in the international music scene. “Excisions Of...

18/10/2010

Mosfet from Austria… Ok, I never heard of this band before but I honestly have to say that their style is pretty interesting. These dudes combine Death and Thrash Metal with some thought-out melodic ingredients. Well that´s nothing new or groundbreaking but I like it. It would be wrong to reduce the band to another Gothenburg scene clone act, becau...

17/10/2010

Hailing from Greece, this obscure Black / Thrash Metal outfit already came to life back in 2000. The very first release was a limited live demo which was published in 2004, followed by the “Praise The Goat” demo in 2006. Meanwhile the guys of Swamp signed to the Polish label Time Before Time Records and released this MCD entitled “Nuclear Death”. W...

06/10/2010

TrustNo1 from Austria is an unknown quantity in the international underground scene. The band was founded by some Darkwell members whose musical ideas didn´t fit into the Gothic / Doom sound of their main act. However - according to TrustNo1´s homepage, the core of their style is Old School Death Metal which was enhanced with some other elements. “...

16/09/2010

P.K.I.K.T. is a band emerging from Lithuania. To be honest: I never heard about this act before and I don´t know what the abbreviation stands for. Obviously P.K.I.K.T. is around since 2001 and already launched a debut album back in 2007. Anyway, “Mesmales Sukites Greitai” contains 11 songs with a total playing time of almost 25 minutes. At least...

08/09/2010