Metalcore seems to be the thing these days, as there are so many bands shelling out that type of music. Insanity Arise have been around to the metalcore scene for almost seven years now, with a few demos here and there. Only recently have they come to fruition with their full length debut, <em>Sinnerside</em>. Everything about it breathes intensity...

27/05/2010

Prepare for some filthy, catchy black metal in the spirit of perversion and death. Poland's Mordhell are a three piece that perform gritty, rock and roll vibed music that embraces pure misanthropy. With only a few EPs and demos since 2003, their sole debut came to light in 2008. <em>Grim, Old, And Evil</em> certainly lives up to it's name. The musi...

27/05/2010

Preludium are a brutal death metal band from Poland who deliver extremely anti-Christian music with the ferocity of a band like Deicide but with the melody of fellow country-mates, Behemoth. Much of the music on<em> Raping Mankind Disorder</em> is brief, but greatly intense. The guitars are heavy and chugging with more than just a blind direction w...

27/05/2010

Avsky is a two man black metal band from Sweden that performs in a style not unlike other raw, depressive, groove inspired acts such as Dodsferd, Darkthrone, and even Xasthur. Originally, Avsky was a one man band with only two albums under his belt and perfectly happy with a raw, punk crusted sound. With<em> Scorn</em>, however, fans will see that...

25/05/2010

After the successful Better Undead Than Alive compilation, Aural music (under the name Code666) decided to release a second double disc set. It is very different compared to the first considering the line up. The first grouping was numerous different death and black metal bands, some more known than others. With Volume 2, the music is much more ecl...

24/05/2010

Blood Cult have been sort of an underground black metal band from the U.S. Forming in 1994, the band has release numerous demos over the years, often heaping them together into compilations so they are more accessible to the public through different labels. In 2005 they  released their first full length debut, and now five years later the second al...

24/05/2010

Doublesion are an experimental death metal band that create good music with humor. Specifically, humor towards death metal bands like Aborted or Cannibal Corpse who create gruesome light of the medical world and how easy it is to misuse it, kill with it, and manipulate it for some great, gory themes. Each band member even takes it upon themselves t...

24/05/2010

Those who know of Kkoagulaa know that it is the reformation of the Norwegian experimental black metal band, Manes. It consists of basically the same members under new names. As for the music, it's one looonnng single track of random, experimental music. Basically, if one took Manes's <em>How The World Came To An End</em> album and instead of spanni...

24/05/2010

Where Life Springs Eternal is a Quasimodo of a doom metal album. Upon first listen from the opening track, "Spell Over Still Water," the music sounds more drone doom than funeral doom. The guitars sound horribly distorted and static driven that is very unpleasant to the ear. It doesn't have the crush that funeral doom generally gives off, and the a...

21/05/2010

Nechochwen is an atmospheric blackened doom metal band that, upon first listen, don't really fall into the common category. <em>Azimuths to the Otherworld</em> is unlike anything most doom metal fans will have heard before. The albums opens with some tribal drumming before a spoken word passage is invoked, giving a forewarning that the music is goi...

21/05/2010

It takes some very low budget production in distribution to produe an EP without an album cover; most likely it was distributed in a plain CD sleeve. However, don't let the low budget ideal fool you; Foretold is no amateur garage band. While the sound on their EP is raw and grim, it's raw and grim in the sense of how death metal should be, and not...

21/05/2010

Negura Bunget are one of those bands who continue to surprise their listeners, be it in musical style or line up changes. It seems that ever since the last album,<em> Om</em>, Negura has become an entirely new band with numerous member replacements, so it would be expected that with their current album they would deliver something new and improved....

21/05/2010