Hailing from Poland, Bloodthirst are a thrash metal trio intent on bringing the best of Slayer back into the world. Expect a lot of familiar riffs from "Reign In Blood" all the way up to "Divine Intervention". There's lots of groove and while the vocals bridge on black metal with their throaty rasp, they still rip with the intensity of the music. H...

15/04/2010

Imagine yourself back into the nineties black metal scene. Two guys in corpsepaint doing all the music in this band. Dirty, raw production was the name of the game with blastbeats and just enough punk groove to keep fans interested. Bring anything to mind? If anyone reading this said "Darkthrone," then you're right! To listen to Evil Wrath's "Chaot...

15/04/2010

Posithrone is a gothic dark metal band from Austria delivering their debut, "Necropoles". From the sci-fi titled tracks such as "Cybernetic Unions" and "Gen-Errator," many listeners may pass the group off as another cheesy cyber metal band. However, while the album is dense with keyboards and science fiction ideas, the musical structure of the albu...

15/04/2010

Thrudvangar hail from Germany and have been brandishing the Viking metal flag for almost ten years now. Four albums later and fans are finally greeted with "Durch Blut Und Eis", which translates as "Through Blood And Ice." All the songs are done in German, so expect a lot of translating if you want to understand the lyrics, but its important you do...

15/04/2010

Germany's Crematory have been around for some time, debuting in 1992 with their album "Transmigration" and then releasing about eight other studio albums until reaching 2010 with "Infinity". Comparing the two, "Transmigration" was a lot rawer where "Infinity" is more modern, thanks to cleaner production and a better range of electronic sound. With...

13/04/2010

De Profundis (not to be confused with the milestone album done by Vader) perform a progressive sort of funeral doom metal. Heralding from the UK the group's job with their second album, "A Bleak Reflection", is to make the listener feel depressed while still trying to put interesting spins on their music while being slowly extreme. The opening trac...

13/04/2010

Kubla Khan is one of those bands that start off great but then take a pitdive near the end. Hailing from Spain, the band performs middle eastern tinged death thrash that actually sits well with listeners. At least for the short while they last. Their debut "Six Sex Six" opens with "Agrodeath" which has a great middle eastern guitar melody which giv...

13/04/2010

Ver Sacrum are an interesting lot from Italy in the sense they are more focused on delivering a bit of a history lesson, be it based on real or fictitious events. Instead of embracing the usual themes of death and satanism that blackened death metal can hold, the band's debut, "Tyrrenika", is "a concept album that tells the story of the Etruscan pe...

13/04/2010

Tenebrae In Perpetuum are a band from Italy that have been around since 2001. With three albums in their belt, they've been spreading their infection mostly through the label Debemur Morti Productions. For those that are used to Debemur Morti's bands they already know to expect some pretty violent black metal from Tenebrae. Their latest offering so...

11/04/2010

The Final Harvest hasn't been around for too long, only forming in 2007 from Finland and releasing "The End" as their first album, but it is obvious they'll be around for a while. Everything on this album shouts death/metalcore thrash glory in the way the blastbeats and groovy riffs work together with mid paced screaming vocals. The band tries not...

11/04/2010

Thousand Year War is from California, but with their style of music one could very well consider them from Sweden. Much of the music performed here stays in the Gothenburg style akin to bands like At The Gates and Amon Amarth, minus keyboards. But, Thousand Year War doesn't need keyboards to keep their melody going. A lot of guitar rhythms have eno...

11/04/2010

Way To End is a bit of a surprise coming off of the Debemur Morti Productions label with their debut album. Usually the label employs fast, extreme black metal bands with plenty of lo-fi production and too much distortion, but Way To End is a bit more melodic. The group tries to create an ambient atmosphere using harsh, tortured vocals that sometim...

11/04/2010