<strong>Past The Mark </strong>is a new project managed by two known figures the music industry being <strong>Marc Urselli </strong> (The M.E.M.O.R.Y. Lab / known for his 3 Grammy Awards and for his sound engineering works for titles like Eric Clapton, ZZ Top, Les Paul, Bon Jovi and last but not least Aborym666) together with <strong>Vince Pastano<...

23/06/2011

The Italian band Advent Hiems looks like a relatively new band, and they are currently promoting their debut new opus entitled ‘Loki’ an album containing 5 tracks. I guess the album should give you already a hint about the concept behind this album – Norse Mythology. The band performs Epic Black Metal filled with symphonies and a bit of ambience...

28/04/2010

Erhabenheit presented 8 tracks for the album bearing the title ‘Verhallend mit des Todesboten Kunde’ which was originally released back in 2005 as a vinyl edition. In a nutshell, the music is nothing more than Primitive Germanic Melo Black Metal with a semi-good production. However besides the typical old fashioned Black Metal, certain old school R...

28/04/2010

"Vom Tempel Zum Throne" was released back in 2005 through Raging Bloodlust Records, however this EP was reissued later in Digipack format by Black Devastation Records. This album 8 tracks of a fusion between Primitive Viking Black Metal, and Thrash. Sound quality is a bit ‘muffled’, but for this kind of music, a semi-good production enhances the...

28/04/2010

Nowadays Russia is full of known and reputable bands, and there are loads of bands deserving your attention. Einfall is one of them however (maybe I am wrong), they don’t seem to be so known around… Einfall plays mid-tempo old school Black Metal (or better Blackened Death Metal) blended with hints of Thrash and Rock. Although one might imagine s...

28/04/2010

Ulvdalir from Russia may be not so known but the bands the musicians are involved with are somehow known like Drama, Ragor and the Death Metal act Septory. ‘Flame Once Lost’ is the debut release of Ulvdalir, recorded in 2005 and released back in 2008 by the German label Black Devastation Records. The album contains 5 lengthy tracks, 2 of which a...

28/04/2010

Back again with Ulvdalir, and this time with the album entitled ‘Soul Void’ which is like comparing earth and sky when considering the review I made for their debut album ‘Flame Once Lost’ Ulvdalir came back with another dose of Black Metal in their own way. The sound is quite close to the Germanic side of Black Metal, and if it wasn’t for the v...

28/04/2010

From the Baltic state of Estonia, we have Sojaruun, and this review will cover the first release entitled ‘Sojaruun’.  This little release contains only 3 tracks, each with a running time of approximately 7 minutes. Sojaruun performs old school Melodic Black Metal with Pagan themes with occasional acoustic guitars inclusions blended with metal....

28/04/2010

‘Org’ is the debut full length release presented by Sojaruun. Nothing much has changed from the debut EP entitled ‘Sojaruun’. What I can say is that the sound became more primitive and more extreme without excluding the fact that the band adapted more folkloristic patterns. This very approach reminds me of various Pagan bands like Odal, Gravelan...

28/04/2010

Sick Room 7 is a 2 man band from Denmark and Bottomfeeder Central is their second full length album released via the Russian label Assault Rex. The album contains 11 diverse tracks and in a nutshell, the genre they play is rather unusual. Filled with experimentation, their musical genre consists in a mix of old fashioned Doom filled with instrum...

28/04/2010

Following the split release with Nephilm, the trio behind the Russian band Klandestyn came out with their debut digi-pack album ‘Wounds Bleed Black’, containing six tracks, few of them durable for six to ten minutes. The first thing that stuck my attention is the vocal style which is quite close to the Polish band Profanum, something that you ma...

28/04/2010

Meti Bhuvah is a weird, odd and mysterious band from the cold lands of Russia featuring a member from the band ‘Soli Diaboli Gloria’. ‘I’ is their first album containing 13 tracks durable from approximately 2 to 4 minutes including two Ildjarn cover versions (Sola Skjulttes and Minnesjord VI). Primitive ugly lo-fi Black Metal is the genre they p...

28/04/2010