Reviews written by: Manos Michaelides

Reviews

Gomorraa - Sordidus Fabellas (Luxuries Et Profanus)

Gomorraa were formed in São Paulo, Brazil in 2014 as Eterno Carnal. They soon changed name to Gomorraa to spit forth their old school black/thrash, highly influenced by the mighty progenitors of the genre/scene. In Gomorraa music there is a strong primitive Bathory influence (especially of the 1st album) with generous doses from the old mighty Braz...

11/01/2021

Thrashera - Não Gosto!

Straight from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thrashera are sure to deliver what their name promises! Pure old school thrash metal! Brazil is definitely a country with a huge production in every underground metal subgenre and has given the world bands that wrote history in speed/thrash/deathrash like Dorsal Atlântica, Taurus, Korzus, Armagedom and Sextrash...

25/11/2020

Grog - Ablutionary Rituals

Out of this world voices, sounding as if coming from the asylum, laid over a heavy riff and mixed with noise drone passages is what enters the listener to the sick world Grog create with "Ablutionary Rituals". 'Revelation - Open Wound' seems to be a very suitable title for the opening track. 'Uterine Casket' savagely hits my speakers, like a pan...

17/11/2020

Vai-te Foder - Poço

Vai-te Foder from Portugal were born in 2003 to make noise a threat again! "Poço" is their second full length album release after the "Vai-Te Foder" cassette EP (2009) and "Viciados No Degredo" full length (2010). From the very first moments of the album it gets clear that in "Poço" Vai-te Foder play a heavy and violent crossover mix of crust/pu...

04/11/2020

Disfigured Human Mind / Peste / Absurd - Humanidade Desfigurada Numa Pestilência Absurda​

Disfigured Human Mind from the Netherlands is all about nihilistic noisecore and infernal schizophrenia from the undergrind. They perform improvised necro noise violent grindcore from the infernal sewers!!! Their side of the split is named "Apenas Ruído De Granito Maciço...". After a hypnotic ambient synth ritual intro a grind riff breaks out of th...

17/10/2020

Embalsamado - Vasta Escuridão

Although "Vasta Escuridão" was recorded and mixed in 2014, it remained in obscurity for 4 years and was digitally released in 2018. It was not until 2020 that Embalsamado first full length album received a proper release from the Dutch label Murder Records as a limited edition to 150 copies cassette tape. The bells' mourning chime and the synths...

15/10/2020

Serviço Funerário - Uma Noite Alucinante

Serviço Funerário come from Brazil. The band was formed in 2015. "Uma Noite Alucinante" is their first release in the form of a cassette EP limited to 150 copies and is accompanied with an A4 poster. The material was recorded in 2019. The laughs of the intro sometimes sound weird, others sound satanic and others in pain or as if coming straight...

13/10/2020

ΩΝ - Ανέγνων, έγνων, κατέγνων

ΩΝ (Omega Ni) is a one man band from Komotini, Northern Greece. ΩN in Greek means the one who exists/lives right now. The band was formed in 2015 and "Ανέγνων, έγνων, κατέγνων" (it can be written as "Anegnon, Egnon, Kategnon") is their first full length album, but the individual behind the band, also named ΩΝ (He Who Is), has been active in the sce...

22/09/2020

Once Upon A Dream - Cruciamentum

Once Upon A Dream is a five-piece metalcore band with members from Greece and Germany. Alcyone Records released their debut EP "Cruciamentum". The cover artwork is a very beautiful and emotional piece of art with great colors and reflects in the most appropriate way the content of the EP. The band's sound is based on mid tempo metalcore grooves...

14/09/2020

Lupe - Burn

There are times when Art stands outside of the set borders. There are times when Art questions these borders. Who set them? Why? What for? For how long? Then Art questions itself. What is Art? There are times when the Artist denies individuality to express art. One of the Artist's mains goals is to be set free to express Art. But how do someone...

10/09/2020

Incantation - Sect Of Vile Divinities

There is only a bunch of death metal bands out there I can recall who remained persistently consistent in their music style and their principles and generally in what they stood for over the years. Incantation is for sure one of them bands. Their unholy/diabolical and dark/doom perspective for death metal music keeps punishing our ears and brains f...

08/09/2020

Kârma - Illusions

Progressive metal is in a constant uprise after the 00's. Kârma is a band from Greece who beautifully combine the 70's rock/hard rock sound with progressive rock/metal. "Illusions" is their 3rd full length. 'Path Of Light (Prophecy I)' opens the album in a symphonic/operatic mood. Choir/soprano vocals and orchestral parts work really well with t...

04/09/2020