I´ve always thought the old saying "less is more" didn´t apply to a punishing thrashbeast like Slayer. But this time I´m sad to say it did. The production on ´World painted blood´ is weak and delicate, to say the least. The rawness and dirt in the music has been polished away, making the act appear like a kitten instead of a lion. That´s a huge dis...

09/11/2009

What I understand from these four polish guys website, Sainc started out in 2004 and ´Pathogen´ is their debut album. They´re not making things easy for themselves. Combining influences from different acts like Cock & Ball Torture, Korn and Pantera, they create an odd kind of music that is hard to describe. It´s like slow death metal, with clea...

27/10/2009

A well-known and respected act like this doesn´t really need any further introduction. As a metalhead you´ve got to be slightly retarded if you never heard about Norways, and probably also the worlds greatest black metal band, Immortal. After a six year pause they now return with full force and with an album full of influences from all ages of blac...

26/10/2009

I remember when Nile's first full-lenght 'Amongst The Catacombs Of Nephren-Ka' hit my eardrums in 1998. Death metal was reinvented. A refreshing moment. Played with such speed and brutality it couldn't possibly be managed live. When I witnessed the bands festival debut at Dynamo Open Air in 1999 the band proved me wrong. An unbeatable moment. The f...

16/10/2009

From Bologna in northern Italy these three guys contaminating the world with their down-tempo death, spiced with lyrics about drugs and war. The first contact with the vocalist is when he shouts out ´Narcoturismo´ in the title track. I think it was about the same time I lost all hope for this album. Imagine the word, with a high pitch on the i. Hil...

15/10/2009

A band from the west side of Sweden often makes you wanna think they'll ride "the Gothenburg sound"-wave which seem to be a disease in that area. But not Axis Powers. These guys get their inspiration from the east side of the country and Stockholm in particular. Around the early 90´s. Dismember comes to mind. Entombed as well. A big amount of briti...

13/10/2009

Marylands Dying Fetus has been around since 1991 and are probably one of the worlds most hard working and influential deathmetal-acts. Touring the world quite a few laps and selling a bunch of records for certain, I can't help to think they've had difficulties reaching the songwriting level and, in my opinion, the peak they had with their masterpie...

06/10/2009