Reviews written by: Nydoom

Reviews

Gae Bolga - Violent MetalStorm

Now here we have a band that started in 1999 on a heavy drinking session in Belgium (what else is new). I guess many drinking sessions followed because this is their first full length. This doesn't matter at all because this music is timeless.. This is just a piece of old school thrashmetal they way it is intended to be... Violent, uncompromisin...

01/02/2011

Korgull The Exterminator - War Of The Voivodes

Hailing from Spain this is Korgull the Exterminator preaching war on your sorry little arses... As their bandname and CD title might supsect, it's clear reference to the early Voivod era but actually this band is more than that.. Furious straightforward thrashing blackmetal with pounding drums, shredding riffs and a lot of punk attitude in the song...

10/01/2011

Steengruis - Armageddrol

These crazy motherfuckers from Belgium preach turd armageddon with their first (self-released) full length CD. Regarding the lyrics (mostly in flemish) and the cover artwork you might think this is just a joke. Altough I trust they had a lot of fun making these songs and shit, it sounds like they put a serious effort in writing these songs and reco...

10/01/2011

Starve - Wasteland

Starve is a rather new sludge/doom band from the Netherlands and this is their first full length album after a 4-song demo released last year. Their style is typical sludge with southern rock and stoner influenced grooving riffs and the necessary slow doom parts. The heavy down tuned guitars are very audible in the mix because of the more stonerlik...

23/11/2010

A Forest Of Stars - Opportunistic Thieves Of Spring

Second CD from this rather new but obscure sounding band from the UK. It's hard to define a genre but the basis is dark black metal and on top of that they throw in a lot of experimental layers with additional instruments like flutes, violins, keyboards, piano's & percussion. Song tempos vary from mid to up tempo black metal with an obscure...

16/11/2010

Anal Cunt - Fuckin A

Long time since I heard from Anal Cunt since they got kicked out a venue, trashed a hotel and got arrested in the UK in 2007. But obviously in 2010 they are back with this album... First impression: it sucks.. second impression: it's fucking gay.. This is not the heavy grind/noisecore you are used from them but another parody and a really bad on...

01/11/2010

Revelations Of Rain - Emanation Of Hatred

Third full length from this heavy Russian doom/death metal band. Presenting their music with heavy doom guitarriffs and melodic layers dwelling in misery and despair backed up by keyboard atmospheres, solid drumming and dark growling vocals. The necessary variation is provided by instrumental intermezzos or occiasionally by up tempo blistering part...

12/10/2010

Sideris Noctem - Wait Tll The Time Is R.I.P

Sideris Noctem is a band from Ukraine presenting their first full length since their formation in 2001. I wonder what happenend in all those years, but the result is good. After an emotional instrumental introduction the atmosphere is set. This disc is filled with melodic doom/death metal brought with a lot of melancholy and emotion. The music i...

11/10/2010

Benighted In Sodom - Hybrid Parasite Evangelistica

This is one of the many releases of Benighted In Sodom released in 2010 which is a very productive band from the US creating depressive and atmospherical black metal since 2004. This is some dark and nihilistic black metal mostly in slow tempo with long passages of hypnotising guitar riffs backed up by some keyboards and repetetive drummin gin t...

05/10/2010

Cebren-Khal - A Mass Of Despair

First full length CD from this band from the northwest of France. They formed in 2004 and released one demo in 2005 and acoording to their bio they already started recording this album in 2007. So it took some time to find a label but luckily Solitude Productions/BadMoodMan Music from Russia released this CD in august 2010 because this is music tha...

28/09/2010

Floodstain - Slave To The Self Feeding Machine

Floodstain call themselves a sludge stonerrock band and are from The Netherlands and this is their second release on Bad Mood Man Records from Russia, sublabel from Solitude Productions. After reading the description I got curious, because they got influenced by Fu Manchu, Kyuss and the likes. First impression was quite different from what I exp...

21/09/2010

Letargy Dream - Heliopolis

From Russia this is Letargy Dream initially a one man band started by Letarg in 2003 but later evolved into a full band. This is their third full length release with 4 songs and a running time of 50 minutes. This band has developed their own style of melodic doom metal with a progressive touch. As the cover suggests this band has a futuristic vi...

15/09/2010