Reviews written by: Rick
Reviews
My Own Grave - Unholy
From the very first track, this record is completely unforgiving!!! This is Death Metal!!! MOG how hail from Sweden kick in your face and place you in Your Own Grave!!! Fast, Furious, Insanely Brutal-This is a musical vendetta! Sonic hatred driping from every orifice and completely impossible to contain! Words can not desribe how fucking Brutal thi...
26/02/2009
Sathanas - Flesh For The Devil
Now this is what evil, blasphemous music is supposed to sound like. Sathanas was originally formed in 1988 by Paul Tucker in New Brighton Pennsylvania. The group disbanded a year later only to reform years later to once again reek havoc on an unsuspecting world. Old School death metal that obliterates all that is considered holy to the weak Christi...
26/02/2009
Illnath - Second Skin Of Harlequin
3rd album from this Danish outfit. A nice combonation of Heavy and Black Metal influences, make this a records well worth the 10 or 12 bucks and the hour of day! The best way I can describe Illnath is this; Take the legendary song writing and majestry of Iron Maiden and the mystisisim and heavyness of Cradle Of Filth, fuse them together and you...
26/02/2009
Deathcult - Cult Of The Dragon
Deathcult is nothing short of what this band stands for. Cold, Brutal, Misanthropic-Anti Human Anti Life! And I say AMEN! This Norwegian outfit has dished out 8 songs of pure evil. Proof is in the cover. Aside of the dragons crest-the symbol below it is Lucifer's Sigil. At long last, an album that embodies what I have always held in the heart I wis...
26/02/2009
Skewered - Homegrown Brutality
The title says it all. HOME GROWN FUCKING BRUTALITY!!!! Raw and abusive, gutteral and completely insane. These guys from Dublin Ireland have come to shatter your spine with this energetic release. Cant wait till these fucking guys get someone behind the board to push there sound to a dash more clairty. One of the best debuts I've heard this year...
26/02/2009
Illogo - When Liquids Stay Dry
One constant about music is that few bands are daring to be different. Illogo isn’t different-they are lightyears ahead of comprehension. Illogo take the claustrophobic emotion of black metal, the unique time arrangments of Messugah, and futuristic melodies of Flux. There is an undiscribable ambiance in every song. Chaotic, yet contained. This is m...
26/02/2009
Sudden Death - Rethroned
This German outfit has done what few bands can do...release an album that lives up to the bands name. Raw and Explosive death metal that is geared to release the human gene designed to unleash fury on another worthless waste of life. Now I am not saying that Sudden Death in anyway endorses or advocates violence, but "Rethroned" sure the fuck makes...
26/02/2009
Lucifer Was - The Divine Tree
Newest release from this Nordic outfit who established themselves in 1970! That alone should explain the sound that radiates from this record! Heavy, pounding rythyms! Heavy Blues driven rock for your mind, body and soul. Emotional and charismatic vocals, soulful music that groove to! I am completely blown away back to my youth. I am stoked to see...
26/02/2009
Exit Wounds - 17 Wounds Of Exit
Pulverizing debut release from Poland's Exit Wounds. 17 tracks set to Warp Factor 9 and result in your senseless beating. It doesn't get any better, any grindier than this release. This is what we have all come to expect from Poland, the heaviest, chunkiest, sickest, and now the fastest. Pick this up and then send Exit Wounds pictures of all of you...
26/02/2009
Volkolak - Hail To The God Of The Sun
Russian, Folk-Black Metal!! Yeah you read it right!! Volkolak play Folk music embracing Viking Mythology. There is no distortion, at least not on this release. No Banshee screaming vocals, no synths. Totally Organic experience! Musicians and their instruments which include guitars, flutes, mandolines, and various percussion. Pretty cool release-not...
26/02/2009
Lumsk - Det Vilde Kor
Heavy, Experimental, Folk Rock from Trondheim, Norway. This album was written by the groups pianist/keyboard player-Espen Godo, and according to the bands website is a testament to author/poet Knut Hamsun. This is an album layered rich with traditional symphonic emotion and power. My only pitfall about listening to this release, is I dont fucking s...
26/02/2009
Deathless - The Time To Be Immortal
Debut Full Length from this Spanish Quintet that was almost 5 years in the making. Deathless formed in January 1995, after a 3 song demo, 8 song release, and 1 failed deal, "The Time To Be Immortal" was released in March 2000 on Goldtrack Records. Deathless play a style of Melodic Death Metal that brings back the glory of the good ol' days, sure to...
26/02/2009