Reviews written by: Roland Ravestein

Reviews

Colosso - Apocalypse

Colosso was formed in 2011 by Max TomÈ (guitar/vocals) and Emidio Alexandre (drums) and often joined by gast artists. You might know them also from Blackswan and Shadowsphere and several other projects. Colosso already released 1 demo, 4 full lenght albums and 2 EP's. "Apocalypse" is their third EP. The new EP "Apocalypse" is a 4 track EP with ever...

18/02/2020

Verano's Dogs - Summoning The Hounds

Formed at the end of 2018 in Rome Verano's Dogs is a mix of grindcore and most funeral death metal. Verano's Dogs is: Ulderico (bass/screaming voice), Pompeo (guitar) and Pablo (drums) and two guest singers Alex Gore and Demian Christiani. Some say the name (Verano's Dogs) is linked to the most famous graveyard in Rome (Verano) but Verano can also...

12/02/2020

Aeons Abyss - Impenitent

Aeons Abyss was formed in 2017 for a recording project which was using music written in the 90's under the band name Cataclysm. So for many of you who know Cataclysm the music will sound familiar. Aeons Abyss is Paul O'Brien (lyrics/vocals) and Steven O'Brien (music/mixing). But that said it's not the same there are a few differences, they come...

15/01/2020

Dustborn - Dethroned

This fairly new band was formed in 2017 by former members of Desire For Sorrow: - Vlajda on the bass - Bimbo on the drums - Johny on the keyboards and vocals - on the guitars they are joined by Dan Kalis who is a former Arthemion - also Aaron on the guitars and Venca doing the vocals, but I'm not sure wether they're permanent members or not....

02/01/2020

Golgotha - Erasing The Past

Yes we're back for another review and this time it's Golgotha from Spain with there 4th full album "Erasing The Past". For those who don't know Golgotha: this in Palma de Mallorca based doom metal band was founded in 1992 after several lineups, in October this year they released there new album. Vincente (guitar & compositions) and Amon (voc...

06/11/2019

Excuse - Prophets From The Occultic Cosmos

Excuse, from Helsinki Finland, is a relative newcomer in the speed and thrash metal scene. In January 2013 they released their self titled demo. Following their demo came their first EP "Goddess Injustice" which was released in September 2016. This masterpiece contains of a total of four songs which truly shows the direction in which they boys are...

11/09/2019

Maniac Abductor - Casualties Of Causality

Man what a fucking good album from this in 2013 formed band from Joensun Finland. The members are: Jesse Räsänen is the drummer from 2013 and also started as drummer in 2018 for the death metal band Sadistic Drive. Jesse Elo guitar also in the band from 2013. In 2014 they’re joined by Janne Parvjainen on bass and Niklas Pappinen on vocals. This yea...

09/07/2019

Talsur/Doomcult - Nameless

Nameless is a split album of east versus west by Talsur from Russia & Doomcult from the Netherlands. Both produced 2 new songs and cover a song of the other. Talsur recorded his version of Doomcults song 'Wrath' from his first album "End All Life". Doomcult made his own interpretation of Talsur’s song 'Waters Of Loss' from his album "Tormente...

07/06/2019

Pressor - Weird Things

The band Pressor is from Kostroma in Russia and consists of: Stas and Anton on guitars and vocals, Dennis on bass and don’t forget Danya the drummer. In 2008 they started with a different line up then they have today. During that time they were considered as a funeral and doom/death metal band. But after a few changes, for example in their line...

30/01/2019

Chaos Before Gea - Chronos

For people who don’t know the album "Chronos", or even the band Chaos Before Gea, "Chronos" is the new album of Chaos Before Gea which was released 25th of May this year. The band Chaos Before Gea, which is currently located in Malaga (Spain) consist of Ismael Pérez (vocals), David Arroyo (drums), Damián Schmitt (bass), Adrián López and Hernan Jens...

20/12/2018