"The most extreme thrash metal band from Spain" - that's what Altar Of Sin's Facebook page claims. Quite a bold statement if you ask me but let's hear anyway what Goyo Hammerhead (drums/vocals), Carlos Overkill (guitars/vocals) and Javier Destructor (bass) have to offer. "Tales Of Carnage First Class" is the band's second full-length album and firs...

23/05/2012

Caedere (this is the Latin word for "to kill") is a brutal death metal band from the Netherlands with two full-length albums behind their backs. Their newest release is "Corruption" - a three song EP filled with heavy death/grind influenced by Suffocation, Broken Hope, Internal Bleeding etc. This means a lot of grinding drumming, crushing guitar ri...

20/04/2012

Exuviated are five guys from the small land of Luxembourg who present to the world their debut full-length album "Morpheus Orphan". That's their first full-length release which comes after the EP "An Era's Condemned" from 2009. "Morpheus Orphan" offers eigth tracks of decent death metal with melodic edge. Exuviated's influences come from bands like...

13/04/2012

Do you like oldschool grindcore,you know,the one with simple punkish riffs,blasting drumming and mad shouting vocals ? If the answer to this question is loud and proud YES! then you definitely should check out the fifth full-length album "Grinje!Grinje!Grinje!" of the Croatian veterans Bolesno Grinje. Their name translates to something like "Sick M...

13/03/2012

When your debut album is produced by none other but Dan Swano himself (in case you don't know who the guy is then you surely are on the wrong site) then you really must be something special. The Danish band Mordax gives to the metal world its first CD entitled "Violence Fraud Treachery" and for a debut album this is a damn fine CD. After the aco...

13/03/2012

In case you like your metal technical, melodic or with crystal clear production then stop reading this review. The band called Putrified is a project of A.Death - the drummer of the Swedish black metal division Infuneral. Anyway you will not find much black metal in the debut CD "Neurotic Necrotic". A.Death has paid tribute to the horror death m...

21/02/2012

Do you remember Rachel, the good-looking grunting girl from Occult and Sinister? I have always wondered what happened to her until I received Temple's debut album "Structures In Chaos". The info available at Non Servium Records' site says that this band was formed by Rachel and Beyond Belief's guitarist A.J.van Drenth. Unfortunately the girl with t...

21/02/2012

Okular come from Oslo, Norway but don't expect the next bunch of evil black metallers with nails,spikes and painted faces. Andreas Aubert (main composer, lyricist and vocalist), Marius Pedersen (guitars/vocals) and Bjorn Erlandssen (drums) are three guys who play impressively good on their instruments and present to the world their debut album (rel...

23/01/2012

Weverin come from New York, they play black metal and the subject of their lyrics is traditional satanism. So far, so good...Lord Sxuperion (drums), The Harp (guitars and bass but no harp) and Buer (keyboards and vocals) aren't newcomers to the extreme metal scene - they play together under the name Weverin from 2004 and have already four albums an...

23/01/2012

Now, this is what I call killer oldschool death metal album! Day Of Execution come from Varna,Bulgaria and "Dead Burning To Ashes" is their first CD unleashed upon mankind via the Polish label Brewery Prod. The first thing that makes impression after the music starts is the excellent production - all instruments sound heavy and powerful and every r...

23/01/2012

Do you like Dutch death metal and Sinister in patricular ? If the answer to this question is yes then you definitely should check out Absurd Universe. Because this band's line-up consists only of current Sinister members. Behind the mike is the notorious Aad Kloosterwaad (Sinister, Supreme Pain, Infinited Hate etc.) and his partners in crime are Ma...

05/01/2012

The Polish label Mad Lion Records offer to the hungry death metal legions the debut full-length album of the Dutch death brigade Khaoz. In the band's line-up shine the names of Houwitser's guitarist Michel Alderliefsten and Johan Wesdijk who has been a vocalist for classy names like Desultory and Dead Head. "Salvation Through Bloodshed" hits wit...

30/12/2011